From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:50:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:50:18 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:8723 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:50:17 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: zImage now holds vmlinux, System.map and config in sections. (fwd) Date: 25 Feb 2003 12:00:14 -0800 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <3C6BEE8B5E1BAC42905A93F13004E8AB017DE84C@mailse01.axis.se> <20030225092520.A9257@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2003 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <20030225092520.A9257@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> By author: Russell King 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 -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." Architectures needed: cris ia64 m68k mips64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh v850 x86-64