Using upstream kernels...

[dom at latter.org]

Nix wrote:

[kernel size]

> That depends how much you built in :) if you only built in the hardware
> you own, the kernel isn't going to be that enormous: nobody owns all the

As I said, the config (i.e. the default config that ships with a kernel
as downloaded from: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.32.7/)
seems to be set to build and include "everything" (i.e. lots of fairly
typical hardware) into the kernel itself.  But then the size of it seems
to suggest that it hasn't.

> hardware that gets built into an Ubuntu kernel (and not all of it is
> modular). My vmlinuzes here vary from

<snip info>

Some useful data, thanks.  Interesting that you can still squeeze it down
to 1.4MB.  IIRC for a long time the aim was to keep the kernel small
enough to fit on a floppy.