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Re: Dropping support for the smallest armel machines



On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:44:42PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> We have a recurring problem with building kernels for armel: three
> flavours (iop32x, ixp4xx, orion5x) require the kernel image size to be
> less than 1.4-1.5 MB in order to fit into a fixed flash partition.

At least on Thecus N2100 (iop32x), the kernel partition can be increased
to 2.5 MB by deleting a redundant partition used by the original firmware.
This will however require manual actions from the user and access to
serial console.

A.


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