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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Karsten Merker <karsten@excalibur.cologne.de>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: MIPS Kernel size
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 19:57:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040202185726.GB23667@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040202184325.GE913@excalibur.cologne.de>

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 07:43:25PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:

> Depends on what you consider "that small". Kernel size is a large
> issue for the Cobalt series due to the firmware limits (although
> Peter Hortons attempts at a Cobalt bootloader will hopefully help in
> this regard). Embedded stuff and PDAs is another field where 2.6
> currently seems to pose a problem.

I really hate that term "embedded" - it's very hard to define.  Anyway,
there's an increasing amount of so-called embedded systems with several
gigabytes of memory and even for much smaller system 2.6 is already
making 2.4 look pale.

The Cobalt case is special; it's firmware could almost be the definition
of the term crap ...

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-02 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-27 14:51 MIPS Kernel size kip.r2
2004-01-27 16:10 ` Thiemo Seufer
2004-02-02 14:09 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-02-02 18:43   ` Karsten Merker
2004-02-02 18:57     ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2004-02-02 19:38       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-02-02 19:46         ` Ralf Baechle
2004-02-02 19:50           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-02-02 19:59             ` Ralf Baechle
2004-02-02 20:07               ` Thiemo Seufer
2004-02-02 20:32                 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-02-02 22:29         ` Peter Horton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-02 16:12 Smith, Todd
2004-02-02 18:53 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-02-02 21:48 Smith, Todd
2004-02-03 13:41 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-02-03 15:17   ` Ralf Baechle
2004-02-03 14:50 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-02-03 15:18   ` Ralf Baechle
2004-02-03 16:52     ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-02-03 17:07       ` Ralf Baechle
2004-02-03 15:16 ` Ralf Baechle

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