From: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com>
To: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-tiny <Linux-tiny@selenic.com>,
CE Linux Developers List <celinux-dev@tree.celinuxforum.org>,
john cooper <john.cooper@third-harmonic.com>,
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Subject: Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:29:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F1A2C9.4070506@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F194D5.9050800@am.sony.com>
Tim Bird wrote:
> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
>> Is anybody working on testing that the patchkit "does no harm" for bigger
>> boxes (laptops, desktops, servers)?
>>
> Not to my knowledge. Most of the things it provides are
> only activated by config options. So my sense is that just
> applying the patches should be harmless. But we'll need some
> runtime testing to see what affect some of these have on
> big iron.
>
Tim is right, Linux-Tiny features are only activated by configuration
options.
However, that doesn't prevent us from proposing size reduction changes
impacting all kernel users, in cases a configuration option doesn't make
sense. Extensive testing in the -mm tree will then be required.
Cheers,
Michael.
--
Michael Opdenacker
http://free-electrons.com
+33 621 604 642
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-19 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-19 18:03 [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival Tim Bird
2007-09-19 18:47 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-09-19 19:31 ` Tim Bird
2007-09-19 19:01 ` Christian MICHON
2007-09-19 19:28 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 19:41 ` Tim Bird
2007-09-19 20:45 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-09-19 21:29 ` Tim Bird
2007-09-19 22:29 ` Michael Opdenacker [this message]
2007-09-19 21:28 ` [Celinux-dev] " Andrew Morton
2007-09-19 21:41 ` Tim Bird
2007-09-19 22:38 ` Michael Opdenacker
2007-09-20 9:10 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-09-20 17:10 ` Monster switch for small size (was Linux-tiny revival) Tim Bird
2007-09-20 21:41 ` Rob Landley
2007-09-20 20:50 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-21 6:35 ` Christian MICHON
2007-09-20 23:02 ` [Celinux-dev] [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival Rob Landley
2007-09-20 20:38 ` Rob Landley
2007-09-20 19:58 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-09-20 20:22 ` printk proposal - (was Linux-tiny project revival) Tim Bird
2007-09-21 19:07 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-09-21 20:53 ` Rob Landley
2007-09-20 22:02 ` [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival Rob Landley
2007-09-20 21:22 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-09-20 22:53 ` Rob Landley
2007-09-20 22:15 ` [Celinux-dev] " Gross, Mark
2007-09-21 0:57 ` Message codes (Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival) Oleg Verych
2007-09-21 14:18 ` Gross, Mark
2007-09-21 21:15 ` Rob Landley
2007-09-21 22:12 ` Gross, Mark
2007-09-21 22:33 ` Joe Perches
2007-09-21 22:39 ` Gross, Mark
2007-09-22 1:55 ` Oleg Verych
2007-09-21 13:29 ` [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival Dick Streefland
2007-09-20 20:16 ` Joe Perches
2007-09-25 11:43 ` [Celinux-dev] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-09-20 21:26 ` Indan Zupancic
2007-09-20 23:18 ` Rob Landley
2007-09-20 23:06 ` Indan Zupancic
2007-09-21 6:29 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-24 18:13 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-26 6:24 ` Rob Landley
2007-09-21 17:16 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-09-21 17:45 ` Joe Perches
2007-09-21 23:05 ` Rob Landley
2007-09-21 23:08 ` Joe Perches
2007-09-21 21:34 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-21 22:05 ` Joe Perches
2007-09-21 22:57 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-20 21:58 ` Tim Bird
2007-09-20 22:14 ` Joe Perches
2007-09-21 0:28 ` Rob Landley
2007-09-21 0:03 ` Joe Perches
2007-09-20 23:11 ` Rob Landley
2007-09-21 12:27 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-09-27 7:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-09-27 16:35 ` Indan Zupancic
2007-09-27 22:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-09-28 8:39 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2007-09-30 20:37 ` Jörn Engel
2007-09-28 0:06 ` Rob Landley
2007-09-28 14:36 ` Dick Streefland
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