TinyLinux: Linux 小型化项目

Introduction

TinyLinux project was proposed by ‘Zhangjin Wu’ in 2010, it was firstly developed for MIPS architecture, currently, it is porting to RISC-V, the development is very active:

Targets & Status

• Small Kernel Image: < 512K
  • Status: 334k Kernel Image on RISC-V 64
• Small Rootfs/Application: < 512K
  • Status: 24K rootfs
• Small GUI Program: < 1M
  • Status: 628K 3D Wave
• Small Memory Cost: < 8M

Proposal

• Work on Tiny Linux Kernel

Git repository

• TinyLinux Git repo
• Linux Loongson Community - tiny36 branch

Paper

• Tiny Linux Kernel Project: Section Garbage Collection Patchset

Patch

• Break through the Linux kernel image size limitation of the Uboot

References

• Linux Kernel Tinification
• Tiny Linux Kernel Wiki Page
• Quick Benchmark: Gzip vs Bzip2 vs LZMA vs XZ vs LZ4 vs LZO
• Embedded Linux System Size Optimization
• Library Optimizer Tool
• Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux
• Buildroot v.s. Openembedded/Yocto