FreeBSD/alpha kern.flp flood

It seems that kern.flp for FreeBSD/alpha is flooded (tested on FreeBSD/i386).
Maybe several kbytes should be removed from the kernel:

% du -s image.kern
1420    image.kern
% ls -lR image.kern
total 1209
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 Mar 28 00:57 boot
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1223388 Mar 28 00:57 kernel.gz

image.kern/boot:
total 210
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     764 Mar 28 00:57 device.hints
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  200864 Mar 28 00:57 loader
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     245 Mar 28 00:57 loader.rc

Anybody have an idea to reduce the size?

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Makoto `MAR' Matsushita