linux-kernel - Re: x86 (Linux Tiny): configure out support for some processors

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Message-ID: <3f9a31f40901020838v333a968dv937a717e031743eb@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 2 Jan 2009 22:08:53 +0530
From:	"Jaswinder Singh Rajput" <jaswinderlinux@...il.com>
To:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, "Bryan Donlan" <bdonlan@...il.com>,
	"Ingo Brueckl" <ib@...peronline.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: x86 (Linux Tiny): configure out support for some processors

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
> So you want to save kernel size by making less generic kernels tailored to

My intention is to remove unwanted or useless data from kernel.

> a single box [yours in this case] - basically embedding the kernel on it?
>

So you mean choosing x86 is also EMBEDDED ? because it will not gonna
run on ARM machine.

>
> that is what CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y means in broad terms: "make the kernel more
> specific [more embedded] to a particular hw/sw combination".
>

Choosing drivers is also Embedded ?

Thanks you,
JSR
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