Re: Can't get a Linux 3.6-rc zImage smaller than 2MB

[Maciej Soltysiak <maciej@soltysiak.com>]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Chris Wilkinson <kinsham@verizon.net> wrote:

Excellent, This worked for me.

 

File sizes are:

Initrd.img/ramdisk.gz – 2425607

Vmlinuz/zImage – 1524976

Great! Glad to have helped!  

Which fit nicely in the flash. I redid the flash layout to get rid of some of the not needed sections and make more useable space.

Can you share more detail on how you changed the flash layout?

 

EM-438/EM-7220 ver.AG0 2006-05-23                                                                 

== Executing boot script in 1.000 seconds - enter ^C to abort                                      

^C                                                                                                

RedBoot> ^C                                                                                       

RedBoot> fis list                                                                                 

Name              FLASH addr  Mem addr    Length      Entry point                                 

RedBoot           0xF0000000  0xF0000000  0x00040000  0x00000000

RedBoot config    0xF07C0000  0xF07C0000  0x00001000  0x00000000

FIS directory     0xF07E0000  0xF07E0000  0x00020000  0x00000000

zImage            0xF0040000  0x01008000  0x00400000  0x01008000

ramdisk.gz        0xF0440000  0x01800000  0x00340000  0x01800000

Do I read correctly you made 4MB available for zImage? That would be enough to hold larger kernels anyway!

Chris

Maciej