On Monday 09 September 2002 18:26, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > An idea that's looking more and more attractive as time goes by is to
> > have a global config option that specifies that we want to choose the
> > simple way of doing things wherever possible, over the enterprise way.
> > We want this especially for embedded. On low end processors, it's even
> > possible that the small way will be faster in some cases than the
> > enterprise way, due to cache effects.
>
> Can't we just use the existing config options instead? CONFIG_SMP is
> a good start ;-) How many embedded systems with SMP do you have?
You need to look at it from the other direction: how do the needs of a
uniprocessor Clawhammer box differ from a Linksys adsl router?
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