Re: How to reduce the kernel.img size?

[BogDan Vatra]

Thanks.

I tried an older version (2.02) and indeed it's smaller (57KB). I'll see if
I can strip it more.

Cheers,
BogDan.

P.S. At first look grub 1 is too tight related to PC, altos has no PCI,
ISA, IDE, etc. and it seems it's too much work to port it.



În vin., 15 sept. 2023 la 15:29, Randy Goldenberg <
randy.goldenberg@gmail.com> a scris:

> It's possible that grub 1.x and older versions of grub 2 may both be
> smaller.
>
> My thought was just that all computers from that time probably have the
> same size requirement, and software becomes larger as developers add new
> features, generally speaking.
>
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 9:55 PM BogDan Vatra <bogdan@kde.org> wrote:
>
>> I didn't try them.
>> You mean grub 1.x or an older version of grub 2?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> BogDan.
>>
>> vin., 15 sept. 2023, 00:38 Randy Goldenberg <randy.goldenberg@gmail.com>
>> a scris:
>>
>>> Are older versions of grub not small enough?
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 1:09 PM BogDan Vatra <bogdan@kde.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello there,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to port grub to an ancient computer, an altos 386 series 1000
>>>> [0] (nope is not using 80386 anymore, I upgraded it to 486 (using an
>>>> 80486
>>>> DLC + an 387 DX/DLC).
>>>> I managed to port the basics using the excellent porting guide from here
>>>> [1], but the results were a bit disappointing.
>>>> The problem is that altos memory is very limited (12MB total). Grub
>>>> needs
>>>> to fit in 64KB, but right has over 67KB.
>>>> Are there any tricks to make it smaller ? I'd like to have it under
>>>> 48KB if
>>>> possible.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> BogDan.
>>>>
>>>> [0]
>>>>
>>>> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/altos/386/Altos-386_Series_1000_Brochure_Nov88.pdf
>>>> [1]
>>>> https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub-dev/grub-dev.html#Porting
>>>>
>>>