Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Cummins <> | Subject | RE: /proc/pci unknown devices | Date | Tue, 26 Oct 1999 08:46:46 +1000 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Hollis [mailto:goemon@sasami.anime.net] > Sent: Tuesday, 26 October 1999 8:13 > To: Jeff Garzik > Cc: Gerard Roudier; David Parsons; x-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Subject: Re: /proc/pci unknown devices > > > On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Dan Hollis wrote: > > > For those running embedded pci systems the extra 35kb of wasted text > > > strings is not really nice. Especially if you are going to have to ROM the > > > image. For some users this could make the difference between kernel too > > > large for lilo, and one that works. > > Keeping the names in the kernel eliminates the need for pciutils in many > > embedded systems, making it the better choice! > > Theres more to pciutils than lspci. (Did you ever look?) > > I guess its moot anyway now that the choice has been taken out of users > hands. > > > > I thought we were trying to avoid M$-thinking, or is redmond starting to > > > influence developers, "16kb here, 32kb there, it won't matter". > > 32k of __initdata, _before_ it is compressed, is not a bad deal. > > And users now have no choice in the matter anyway? Oh well. > Just a question..Is Jeff mentioned an embedded device or a computer. (I'm a bit confused) If he means the former, how the hell did such an obscure area manage to out compete main-stream computers in kernel development.
Michael (Does quite know what he's talking about) Cummins
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