2014-04-07 11:02 GMT-07:00 Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 09:37:42AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote: > >> There are some braindead bootloaders out there that will only allow >> for a small kernel partition, while the rootfs partition can virtually >> span the remainder of the available flash space... and all sorts of >> crazy designs like these. > > In a case like that 50k are going to buy you a release or two of Moore's > law applied to kernel bloat. > > How making the FPU emu a module? busybox's init uses the FPU for some operations (can't remember the details), which sort of creates a chicken and egg problem here. -- Florian
