From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Leon Woestenberg" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s), linux-embedded@vger list Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 23:27:29 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1209577322.25560.402.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <87bq3rgq40.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <1209582709.25560.441.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <200805281652.47558.rob@landley.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=AwFnjGJUBVm7FxvjOvfWBnnDeO3tlzNa5OletLtJgoI=; b=VH4WvLoBUcVyT+zX4tR6dsIyka+xDr9GqAVVxJNm+xfzSv90zerwqMJOJ1JG/kylte oIYgnlZQGj6kYFuX3mG4btVDkoUcb2vHslQrQJ+qWWThVOyOXSXvwcKhPHgxmzni+58a l+q04zCqPiDL4pBk8bAzAACRd1mMFSDtpFuu4= In-Reply-To: <200805281652.47558.rob@landley.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Rob Landley , David Woodhouse , linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org Hello, On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Rob Landley 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