Modular Kernel Packaging for Cloud

[Don Zickus]

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.

Cheers,
Don