Re: x86 (Linux Tiny): configure out support for some processors

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:43:03 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput said:
> 
> > Let me know why should I choose EMBEDDED option ? I know I am not 
> > using Embbeded machine and I do not need embbeded features on my 
> > machine. If I am willing to go North why should I go South first ?
> 
> EMBEDDED is a bad name for the option.  It *started* as "only those 
> maniac who need to trim their kernel WAY down should select this", and 
> ended up as "stuff that 95% of users shouldn't change, but you can if 
> you know what you're doing".

i think both activities fit the generic 'embedded/specialized kernel' term 
quite well, so i dont think there's a big naming problem. There's maybe a 
documentation problem - the help text could be improved some more to 
signal that certain specialized config options are only available under 
CONFIG_EMBEDDED.

	Ingo