Re: sharp zaurus: prevent killing spitz-en

Ben Dooks
2005-10-25T22:59:27Z

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:08:29PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> This is wrong solution, but it prevents breaking flashing mechanism on
> spitz with too big kernel. It may be handy to someone...
>
> Pavel
>
> --- clean-rp/arch/arm/boot/Makefile 2004-12-25 13:34:57.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-rp/arch/arm/boot/Makefile 2005-10-25 20:43:58.000000000 +0200
> @@ -53,6 +53,12 @@
> $(obj)/zImage: $(obj)/compressed/vmlinux FORCE
> $(call if_changed,objcopy)
> @echo ' Kernel: $@ is ready'
> + @ls -al $@
> + @wc -c $@ | ( read SIZE Y; \
> + if [ $$SIZE -gt 1294336 ]; then \
> + echo ' Kernel is too big, would kill spitz'; \
> + rm $@; \
> + fi )
>
> endif

It would be better for each machine to export an config option
from the Kconfig to specify if they have a maximum size.

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