Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 May 1999 12:47:48 -0700 (PDT) | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: High speed serial ports |
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On 11-May-99 Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > 4) If we can't do this, why not put most of hispeed.c under an > __initfunc(), and simply enable all of the board to the hispeed divisor, > and then set the baud_base to the appropriate value, all at boot time. > Then all of this memory can be thrown away after the kernel initializes > itself, and if we're sure that the probing code is safe to run on all > machines, maybe we don't even need to make it a CONFIG option.
Kernel image size is a concern for some of us. In fact, for us its more important than runtime RAM usage.
J
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