From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266499AbUGKFDk (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jul 2004 01:03:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266500AbUGKFDk (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jul 2004 01:03:40 -0400 Received: from opersys.com ([64.40.108.71]:27144 "EHLO www.opersys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266499AbUGKFDj (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jul 2004 01:03:39 -0400 Message-ID: <40F0C8E8.2060908@opersys.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 00:58:16 -0400 From: Karim Yaghmour Reply-To: karim@opersys.com Organization: Opersys inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr, fr-be, fr-ca, fr-fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dmitry Torokhov CC: Adam Kropelin , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tim.bird@am.sony.com, celinux-dev@tree.celinuxforum.org, tpoynor@mvista.com, geert@linux-m68k.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] preset loops_per_jiffy for faster booting References: <40EEF10F.1030404@am.sony.com> <20040710182527.47534358.akpm@osdl.org> <20040710234459.A26981@mail.kroptech.com> <200407102351.05059.dtor_core@ameritech.net> In-Reply-To: <200407102351.05059.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Do we need to encourage ordinary users to turn this option on? 99% of > non-embedded market is much safer with that option off... There are other boot params that gather similar if not higher percentages. profile= is one of those. Also, keep in mind that in a not too distant future (and indeed today for some folks already) recompiling and fine-tuning the Linux kernel for your latest gizmo will not be as foreign as your statement may make it sound. Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || karim@opersys.com || 1-866-677-4546