On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:38:31AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > Why is my vmlinux.strip 3.2GB? Could a missing address be interpreted > as -1 (0xFFF..) and cause the image to contain all of memory? > > -rw-r--r-- 1 jonsmirl jonsmirl 61738015 2008-06-10 10:31 vmlinux.o > -rwxr-xr-x 1 jonsmirl jonsmirl 3224175192 2008-06-10 10:31 vmlinux.strip.3651 > > After it is packed vmlinux is 32MB. Packing gigabytes of zeros, maybe? > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 jonsmirl jonsmirl 32430673 2008-06-10 10:31 vmlinux > > This image won't load onto the Efika probably because it is trying to > expand back to 3.2GB. > > With the same .config vmlinux is 4.1MB on 2.6.25 > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 jonsmirl jonsmirl 4119174 2008-06-09 20:09 vmlinux
Are you using binutils 2.17? It has a bug that was triggered by the p_paddr change. Do you get a bunch of warnings from the strip command? -Scott _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
