Am Sonntag, 7. November 2010, 11:49:37 schrieb Andrew: > 07.11.2010 00:46, KP Kirchdoerfer пишет: > > Hi; > > > > I was concerned about support for different processor yet, but Andrew did > > a very job and it seems to work pretty well to add additional kernels > > (and modules). > > > > I added i486 (speak "the generic one") and geode (optmized for Geode > > based boards like the Alix2/3). > > Both are somewhat smaller (about 250kb) than the i686 optimized kernel. > > > > > > The i486 does not support SMP, Microcode Support, MTTR, hardware recovery > > and large Files (2TB). This kerne should run at every system with the > > minimal requirements. > > > > The geode kernel does not support SMP. Microcode Support. MTTR and large > > files (2TB). Though it's optimized for geode kernel and builds special > > modules like the geode.access bus module for I2C and the geode hardware > > crypto engine. > > > > Still there might be room for improvements by another kernel review. > > > > kp > > Possible it'll be good to disable on i486 and geode kernels such useless > for them features like PCI-E support, some SATA/LAN controllers and > other hardware that will never be present on these boards? especially > when MSI is already disabled. > In any case, when, for ex., MB supports ICHx SATA, or AHCI, or PCI-E - > it'll be available to run i686 kernel... And with disabled unneeded > built-in drivers/initrd modules kernel will weight smaller, and will > consume less memory.
As Erich pointed, we shouldn't be too aggressive removing options. A 486 kernel that supports PCI-E won't make sense at the first look, cause as you said those boards run with an i686 kernel, but suppose such an i486 image will run everywhere. But then what about removing support bzip2, lzma and lzo for initial ramdisk? I guess we only use gz??? kp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
