From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Creating initrd
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:23:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121012162333.7fcc5273@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1350049738.14474.52.camel@Homeserver>
Dear Chris Wilkinson,
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:48:58 -0400, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> I had been using crosstool to build the kernel but now I see that BR
> can do that and using crosstool is unnecessary. I cleaned the kernel
> tree and the tar.bz2 is now 89MB. It is here
>
> https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=834D8577B5544D4E!169&authkey=!
> AGZIOn-ye6O3anc
The .config file in this kernel tarball (which I assume is the kernel
configuration you're using) has gazillions of kernel modules enabled.
99.999999% of them are most likely useless in your setup. Those kernel
modules are the one that are causing your root filesystem to be 30+MB.
Best regards,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-12 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-11 14:05 [Buildroot] Creating initrd Chris Wilkinson
2012-10-11 14:48 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-11 15:16 ` Chris Wilkinson
2012-10-11 15:23 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-11 17:28 ` Chris Wilkinson
2012-10-11 18:53 ` Thomas Petazzoni
[not found] ` <1349988968.14474.34.camel@Homeserver>
[not found] ` <20121012091408.6184bb9f@skate>
[not found] ` <1350049738.14474.52.camel@Homeserver>
2012-10-12 14:12 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-12 15:19 ` Chris Wilkinson
2012-10-12 14:23 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2012-10-11 21:45 ` Chris Wilkinson
2012-10-12 7:10 ` Thomas Petazzoni
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