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
best,
Herbert
> It does _not_ mean "this is an embedded device".
> It does mean "offer additional options for additional space savings".
>
> For an embedded system with relaxed space limits, EMBEDDED=n is the
> right choice.
>
> > Samuel
>
> cu
> Adrian
>
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