Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761511AbYFDSfG (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:35:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752371AbYFDSey (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:34:54 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.157]:41349 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751756AbYFDSey (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:34:54 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=jbu7SYwiIdcSHZU4Wa7PXKov8zDRpXQWc6Bz8cwgYtBGH0UvhQlFmLgkt/Nyt4Oq7o +/zyKUPgsM9Y+AzmZZW4XvBod5id3D0pc3fCs6snVz/cJJ1n4IqTuGLDrP6JmPzLgErl idpSnR98adquXJH4SQ3gJu5PtnV9NHCZUq1Ws= Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 20:34:32 +0200 From: Bernhard Fischer To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Tim Bird , linux-tiny , linux-embedded , linux kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation Message-ID: <20080604183432.GC27768@mx.loc> References: <48447615.5050806@am.sony.com> <20080604103353.GC27335@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080604103353.GC27335@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 921 Lines: 22 On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:33:53PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: >My gut feeling is that the influence of this kind of linux-tiny patches >is hardly noticably compared to the overall code size development, but >if you have numbers that prove me wrong just point me to them and I'll >stand corrected. > >cu >Adrian > >BTW: I'm not insisting on "between 2.6.16 and 2.6.26", that's just some > timeframe big enough for showing general trends. Current kernels are too big, they tend to be about 1MB (ignoring lzma or gz compression), a couple of years back an ide- and network-enabled kernel with 8139too (or whatever -nic you use in qemu nowadays) was at least 30% smaller. -- 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/