From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <20050915205709.GA31156@iram.es> References: <1126644202.11056.59.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com> <200509140435.21916.arnd@arndb.de> <1126705588.14036.10.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com> <17193.22140.962651.122114@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20050915205709.GA31156@iram.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: From: Dan Malek Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:21:57 -0400 To: Gabriel Paubert Cc: linuxppc64-dev , Arnd Bergmann , "linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org" Subject: Re: PATCH powerpc: Merge asm-ppc*/sections.h List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Sep 15, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > So yes, I object strongly object if I don't have a way > of removing useless PMAC code. Or, any other code that isn't appropriate. People have always laughed at me for trying to save bytes here and there, but I have to say there are many, many more PowerPCs running Linux in 32M of memory than 2G of memory. Using the smallest amount of memory to solve the problem is still the norm, and when you are competing against other architectures that can run in less memory, you can't win. Of course, as Gabriel said, I also see legacy systems that want to change from another OS to Linux, but they have 16M soldered on the board (which was _way_ more than necessary to run that other OS), and that isn't going to change. Please, we have to be sensitive to configuring systems to minimize the resource requirements for Linux. Thanks. -- Dan