Re: zImage now holds vmlinux, System.map and config in sections. (fwd)

Randy.Dunlap (rddunlap@osdl.org)
Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:23:49 -0800


On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:25:20 +0000
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> 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.

Yes, I understand that. I would want it to be a config option.

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