[sodaville] [RFC] [PATCH V2] Adding DTB to architecture independent vmlinux

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 10/28/2010 9:35 AM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> How big are these blobs in the typical case? Padding to the page size
> You usually pad the dtb by 1kib (-p 1024 in dtc). Converting all dtbs in
> powerpc's tree leads to:
> 991545 / 130 = 7627 bytes average.
>

So expanding to a page is a lot of memory, but it's pretty important to 
jettison unused DTBs.

	-hpa