Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:07:04 +0200 | From | Ville Herva <> | Subject | Re: zImage now holds vmlinux, System.map and config in sections. (fwd) |
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On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:25:20AM +0000, you [Russell King] wrote: > 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.
Why not make it a config option (like the other (two? three?) rejected patches that implemented this did)?
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