From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from post2.inre.asu.edu ([129.219.110.73]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 16dygg-0004Em-00 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:15:26 +0000 Received: from conversion.post2.inre.asu.edu by asu.edu (PMDF V6.1 #40111) id <0GRW00701E0HZY@asu.edu> for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:26:41 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:27:35 -0700 From: Russ Dill Subject: Re: Update on my problem In-reply-to: <200202211355.g1LDtdL04701@skylab.outpostsentinel.com> To: cfowler@outpostsentinel.com Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Message-id: <1014319655.598.1.camel@russ> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <200202211355.g1LDtdL04701@skylab.outpostsentinel.com> Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 06:03, Chris Fowler wrote: > Many of you guys lately has been halping overcome some issues I've been having during an initrd execution. I appreciate the efforts. I'm eamiling you to inform you what I did to fix it in case you ever run into the same problem. > > I have to compile my linuxrc.c program statically. lib-c is just too big to place on a initrd image. To keep the size down from 400k I used a program called diet. It bacsically executes gcc and use some of its own libraries. My loader > went from 400k to 22k using it. This allowed me to stuff more program on the initrd image. I ran into some major problems using zlib and this program so I wnet back to a normal static binary. My loader is now 400k but seems to > be working great. I can download software packages form the network and use those as my roofs just as easy as the package on flash. I can also restore a backup package that the user has the option to create at flash time. > It appears to be working great. you probably want to check out uClibc at http://uclibc.org