Prblem in Compile 2.6.21

[hendrawan.ashari]

Some one may be can help me.
I have compile linux kernel 2.6.21 on slackware 11. I can get 1.3Mb of bzImage in /usr/src/linux/arc/i386/boot. File size of Linux kernel (1.3Mb) accepted by me. But while i run make modules && make modules_install, i get 133Mb of module file (in /lib/modules) the file over big for me.
Some one can help me to reduce size of module, because all modules compiled by Linux, i just need SCSI, USB, and SIS Chipset driver.
Thanks for respons

[aliov]

Ok, from where did you get your configuration file ?
in order to activate only what you need do the following:

make menuconfig.

for the SCSI go :

Device Drivers --->
SCSI device support ---> (and enable what you want )

for the USB since the you can get many range of usb's hardware enable all of them. USB support --->

for the SIS chipset :

-> Device Drivers
-> Character devices
-> /dev/agpgart
and
-> Character devices
-> Direct Rendering Manager


buil them inside the kernel i mean as <*> and not as <M> to avoid editing the /ect/rc.d/rc.modules.

and i think you'll have also to enable some other stuff like the network cards and the encryption support and ........ ,

to configure the Kernel from scratch it's not trivial.


Best Regards.

[hendrawan.ashari]

Ok thanks, i will to try them.

[TrashOverride]

i would suggest building 2.6.21.x, i had problems with kernel 2.6.21

[aliov]

I'm using that kernel 2.6.21 without any problem ,i'm not going to change my kernel unless there is a big move to other release.