Re: Bloat caused by fbcon

ak@muc.de
Sun, 28 Jun 1998 17:07:21 +0200

On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 03:51:44PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jun 1998 ak@muc.de wrote:
> > CONFIG_FB seems to bloat the kernel considerably, even with only minimal
> > options (vgafb, and minimal set of the 1, 4, 8 bpp drivers).
>
> A minimal set does not need the 1, 4 and 8 bpp drivers. Vgafb is text only, so
> fbcon-vga is sufficient.

At least in the vger version it makes no difference at all whether they
are compiled in:

-rwxrwxr-x 1 andi andi 1278791 Jun 28 16:56 vmlinux
(with fbcon, vgacon only)
-rwxrwxr-x 1 andi andi 1278791 Jun 28 00:44 vmlinux-fbcon
(with fbcon + 1,4,8bpp)
-rwxrwxr-x 1 andi andi 1248898 Jun 28 15:37 vmlinux-nofbcon
(without fbcon)

Seems something is broken with the dependencies.

-Andi

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