From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ivan Kuten Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:55:04 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Build error In-Reply-To: <477D0F57.9050204@carallon.com> References: <476A7DA6.7000102@carallon.com> <476A9199.4080900@promwad.com> <476BF768.3050201@carallon.com> <40135.127.0.0.1.1198453846.squirrel@localhost> <477D0F57.9050204@carallon.com> Message-ID: <477D2178.80801@promwad.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi Will, I have not used initramfs, usually qtopia and other large stuff (X.org / GTK ) is run from jffs2 filesystem on flash, e.g rootfs is not in RAM but in flash. Have you tried to adjust these kernel settings: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT=1 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=14000 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_BLOCKSIZE=1024 ? Regards, Ivan Will Wagner wrote: > Ivan, > > Thanks for your help. Think I have worked out the problem. Appeared to > have too large a rootfs so that the initramfs being built was very > large. Have worked round it for now by reducing the size of the rootfs > (qtopia4 was copying some unneeded files). > > Any idea what the size limit is for a rootfs used with initramfs? > > Thanks, > > Will. > > Ivan Kuten wrote: >>> Thanks for the hint. >>> >>> I have compiled both with and without qtopia4 and got the verbose log. I >>> can not see any difference on what is on the command line between the >>> two versions. >>> >> Will, >> >> I can suggest as workaround to set BR2_KERNEL_none=y >> and build kernel outside a buildroot tree and see if it working this way. >> >> Regards, >> Ivan > -- -------------------------------- Embedded Linux engineer, Promwad Company: http://www.promwad.com/ Homepage : http://www.ivankuten.com/ --------------------------------