Scott Wood wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:38:31AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: >> Why is my vmlinux.strip 3.2GB? Could a missing address be interpreted >> as -1 (0xFFF..) and cause the image to contain all of memory? >> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 jonsmirl jonsmirl 61738015 2008-06-10 10:31 vmlinux.o >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 jonsmirl jonsmirl 3224175192 2008-06-10 10:31 >> vmlinux.strip.3651 >> >> After it is packed vmlinux is 32MB. Packing gigabytes of zeros, maybe? >> >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 jonsmirl jonsmirl 32430673 2008-06-10 10:31 vmlinux >> >> This image won't load onto the Efika probably because it is trying to >> expand back to 3.2GB. >> >> With the same .config vmlinux is 4.1MB on 2.6.25 >> >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 jonsmirl jonsmirl 4119174 2008-06-09 20:09 vmlinux > > Are you using binutils 2.17? It has a bug that was triggered by the p_paddr > change. Do you get a bunch of warnings from the strip command?
Same problem here with binutils-2.17. But no warnings from strip. Can you give me some pointers to the original bug report or the fix of the problem in the binutils svn. I've searched this mailinglist and the binutils bugzilla, but without success. cheers, Marc -- Marc Kleine-Budde Phone: +49-231-2826-924 Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry Vertretung West/Dortmund http://www.pengutronix.de
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