Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:47:00 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: x86: removing zImage support? |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes: > >> I'm thinking again about removing zImage support. An "allnoconfig" >> kernel (with CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y to expose additional knobs, and >> CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y so it can do anything at all) is currently 487K on >> i386 -- very close to the upper limit of 512K for zImage. > > An alternative would be to do a concentrated effort to get rid of text bloat > again. I bet it could be stripped down to much below that again by just > attacking some low hanging fruit. >
That wasn't exactly the point. The whole point is whether or not we can reduce the complexity of the code by removing a mode which has few or no users.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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