* Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This patch adds some configuration options that allow to compile out > CPU vendor-specific code in x86 kernels (in arch/x86/kernel/cpu). The > new configuration options are only visible when CONFIG_EMBEDDED is > selected, as they are mostly interesting for space savings reasons. > > An example of size saving, on x86 with only Intel CPU support: > > text data bss dec hex filename > 1125479 118760 212992 1457231 163c4f vmlinux.old > 1121355 116536 212992 1450883 162383 vmlinux > -4124 -2224 0 -6348 -18CC +/- > > However, I'm not exactly sure that the Kconfig wording is correct with > regard to !64BIT / 64BIT. applied to tip/x86/cpu, thanks Thomas. (I've done a trivial cleanup: converted the macro to an inline.) Peter, do you like this version of the patch or would you like further improvements? Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
