Re: [LEDE-DEV] ar71xx kernel size starts getting oversized

2016-06-17 Thread Yousong Zhou
yousong On 17 June 2016 at 16:28, John Crispin wrote: > > > On 17/06/2016 10:10, Yousong Zhou wrote: >> On 4 June 2016 at 12:49, Yousong Zhou wrote: >>> Several days ago I tried to build a firmware for HiWiFi-HC6361 with >>> LEDE master branch. Yet the firmware was not present

Re: [LEDE-DEV] ar71xx kernel size starts getting oversized

2016-06-17 Thread John Crispin
On 17/06/2016 10:10, Yousong Zhou wrote: > On 4 June 2016 at 12:49, Yousong Zhou wrote: >> Several days ago I tried to build a firmware for HiWiFi-HC6361 with >> LEDE master branch. Yet the firmware was not present in >> bin/targets/ar71xx/generic after the build completed. I checked the >> do

Re: [LEDE-DEV] ar71xx kernel size starts getting oversized

2016-06-17 Thread Yousong Zhou
On 4 June 2016 at 12:49, Yousong Zhou wrote: > Several days ago I tried to build a firmware for HiWiFi-HC6361 with > LEDE master branch. Yet the firmware was not present in > bin/targets/ar71xx/generic after the build completed. I checked the > downloads.lede-project.org the firmware was also mi

Re: [LEDE-DEV] ar71xx kernel size starts getting oversized

2016-06-04 Thread Yousong Zhou
On 4 June 2016 at 22:15, Yousong Zhou wrote: > On 04/06/2016, Daniel Golle wrote: >> Hi Yousong, >> >> the main issue on ar71xx is the high number of mach-*.c files for all >> the boards being included in *all* images. Once the target has been >> migrated to device tree (which is a huge amount of

Re: [LEDE-DEV] ar71xx kernel size starts getting oversized

2016-06-04 Thread Dirk Neukirchen
On 04.06.2016 16:15, Yousong Zhou wrote: > It has been quite a while since I tried building ar71xx kernel by > deleting unneeded mach files first. I believe the size reduction was > not so impressive that I do not remember them at all... Some results on TP-LINK WDR3600 target: without mach-files

Re: [LEDE-DEV] ar71xx kernel size starts getting oversized

2016-06-04 Thread Yousong Zhou
On 04/06/2016, Daniel Golle wrote: > Hi Yousong, > > the main issue on ar71xx is the high number of mach-*.c files for all > the boards being included in *all* images. Once the target has been > migrated to device tree (which is a huge amount of work, lynxis has > done major progress there), this

Re: [LEDE-DEV] ar71xx kernel size starts getting oversized

2016-06-04 Thread Daniel Golle
Hi Yousong, the main issue on ar71xx is the high number of mach-*.c files for all the boards being included in *all* images. Once the target has been migrated to device tree (which is a huge amount of work, lynxis has done major progress there), this should easily free 500 kB of the uncompressed k