[ CC: Martin ] Dear Ben,
Thanks for your effort to support armel/marvell! On Wed, 03 May 2017 23:12:40 +0100 Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > linux 4.11-1~exp1 FTBFS on armel. I spent a little while modularising > some things that were unnecessarily built-in, but the image size will > still be very close to the current limit of 2 MiB. If it grows beyond > this we'll lose support for many QNAP models. I'll try to take care of armel/marvell. But I don't have QNAP device personally. I have a few Buffalo Linkstation devices that use /dev/sda1 as /boot, so they don't have the 2MB limitation which QNAP devices have. I'll make changes when necessary, and ask Martin and/or other QNAP users to test. > It should be possible to reduce the image size quite a bit by changing > NAND drivers to modules. I don't know if initramfs-tools is smart > enough to include these drivers in the initramfs where needed. It > would certainly be necessary to add those drivers to the mtd-modules > udeb. > > It may also be possible to reduce the image size by modularising more > cryptographic stuff. The big piece there is cryptomgr > (CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER2), which is directly or indirectly selected by > most other cryptographic options. So this might be impossible. It > also might require changes to cryptsetup to get the right modules > included in the initramfs. > > I'm going to leave further decisions on the size limit and > configuration to you. If armel/marvell breaks again and stays broken > then I'm going to have to disable it. Thanks for the advices! I'll chase those possibilities (maybe after stretch released). If I break something, kindly let me know. Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo PGP/GPG: 4096R/6C6ACD6417B3ACB1
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