Unnecessary objects built in 2.6.0-test4?

Unnecessary objects built in 2.6.0-test4?

[Rob Landley]

I'm running 2.6.0-test4 on my laptop, and it's quite nice.  (Haven't beaten 
also into submission yet, and it won't suspend, and kde is dropping some 
events, but everything else is chugging along quite nicely...)

But the kernel is huge, an I'm curious why.  So I did this in the build 
directory:

find . -name "*.o" | xargs ls -l | less

And the results are interesting.

For example: I have a coppermine celeron in this laptop, and I told the build 
that, and I did NOT select generic x86 optimizations, so why did it build 
objects with names like amd, centaur, and cyrix, winchip, k7...?

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3348 Sep  1 01:24 
./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/amd.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        55962 Sep  1 01:24 
./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/built-in.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2572 Sep  1 01:24 
./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/centaur.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         7908 Sep  1 01:24 
./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5664 Sep  1 01:24 
./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cyrix.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         4820 Sep  1 01:24 
./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         7957 Sep  1 01:24 
./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/built-in.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2212 Sep  1 01:24 
./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/k7.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2184 Sep  1 01:24 
./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2952 Sep  1 01:24 
./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p4.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1600 Sep  1 01:24 
./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p5.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2312 Sep  1 01:24 
./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p6.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1264 Sep  1 01:24 
./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/winchip.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1452 Sep  1 01:24 
./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/amd.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        23991 Sep  1 01:24 
./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/built-in.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3084 Sep  1 01:24 
./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/centaur.o
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3776 Sep  1 01:24 
./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cyrix.o

Rob

Re: Unnecessary objects built in 2.6.0-test4?

[Mike Fedyk]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 02:31:39AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> I'm running 2.6.0-test4 on my laptop, and it's quite nice.  (Haven't beaten 
> also into submission yet, and it won't suspend, and kde is dropping some 
> events, but everything else is chugging along quite nicely...)
> 
> But the kernel is huge, an I'm curious why.  So I did this in the build 
> directory:
> 

Yes, I have seen this too, but the kernel image size wasn't affected, only
the modules sizes.

I have posted a message on this recently, but nothing came from it... :(

Sorted by date:
7.7M Jul 14 15:03 ../kernel-image-2.6.0-test1_nmf.1_i386.deb
7.7M Jul 16 12:12 ../kernel-image-2.6.0-test1-drv-debug1_nmf.1_i386.deb
6.3M Jul 16 17:19 ../kernel-image-2.6.0-test1-mm1-06int_nmf.1_i386.deb
6.3M Jul 18 17:53 ../kernel-image-2.6.0-test1-mm1-07int_nmf.1_i386.deb
5.5M Jul 21 13:53 ../kernel-image-2.4.22-pre7_nmf.1_i386.deb
6.4M Jul 22 16:29 ../kernel-image-2.6.0-test1-mm2_nmf.1_i386.deb
6.3M Jul 25 11:36 ../kernel-image-2.6.0-test1-g2_nmf.1_i386.deb
6.4M Jul 28 19:00 ../kernel-image-2.6.0-test2-mm1_nmf.1_i386.deb
5.4M Aug  8 14:03 ../kernel-image-2.4.22-rc1_nmf.1_i386.deb
 34M Aug 15 19:17 ../kernel-image-2.6.0-test3-mm2_nmf.1_i386.deb
 34M Aug 24 15:43 ../kernel-image-2.6.0-test3-mm3_nmf.1_i386.deb
 33M Aug 26 19:37 ../kernel-image-2.6.0-test4-mm1_nmf.1_i386.deb
 33M Aug 29 13:54 ../kernel-image-2.6.0-test4-mm3-1-mdfail_nmf.1_i386.deb
 33M Aug 30 19:39 ../kernel-image-2.6.0-test4-mm4_nmf.1_i386.deb