* Russell King <[email protected]> [2007-01-18 16:23]: > > However, there is a bigger question here: that is the tradeoff between > making this variable part of the on-disk kernel image, but throw away > the memory at runtime, or to leave it in the BSS where it will not be > part of the on-disk kernel image, but will not be thrown away at > runtime. Are 1024 bytes of a bigger kernel image really a problem? And even, normally kernel images are compressed, and compressing 1024 zeros can be compressed very well. I think saving memory is more important than saving disk space. I know that most ARM device use flash disk, but also most ARM devices have limited RAM. Regards, Bernhard
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