Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Sep 2000 16:04:07 -0300 (BRT) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: Given an image, how can show its config? |
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On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, David Ford wrote:
> Keith Owens wrote: > > > That would take my 2.4.0 bzImage to 893864, it does not leave much room > > out of a 1.4Mb floppy for LILO files. We could have multiple make > > targets, with and without appended config/map but that just complicates > > the build environment. > > I normally occupy over a meg with my image and I frequently build a LILO boot > disk for safekeeping. I strip my config down to only enabled options and > further strip the CONFIG_ from it, then bzip2 -s -9 the both of config and > system map and it comes out to about 122K > > > > This is all to protect those few poor 'administrators' who cannot keep > > track of three separate files. We should not coddle such idiots, if > > they cannot track 3 files they should not be configuring Linux. > > Anybody who loses their config and System.map will learn from their > > mistake and only do it once or they will never learn, in which case > > they are better off running Windows. > > The same idiots who have multiple patch trees that haven't been merged and > different builds of a kernel to test effects? I.e. those who really do the > work on LKML? > > > > "Think of it as evolution in action". > > After you're looking down the ladder of evolution, think to look up the > ladder. > > Personally, /proc/ksyms has what I need for symbols but 1.3K for a .config is > trivial enough to add to the image.
Some people want this, and some people dont.
Make it configurable (as people already told) and the discussion is over.
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