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Jan 20 2014 08:34pm
I have a project where I need to take the linux kernel, use make menuconfig, and alter the configuration file so that the kernel binary is as small as possible.

The only requirements are that I need to be able to use QEMU to load the kernel and a system image and also be able to use the command uname -a

Does anyone know any information that can guide me in the right direction for optimizing this kernel?

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Jan 24 2014 07:37pm
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Jan 24 2014 08:25pm
I got it down to 1.2 mb :)
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Jan 24 2014 09:34pm
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I got it down to 1.2 mb :)


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Jan 25 2014 07:59am
Quote (oOn @ Jan 24 2014 07:25pm)
I got it down to 1.2 mb :)


I knew that people had gotten them that small in the past, but yeah, I'm still impressed.
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Jan 26 2014 01:00am
this reminds me of damn small Linux.
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