[PATCH 0/2] console none support

[Sascha Hauer]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 09:42:15PM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 21:40 Wed 23 Jan     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:20:28AM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > > HI,
> > > 
> > > 	This patch serie introduce the console none support
> > > 
> > > 	this will allow to reduce the barebox significantly special for
> > > 	bootstrap
> > > 
> > > 	As example on at91sam9263 console none vs console simple
> > > 
> > > 	barebox.bin		=> 6.5 KiB
> > > 	zbarebox.bin lzo	=> 3.8 KiB
> > > 
> > > The following changes since commit b290fa88fb2c97a1d5b08ded3554c0a464a4562f:
> > > 
> > >   at91: usb_a9263: add bootstrap version (2013-01-18 17:17:11 +0800)
> > > 
> > > are available in the git repository at:
> > > 
> > >   git://git.jcrosoft.org/barebox.git delivery/console_none
> > > 
> > 
> > Applied, thanks
> > 
> > BTW for the pcm038_defconfig this saves around 30k which is about 10% of
> > the binary size. Well, this configuration is not particularly useful,
> > but still it successfully boots the kernel.
> 
> for production boot where the boot time is critical it could be

Yes, indeed. I just meant that in such a case I would disable a lot
of other features which are useless without console.

> 
> I'll take a look to finish the dmesg support
> as this will help too on the boot time

Great ;)

Sascha

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