On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 11:39:50AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@csgroup.eu> writes: > > However, thinking out loudly, I'm wondering, could we make things any > > simpler when CONFIG_MODULES is not selected, or is that a too much > > corner case on PPC64 ? > > I'd say it's mostly a corner case. > > Obviously no distros ship with modules disabled. > > AFAIK even the stripped down kernels we use in CPU bringup have modules > enabled. > > So I think it's probably not worth worrying about, unless there's an > obvious and fairly simple optimisation.
Long ago I built kernels that fit together with the boot firmware and a root fs (busybox+dropbear essentially) in 4MB, but I doubt we can get close to that at all these days :-) What is the overhead if you enable modules but do not use them, these days? Segher
