On Sun, 6 Feb 2022, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Hi Carlos, > > even 7 MB uncompressed seems a little big to me (if using modules for > anything not essential to boot). >
Maybe CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO needs to be disabled: $ ./scripts/config -d CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO An alternative approach would be, $ make ARCH=m68k amiga_defconfig > If you can send me your .config (or a link to download the kernel image > package), I'll compare with what I've used for v5.15. > > The tricky part might be generating the initrd image in the cross build > setup - the script does not have an option to search for kernel image > and modules outside the cross build hosts' root fs AFAICS. You may have > to hack mkinitramfs or manually extract an existing initrd (cpio > archiive format) and repack after replacing the modules directory. > If you're building your own, you can arrange to have the critical drivers built-in i.e. just what's necessary to mount the rootfs. After that modules can be loaded automatically.
