On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Robert,
>
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > not sure if i asked this here once upon a time but, in the
> > current kernel, you get to select support for *both* initrd and
> > initramfs with a single selection (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD).
> >
> > ...
> >
> > in the context of embedded linux, is there any value in
> > separating these features and letting one select them
> > individually? isn't it
> >
> Makes sense to me to seperate them, especially if this reduces code
> size.
>
> Small kernels and initramfs's are used in memory constrained
> systems, we run it on FPGA SoC cores.
>
> Does disabling initrd alone reduce code size? Is the dependency on
> some subsystem removed (block i/o layer?)
i'm going to move this discussion to the kernel-newbies list since
it's really not tightly related to embedded, we'll hash it out there,
and i'll report back. i'm *reasonably* convinced that we can save
some bytes here, but i'll make sure, then i'll let you know.
rday
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