[OpenPower-Firmware] [PATCH v2] skiroot_defconfig: Remove obsolete drivers

Paul Menzel pmenzel+openpower-firmware at molgen.mpg.de
Thu Dec 10 02:29:44 AEDT 2020


Dear Klaus,


Am 09.12.20 um 16:08 schrieb Klaus Heinrich Kiwi:
> Reduce the kernel size in a few dozens KBs by removing old or
> obsolete device drivers:

Could you please mention, that the goal is to get below 16 MB, and maybe 
even mention the size before and after?

>     * Chelsio T3 and T4 and QLogic NetXtreme II iSCSI support - these
>       were probably added in error since we don't have iscsi userspace
>       even configured
>     * Alteon AceNIC/3Com 3C985/NetGear GA620 Gigabit, QLogic bnx2 & CNIC
>       support, Myricom Myri-10G & Neterion (Exar) Xframe 10Gb - these
>       are apparently never used or obsolete
>     * Solarflare NIC adapter support - not being used
> 
> Signed-off-by: Klaus Heinrich Kiwi <klaus at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>   openpower/configs/linux/skiroot_defconfig | 12 +++---------
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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Kind regards,

Paul


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