Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757085Ab0HDJOn (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2010 05:14:43 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:55574 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753895Ab0HDJOl convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2010 05:14:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=wSXOFyZU4zlPpkrDkwB2eGHj7qinqLs7ytViF/9PeaNie1Fg+32SEcUI1An+c+0Zbo yQ2r5SfS7IWIjL2fPAgaYAKOVX65IBUg08jnbSOAeYhp7zRIO1+5tzRHiNhtV28lwfhU uoMbxwrnoW2pilFGnRyCSWko6/xfLA/Y2pNnA= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Mulyadi Santosa Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 16:14:10 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: question about CONFIG_BASE_SMALL To: Ryan Wang Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 930 Lines: 29 Hi... On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 15:38, Ryan Wang wrote: > Hi all, > > ? ? ?I noticed CONFIG_BASE_SMALL in different parts > of the kernel code, with ifdef/ifndef. > ? ? ?I wonder what does CONFIG_BASE_SMALL mean? > And how can I configure it, e.g. through make menuconfig? Reply on top of my head: IIRC it means to disable certain things...or possibly enabling things that might reduce memory footprints. The goal....to make Linux kernel running more suitable for embedded system and low level specification machine... -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com -- 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/