linux-kernel - Re: Replace CONFIG_EMBEDDED [Was: x86 (Linux Tiny): configure out support for some processor]

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Date:	Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:02:48 -0500
From:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@...il.com>,
	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: Replace CONFIG_EMBEDDED [Was: x86 (Linux Tiny): configure out
 support for some processor]

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> It's a subjective category and no amount of talking will bring any 
>> solution here.
> 
> It is brought up now and then partly because the use of the
> term EMBEDDED that is so overloaded that it is not fun.
> 
> Someone should kill it and replace it with something saner.
> 
> CONFIG_EXPERT_TEXT_SIZE
> 
> For stuff that the expert can toy with which mainly
> has text size impact and some documented performance/functionality impact.
> The possibility to select a subset of CPU's may belong here.
> 
> 
> CONFIG_EXPERT_DATA_SIZE
> 
> Likewise where what we save is more data than TEXT.
> For example where we lower the size of a hash bucket etc.
> 
> CONFIG_EXPERT
> 
> For other stuff that no 'ordinary' user will need to change
> but the expert may find it usefull.
> 
> Everything we hide under EMBEDDED today would fit in the
> categories above.
> 
> 
Don't forget "CONFIG_EXPERT_STACK_SIZE" for 4k x86 stacks.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot

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