Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750885AbVKAP0M (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:26:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750890AbVKAP0M (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:26:12 -0500 Received: from prgy-npn2.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.38]:52136 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750885AbVKAP0K (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:26:10 -0500 Message-ID: <4367893D.9090406@tmr.com> Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:26:53 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: zippel@linux-m68k.org, ak@suse.de, rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New (now current development process) References: <4d8e3fd30510291026x611aa715pc1a153e706e70bc2@mail.gmail.com> <20051031001647.GK2846@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20051030172247.743d77fa.akpm@osdl.org> <200510310341.02897.ak@suse.de> <20051031160557.7540cd6a.akpm@osdl.org> <20051031163408.41a266f3.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20051031163408.41a266f3.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1278 Lines: 45 Andrew Morton wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> >> >>On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: >> >>>Are you sure these kernels are feature-equivalent? >> >>They may not be feature-equivalent in reality, but it's hard to generate >>something that has the features (or lack there-of) of old kernels these >>days. Which is problematic. > > > Probably. > > >>But some of it is likely also compilers. gcc does insane padding in many >>cases these days. > > > 2.6.14 `make allnoconfig': > > gcc-2.95.4: > > bix:/usr/src/25> size vmlinux > text data bss dec hex filename > 665502 152379 55120 873001 d5229 vmlinux > > gcc version 4.1.0 20050513 (experimental): > > bix:/usr/src/25> size vmlinux > text data bss dec hex filename > 761415 151851 55280 968546 ec762 vmlinux Was this with -Os or ??? -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - 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/