Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charsettranslation

From: Bernhard Fischer
Date: Wed Jun 04 2008 - 14:35:08 EST


On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:33:53PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:

>My gut feeling is that the influence of this kind of linux-tiny patches
>is hardly noticably compared to the overall code size development, but
>if you have numbers that prove me wrong just point me to them and I'll
>stand corrected.
>
>cu
>Adrian
>
>BTW: I'm not insisting on "between 2.6.16 and 2.6.26", that's just some
> timeframe big enough for showing general trends.

Current kernels are too big, they tend to be about 1MB (ignoring lzma or
gz compression), a couple of years back an ide- and network-enabled
kernel with 8139too (or whatever -nic you use in qemu nowadays) was at
least 30% smaller.
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