Hi, Maciej,
On Mar 23 2013, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
> > Just curious: Can you install the package advancecomp and run on that
> > ramdisk the command:
> >
> > advdef -z -4 ramdisk.gz
> >
> I've different files, but here goes. Less by 127 kB:
> 3385295 3254732 96% initrd.img-3.8.3-iop
Hi
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Rogério Brito wrote:
> > Initrd.img/ramdisk.gz – 2425607
>
> Just curious: Can you install the package advancecomp and run on that
> ramdisk the command:
>
> advdef -z -4 ramdisk.gz
>
> I've different files, but here goes. Less by 127 kB:
3385295
Hi.
On Mar 20 2013, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> File sizes are:
>
> Initrd.img/ramdisk.gz – 2425607
Just curious: Can you install the package advancecomp and run on that
ramdisk the command:
advdef -z -4 ramdisk.gz
and report back the results? Just to be extra safe, you may want to test the
r
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> Sure.
> [...]
> #Reboot
> Redboot> reset
Thanks for describing this so well and simple.
This creates the temptation to some of the modules into the kernel.
Many years ago I've read that network drivers as modules can have some
penalty co
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To: Chris Wilkinson
Cc: Arnaud Patard; Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton; debian-arm@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Can't get a Linux 3.6-rc zImage smaller than 2MB
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
Excellent,
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> Excellent, This worked for me.
>
> ** **
>
> File sizes are:
>
> Initrd.img/ramdisk.gz – 2425607
>
> Vmlinuz/zImage – 1524976
>
Great! Glad to have helped!
Which fit nicely in the flash. I redid the flash layout to get rid of
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Chris
From: Maciej Soltysiak [mailto:mac...@soltysiak.com]
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 4:25 PM
To: Arnaud Patard; Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
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Subject: Re: Can't get a Linux 3.6-rc zImage smaller than 2MB
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:10
nt on?
Am I understanding right?
Chris
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Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 1:11 PM
To: Chris Wilkinson
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Subject: Re: Can't get a Linux 3.6-rc zImage smal
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Arnaud Patard wrote:
> "Chris Wilkinson" writes:
>
> > Is it necessary to flash-kernel? Once /boot on HD is populated with
> > the new kernel, doesn’t it finally boot from that and it doesn’t matter
> what version is flashed?
>
> redboot is configured to read the
"Chris Wilkinson" writes:
> Is it necessary to flash-kernel? Once /boot on HD is populated with
> the new kernel, doesn’t it finally boot from that and it doesn’t matter what
> version is flashed?
redboot is configured to read the kernel from the flash, so yes, you
need flash-kernel. I've not t
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Subject: Re: Can't get a Linux 3.6-rc zImage smaller than 2MB
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
Congrats!
Do you think that dpkg –i … on the ss4000e would upgrade the installed stock
kernel to a customized one compiled by buildroot or
: Chris Wilkinson
Cc: debian-arm@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Can't get a Linux 3.6-rc zImage smaller than 2MB
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
Congrats!
Do you think that dpkg –i … on the ss4000e would upgrade the installed stock
kernel to a customized one com
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> Congrats!
>
> ** **
>
> Do you think that dpkg –i … on the ss4000e would upgrade the installed
> stock kernel to a customized one compiled by buildroot or make-kpkg?
>
Sadly, for me, dpkg -i doesn't seem to update the /boot/vmlinuz and
Subject: Re: Can't get a Linux 3.6-rc zImage smaller than 2MB
Months passed and I finally made progress.
I managed to compile and boot a 3.7.10 kernel on SS4000-E.
I basically went through the ordeal of doing the compile on the box itself,
instead of cross-compiling on an x86 VM,
Took
Months passed and I finally made progress.
I managed to compile and boot a 3.7.10 kernel on SS4000-E.
I basically went through the ordeal of doing the compile on the box itself,
instead of cross-compiling on an x86 VM,
Took ages, but it worked.
One thing I noticed is that flash-kernel refuses to
Maciej Soltysiak writes:
>> the ss4000e is using redboot not uboot. You'll have to check but I think
>> that redboot doesn't handle uImage format so you're about to brick
>> your system.
> Thanks for the warning! I see that I have in arch/arm/boot these 3 files
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3459268 Se
> the ss4000e is using redboot not uboot. You'll have to check but I think
> that redboot doesn't handle uImage format so you're about to brick
> your system.
Thanks for the warning! I see that I have in arch/arm/boot these 3 files
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3459268 Sep 14 09:33 arch/arm/boot/Image
-rw
Maciej Soltysiak writes:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Eric Cooper wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:33:27PM +0200, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
>>> Do you mean this cross-compiler?
>>> http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software/sourcery-tools/sourcery-codebench/editions/lite-edition/
>>>
>>> Th
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Eric Cooper wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:33:27PM +0200, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
>> Do you mean this cross-compiler?
>> http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software/sourcery-tools/sourcery-codebench/editions/lite-edition/
>>
>> The lite-version of their product?
>
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:33:27PM +0200, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
> Do you mean this cross-compiler?
> http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software/sourcery-tools/sourcery-codebench/editions/lite-edition/
>
> The lite-version of their product?
>
> Looks like codesourcery is now mentor graphics...
Yes
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Eric Cooper wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 04:47:42PM +0200, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
>> Also, .config is here: http://pastebin.com/mvnkW2DD
>
> Using this .config, and the arm-2012.03 cross-compiler from
> codesourcery, I get:
> Image Name: Linux-3.6.0-rc5m
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 04:47:42PM +0200, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
> Also, .config is here: http://pastebin.com/mvnkW2DD
Using this .config, and the arm-2012.03 cross-compiler from
codesourcery, I get:
Image Name: Linux-3.6.0-rc5mks1+
Created: Thu Sep 13 21:13:46 2012
Image Type:
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 8:10 PM, martinwguy wrote:
> On 12 September 2012 19:46, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> wrote:
>>> I went down from whopping 5MB to 2.1MB
>>
>> i was expecting a large number but not that large.
>>
>>> I also tried to use a .config file from
>>> linux-image-3.2.0-3-iop3
On 12 September 2012 19:46, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>> I went down from whopping 5MB to 2.1MB
>
> i was expecting a large number but not that large.
>
>> I also tried to use a .config file from
>> linux-image-3.2.0-3-iop32x_3.2.23-1_armel.deb
>> and it's still is a big image.
>
> i'
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:46:24PM +0200, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
> Was anyone successful in getting a 3.6-rc5 kernel zImage smaller than 2MB?
Just a thought, but you could also look into kexec if your bootloader has
limitations for kernel size. I.e. build a very minimal kernel/initramfs
that is a
+++ Maciej Soltysiak [2012-09-12 16:47 +0200]:
Have you had a look at http://elinux.org/Kernel_Size_Tuning_Guide ?
> (arm-linux-gnueabi actually from emdebian.org), maybe that's the problem?
I wouldn't expect it to be, but I've not seen comparisons of output
size with different cross-toolchains.
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Maciej Soltysiak
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Was anyone successful in getting a 3.6-rc5 kernel zImage smaller than 2MB?
>>> I'm try
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Maciej Soltysiak
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Was anyone successful in getting a 3.6-rc5 kernel zImage smaller than 2MB?
>> I'm trying to fit this onto SS4000-e and I've been failing desperately
>> f
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Was anyone successful in getting a 3.6-rc5 kernel zImage smaller than 2MB?
> I'm trying to fit this onto SS4000-e and I've been failing desperately
> for the last couple of days.
isn't there a parameter which allows you to select
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