[Celinux-dev] Kernel patches for compiler based size reduction

[Tim Bird]

For those of you interested in kernel size, David Woodhouse
has posted some information and patches for using compiler
flags for code reduction in the kernel.  Specifically,
he is using the GCC -combine and -fwhole-program flags to
reduce the kernel code size.

See the starting thread at:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/24/212

There are some good bits of information in the discussions
that follow.  Please join in the discussion if you have
feedback, and especially if you have ideas for any of the
outstanding issues.
  -- Tim

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Electronics
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