On 17/06/2016 10:10, Yousong Zhou wrote: > On 4 June 2016 at 12:49, Yousong Zhou <yszhou4t...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Several days ago I tried to build a firmware for HiWiFi-HC6361 with >> LEDE master branch. Yet the firmware was not present in >> bin/targets/ar71xx/generic after the build completed. I checked the >> downloads.lede-project.org the firmware was also missing there. >> >> The problem is that mtdparts layout of HC6361 requires the kernel part >> to be not bigger than 1280KB (1310720 bytes). Yet the lzma-compressed >> kernel uImage has exceeded this size limit. >> >> The current size of lede-ar71xx-generic-uImage-lzma.bin in >> downloads.lede-project.org is 1367988 >> >> The corresponding file in OpenWrt downloads site are as follows >> >> snapshot 1295637 >> 15.05.1 1176662 >> 14.07 1107048 >> >> My device is currently running 4.1.16 with OpenWrt r48975. So the >> bloat probably comes from the 4.4 bump. Sorry that at the moment I >> can just bring the issue up and cannot find time to do further >> investigation. > > Comparing config-4.1 before the bump with config-4.4, and config-3.10 > from bb branch and config-4.4, it seems that the size increase > probably comes from Open Firmware device tree support recently > introduced to ath79 mach :( > > yousong > >> >> Regards >> >> yousong >
i plan to work on converting the target to full dts support after the release. this will safe us around 25k of mach files and platform code in the kernel John > _______________________________________________ > Lede-dev mailing list > Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev > _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev