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Link-time optimization for the kernel

Link-time optimization for the kernel

Posted Aug 27, 2012 20:01 UTC (Mon) by stevenb (guest, #11536)
In reply to: Link-time optimization for the kernel by misiu_mp
Parent article: Link-time optimization for the kernel

I was thinking more of 32-bits Atom.

ARM Thumb wouldn't have many registers either, but I don't know whether you could (or could want to) build an ARM Thumb linux kernel.


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Link-time optimization for the kernel

Posted Aug 30, 2012 19:20 UTC (Thu) by cibervicho (subscriber, #52552) [Link]

ARM Thumb wouldn't have many registers either, but I don't know whether you could (or could want to) build an ARM Thumb linux kernel.
Thumb and Thumb-2 have as many registers as ARM (32-bit). You can build a Thumb-2 kernel with CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL=y

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