Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:13:04 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | [2.6 patch] offer CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE only if EXPERIMENTAL |
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:05:31PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote: > > > > Hi Linus, > > > > your patch to allow CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE even for EMBEDDED=n has broken > > the EMBEDDED menu. > > It looks like that patch needs to be reverted or altered anyway. sparc64 > machines are failing all over the place, possibly due to newly-exposed > compiler bugs. > > Whether it's the compiler or it's genuine kernel bugs, the same problems > are likely to bite other architectures.
The help text already contains a bold warning.
What about marking it as EXPERIMENTAL? That is not that heavy as EMBEDDED but expresses this.
cu Adrian
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CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is still an experimental feature that doesn't work with all supported gcc/architecture combinations.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
--- linux-git/init/Kconfig.old 2005-12-14 23:08:51.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-git/init/Kconfig 2005-12-14 23:09:09.000000000 +0100 @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ source "usr/Kconfig" config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE - bool "Optimize for size" + bool "Optimize for size (EXPERIMENTAL)" if EXPERIMENTAL default y if ARM || H8300 help Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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