[Buildroot] Creating initrd

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Chris Wilkinson,

On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:48:58 -0400, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> I had been using crosstool to build the kernel but now I see that BR
> can do that and using crosstool is unnecessary. I cleaned the kernel
> tree and the tar.bz2 is now 89MB. It is here
> 
> https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=834D8577B5544D4E!169&authkey=!
> AGZIOn-ye6O3anc

The .config file in this kernel tarball (which I assume is the kernel
configuration you're using) has gazillions of kernel modules enabled.
99.999999% of them are most likely useless in your setup. Those kernel
modules are the one that are causing your root filesystem to be 30+MB.

Best regards,

Thomas
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