Hi Ben, On Sat, 2024-07-20 at 00:11 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > In revieweing Debian's kernel configuration for sh4, I realised that > the sh7785lcr board file not only has a small kernel partition but has > no initramfs partition.
OK. > Some time ago the compressed kernel image for sh7785lcr became larger > than its kernel partition. This was caught by a build-time check. In > version 6.3.2-1~exp1 I attempted to fix this by modularising some > drivers, on the assumption that an initramfs would be used (as is > normal for Debian packaged kernels). But it seems like this won't work > - any initramfs would have to be appended to the kernel image, so it > would still be too large for the kernel partition. > > **If this kernel flavour is no longer usable and no fix is proposed, I > intend to remove it.** > > Before I do that: > > - Does anyone still care about this board? Yes, it's my primary development board, I have multiple of these boards. > - Does anyone have it working with a recent (6.3 or later) Debian > kernel package, and if so how? I am currently running a kernel built from git upstream, but I would love to be able to boot a Debian kernel again. I have no clue how to reduce the kernel image size at this point though. I am currently not using an initrd with my custom kernel. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
