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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
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Em Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:24:10PM +0000, Alan Cox escreveu:
> > As a side note, this thing is so tiny (less than 4K on sparc64!) so
> > why don't we just include it unconditionally instead of having all
> > of this "turn it on for these drivers" stuff?
> 
> Because 100 4K drivers suddenly becomes 0.5Mb. There are those of us trying
> to stuff Linux into embedded devices who if anything want more configuration
> options not people taking stuff out.
> 
> What I'd much rather see if this is an issue is:
> 
> bool	'Do you want to customise for a very small system' 
> 
> which auto enables all the random small stuff if you say no, and goes
> much deeper into options if you say yes.

heh, after I've read that you managed to boot 2.4 + rmap in a machine with
just 4 MB after tweaking some table sizes I thought about devoting some
time to identify those tables and making them options in make *config, with
even a nice CONFIG_TINY, like you said 8)

I'll eventually do this, and I'd appreciate if people send me suggestions
of tables/data structures that can be trimmed/reduced. Yeah, I'll take a
look at the .config files used in the embedded distros.

- Arnaldo
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