Am Sonntag, 6. Dezember 2020, 11:03:56 CET schrieb Baptiste Jonglez: > Hi, > > On 06-12-20, Sven Roederer wrote: > > Currently 8MB flash / 32MB RAM devices are fully supported in OpenWrt, as > > they work quite well for basic usage (including full LuCI). > > On some projects with advanced features (e.g. Freifunk) the lack of RAM > > turns them into unstable devices. Mostly caused by several OOM problems > > per day. This series tries to prolong the usage of these boards by moving > > them to the ath79-tiny target. Indeed it makes these boards available on > > ath79-tiny in addition to the current ath79-generic variant. > > Can't you just move the boards instead of duplicating them? > For sure this should be done, in the final merge. Having the same board in different subtargets might confuse ...
> > [RFC PATCH 4/5] kernel: ath79-tiny deactivate usually not needed features > > Can you provide an overview of kernel memory consumption before and after? > /proc/vmstat just after boot would give an idea. > Having all this features diabled gives for the kernel of a Nanostation M XM ubnt_nanostation-m-kernel.bin: - ath79-generic: 1792151 - ath79-tiny: 1500108 vmlinux: - ath79-generic: 5588220 - ath79-tiny: 4687644 So a bit more than 16% smaller size, or 900k absolute. A direct runtime comparision I can't provide at the moment, as my test device is running other stuff already. Sven _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel