On Fri, 16 Nov 2018, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
The EBSA110 is probably in a similar boat - I don't remember whether it had 16MB or 32MB as the maximal amount of memory, but memory was getting tight with some kernels even running a minimalist userspace. So, it's probably time to say goodbyte to the kernel support for these platforms.
Your call. Note that removing code from mainline won't help users obtain older, smaller, -stable kernel releases, free from the bug we were discussing. (The bug appeared in Linux v2.6.32.) BTW, if you did want to boot Linux on a 16 MB system, you do have some options. https://lwn.net/Articles/741494/ https://lwn.net/Articles/608945/ https://tiny.wiki.kernel.org/ Contributing to this kind of effort probably has value for IoT deployments. I suspect it also cuts a small amount of bloat from a large number of other Linux systems. --
