Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:51:52 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error |
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote: > > I disagree. I did the exact same thing on AVR32 because !EMBEDDED > forces on tons of crap that just isn't useful on many embedded > platforms.
I do agree. EMBEDDED largely means "non-generic/non-standard" these days. It's also true that EMBEDDED does *not* necessarily mean "small", since some of the choices that it disables can often be choices that you want on *big* machines.
For example, the whole thing where VGA and keyboard/mouse support default to on when EMBEDDED isn't selected is quite possibly a good reason to enable EMBEDDED on big servers that aren't even meant to be general- purpose, but simply optimized for a particular environment.
That is, technically, what "embedded" really means. A lot of the time people talk about it as if it was always "small", but it can be a big computer that is just used in a very specific turn-key environment where some of the default kernel choices may not be sensible.
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