From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz, torvalds@transmeta.com,
garzik@havoc.gtf.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
paulus@samba.org, davidm@hpl.hp.com, ralf@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: crc32 and lib.a (was Re: [PATCH] nbd in 2.5.3 does
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 18:12:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020202021242.GA6770@tapu.f00f.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020131.145904.41634460.davem@redhat.com> <E16WQYs-0003Ux-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16WQYs-0003Ux-00@the-village.bc.nu>
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:24:10PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
Because 100 4K drivers suddenly becomes 0.5Mb. There are those of
us trying to stuff Linux into embedded devices who if anything
want more configuration options not people taking stuff out.
Well, I'm more or less in agreement here, especially when working with
small embedded devices which have a few (say 16 or 32) MB of RAM for
EVERYTHING, kernel, userspace AND filesystems.
However, I wonder if we can't have the linker remove unnecessary and
unreferences objects, functions and variables?
What I'd much rather see if this is an issue is:
bool 'Do you want to customise for a very small system'
_IF_ the linker can remove things, it would simplify this too --- we
could if a few important places produce code slightly differently to
favour speed over size and not reference various things. Also, the
above option would turn-off inlining as that seems to makie quite a
difference at times (BTW, I'm not sure about this, but it seems gcc
and C99 don't agree with static/extern inline semantics?)
--cw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-02 2:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-31 20:27 crc32 and lib.a (was Re: [PATCH] nbd in 2.5.3 does not Petr Vandrovec
2002-01-31 20:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-31 22:53 ` [PATCH] " Petr Vandrovec
2002-01-31 22:59 ` David S. Miller
2002-01-31 23:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-31 23:43 ` David Lang
2002-01-31 23:24 ` [PATCH] Re: crc32 and lib.a (was Re: [PATCH] nbd in 2.5.3 does Alan Cox
2002-01-31 23:21 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-02-02 16:32 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-02-02 12:57 ` Jens Axboe
2002-02-02 13:16 ` arjan
2002-02-02 13:52 ` Jens Axboe
2002-02-03 11:37 ` David Woodhouse
2002-01-31 23:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-31 23:45 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-01 0:32 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-01 10:07 ` Horst von Brand
2002-02-01 10:28 ` Keith Owens
2002-02-01 11:03 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-01 11:25 ` Keith Owens
2002-02-01 14:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-01 8:14 ` David Woodhouse
2002-02-02 2:12 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2002-02-02 3:01 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-02 7:30 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-02-02 7:42 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-02-02 8:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-02 19:20 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-02-02 8:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-02 8:08 ` Keith Owens
2002-02-02 8:40 ` David Woodhouse
2002-02-02 8:59 ` Keith Owens
2002-02-02 9:14 ` David Woodhouse
2002-02-03 4:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-02-03 7:01 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-02-03 9:13 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-02-03 12:16 ` David Woodhouse
2002-02-03 12:33 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-02-03 12:47 ` David Woodhouse
2002-02-03 13:40 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <20020131.162549.74750188.davem@redhat.com>
2002-02-01 0:42 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-01 0:30 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-01 3:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-01 4:25 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-01 4:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-01 5:59 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-01 5:10 ` Keith Owens
2002-02-01 5:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-01 5:18 ` Keith Owens
2002-02-01 13:42 ` Horst von Brand
2002-02-03 23:34 ` Keith Owens
2002-02-04 20:14 ` Horst von Brand
2002-02-01 6:01 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-01 6:11 ` Keith Owens
2002-02-01 6:26 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-01 6:43 ` Keith Owens
2002-02-01 15:03 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-01 14:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-01 15:12 ` Petr Vandrovec
2002-02-01 16:08 ` David Woodhouse
2002-02-04 13:24 ` Horst von Brand
2002-02-05 7:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-01 4:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-01 4:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-01 15:19 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-01 19:37 ` Rob Landley
2002-02-01 19:50 ` Jeff Garzik
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