On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 17:58 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> The enclosed patch allows to remove the DMI scanning code when
> CONFIG_EMBEDDED is defined. It's basically the dma_blacklist patch of
> Linux-Tiny ported to 2.6.25-rc1, with the required modifications. It
> allows to remove ~10k from the kernel code/data size.

Looks ok. Please preserve original authorship (ie me) in some fashion in
your description.

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> On top of this patch, I've tested if removing the big dmi tables in the
> code (for example in arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c) would allow to make more
> space optimizations. However, it seems that simply defining
> dmi_check_system() to an empty static inlined function already allows
> gcc to optimize out the dmi tables, because there are not present in
> the code. Is that possible, or is my understanding incorrect ?

That's possible with modern gccs, yes.

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