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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702061447390.8424@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:51:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...il.com>
cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
>
> I disagree. I did the exact same thing on AVR32 because !EMBEDDED
> forces on tons of crap that just isn't useful on many embedded
> platforms.
I do agree. EMBEDDED largely means "non-generic/non-standard" these days.
It's also true that EMBEDDED does *not* necessarily mean "small", since
some of the choices that it disables can often be choices that you want on
*big* machines.
For example, the whole thing where VGA and keyboard/mouse support default
to on when EMBEDDED isn't selected is quite possibly a good reason to
enable EMBEDDED on big servers that aren't even meant to be general-
purpose, but simply optimized for a particular environment.
That is, technically, what "embedded" really means. A lot of the time
people talk about it as if it was always "small", but it can be a big
computer that is just used in a very specific turn-key environment where
some of the default kernel choices may not be sensible.
Linus
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