[Buildroot] Creating initrd

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Chris Wilkinson,

On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:45:31 -0400, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> Clean/make on a stock v3.4.7 kernel gives the following
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 chrisw chrisw 1.5M Oct 11 17:19 rootfs.cpio
> -rw-r--r-- 1 chrisw chrisw 718K Oct 11 17:19 rootfs.cpio.gz
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 chrisw chrisw 2.7M Oct 11 17:18 zImage
> 
> So it seems that the size problem originates in my customized kernel.
> 2.7MB is still too big so I need to investigate the config settings in
> both my customized kernel and the stock one.

Ah, maybe your customized kernel configuration has gazillions of kernel
modules enabled, which make the size of the root filesystem enormous.
Could you pastebin your kernel config so we can confirm this?

Thanks,

Thomas
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