From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:53:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from arrakis.dune.hu ([78.24.191.176]:43617 "EHLO arrakis.dune.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S27012108AbaJVKxKOpbLQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:53:10 +0200 Received: from arrakis.dune.hu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arrakis.dune.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCEAD28028D for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:52:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dicker-alter.lan (p548C87DD.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.140.135.221]) by arrakis.dune.hu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:52:05 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <54478C94.4060208@openwrt.org> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:53:08 +0200 From: John Crispin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Single MIPS kernel References: <20141022083437.GB18581@linux-mips.org> In-Reply-To: <20141022083437.GB18581@linux-mips.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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: 43479 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: blogic@openwrt.org Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-Id: linux-mips X-List-ID: linux-mips List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: X-list: linux-mips Hi Ralf, On 22/10/2014 10:34, Ralf Baechle wrote: > This question comes up every once in a while and I've also been > approached during ELCE in Düsseldorf why there is no single MIPS > kernel for all platforms, so I thought I should post a writeup on > the topic. > for the SoCs supported by OpenWrt this is a no-go. we are already having a hard time fighting bloat. to get the images to fit we need to already build device specific images that only hold the DT, drivers, ... that a specific board needs. having a kernel that can boot on X devices wont even fit into flash and if it does there is not space left for the userland. I think this feature is only interesting for the older platforms and the upcoming mobile SoC based in MIPS. i.e. the users are debian and android type device. John