Hi there! For the FSO folks: is it better to continue on the smartphones-kernel mailing list? But please always keep the Debian bug report cc:ed (no subscription required).
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:26:26 +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:25:39 +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: >> Am Freitag, den 07.11.2008, 23:03 -0500 schrieb Stefan Monnier: >>> Actually, looking at it again, it seems that the set of modules >>> provided by the Om kernels is pretty much the same, In my first post, I forgot to add that this is an important thing: since we still use upstream defconfig-gta02, everything should be exactly the same as upstream, but the compilation steps. >>> but each *.ko file is about 10 times smaller. Not sure what's going >>> on here. Could be something to do with something like >>> versioned-identifiers, or some other global compilation option for >>> the kernel. Stefan, are you sure it is not the other way around? On my Debian, Om modules are 10x bigger than Debian ones: ===== debian-gta02:~# du -sh /lib/modules/2.6.24-20080903.git2ea34171/ 5.9M /lib/modules/2.6.24-20080903.git2ea34171/ debian-gta02:~# du -sh /lib/modules/2.6.24-m3/ 50M /lib/modules/2.6.24-m3/ [install the new kernel] debian-gta02:~# du -sh /lib/modules/2.6.24-20081103.git7172ec57/ 5.9M /lib/modules/2.6.24-20081103.git7172ec57/ debian-gta02:~# du -sh /lib/modules/2.6.24-m4 51M /lib/modules/2.6.24-m4 debian-gta02:~# ===== Thus, it seems that the Om modules are not stripped ;-) FWIW, the Debian uImage is smaller as well: ===== debian-gta02:~# ls -l /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-20080903.git2ea34171 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1748668 Oct 25 00:34 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-20080903.git2ea34171 debian-gta02:~# ls -l uImage-2.6.24+r5+gitr1+ca19d156400f817960efe0d14680324b2ea34171-r5-om-gta02.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1935940 Sep 11 10:06 uImage-2.6.24+r5+gitr1+ca19[...]b2ea34171-r5-om-gta02.bin debian-gta02:~# ls -l /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-20081103.git7172ec57 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1760128 Nov 13 00:18 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-20081103.git7172ec57 debian-gta02:~# ls -l uImage-2.6.24+r10+gitr9706327002caebe6633c93e605882ea37172ec57-r10-om-gta02.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1895780 Nov 11 15:42 uImage-2.6.24+r10+gitr97063[...]7172ec57-r10-om-gta02.bin debian-gta02:~# ===== Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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