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

[Maciej Soltysiak]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Chris Wilkinson <kins...@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