Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754879AbdDDRI5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Apr 2017 13:08:57 -0400 Received: from mail-qk0-f195.google.com ([209.85.220.195]:33119 "EHLO mail-qk0-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753188AbdDDRIy (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Apr 2017 13:08:54 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1491325150.7125.62.camel@tzanussi-mobl.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <20170401222119.25106-1-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> <87pogur0y9.fsf@firstfloor.org> <92fb1e4a-d6df-f55b-c0a1-9c1eb78e3943@longlandclan.id.au> <1491325150.7125.62.camel@tzanussi-mobl.amr.corp.intel.com> From: Andy Shevchenko Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 20:08:47 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] minitty: a minimal TTY layer alternative for embedded systems To: Tom Zanussi Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Stuart Longland , Nicolas Pitre , Andi Kleen , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jiri Slaby , "linux-serial@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1680 Lines: 37 On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 7:59 PM, Tom Zanussi wrote: > On Tue, 2017-04-04 at 00:05 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > Yes, in a previous project, I had been working toward getting a < 1M > system to boot on Galileo hardware (which it did, but using more than > that - the Galileo2 has 256MB, but it was the target hardware at the > time, and I was hoping eventually to be able to boot out of the 512k > on-chip SRAM). > > I was focused at that point mainly on the kernel static size, and using > a combination of Josh Triplett's tinification tree, Andi Kleen's LTO and > net-diet patches, and my own miscellaneous patches that I was planning > on eventually upstreaming, I ended up with a system that I could boot to > shell with a 455k text size: > > Memory: 235636K/245176K available (455K kernel code, 61K rwdata, > 64K rodata, 132K init, 56K bss, 3056K reserved, 0K cma-reserved) > > virtual kernel memory layout: > fixmap : 0xfffe5000 - 0xfffff000 ( 104 kB) > vmalloc : 0xd05f0000 - 0xfffe3000 ( 761 MB) > lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xcfdf0000 ( 253 MB) > .init : 0xc1094000 - 0xc10b5000 ( 132 kB) > .data : 0xc1071fac - 0xc1092760 ( 129 kB) > .text : 0xc1000000 - 0xc1071fac ( 455 kB) > > That was without networking. Enabling networking added about 250k, and > at that point I could ssh in and run a webserver, still less than 1M as > far as kernel static size, which of course completely ignores the kernel > dynamic size and userspace. Thanks for sharing your experience. The question closer to this discussion what did you do against TTY/UART/(related) layer(s)? -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko