From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Stefan_Fr=F6berg?= Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:45:15 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot Developers Meeting after FOSDEM 2013 In-Reply-To: <510582D1.9040306@petroprogram.com> References: <20121228212925.3c5074c6@skate> <201301271709.49546.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> <510582D1.9040306@petroprogram.com> Message-ID: <510583CB.6090002@petroprogram.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 27.1.2013 21:41, Stefan Fr?berg kirjoitti: > I think the current state of generating initramfs could be added to that > topic list too. > > I did some quick testing of buildroot (2012.08) kernel with embedded > initramfs size vs. also buildroot kernel but with hand made initramfs > inside it (both from the same sources of course) > and the results were 57 MB vs. 37 MB (xz-compressed kernel with no > compression for built-in initramfs). And both tested kernel's included 50 MB worth of firmware stuff, 60 MB worth of modules and about 10 MB worth of actual userspace stuff (busybox, uClibc and some other stuff) for total size of about 120 MB uncompressed Regards Stefan