Modular Kernel Packaging for Cloud

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Don Zickus <dzickus at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 08:23:15AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Sandro "red" Mathys
>> <red at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> >>> I think Josh is mostly there.  He has 58MB + 5M vmlinuz + <similar?>
>> >>> firmwre.
>> >>
>> >> Firmware is owned by linux-firmware, not the kernel package.  I didn't
>> >> include it in my kernel numbers for that reason.
>> >>
>> >>> He just has to cut 35MB or so from /lib/modules/.  We can probably nickel
>> >>> and dime and review a lot of cruft to get there, but what is that 35MB
>> >>> really doing to get us anything?  I am sure half of that can be removed by
>> >>> re-examining the minimal-list he sent (I can even help there).
>> >>
>> >> Right.  Considering the bloat elsewhere in the distro, I think we can
>> >> start with what I have and work from there if needed.
>> >
>> > Excellent progress there. So 35MB are already gone and I figure
>> > (re)moving graphics, sound and other obvious things will gain us quite
>> > some more MB. Nice job.
>>
>> No.  62MB are already "gone".  The 35MB was what is needed
>> additionally to get to comparable numbers with ubuntu.  Sound I could
>> see dropping.  Graphics, not so much.
>>
>> Really, I'm likely to start with what I have and if there are major
>> reasons that get brought up (with data) to trim further, we can look
>> at it.
>
> I agree too.  I think you did an awesome job Josh.  Most of the fat is
> trimmed. :-)  Anything more should really come with some numbers/data.

Don't get too heavy on the praise yet.  This still needs to be done at
the packaging level.  The changes to kernel.spec might make you want
to poke your eyes out or something ;).

josh