On Tue 2014-05-06 11:59:41, David Miller wrote: > From: j...@joshtriplett.org > Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 08:57:03 -0700 > > > On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 11:23:27PM -0400, David Miller wrote: > >> From: Andi Kleen <a...@firstfloor.org> > >> Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 05:21:14 +0200 > >> > >> > What parts would you remove to get the foot print down for a 2MB > >> > single purpose machine? > >> > >> I wouldn't use Linux, end of story. > >> > >> Maybe two decades ago, but not now, those days are over. > > > > That's a self-fulfilling prophecy: > > Making 2MB RAM machines today makes no sense at all. > > The lowest end dirt cheap smartphone, something which fits on > someone's pocket, has gigabytes of ram.
Low end smartphone is quite high-end device :-). It only has to run for few days on big battery. I have programmable watch with <64K RAM. Yes, that one runs for months on battery. > The only entity looking backwards are the people making these > improperly provisioned systems. There's nothing improper about small ammount of RAM to save power. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/