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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