Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation

2008-06-03 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:05:40 +0100 David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 20:03 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:16:37 +0100 > > David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 17:01 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > > > > This is c

Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation

2008-06-03 Thread Paul Mundt
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 03:37:23PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > >>Actually, lots have frame buffers these days. > > > >Cell phones, for instance. > > Sure, but do you want to use them as consoles? > Unless your name is Pavel, no one actually wants a console on their phone.

Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation

2008-06-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 20:03 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:16:37 +0100 > David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 17:01 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > > > This is clearly an improvement. But it is missing this part of the > > > original patch: > > > > Oo

Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation

2008-06-03 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:16:37 +0100 David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 17:01 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > > This is clearly an improvement. But it is missing this part of the > > original patch: > > Oops, well spotted. I've updated the patch in the git tree; thanks. Wh

Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation

2008-06-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 17:01 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > This is clearly an improvement. But it is missing this part of the > original patch: Oops, well spotted. I've updated the patch in the git tree; thanks. (that's what comes of applying patches by hand -- I _knew_ I had to do that hunk, but manag

Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation

2008-06-03 Thread Tim Bird
David Woodhouse wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 15:37 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: >> With CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS turned off, this saves about 6K >> on my kernel configured for an ARM development board (OMAP >> 5912 OSK). In embedded products I'm familiar with, >> console translations are not needed. >> >>

Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation

2008-06-03 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Rob Landley wrote: Actually, lots have frame buffers these days. Cell phones, for instance. Sure, but do you want to use them as consoles? -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo i

Re: initramfs size limitation

2008-06-03 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > On Sunday 01 June 2008 19:25:11 Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Rob Landley wrote: >> > fact it would be really nice if qemu grew blackfin support because >> > messing >> >> i imagine it would be ... too bad qemu lacks re

Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation

2008-06-03 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 16:18 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > On Monday 02 June 2008 17:37:09 Tim Bird wrote: > > With CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS turned off, this saves about 6K > > on my kernel configured for an ARM development board (OMAP > > 5912 OSK). In embedded products I'm familiar with, > > console t

Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation

2008-06-03 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 03 June 2008 10:46:04 Matt Mackall wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 18:34 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Tim Bird wrote: > > > With CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS turned off, this saves about 6K > > > on my kernel configured for an ARM development board (OMAP > > > 5912 OSK). In embedded products

Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation

2008-06-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 16:18 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > Er, what _is_ the relationship between linux-tiny and linux-embedded lists > now? There's been a bunch of embedded-related lists, and one of the reasons for doing [EMAIL PROTECTED] (rather than @lists.infradead.org as would have been my firs

Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation

2008-06-03 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 02 June 2008 17:37:09 Tim Bird wrote: > With CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS turned off, this saves about 6K > on my kernel configured for an ARM development board (OMAP > 5912 OSK). In embedded products I'm familiar with, > console translations are not needed. > > This was taken from the Linux-tin

Re: initramfs size limitation

2008-06-03 Thread Rob Landley
On Sunday 01 June 2008 19:25:11 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > > On Saturday 31 May 2008 07:44:14 Phil Wilshire wrote: > >> I hope this is the right place and the right sort of question. > >> > >> I work closely with the Blackfin systems and they have n

Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation

2008-06-03 Thread Matt Mackall
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 18:34 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Tim Bird wrote: > > With CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS turned off, this saves about 6K > > on my kernel configured for an ARM development board (OMAP > > 5912 OSK). In embedded products I'm familiar with, > > console translations are not needed. >

Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation

2008-06-03 Thread Holger Schurig
Maybe change the Kconfig entry so that: * with CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y it's configuration * with CONFIG_EMBEDDED=n it's on by default -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/

Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation

2008-06-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 16:06 +0200, Holger Schurig wrote: > Maybe change the Kconfig entry so that: > > * with CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y it's configuration > * with CONFIG_EMBEDDED=n it's on by default That's what Tim's patch did (although I moved it to drivers/char/Kconfig and made it depend on CONFIG_VT

Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation

2008-06-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 15:37 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > With CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS turned off, this saves about 6K > on my kernel configured for an ARM development board (OMAP > 5912 OSK). In embedded products I'm familiar with, > console translations are not needed. > > This was taken from the Linux

Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation

2008-06-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 15:37 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > With CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS turned off, this saves about 6K > on my kernel configured for an ARM development board (OMAP > 5912 OSK). In embedded products I'm familiar with, > console translations are not needed. I'd have been more inclined to pu

Re: Fwd: Some embedded topics

2008-06-03 Thread Marco Stornelli
Tim Bird ha scritto: Marco Stornelli wrote: There's a MontaVista patent on PRAMFS and I think that most of times when a company hears this thing it skips quickly this solution. Hmmm. I don't recall anything about a patent on PRAMFS. There are lots of issues here, but I think it's OK to use.

Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation

2008-06-03 Thread Jamie Lokier
H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Tim Bird wrote: > >With CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS turned off, this saves about 6K > >on my kernel configured for an ARM development board (OMAP > >5912 OSK). In embedded products I'm familiar with, > >console translations are not needed. > > On most embedded products I'm famili