Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2

H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-10T23:48:25Z

Followup to: <3A0C86B3.62DA04A2@best.com>
By author: Robert Lynch <rmlynch@best.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I've been regularly building kernels in the testXX series, and
> they have been coming out ~ 600K; test10-final and test11-pre1:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 610503 Oct 31 18:39
> vmlinuz-t10
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 610568 Nov 7 20:26
> vmlinuz-t11p01
>
> test11-pre2 comes out ~ 900K:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 926345 Nov 10 10:16
> vmlinuz-t11p02
>
> and is thus unusable.
>
> I believe I am following all the same steps, nothing new, make
> dep bzImage modules modules_install.
>

Different compile options?

Why is a 900K kernel unusable?

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