On 10.05.2010 23:47, Bernhard Loos wrote:
> 2010/5/10 Bernhard Loos <bernhardl...@googlemail.com>:
>> 2010/5/10 Matthias Buecher / Germany <m...@maddes.net>:
>>> The "linux" partition spans over the kernel and the complete rootfs for
>>> flashing.
>>> The maximum kernel size is 0x000bc000 (begin of "rootfs") minus
>>> 0x00040000 (begin of "linux") equals 0x0007c000 (496KB).
>>>
>>> Maddes
>>
>> This is not the maximum kernel size, it's only the current kernel size.
>> You could probably get a few kb more flash space (32 at average) by
>> changing the aligment of the rootfs, squashfs is read only, so it
>> doesn't have to start at an erase block boundary.
> 
> To clarify myself, the size is calculated dynamically, so compiling
> stuff into the kernel doesn't gain much.
> 

at least for sqashfs images. All others would profit from it. Are there
other space sensitive platforms?

..ede
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