> I used the MODULES=dep setting and got a reduction from 70mb to 20mb
> for each initramfs.
Wow, that's still about twice as large as what I get on my
amd64/armhf/686 systems (I typically get about 40MB for MODULES=most and
10-12MB for MODULES=dep).
The compression algorithm in use makes some difference, but definitely
not a factor 2 unless maybe you're not using any compression at all?
Stefan