Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s), linux-embedded@vger list

["Leon Woestenberg" <leon.woestenberg@gmail.com>]

Hello,

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 April 2008 14:11:49 David Woodhouse wrote:
>> I agree. And if we do want to pay attention to pure code size, there are
>> other approaches -- like --gc-sections and/or building with '--combine
>> -fwhole-program' which I was playing with for OLPC a while back. I must
>> dust that off now that the GCC fixes should mostly have made it into
>> current distributions.
>
> I like simplicity.  I like _simple_.  Half my attraction to embedded systems
>
Same here.

> I submitted a patch to remove the use of perl to build the linux kernel (which
> HPA added in 2.6.25) not because it affected the result, but because it
> unnecessarily complicates the build system.  (And perl tends to metasticize.

Thanks, I hope it is or gets accepted.

In general I think one of the aspects of embedded Linux is about
minimizing the amount of bloat dependencies. Especially, when each
dependency can explode in a hurd of new dependencies.

> "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
>  - Ken Thompson.
>
How appropriate.

Regards,
-- 
Leon