linux-kernel - Re: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels

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Message-Id: <E1ICBu8-0007CU-5M@flower>
Date:	Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:09:40 +0200
From:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels

* Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:00:05 -0700

>> If this is an issue, then changing i386 back to discarding __exit code 
>> and data at linktime instead of runtime might make a bigger difference.
>
> What would really make a big difference would be to unspool the
> initramfs in such a way that it only requires O(1) instead off O(n)
> extra memory, by freeing memory as it decompresses and decodes the cpio
> ball.

Why it's not done yet, your opinion?

> 	-hpa
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