From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>,
Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>,
Ingo Brueckl <ib@wupperonline.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: x86 (Linux Tiny): configure out support for some processors
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 17:23:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090102162357.GH1180@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13903.1230913212@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
* Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:43:03 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput said:
>
> > Let me know why should I choose EMBEDDED option ? I know I am not
> > using Embbeded machine and I do not need embbeded features on my
> > machine. If I am willing to go North why should I go South first ?
>
> EMBEDDED is a bad name for the option. It *started* as "only those
> maniac who need to trim their kernel WAY down should select this", and
> ended up as "stuff that 95% of users shouldn't change, but you can if
> you know what you're doing".
i think both activities fit the generic 'embedded/specialized kernel' term
quite well, so i dont think there's a big naming problem. There's maybe a
documentation problem - the help text could be improved some more to
signal that certain specialized config options are only available under
CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-02 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-01 20:37 x86 (Linux Tiny): configure out support for some processors Ingo Brueckl
2009-01-02 5:19 ` Bryan Donlan
2009-01-02 5:59 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-02 9:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-02 15:10 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-02 15:39 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-02 16:13 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-02 16:20 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-02 16:23 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-01-02 16:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-02 16:38 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-02 17:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-02 18:13 ` Replace CONFIG_EMBEDDED [Was: x86 (Linux Tiny): configure out support for some processor] Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-02 19:02 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-01-02 19:31 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-02 16:51 ` x86 (Linux Tiny): configure out support for some processors david
2009-01-02 16:26 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-02 18:54 ` david
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