From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
<bigeasy-hfZtesqFncYOwBW4kG4KsQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: sodaville-hfZtesqFncYOwBW4kG4KsQ@public.gmane.org,
devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [sodaville] [RFC] [PATCH V2] Adding DTB to architecture independent vmlinux
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:38:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC9A705.3080806@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC9A66B.6070408-hfZtesqFncYOwBW4kG4KsQ@public.gmane.org>
On 10/28/2010 9:35 AM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> How big are these blobs in the typical case? Padding to the page size
> You usually pad the dtb by 1kib (-p 1024 in dtc). Converting all dtbs in
> powerpc's tree leads to:
> 991545 / 130 = 7627 bytes average.
>
So expanding to a page is a lot of memory, but it's pretty important to
jettison unused DTBs.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-28 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-26 14:24 [RFC] [PATCH] Adding DTB to architecture independent vmlinux Dirk Brandewie
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2010-10-27 11:09 ` Grant Likely
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2010-10-27 17:27 ` [sodaville] " H. Peter Anvin
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2010-10-28 0:30 ` [RFC] [PATCH V2] " Dirk Brandewie
[not found] ` <4CC8C423.9050600-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-28 0:57 ` David VomLehn
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2010-10-28 15:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <4CC99441.4030307-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-28 16:35 ` [sodaville] " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
[not found] ` <4CC9A66B.6070408-hfZtesqFncYOwBW4kG4KsQ@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-28 16:38 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
[not found] ` <4CC9A705.3080806-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-28 18:00 ` David VomLehn
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2010-11-01 4:15 ` Grant Likely
[not found] ` <AANLkTinYiTDsN+c_vgnK4OjmjpTzLHyyA8FqjPSaFm5h-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-11-02 1:27 ` David VomLehn
2010-10-29 4:02 ` David Gibson
2010-10-28 17:32 ` David VomLehn
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2010-10-28 21:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <4CC9EECF.9020208-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-29 4:04 ` David Gibson
2010-10-29 20:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <4CCB2E93.2010809-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-30 12:57 ` David Gibson
2010-11-01 4:12 ` Grant Likely
2010-11-01 3:55 ` [sodaville] [RFC] [PATCH] " Grant Likely
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