Subject: Re: bootloader & head.S weirdness & restructuring

From: Dan Malek <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 14:49:35 -0500

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> Alternatively, you can base your decisions on specific features that are shared
> among different machine types, and say
> 
>     if (has_feature_a) {
>         ...
>     }
> 
> instead of
> 
>     #if defined(CONFIG_x) || defined(CONFIG_y) || defined(CONFIG_z)
>     ...
>     #endif

Yes, but one of the things I am trying to do is reduce the
code size and instructions to execute.  On a 500 MHz G4 with
a Gigabyte of memory, a few extra instructions is no big deal.
On a 33 MHz 8xx with 8 Mbytes of memory, you watch all of this
pretty closely :-).

	-- Dan

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