[Buildroot] Stripping kernel modules for ARC
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Thu Sep 15 07:18:58 UTC 2016
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
> Hello,
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:29:35 -0700, Daniel Mentz wrote:
>> I believe there might be a third option where we pass INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1
>> to the kernel Makefile when running "make modules_install". It would then
>> require a change in the Linux kernel Makefile to run a different
>> strip/objcopy command for ARC. This would contain the details of stripping
>> .ko files to the Linux kernel build system. Otherwise, we'll have this
>> cross-dependency between the kernel and buildroot. As soon as the kernel
>> switches to .eh_frame, buildroot would have to change again.
> Exactly my thinking. I discovered INSTALL_MOD_STRIP only recently, and
> I believe we should use it for the kernel instead of having our own
> logic. This would remove the need for special logic in Buildroot to
> strip kernel modules, and would leave it to the kernel build system to
> know how modules should be stripped in an architecture-specific way.
Sounds good. When was this introduced and what about external kernel modules?
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Venlig hilsen,
Peter Korsgaard
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