From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: vibi Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:57:57 +0530 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [Fwd: Re: reducing size of u-boot binary] Message-ID: <1197700077.2679.16.camel@root> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de dear jerry, thanks for your reply.i am using u-boot 1.1.5 .my binary is only 90kb & i still wanted to reduce the size.i thought compiling u-boot is like compiling linux kernel,ie source file for the disabled commands wont get compiled,now i understood that i was wrong. i wanted to reduce size to less than 90kb because of constraints in available flash memory space. i have done it by disabling bootp & rarp by using #define macros i didnt find option for that in /include/cmd_confdefs.h . once again i thank you for your response thanks & regards vibi sreenivasan On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 07:20 -0500, Jerry Van Baren wrote: > vibi wrote: > > hello, > > can any one please tell me how to reduce the size of u-boot.bin. > > i tried by disabling commands in the > > include/config/at91rm9200dk.h,as per the read me document > > even after this when i compile,i was unable to decrease the > > size. > > > > thanks in advance. > > > > regards > > vibi sreenivasan > > How big is your binary, why do you need to reduce its size? I ask > because most of the time this question is the result of a link gone bad > where part of the linked binary lives in low memory space and part lives > in high memory space. As a result, the .bin has a huge amount of filled > (unused) data between the two. > > Best regards, > gvb >