Why disable debug features for boards with a lot of flash? These options provide important information, especially when testing the board. Where flash is low, debug features are most likely already disabled. Disabling debug features on some boards already resulted in errors not being detected in the upstream and remaining there for months.
śr., 6 maj 2026 o 15:51 Alan C. Assis <[email protected]> napisał(a): > Ok, I just tested again enabling: > > CONFIG_DEBUG_SYMBOLS=y > CONFIG_DEBUG_SYMBOLS_LEVEL="-g" > > And the size didn't change. I think we need to investigate this > "intermittent" issue that happened in the mainline. > > But about CONFIG_DEBUG_FEATURES=y and its ERR/WARN/INFO, they will increase > the firmware size, I think those we can remove. > > BR, > > Alan > > On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 10:39 AM raiden00pl <[email protected]> wrote: > > > -1. > > > > This project is for devs, the main tool used by dev is the debugger and > > disabling debug symbols only breaks the workflow for users and makes life > > harder. > > Debug symbols have no effect on resource usage unless you're loading > > ELF directly on target (kernel mode, modules) or something is broken in > the > > build > > system or linker. Debug symbols are DWARF information that get embedded > > into > > the ELF not binary. > > > > śr., 6 maj 2026 o 15:31 Matteo Golin <[email protected]> > napisał(a): > > > > > Good idea! In the meantime we can just grep for these options and > remove > > > them. > > > > > > On Wed, May 6, 2026, 3:27 PM Alan C. Assis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > > > > > Recently we faced an issue that was breaking the CI: the > > > > weact-stm32h750:nsh was exhausting its Flash memory. And it is very > > > strange > > > > since this STM32H750 chip has 128KB Flash. > > > > > > > > My first thought was that some very heavy feature was enabled to nsh > > (by > > > > default nsh is supposed to be bare minimum). Then after analysing the > > > > .config I noticed that CONFIG_DEBUG_SYMBOLS=y was enabled. > > > > > > > > After disabling it, the Flash usage dropped to 55%. I didn't > > investigate > > > > yet what caused the memory use increase in the last few days. > > > > > > > > I think we should accept Michael's offer to use his membrowser to see > > > these > > > > usage increases before the issue triggers the limit. I asked if he > > could > > > > release it as a dual license (GPLv3 and Apache) to avoid the concerns > > > > raised on this PR, but didn't receive a response yet. > > > > > > > > In the past Greg never allowed DEBUG symbols and features to be > enabled > > > by > > > > default. I think we should keep this same rule because sooner or > later > > > > other boards will fail in the same way. > > > > > > > > BR, > > > > > > > > Alan > > > > > > > > > >
