From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: zImage now holds vmlinux, System.map and config in sections. (fwd)
Date: 25 Feb 2003 12:00:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b3gi0e$g2i$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030225092520.A9257@flint.arm.linux.org.uk
Followup to: <20030225092520.A9257@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
By author: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:28:46AM +0100, Mikael Starvik wrote:
> > >I don't know linker scripts very well.
> > >Can this be done for all architectures?
> > >I'd like to see a solution that is arch-independent.
> >
> > In embedded systems it is probably not desirable to keep
> > System.map and config in zImage (takes too much valuable space).
>
> Agreed - zImage is already around 1MB on many ARM machines, and since
> loading zImage over a serial port using xmodem takes long enough
> already, this is one silly feature I'll definitely keep out of the
> ARM tree.
>
Isn't that what "strip" is for?
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-25 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-25 6:28 zImage now holds vmlinux, System.map and config in sections. (fwd) Mikael Starvik
2003-02-25 9:25 ` Russell King
2003-02-25 11:07 ` Ville Herva
2003-02-25 11:35 ` Russell King
2003-02-25 12:03 ` Ville Herva
2003-02-25 14:34 ` Jeremy Jackson
2003-02-26 18:41 ` Peter Bergner
2003-02-25 22:00 ` Bryan Andersen
2003-02-25 12:50 ` Remco Post
2003-02-25 13:35 ` Russell King
2003-02-25 16:38 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-02-25 17:52 ` Russell King
2003-02-26 20:01 ` Todd Inglett
2003-02-26 20:45 ` Peter Bergner
2003-02-25 19:22 ` Ville Herva
2003-02-25 16:23 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-02-25 20:00 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-02-25 21:24 ` Russell King
2003-02-25 21:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-02-25 23:21 ` Magnus Danielson
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0302241010200.1088-100000@localhost.localdomain>
2003-02-24 19:58 ` Randy.Dunlap
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