* My god! 2.5 is big
@ 2003-07-01 21:35 Brian Murphy
2003-07-02 0:36 ` Ralf Baechle
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From: Brian Murphy @ 2003-07-01 21:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-mips
My gzip'ped 2.4 kernel is 250k smaller than 2.5 and it works.
Perhaps I just need to remove some code... ;-)
/Brian
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* Re: My god! 2.5 is big
2003-07-01 21:35 My god! 2.5 is big Brian Murphy
@ 2003-07-02 0:36 ` Ralf Baechle
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From: Ralf Baechle @ 2003-07-02 0:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Brian Murphy; +Cc: linux-mips
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:35:50PM +0200, Brian Murphy wrote:
> My gzip'ped 2.4 kernel is 250k smaller than 2.5 and it works.
> Perhaps I just need to remove some code... ;-)
Old saying - "software is like gas, it fills all available space" ;-)
The MIPS 2.5 is still in it's quite early stages; I suspect we can still
regain part of the extra size. More important than the pure kernel size
(users booting from flash throw your rotten vegies now ;-) is the in
memory size. The greatly reduced size of struct page for example will
result in a net gain of memory available for applications for systems of
more than about 48MB.
Ralf
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