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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

  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
     [not found] ` <4CC6E491.7060304-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-27 11:09   ` Grant Likely
     [not found]     ` <20101027110937.GD7822-MrY2KI0G/OVr83L8+7iqerDks+cytr/Z@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-27 17:27       ` [sodaville] " H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]         ` <4CC860EF.6060503-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org>
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
     [not found]                 ` <20101028005754.GA27386-ZEW99E7oL/EiWxQNNj96ibh/4TqKg8J2XqFh9Ls21Oc@public.gmane.org>
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
     [not found]                                 ` <20101028180053.GC25771-ZEW99E7oL/EiWxQNNj96ibh/4TqKg8J2XqFh9Ls21Oc@public.gmane.org>
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
     [not found]                         ` <20101028173202.GA25771-ZEW99E7oL/EiWxQNNj96ibh/4TqKg8J2XqFh9Ls21Oc@public.gmane.org>
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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