Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:21:20 -0200 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: crc32 and lib.a (was Re: [PATCH] nbd in 2.5.3 does |
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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.
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