Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:53:46 -0400 | From | Jason Cooper <> | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] [ARM ATTEND] kernel data bloat and how to avoid it |
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 05:33:51AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:38:03AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Probably the biggest kernel data bloat issue is in the ARM land, but > > it also seems that it's becoming a Linux generic issue too, so I > > guess it could be discussed in either context. > > Why is it specific to ARM? What is so unique to ARM that causes it to > "bloat"? > > And what exactly do you mean by "bloat"?
Perhaps he's referring to the multiplatform effort? You'd get a lot of board code that wouldn't be used at each boot. This should be declining though...
thx,
Jason.
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