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Message-ID: <469E3806.4030804@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:55:50 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC: Jonathan Campbell <jon@...dgrounds.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...nsmeta.com
Subject: Re: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels
Andi Kleen wrote:
>
>> Already with these patches I can compile a zImage kernel that is 450kb
>> large (890kb decompressed)
>
> The important part is not how big the vmlinux is, but how much
> memory is actually used after boot.
>
> I expect concentrating some of the dynamic data structures would
> be more fruitful in fact.
>
Well, how big the vmlinux file is matters if it doesn't fit in memory
with enough time to get to the phase where it is dumping the init
sections. *If that is not the issue*, then axing stuff like CPUID is a
major lose in terms of code maintainability for zero gain.
-hpa
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