[oe] Tosa kernel bloat

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mickey at vanille-media.de
Mon Dec 31 20:10:45 UTC 2007


>> Tosa kernel is bloated with the recent patch and change to
>> defconfig-tosa
>>
>> |`/home/gordon/oe/build/tmp/work/tosa-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/linux-rp-2
>> |.6.23-r14/linux-2.6.23' Size is 1296464
>> | FATAL: This kernel is too big for your PXA Zaurus and will destroy
>>
>> data if you flash it. Please reduce the size of the kernel by making
>> more of it modular.

> Same on Poodle:
> | make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/hrw/devel/build/angstrom/tmp/work/poodle-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/linux-rp-2.6.23-r14/linux-2.6.23'
> | Size is 1306384
> | FATAL: This kernel is too big for your PXA Zaurus and will destroy data
> if you flash it. Please reduce the size of the kernel by making more of
> it modular.

I vaguely remember that the host toolset has an influence on that. Do
you remember where the same kernel compiled ok for Richard but other
guys got the too-big error? Did we ever found the actual cause of
that?

:M:






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