From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:23:33 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Creating initrd In-Reply-To: <1350049738.14474.52.camel@Homeserver> References: <1349964303.8392.39.camel@Homeserver> <20121011164826.753f8312@skate> <1349968569.14474.10.camel@Homeserver> <20121011172356.6af76f39@skate> <1349976484.14474.20.camel@Homeserver> <20121011205348.4a861421@skate> <1349988968.14474.34.camel@Homeserver> <20121012091408.6184bb9f@skate> <1350049738.14474.52.camel@Homeserver> Message-ID: <20121012162333.7fcc5273@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 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