Hi Stan! On 10/8/21 18:49, Stan Johnson wrote: > Compiling 5.14.9 using Debian's 5.14.0-2 config file: > > $ rm -r linux-source-5.14 > $ xzcat ../linux-source-5.14.tar.xz | tar xf - > $ cd linux-source-5.14 > $ cp ../config-5.14.0-2-powerpc .config > $ make ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu- -j4 clean > olddefconfig vmlinux > ... > $ ls -l vmlinux > -rwxr-xr-x 1 johnson johnson 208626696 Oct 8 09:03 vmlinux > $ strings vmlinux | fgrep 'Linux version' > Linux version 5.14.9 (johnson@ThinkPad) (powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian > 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.37) #1 Fri > Oct 8 08:54:06 MDT 2021 > > The kernel (with modules) is too big to test unless I re-partition the > disk on my G4 Cube.
That is the unstripped, uncompressed image. You can either strip this image: glaubitz@node54:/data/home/glaubitz/linux> ls -lh vmlinux -rwxr-xr-x 1 glaubitz users 274M Oct 8 17:09 vmlinux glaubitz@node54:/data/home/glaubitz/linux> strip vmlinux glaubitz@node54:/data/home/glaubitz/linux> ls -lh vmlinux -rwxr-xr-x 1 glaubitz users 27M Oct 8 17:09 vmlinux glaubitz@node54:/data/home/glaubitz/linux> or pick the ready-made images, already compressed from arch/powerpc/boot: glaubitz@node54:/data/home/glaubitz/linux> ls -lh arch/powerpc/boot/zImage* -rwxr-xr-x 2 glaubitz users 5.9M Oct 8 17:09 arch/powerpc/boot/zImage -rw-r--r-- 1 glaubitz users 688 Apr 22 17:34 arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.coff.lds -rw-r--r-- 1 glaubitz users 688 Apr 22 16:41 arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.coff.lds.S -rwxr-xr-x 1 glaubitz users 5.9M Oct 8 17:09 arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.epapr -rw-r--r-- 1 glaubitz users 1.1K Oct 8 17:03 arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds -rw-r--r-- 1 glaubitz users 1.5K Apr 22 16:41 arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S -rwxr-xr-x 1 glaubitz users 5.9M Oct 8 17:09 arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.maple -rwxr-xr-x 1 glaubitz users 5.9M Oct 8 17:09 arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.pmac -rw-r--r-- 1 glaubitz users 779 Oct 8 17:03 arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3.lds -rw-r--r-- 1 glaubitz users 779 Aug 16 12:52 arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3.lds.S -rwxr-xr-x 2 glaubitz users 5.9M Oct 8 17:09 arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.pseries glaubitz@node54:/data/home/glaubitz/linux> Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
