From: Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@asu.edu>
To: cfowler@outpostsentinel.com
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Update on my problem
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:27:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1014319655.598.1.camel@russ> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200202211355.g1LDtdL04701@skylab.outpostsentinel.com>
On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 06:03, Chris Fowler wrote:
> Many of you guys lately has been halping overcome some issues I've been having during an initrd execution. I appreciate the efforts. I'm eamiling you to inform you what I did to fix it in case you ever run into the same problem.
>
> I have to compile my linuxrc.c program statically. lib-c is just too big to place on a initrd image. To keep the size down from 400k I used a program called diet. It bacsically executes gcc and use some of its own libraries. My loader
> went from 400k to 22k using it. This allowed me to stuff more program on the initrd image. I ran into some major problems using zlib and this program so I wnet back to a normal static binary. My loader is now 400k but seems to
> be working great. I can download software packages form the network and use those as my roofs just as easy as the package on flash. I can also restore a backup package that the user has the option to create at flash time.
> It appears to be working great.
you probably want to check out uClibc at http://uclibc.org
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-21 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-21 13:03 Update on my problem Chris Fowler
2002-02-21 14:05 ` jffs2_scan_make_ino_cache() in scan.c very slow Joakim Tjernlund
2002-02-21 14:18 ` David Woodhouse
2002-02-21 14:34 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-02-21 15:34 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-02-21 15:47 ` David Woodhouse
2002-02-21 16:14 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-02-21 21:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2002-02-21 22:05 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-02-21 22:22 ` Thomas Gleixner
2002-02-21 22:27 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-02-21 22:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2002-02-21 22:49 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-02-21 22:43 ` jffs2_scan_make_ino_cache() in scan.c very slow, new improvment Joakim Tjernlund
2002-02-22 10:56 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-02-21 19:27 ` Russ Dill [this message]
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