On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:31:21AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 02:34:11AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:28:32PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:33:55PM +0900, Samuel Masham wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Adrian,
> > >
> > > Hi Samuel,
> > >
> > > > > And I've already given numbers why CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y and
> > > > > CONFIG_MODULES=y at the same time is insane.
> > > >
> > > > >From your numbers this sounds true ... but actually you might want the
> > > > modules to delay the init of the various hardware bits...
> > > >
> > > > Sometime boot-time is king and you just try and get back as much of
> > > > the size costs as it takes...
> > >
> > > this is irrelevant since CONFIG_INPUT alone does not init any hardware.
> > >
> > > > I think for EMBEDDED and MODULES is actually a very common case ... if
> > > > somewhat odd.
> > >
> > > You are misunderstanding EMBEDDED.
> >
> > well, I suggested the following (or a similar)
> > change some time ago (unfortunately I could not
> > find it in the lkml archives, so it might have
> > been lost)
> >
> > http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Stuff/embedded_to_expert.txt
>
> That's not a good solution since EMBEDDED is really only about
> additional space savings - even if you are an "expert", there's no
> reason to enable EMBEDDED when building a kernel for systems
> with > 50 MB RAM.
well, not sure everybody kows that ...
config X86_P4_CLOCKMOD
depends on EMBEDDED
config VT_CONSOLE
bool "Support for console on virtual terminal" if EMBEDDED
config VGA_CONSOLE
bool "VGA text console" if EMBEDDED
config DNOTIFY
bool "Dnotify support" if EMBEDDED
config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
but, the patch was just considered a starting point
so that folks would know _what_ EMBEDDED is currently
used for ...
> The better solution is IMHO an additional option:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/7/93
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/7/139
whatever, just get rid of the CONFIG_EMBEDDED everybody
get's wrong and nobody really understands ...
> > best,
> > Herbert
>
> cu
> Adrian
>
> --
>
> "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
> of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
> "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
> Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
>
> -
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
> the body of a message to [email protected]
> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
