[OLPC-devel] Re: suggested requirement for new kernels and initrds: must boot under qemu and/or kexec as kernel and initrd before release as a stream

[Ronald G Minnich]

Jordan Crouse wrote:

> Just to play devils advocate, going to i386 will be a performance 
> tradeoff - we'll lose the MMX memcpy.  Is that deemed acceptable?
> 

yes, for the kernel in BIOS flash, any tradeoff of performance for size 
is a good thing. For the kernel in usb, of course, we can make it fast 
and big.

ron