From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Dag Bakke <dag@bakke.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: video (VGA) object-files unconditionally built/included?
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:49:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E1026F.3030006@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49E08454.2060205@bakke.com>
Dag Bakke wrote:
>
> So the videobits appear to be built and added on to the kernel image
> after the main chunk gets compressed. And the size of the video*.o
> objects sums up to 87k.
>
> If my reasoning is too stupid for words, would you mind providing a
> graphical illustration of my stupidity? :-)
>
It's not our job to do yours for you.
*.o files contain a LOT of metadata. The "size" command tells you the
real size.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-11 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-10 11:30 video (VGA) object-files unconditionally built/included? Dag Bakke
2009-04-11 3:43 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-11 4:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-11 11:51 ` Dag Bakke
2009-04-11 20:49 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-04-12 11:53 ` Dag Bakke
2009-04-12 23:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2009-04-10 16:55 Dag Bakke
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