>Hello,

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>having spent most of the evening to understand why

>my kernel build suddenly aborted compilation with

>a pointer to a missing call "rt_mpath_next", I found

>that the "option SMALL_KERNEL" clashes with

>"pseudo-device pf 1", and that this was the sole

>cause for my failure. My original reason for this

>experiment was to produce a small kernel for a

>router system.

>

>Now I am curious, are there any available documentation

>as to what features the compilation option SMALL_KERNEL

>definitely prevents? I did not succeed so far in

>locating such a text. Of course, the man-page mentions

>that installer systems are the targets for SMALL_KERNEL,

>but for my edification I would like more particular

>information. As regards to "pf" I did an analysis of

>the source code in sys/net to find the complete explanation

>in this particular case, and the culprit is "radix_mpath.h".

>But preventing general surprises?

>

>I am greatful for all hints you can offer

use flashboot if you want to play with crunched systems...
http://www.mindrot.org/projects/flashboot/