Re: kernel ac2 2.2.11 SIZE & PowerMac

Riley Williams (rhw@MemAlpha.CX)
Mon, 16 Aug 1999 18:22:41 +0100 (GMT)


Hi Alan.

>> One thing I don't understand, why the heck has the vmlinux size
>> grown from two to 6.2MB with the default config??? Can anybody
>> tell me?

> That sounds like a bad build or something deeply nasty in the
> PPC merge. It shouldnt have grown

Alternatively, is that comparing vmlinuz with vmlinux ? I note that
I get about 2M for the compressed version with about 6.2M in the
uncompressed version if I hard compile everything (no modules).

Best wishes from Riley.

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