Re: Yes but
>The sort of microcontrollers that Linux can run on (like the H8300 port that has just been reintroduced) can access megabytes of RAM (and usually have 32bit address spaces) so their storage would be measured in megabytes.
Yes was just reminding original poster that not every computing device is a laptop made in the last four years. But yeah to run the linux kernel you are going to need megs of memory at least.
>You don't need to have every driver that Linux has.. you probably can't even select most of the drivers on non-x86 arches.
Again well aware of that but original poster was saying why worry about storage for linux modules at all when many embedded devices do use Linux and yet don't have massive storage.
>Surely the 1MB kernel is enough to boot the router and load smallish modules like iptables etc to make it function as a router... otherwise you need to tell the openwrt guys they have been wasting their time for however many years they've been working on it.
I think you can get a fully functional basic router for less than 3 meg with the newest kernel (used to be under 2 on older kernels) but the modules, libs and progs (such as dnsmasq) needed for even a fairly basic router usually are as big as the kernel itself.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
