Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 11:24:35 -0800
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FASTBOOT options in EMBEDDED menu?
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On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 11:19:55 -0800 Tim Bird wrote:

| I'm starting to adapt some patches for options which
| allow Linux to boot faster (for embedded environments).
| 
| It seems like these should go under the EMBEDDED
| menu.  However, this menu looks like it is specific
| to size reductions:
| 
| menuconfig EMBEDDED
|      bool "Remove kernel features (for embedded systems)"
|      help
|        This option allows certain base kernel features to be removed from
|        the build...
| 
| Some of the options that CELF is working on for
| fast booting do remove features, but some do not.
| 
| Anyone have advice for whether I should:
| 1) use the existing EMBEDDED option (my preference), or
| 2) make a new FASTBOOT option?

I agree with you, EMBEDDED should be able to handle it.

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~Randy
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