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Re: armel/marvell kernel size

From Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.kernel
Subject Re: armel/marvell kernel size
Date 2017-07-22 01:50 +0200
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On Wed, 2017-05-03 at 23:12 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> linux 4.11-1~exp1 FTBFS on armel.  I spent a little while modularising
> some things that were unnecessarily built-in, but the image size will
> still be very close to the current limit of 2 MiB.  If it grows beyond
> this we'll lose support for many QNAP models.

It's now (with 4.12.2-1~exp1) over 2 MiB; please look at this.

Ben.

> It should be possible to reduce the image size quite a bit by changing
> NAND drivers to modules.  I don't know if initramfs-tools is smart
> enough to include these drivers in the initramfs where needed.  It
> would certainly be necessary to add those drivers to the mtd-modules
> udeb.
> 
> It may also be possible to reduce the image size by modularising more
> cryptographic stuff.  The big piece there is cryptomgr
> (CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER2), which is directly or indirectly selected by
> most other cryptographic options.  So this might be impossible.  It
> also might require changes to cryptsetup to get the right modules
> included in the initramfs.
> 
> I'm going to leave further decisions on the size limit and
> configuration to you.  If armel/marvell breaks again and stays broken
> then I'm going to have to disable it.
> 
> Ben.
> 
-- 
Ben Hutchings
All extremists should be taken out and shot.

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armel/marvell kernel size Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-05-04 00:20 +0200
  Re: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2017-05-06 07:50 +0200
    Re: armel/marvell kernel size Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> - 2017-05-08 16:10 +0200
      Re: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 16:30 +0200
  Re: armel/marvell kernel size Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-07-22 01:50 +0200
    Re: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2017-07-22 17:40 +0200
      Re: armel/marvell kernel size Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-07-22 18:30 +0200
    Re: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2017-07-30 20:30 +0200
      Re: armel/marvell kernel size Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-07-30 21:40 +0200
      Re: armel/marvell kernel size Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> - 2017-07-31 00:50 +0200
        Re: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2017-07-31 02:30 +0200
      Re: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2017-07-31 17:10 +0200
        Re: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2017-08-17 18:20 +0200
        Bug#870185: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2017-08-19 06:10 +0200
          Bug#870185: armel/marvell kernel size Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org> - 2017-08-19 18:00 +0200
            Bug#870185: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2017-08-19 19:40 +0200
              Bug#870185: armel/marvell kernel size Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-08-20 00:00 +0200
                Bug#870185: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2017-08-20 14:30 +0200
                Bug#870185: armel/marvell kernel size Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-08-20 17:50 +0200
                Bug#870185: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2017-08-21 02:40 +0200
                Bug#870185: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2017-08-21 18:30 +0200
                Bug#870185: armel/marvell kernel size Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-08-21 20:00 +0200
                Bug#870185: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2017-08-26 18:40 +0200
                Bug#870185: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2017-08-26 18:40 +0200
                Bug#870185: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2017-08-27 17:40 +0200
                Bug#870185: armel/marvell kernel size Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-08-27 17:40 +0200

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