Reducing the size of kexec util

[Neil Horman]

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:11:30AM -0700, Lombard, David N wrote:
> The current (20080324) kexec binary on x86 is 135KiB.  While not a
> problem on a normal distro or runtime environment, it's a chubster
> in an embedded role.
> 
> Has any thought been given to reducing its 'on-disk' footprint?
> The rather obvious, non-default build-time options to only support
> specific kernel types and capabilities, jumps to mind.
> 
> Beyond build-time options, a Busybox applet would further minimize
> size, but maintenance would be painful...
> 
Busybox is precisely what I use to implement kdump in RHEL at the moment.  Its
still a bit bloated, since it is meant for enterprise servers, but it makes it
very easy to customize very small initramfs files for specific purposes.

Neil

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