On Sun, 2013-09-08 at 16:19 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > 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. Right, debian/config/armel/config-reduced may be a useful list of things that could potentially be disabled. It's also worth checking modules.builtin for things that could possibly be modularised. (Not everything listed there will actually work properly as a module though.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere.
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