From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] kernel size
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 11:15:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081103111506.1005c517@surf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001c93d37$d5a696d0$80f3c470$@be>
Le Sun, 2 Nov 2008 23:10:37 +0100,
"steve caster" <steve@c2root.be> a ?crit :
> I am trying to build a kernel with buildroot and are using a separate
> .config file which I made myself. The kernel is working, yet is about
> 90MB is size. This is unbelievable as I nearly don't have any
> modules. What could make is so big?
By chance, aren't you using an initramfs, included in the kernel, which
contains your root filesystem ? That could easily explain the large
size of your kernel image.
This is something that is done automatically by Buildroot if you
enabled BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_INITRAMFS.
Sincerly,
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development,
consulting, training and support.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-03 10:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-02 22:10 [Buildroot] kernel size steve caster
2008-11-03 8:41 ` Peter Korsgaard
2008-11-03 15:05 ` steve at c2root.be
2008-11-03 10:15 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2008-11-03 10:26 ` Ivan Kuten
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