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[Celinux-dev] What happened to Linux-Tiny ?

Michael Opdenacker michael at free-electrons.com
Tue Jan 12 06:13:03 PST 2010
Hi Holger,

On 01/12/2010 10:19 AM, Holger Schurig wrote:
> On http://elinux.org/Linux_Tiny I see that there's no public 
> release of Linux-Tiny-Patches since Kernel 2.6.23. Is this 
> right?
>   
That's right. We stopped releasing patches after realizing that we were
spending more time updating old patches than getting them merged.

Thanks to this, we managed to merge some of these patches (see
http://free-electrons.com/community/contributions/kernel-contributions/),
but it's true that some patches / ideas haven't been merged yet.
>
> I have a bunch of local tiny-patches for 2.6.32:
>
>   tiny-scsi-ioctl.patch
>      Get rid of unconditional compiled scsi_ioctl.o
>      add/remove: 0/8 grow/shrink: 0/0 up/down: 0/-3596 (-3596)
>   tiny-fb.patch
>      Shrink modedb, get rid of fb-related sysfs, removes misc
>      other functions that I don't need in an environment where
>      the framebuffer never changes it's mode
>      add/remove: 0/29 grow/shrink: 0/6 up/down: 0/-4876 (-4876)
>   tiny-config-net-small.patch
>      Adds CONFIG_NET_SMALL
>      add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 7/4 up/down: 28/-2756 (-2728)
>   tiny-namei-inlines.patch
>      Uninline various namei.c functions
>      add/remove: 2/0 grow/shrink: 0/8 up/down: 584/-2024 (-1440)
>   tiny-crc.patch
>      Calculate CRC32 without tables
>      add/remove: 2/0 grow/shrink: 0/10 up/down: 584/-2356 (-1772)
>   tiny-ldiscs.patch
>      Configurable no. of TTY line disciplines (I use 4 instead
>      of 16)
>      add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-64 (-64)
>   tiny-max-user-rt-prio.patch
>      Configurable no. of realtime priority levels (I use 5
>      instead of 100)
>      add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/3 up/down: 0/-840 (-840)
>
> ... but would be grateful for  a source of more stuff like this !
>   
Would you have time to submit these patches to the LKML? This would be
very useful, and if you CC the linux-embedded mailing list, you should
get support from our 3 embedded maintainers.

Otherwise, if you don't have enough time, please send them to me and I
will upload them on the Linux-Tiny page, and will take care of them as
soon as I have time.

Thanks,

Michael.

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