From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 02 Feb 2004 18:57:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from p508B7363.dip.t-dialin.net ([IPv6:::ffff:80.139.115.99]:49220 "EHLO mail.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 18:57:46 +0000 Received: from fluff.linux-mips.net (fluff.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i12IvRex024142; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 19:57:27 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by fluff.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i12IvQGf024141; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 19:57:26 +0100 Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 19:57:26 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Karsten Merker , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: MIPS Kernel size Message-ID: <20040202185726.GB23667@linux-mips.org> References: <1075215091.40167af364b77@imp1-a.free.fr> <20040202140925.GB22008@linux-mips.org> <20040202184325.GE913@excalibur.cologne.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040202184325.GE913@excalibur.cologne.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 4234 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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