Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:25:20 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: zImage now holds vmlinux, System.map and config in sections. (fwd) |
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On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:28:46AM +0100, Mikael Starvik wrote: > >I don't know linker scripts very well. > >Can this be done for all architectures? > >I'd like to see a solution that is arch-independent. > > In embedded systems it is probably not desirable to keep > System.map and config in zImage (takes too much valuable space).
Agreed - zImage is already around 1MB on many ARM machines, and since loading zImage over a serial port using xmodem takes long enough already, this is one silly feature I'll definitely keep out of the ARM tree.
-- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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