On 09/26/2012 07:17 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 26 September 2012, Tim Bird wrote: >> Will those of us not interested in a single kernel binary >> that works everywhere be able to configure an ARM kernel image >> without a lot of bloat? > > I'm not aware of increase in code size from the single kernel > image yet. If you find something, let us know.
I have been assuming that the device tree conversion added a small overhead to both the kernel size and the boot time. You are correct that I should measure this before complaining. :-) I'll try to do that when I have some time. Unfortunately, before and after size snapshots are a little difficult to obtain -- it appears that support for device tree involves other refactoring. My main issue is to avoid requiring the loading of drivers and features that are not required for a platform, if the platform does not need it (or the developer chooses to omit it). I may have mis-read this thread, but it sounded like the uncompress code was going to be moved to a common area and not be configurable. Sorry if this is not the case. -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment ============================= -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
