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From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 12:00:49 +0200
Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 9:34 AM, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This requires further changes to linker script to KEEP some tables
> > and wildcard compiler generated sections into the right place. This
> > includes pp32 modifications from Christophe Leroy.
> >
> > When compiling powernv_defconfig with this option:
> >
> > text       data      bss       dec        filename
> > 11827621   4810490   1341080   17979191   vmlinux
> > 11752437   4598858   1338776   17690071   vmlinux.dcde
> >
> > Resulting kernel is almost 400kB smaller (and still boots).
> >
> > [ppc32 numbers here]  
> 
> ^^^
> 
> Do you want somebody else to provide those numbers ?

If you have a booting kernel, yes some more numbers would be good.

Thanks,
Nick