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[Neo Sze Wee <neoszewee AT gmx.net>]

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 04:16:54PM -0400, keesan2 AT cyberspace.org wrote:
> How large is modprobe?  Seems like it would have saved some time here.
> Or does BL2 already have a way to determine dependencies of modules?
> 
> To answer my earlier question about kernel sizes, I did my own homework. 
> The BL2 kernel is about 512K and the bare.i kernel (needed in order to
> install sound modules) about 894K. Would the relative amounts of RAM
> occupied by the kernel be 894/512, or is there a lot of RAM freed when the
> devices for which the kernel has drivers are not present?  I notice that
> during bootup about 30K of RAM are freed on my computer (which has no PCI
> slots). 
> 
> I am still curious (but don't have a compiler to determine for myself) 
> how many bytes are added to a kernel if you compile it to support adding
> sound modules, and how much this feature adds to RAM usage if there is no
> sound card present and no sound modules are actually loaded.
> 
> Do I understand correctly that the BL2 kernel was compiled to support
> adding network modules but not to contain the actual network drivers?  And
> that lowram.i will not work for BL2 users who want to go online because it
> does not support adding the ppp module? 

This is correct. You can check the config in the same directory and
search for ppp. You will find that it is not set. if the search result
is "...=m", it means you need the module. The modules for ppp support is
slhc.o and ppp.o in the modules/ of slackware mirror.