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Re: armel/marvell kernel size

From Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.kernel
Subject Re: armel/marvell kernel size
Date 2018-02-17 13:50 +0100
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Hi Roger,

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 06:30:23PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-01-22 at 22:38 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote:
> > Dear Ben,
> > 
> > Thanks for keeping armel things rolling for a few releases!
> > 
> > On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2017-10-20 at 15:07 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > > Sadly, linux has again failed to build on armel in experimental due to
> > > > the image size growing too large.
> > > 
> > > It's happened again.  The compressed image is 1% over the limit.
> > 
> > Yes, it's time again.
> > 
> > I tried the "CRYPTO_MANAGER2" stuff you mentioned before.
> > Unfortunately, I didn't make it built as module, except after
> > disabling CONFIG_NET, which seems quite ridiculous.
> > 
> > Do you know any other option, BTW?
> > I'll continue trying for a while.
> 
> There's an upstream change in cfg80211 that enables direct-loading of
> wireless rules, which requires public key crypto in the kernel.  There
> doesn't appear to be any option to disable that mode, even though we
> don't need it because crda still works.  Maybe you could disable
> wireless networking completely?
> 
> Some options that could possibly be changed from y to m:
> 
> - I2C, I2C_CHARDEV, I2C_MV64XXX.  initramfs-tools should include I2C
> drivers to the initramfs if needed, but I'm not certain.
> 
> - MTD, MTD_CMDLINE_PARTS, etc.  But I'm pretty sure this will break
> some systems unless initramfs-tools is updated to include and load the
> cmdlinepart module.
> 
> - RTC_DRV_MV (and disable RTC_HCTOSYS).  There's a udev rule that
> should load the system clock from the first RTC if its driver is a
> module.
> 
> - SPI_ORION.  initramfs-tools should include this in the initramfs if
> needed, but I'm not certain.
> 
> Some options that could possibly be disabled:
> 
> - AUDIT.  This is quite a niche feature.
> 
> Also try comparing the complete configs over time and looking for
> symbols newly set to y.

Did you had a chance to look at Ben's suggestions or ideas?

We would like to ideally upload a 4.15.x based version to unstable
(currently imported 4.15.4).

Regards,
Salvatore

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armel/marvell kernel size Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-10-20 16:10 +0200
  Re: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2017-10-23 17:40 +0200
    Re: armel/marvell kernel size Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-10-26 23:10 +0200
      Re: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2017-10-29 18:20 +0100
  Re: armel/marvell kernel size Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-01-18 05:30 +0100
    Re: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2018-01-22 15:00 +0100
      Re: armel/marvell kernel size Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-01-23 19:40 +0100
        Re: armel/marvell kernel size Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-01-26 19:00 +0100
        Re: armel/marvell kernel size Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2018-02-17 13:50 +0100
          Re: armel/marvell kernel size Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2018-02-17 14:20 +0100
            Re: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2018-03-22 13:00 +0100
          Re: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2018-03-22 13:00 +0100
            Re: armel/marvell kernel size Rogério Brito <rbrito@gmail.com> - 2018-03-22 19:20 +0100
          Re: armel/marvell kernel size Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-03-23 00:10 +0100
          Re: armel/marvell kernel size Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-03-24 03:00 +0100
            Re: armel/marvell kernel size Rogério Brito <rbrito@gmail.com> - 2018-03-27 07:50 +0200
              Re: armel/marvell kernel size Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-03-27 14:40 +0200
                Re: armel/marvell kernel size Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> - 2018-03-27 22:30 +0200
                Re: armel/marvell kernel size Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2018-03-27 22:50 +0200
                Re: armel/marvell kernel size Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> - 2018-03-27 23:30 +0200
                Re: armel/marvell kernel size Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2018-03-28 11:30 +0200
                Re: armel/marvell kernel size Federico Pietro Briata <federico@briata.org> - 2018-03-28 14:30 +0200
                Re: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2018-04-01 15:30 +0200
                Re: armel/marvell kernel size Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> - 2018-04-03 08:00 +0200
                Re: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2018-04-07 16:20 +0200
                Re: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2018-04-07 17:00 +0200
                Re: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2018-04-13 02:10 +0200
                Re: armel/marvell kernel size Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2018-04-15 18:30 +0200
                Re: armel/marvell kernel size Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2018-04-02 01:50 +0200
                Re: armel/marvell kernel size Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-03-27 23:30 +0200
              Re: armel/marvell kernel size Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-03-27 21:10 +0200
                Re: armel not to be released anymore? (was: armel/marvell kernel  size) Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-03-27 21:30 +0200
                armel not to be released anymore? (was: armel/marvell kernel size) "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2018-03-27 21:40 +0200
                Re: armel not to be released anymore? (was: armel/marvell kernel size) Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2018-03-28 06:40 +0200
                Re: armel/marvell kernel size Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> - 2018-03-27 22:50 +0200

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