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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: Add "make tinyconfig" to configure the tiniest possible kernel
On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Josh Triplett wrote:

> Since commit 5d2acfc7b974bbd3858b4dd3f2cdc6362dd8843a ("kconfig: make
> allnoconfig disable options behind EMBEDDED and EXPERT") in 3.15-rc1,
> "make allnoconfig" disables every possible config option.
>
> However, a few configuration options (CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE,
> OPTIMIZE_INLINING) produce a smaller kernel when turned on, and a few
> choices exist (compression, highmem, allocator) for which a non-default
> option produces a smaller kernel.
>
> Add a "tinyconfig" target, which starts from allnoconfig and then sets
> these options to configure the tiniest possible kernel. This provides a
> better baseline for embedded systems or efforts to reduce kernel size.
>

I like it, the only comment that I have is that we already have a
xenconfig patchset sitting around that adds a helper function for this
functionality in the x86 Makefile that hasn't been merged yet.

The *config functionality is added in
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=140233900403377

and then used in
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=140233901403381
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=140233904503428

and have been pending since June. I was going to ask Luis to rebase and
resend, but perhaps you can send the first patch along as a predecessor to
your patch and then let tinyconfig use build-virtconfig?


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