linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation

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Message-ID: <20080604183432.GC27768@mx.loc>
Date:	Wed, 4 Jun 2008 20:34:32 +0200
From:	Bernhard Fischer <rep.dot.nop@...il.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@...ial.fi>
Cc:	Tim Bird <tim.bird@...sony.com>,
	linux-tiny <Linux-tiny@...enic.com>,
	linux-embedded <linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset
	translation

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:33:53PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:

>My gut feeling is that the influence of this kind of linux-tiny patches 
>is hardly noticably compared to the overall code size development, but 
>if you have numbers that prove me wrong just point me to them and I'll 
>stand corrected.
>
>cu
>Adrian
>
>BTW: I'm not insisting on "between 2.6.16 and 2.6.26", that's just some
>     timeframe big enough for showing general trends.

Current kernels are too big, they tend to be about 1MB (ignoring lzma or
gz compression), a couple of years back an ide- and network-enabled
kernel with 8139too (or whatever -nic you use in qemu nowadays) was at
least 30% smaller.
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