On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 17:58 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Hi, > > The enclosed patch allows to remove the DMI scanning code when > CONFIG_EMBEDDED is defined. It's basically the dma_blacklist patch of > Linux-Tiny ported to 2.6.25-rc1, with the required modifications. It > allows to remove ~10k from the kernel code/data size.
Looks ok. Please preserve original authorship (ie me) in some fashion in your description. > On top of this patch, I've tested if removing the big dmi tables in the > code (for example in arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c) would allow to make more > space optimizations. However, it seems that simply defining > dmi_check_system() to an empty static inlined function already allows > gcc to optimize out the dmi tables, because there are not present in > the code. Is that possible, or is my understanding incorrect ? That's possible with modern gccs, yes. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/