From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:10:43 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Creating initrd In-Reply-To: <1349991931.14474.39.camel@Homeserver> References: <1349964303.8392.39.camel@Homeserver> <20121011164826.753f8312@skate> <1349968569.14474.10.camel@Homeserver> <20121011172356.6af76f39@skate> <1349991931.14474.39.camel@Homeserver> Message-ID: <20121012091043.746a65a1@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Chris Wilkinson, On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:45:31 -0400, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Clean/make on a stock v3.4.7 kernel gives the following > > -rw-r--r-- 1 chrisw chrisw 1.5M Oct 11 17:19 rootfs.cpio > -rw-r--r-- 1 chrisw chrisw 718K Oct 11 17:19 rootfs.cpio.gz > -rwxr-xr-x 1 chrisw chrisw 2.7M Oct 11 17:18 zImage > > So it seems that the size problem originates in my customized kernel. > 2.7MB is still too big so I need to investigate the config settings in > both my customized kernel and the stock one. Ah, maybe your customized kernel configuration has gazillions of kernel modules enabled, which make the size of the root filesystem enormous. Could you pastebin your kernel config so we can confirm this? Thanks, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com