>
> [Bradley D. LaRonde <brad@ltc.com>]
> > I think there are some unnecessary (and not benign) initializers here
> > and there in the kernel.
> [...]
> > Why explicitly initialize those arrays with 0?
<snip>
> > This simple patch alone cuts the on-disk size of the kernel by over 8k,
and
> > it looks like it is just the beginning of removing bloat from .data:
>
> I haven't tried your patch, but considering what gzip does to long
> strings of nulls, I have to ask: are you talking about vmlinux or
> zImage?
I'm doing execute-in-place from rom, so yes, it's uncompressed vmlinux.
Compression does mostly cover this problem over, but I would like it fixed
for the uncompressed case.
Regards,
Brad
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