The mm-sources and their size

[Supermule]

Hi,

Just wondering. Why does mm-sources use "-O2" and not "-O3" like the 2.4.x kernels? Is it because the kernel is getting too big or what gives?
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Supermule

[nephros]

AFAIK the vanilla kernels all use -O2.

Possibly the gentoo folks changed the Makefile for some of the performance-oriented kernels to -O3.

And yes, the 2.5 series gives significantly larger kernel images, even without that extra bit of optimization.
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