Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751214AbWHSEyy (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:54:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751067AbWHSEyy (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:54:54 -0400 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:30224 "EHLO 1wt.eu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750702AbWHSEyy (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:54:54 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 06:45:33 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Andreas Steinmetz , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mtosatti@redhat.com, Mikael Pettersson Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.34-pre1 Message-ID: <20060819044533.GB24543@1wt.eu> References: <20060816223633.GA3421@hera.kernel.org> <20060816235459.GM7813@stusta.de> <20060817051616.GB13878@1wt.eu> <1155797331.4494.17.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <44E42A4C.4040100@domdv.de> <20060817090651.GP7813@stusta.de> <44E433DB.9090501@domdv.de> <20060818232501.GE7813@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060818232501.GE7813@stusta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1254 Lines: 32 On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 01:25:01AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:16:11AM +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > Can you send me the .config's you are using for 2.4 and 2.6 > > > (preferably for kernel.org kernels)? > > > > > > > I can send you only the current 2.4 config I use (not exactly vanilla). > > Thanks, but it didn't help me much since it needed some work getting it > compiling with uClinux-2.4.31-uc0, and the next step of creating a > functionally equivalent 2.6 kernel doesn't seem to be reasonably > possible. In his case, it is a very valid reason to stay on 2.4 right now, which was the original question IIRC. > My aim is to compare the size of the compiled objects for finding what > causes size regressions in 2.6 compared to 2.4. Sometimes it will be compilers, but not by that much. Gcc3.[34] generally produce bigger code than 2.95 at -O2, but I don't think that people in the embedded world still use 2.95 much. Cheers, Willy - 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/