Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Nov 2018 09:49:48 +1100 (AEDT) | From | Finn Thain <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 01/13] arm: Fix mutual exclusion in arch_gettimeoffset |
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2018, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > The EBSA110 is probably in a similar boat - I don't remember whether it > had 16MB or 32MB as the maximal amount of memory, but memory was getting > tight with some kernels even running a minimalist userspace. > > So, it's probably time to say goodbyte to the kernel support for these > platforms. >
Your call.
Note that removing code from mainline won't help users obtain older, smaller, -stable kernel releases, free from the bug we were discussing. (The bug appeared in Linux v2.6.32.)
BTW, if you did want to boot Linux on a 16 MB system, you do have some options.
https://lwn.net/Articles/741494/ https://lwn.net/Articles/608945/ https://tiny.wiki.kernel.org/
Contributing to this kind of effort probably has value for IoT deployments. I suspect it also cuts a small amount of bloat from a large number of other Linux systems.
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