Bug#721191: linux: patch for parisc/hppa architecture
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:53:58PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> On 08/28/2013 11:35 PM, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > Looks reasonable. But please send further changes to remove the
> > non-smp kernels.
> I can do that. Do you have some background on this request for me?
> Is it policy that you only want to gave SMP-kernels?
We like to lower the image count. As long as there are no pressing
needs, we like to only have one kernel variant.
> (Actually I had a similiar idea to use kernel alternatives on parisc too
> to avoid different UP/SMP kernels).
Are there any UP machines since PA-8800?
> >> PPPS: CONFIG_MLONGCALLS=y is necessary since the built kernel
> >> otherwise gets too big so that jumps can't be reached.
> > Are there drawbacks?
> Yes, it might be a little bit slower since the jumps now have one
> CPU instruction more. But there is no other way to solve it unless
> we drop some unneccessary kernel options for parisc.
How much space would be needed? Some Arm configs disable SELinux for
example to save space.
Bastian
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