Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:59:54 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Configure out DMI scanning code v2 (Linux Tiny) |
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* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:56:45 -0600 > Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 10:04 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > > > > > Turn CONFIG_DMI into a selectable option if EMBEDDED is defined, in > > > order to be able to remove the DMI table scanning code if it's not > > > needed, and then reduce the kernel code size. > > > > > > With CONFIG_DMI (i.e before) : > > > > > > text data bss dec hex filename > > > 1076076 128656 98304 1303036 13e1fc vmlinux > > > > > > Without CONFIG_DMI (i.e after) : > > > > > > text data bss dec hex filename > > > 1068092 126308 98304 1292704 13b9a0 vmlinux > > > > > > Result: > > > > > > text data bss dec hex filename > > > -7984 -2348 0 -10332 -285c vmlinux > > > > > > The new option appears in "Processor type and features", only when > > > CONFIG_EMBEDDED is defined. > > Given this: > > > > This patch is part of the Linux Tiny project, and is based on previous > > > work done by Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>. > > > > Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> > > That should have been "Signed-off-by:". I'll speculatively make that > change.
for the x86 bits:
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo
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