From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200007061657.SAA21598@denx.local.net> To: Tom Roberts cc: Ruedi.Hofer@ascom.ch, linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: newlib, uclib From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jul 2000 09:26:33 CDT." <39649719.6A828478@lucent.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 18:57:13 +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: In message <39649719.6A828478@lucent.com> Tom Roberts wrote: > > Ruedi.Hofer@ascom.ch wrote: > > In order to build a commercially successful product I have to reduce the footprint of the system. > > Having a quick look at the files showed me, that the largest files are the libs (libc.so.6 = 4M) ... as u all know. > > Initially I also thought I would have to strip down the libraries > to reduce their footprint. But then I realized that Linux is a demand- > paged system, and only the pages which actually get used will be > loaded into memory. In our case only memory is an issue, the disk > space required is not important. So making libc include _everything_ You have a disk, then. Ruedi is probably on an embedded system, loading a compressed initrd image from Flash into a ramdisk. Both flash and RAM are resources which get tight all too often. Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de How many hardware guys does it take to change a light bulb? "Well the diagnostics say it's fine buddy, so it's a software problem." ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/