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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>,
	Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@gmail.com>,
	Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 2/2] MIPS: make FPU emulator optional
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 20:02:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140407180246.GR17197@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGVrzcbV0sta4PyOoO+jMyOGc6rbT=hNjZTY_iDbi77ZjfUTfQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 09:37:42AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:

> There are some braindead bootloaders out there that will only allow
> for a small kernel partition, while the rootfs partition can virtually
> span the remainder of the available flash space... and all sorts of
> crazy designs like these.

In a case like that 50k are going to buy you a release or two of Moore's
law applied to kernel bloat.

How making the FPU emu a module?

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-07 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-07 10:57 [RFC PATCH v4 1/2] MIPS: move mmips branch support code out of the fpu emu code Manuel Lauss
2014-04-07 10:57 ` [RFC PATCH v4 2/2] MIPS: make FPU emulator optional Manuel Lauss
2014-04-07 13:53   ` Paul Burton
2014-04-07 14:48     ` Manuel Lauss
2014-04-07 15:06       ` Paul Burton
2014-04-07 16:28     ` Ralf Baechle
2014-04-07 16:37       ` Florian Fainelli
2014-04-07 18:02         ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2014-04-07 18:04           ` Florian Fainelli

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