Hi Roger, On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 06:30:23PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2018-01-22 at 22:38 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: > > Dear Ben, > > > > Thanks for keeping armel things rolling for a few releases! > > > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2017-10-20 at 15:07 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > Sadly, linux has again failed to build on armel in experimental due to > > > > the image size growing too large. > > > > > > It's happened again. The compressed image is 1% over the limit. > > > > Yes, it's time again. > > > > I tried the "CRYPTO_MANAGER2" stuff you mentioned before. > > Unfortunately, I didn't make it built as module, except after > > disabling CONFIG_NET, which seems quite ridiculous. > > > > Do you know any other option, BTW? > > I'll continue trying for a while. > > There's an upstream change in cfg80211 that enables direct-loading of > wireless rules, which requires public key crypto in the kernel. There > doesn't appear to be any option to disable that mode, even though we > don't need it because crda still works. Maybe you could disable > wireless networking completely? > > Some options that could possibly be changed from y to m: > > - I2C, I2C_CHARDEV, I2C_MV64XXX. initramfs-tools should include I2C > drivers to the initramfs if needed, but I'm not certain. > > - MTD, MTD_CMDLINE_PARTS, etc. But I'm pretty sure this will break > some systems unless initramfs-tools is updated to include and load the > cmdlinepart module. > > - RTC_DRV_MV (and disable RTC_HCTOSYS). There's a udev rule that > should load the system clock from the first RTC if its driver is a > module. > > - SPI_ORION. initramfs-tools should include this in the initramfs if > needed, but I'm not certain. > > Some options that could possibly be disabled: > > - AUDIT. This is quite a niche feature. > > Also try comparing the complete configs over time and looking for > symbols newly set to y.
Did you had a chance to look at Ben's suggestions or ideas? We would like to ideally upload a 4.15.x based version to unstable (currently imported 4.15.4). Regards, Salvatore
