From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bob Tracy Subject: Re: [BUG] 4.9.0 build error on Alpha Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 21:37:47 -0600 Message-ID: <20161230033747.GB26007@gherkin.frus.com> References: <20161230030846.GA25929@gherkin.frus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Matt Turner Cc: linux-alpha , Debian Alpha Mailing List , Michael Cree , Richard Henderson On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:23:04PM -0500, Matt Turner wrote: > FWIW, when I saw your first email I tried compiling with gcc-4.9.4, > 5.4.0, and 6.2.0. All compiled my config fine. That's worth quite a bit to me, actually :-). Tells me that downgrading my toolchain is probably a waste of time and effort. > I'm guessing it's another symptom of the old "kernel too big" problem? How has this been worked around in the past? I have a fairly feature-full kernel, but the only built-in drivers are for the things that have to be present at boot time. If drivers compiled as modules contribute to the bloat, I could easily omit file system support for things I'll likely never see attached to an alpha. Similarly, drivers for removable USB devices I don't currently use with the system could be omitted as well. Netfilter keeps growing like the hairball it is: features I'm not likely to ever use could be disabled if that might help. --Bob