Re: [GIT PULL] Device tree updates for v3.12

From: Olof Johansson
Date: Wed Sep 11 2013 - 16:53:00 EST


On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Tim Bird <tbird20d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks. This gives me an order-of-magnitude measurement for this sort of thing.
> I'll measure it directly myself on our hardware as soon as I can.
>
> I've heard an ugly rumor that the device tree from our silicon vendor
> may grow to be
> as big as 130K in the near future. I'm still following up to see if
> there's any truth
> to this (so don't quote me on it), but if it does get that big it
> might be an issue. As
> stated previously, the vast majority of our device tree files consists
> of values that
> are not device-specific.

The biggest ones in mainline today compile to a ~30K binary. Not sure
a vendor expects to add in there to gain another 100KB.


-Olof
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