[Buildroot] kernel image size depends on toolchain?

[Matthew Dombroski]

Hi,
Have you tried disabling the initrd stuff in the buildroot config?
~Matt

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Andreas Kuehn <Andreas.Kuehn at gin.de> wrote:
> Its probably one of these "again" questions but I couldn't get a
> reasonable/sound answer.
>
> I'm building an arm rootfs and an 2.6.23.14 kernel with the actual svn
> buildroot and uclibc. It works quite well but produces really large
> kernel images.
>
> Created:      Tue Jun 10 11:45:43 2008
> Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
> Data Size:    4528112 Bytes = 4421.98 kB = 4.32 MB
>
> With an old toolchain I can achive regular sizes:
>
> Created:      Tue Jun 10 13:44:26 2008
> Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
> Data Size:    1412792 Bytes = 1379.68 kB = 1.35 MB
>
>
> Unfortunately, the old toolchain has a buggy uclibc and I need a new
> one. -- How can I fix that greedy kernel thing ? --
>
> Thanks in advance...
> akuehn
> _______________________________________________
> buildroot mailing list
> buildroot at uclibc.org
> http://busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/buildroot
>