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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Dag Bakke <dag@bakke.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: video (VGA) object-files unconditionally built/included?
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:06:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E273E0.60608@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49E1D631.7080801@bakke.com>

Dag Bakke wrote:
> 
> Probably.
> Hand-editing the video*.o-files out of the Makefile and dropping the
> call to set_video in main.c gained me 4768 bytes. Definitely less than
> 87kB, but posibly worth the effort. To me, anyway.
> 
> Sorry about the noise, thank you for replying.
> 
> For the benefit of other readers working on small kernelimages, this URL
> may prove helpful:
> http://elinux.org/Kernel_Size_Tuning_Guide
> 

For what it's worth, you're welcome to submit a patch which makes this a 
configuration option conditional on CONFIG_EMBEDDED.

	-hpa

      reply	other threads:[~2009-04-12 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-10 11:30 video (VGA) object-files unconditionally built/included? Dag Bakke
2009-04-11  3:43 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-11  4:04   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-11 11:51     ` Dag Bakke
2009-04-11 20:49       ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-12 11:53         ` Dag Bakke
2009-04-12 23:06           ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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