Re: large uImage size

[Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>]

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Risto Pajula wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I am getting very large kernel image size (~4,5 MB) when using the 
> cross-compiler built with a recent version of openembedded. Normal kernel 
> image size is around 1,5 MB. The large kernel image size only happens when 
> building the kernel outside the openembedded build environment, when building 
> with the normal OE build (bitbake minimal-image) the resulting kernel image 
> size is normal.

The newer version of binutils does this. This patch should solve the 
problem. I put this copy in linux/linux-davinci. I believe it has been 
sent upstream ...

Philip

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 5ff5406..538fcb5 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ SECTIONS
                         TEXT_TEXT
                         SCHED_TEXT
                         LOCK_TEXT
+                       *(.note.*)
  #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
                         *(.fixup)
  #endif

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