[Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] [ARM ATTEND] kernel data bloat and how to avoid it

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Wed Jul 31 13:53:46 UTC 2013


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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