[oe-users] arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-objcopy convert vmlinux file to a 3.2GB Image

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

Dnia piątek, 26 października 2007, Stefan Herbrechtsmeier napisał:
> Hi,
>
> I am using OpenEmbedded to make rootfs and kernel Image for my own
> Hardware. After switching DISTRO from generic to angstrom-2007.1 my
> linux uImage is more than 3MB big. The
> arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-objcopy command convert the 3.6MB vmlinux
> file to a 3200MB Image file. The generic kernel and the angstrom
> console-image work.
>
> What can be the reason for this error?

Newer binutils generate it. You need to apply one patch to kernel: 
packages/linux/linux-rp-2.6.23/binutils-buildid-arm.patch to get it 
fixed. 

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