[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 REPOST 2/3] image: Implement IH_TYPE_KERNEL_REL

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Stephen Warren,

In message <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF173D51C286@HQMAIL01.nvidia.com> you wrote:
>
> > DOn;t give up to oearly.  My opinion is that #ifdef's are bad, and
> > increased code size is bad either.  If we can trade off one for the
> > other, we should know exactly what we can win here and how much we
> > have to pay for that there.  That's all I want to know.
> 
> Do you mean the total without /any/ ifdefs? If so, please see where I
> answered this question earlier in the thread:
> 
> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-October/104427.html
> 
> The first time I submitted this patch, there were no ifdefs, and you
> stated that the additional 576 bytes text plus 136 bytes rodata was
> unacceptable, so I rewrote the patch to add ifdefs everywhere.

The statement that triggered me was "Maybe relax that by a few 10s of
bytes?", and my question was then ``how much is "a few 10s of bytes"''?

Obviously this must be something inbetween the 700+ bytes you state
here, and the zero bytes you state elsewhere.

I wonder what exactly it was, then?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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