Re: Bloat caused by fbcon
Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Sun, 28 Jun 1998 19:43:35 +0200 (MET DST)
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998 ak@muc.de wrote:
> 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.
That's right. Symbols that are not referenced are not linked in.
I already fixed that in my tree.
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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