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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Subject: Re: Replace CONFIG_EMBEDDED [Was: x86 (Linux Tiny): configure out
 support for some processor]
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:02:48 -0500
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Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> It's a subjective category and no amount of talking will bring any 
>> solution here.
> 
> It is brought up now and then partly because the use of the
> term EMBEDDED that is so overloaded that it is not fun.
> 
> Someone should kill it and replace it with something saner.
> 
> CONFIG_EXPERT_TEXT_SIZE
> 
> For stuff that the expert can toy with which mainly
> has text size impact and some documented performance/functionality impact.
> The possibility to select a subset of CPU's may belong here.
> 
> 
> CONFIG_EXPERT_DATA_SIZE
> 
> Likewise where what we save is more data than TEXT.
> For example where we lower the size of a hash bucket etc.
> 
> CONFIG_EXPERT
> 
> For other stuff that no 'ordinary' user will need to change
> but the expert may find it usefull.
> 
> Everything we hide under EMBEDDED today would fit in the
> categories above.
> 
> 
Don't forget "CONFIG_EXPERT_STACK_SIZE" for 4k x86 stacks.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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