From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Kuehn Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:49:13 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] kernel image size depends on toolchain? In-Reply-To: <408540dd0806110130h49a4b38ar1b55c3b86b7c9675@mail.gmail.com> References: <484F8157.2050902@gin.de> <408540dd0806110130h49a4b38ar1b55c3b86b7c9675@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <484F9189.6050700@gin.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hey Matt! In fact I was a little confused about your question but a found the flag in the kernels .config file. # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is not set And so, initrd is not active. Matthew Dombroski wrote: > Hi, > Have you tried disabling the initrd stuff in the buildroot config? > ~Matt > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Andreas Kuehn wrote: >> Its probably one of these "again" questions but I couldn't get a >> reasonable/sound answer. >> >> I'm building an arm rootfs and an 2.6.23.14 kernel with the actual svn >> buildroot and uclibc. It works quite well but produces really large >> kernel images. >> >> Created: Tue Jun 10 11:45:43 2008 >> Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) >> Data Size: 4528112 Bytes = 4421.98 kB = 4.32 MB >> >> With an old toolchain I can achive regular sizes: >> >> Created: Tue Jun 10 13:44:26 2008 >> Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) >> Data Size: 1412792 Bytes = 1379.68 kB = 1.35 MB >> >> >> Unfortunately, the old toolchain has a buggy uclibc and I need a new >> one. -- How can I fix that greedy kernel thing ? -- >> >> Thanks in advance... >> akuehn >> _______________________________________________ >> buildroot mailing list >> buildroot at uclibc.org >> http://busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/buildroot >> >