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Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:06:08 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Dag Bakke <dag@bakke.com>
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Subject: Re: video (VGA) object-files unconditionally built/included?
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Dag Bakke wrote:
> 
> Probably.
> Hand-editing the video*.o-files out of the Makefile and dropping the
> call to set_video in main.c gained me 4768 bytes. Definitely less than
> 87kB, but posibly worth the effort. To me, anyway.
> 
> Sorry about the noise, thank you for replying.
> 
> For the benefit of other readers working on small kernelimages, this URL
> may prove helpful:
> http://elinux.org/Kernel_Size_Tuning_Guide
> 

For what it's worth, you're welcome to submit a patch which makes this a 
configuration option conditional on CONFIG_EMBEDDED.

	-hpa
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