Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 14:26:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 14:26:55 -0500 Received: from ip68-105-128-224.tc.ph.cox.net ([68.105.128.224]:63164 "EHLO Bill-The-Cat.bloom.county") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 14:26:54 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 12:33:30 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Templates and tweaks (for size performance and more) Message-ID: <20021107193330.GE6164@opus.bloom.county> References: <20021107190910.GC6164@opus.bloom.county> <3DCABE9D.F71530DB@digeo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DCABE9D.F71530DB@digeo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 969 Lines: 29 On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 11:27:25AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Tom Rini wrote: > > > > Comments? > > You missed this little fella: > > text data bss dec hex filename > 1735 1120 131104 133959 20b47 kernel/pid.o > > > Have a controversial patch which takes it to: > > text data bss dec hex filename > 1614 1120 2080 4814 12ce kernel/pid.o My patch isn't about size per-se, it's about tweaking the kernel and making it easier to do things like get a small kernel. Or work on boxes with large amounts of memory and not use HIGHMEM, or otherwise have tweakable params with N different config options. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/