On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Marco Trevisan <m...@3v1n0.net> wrote:
> The kernel modules that are provided by SHR aren't stripped, and this
> causes them to use really a lot more space than the needed.
>
> For example, using the latest shr modules as test:
>
> du -sh ./shr-modules
> 77M
>
> find ./shr-modules -type f -name *.ko -exec \
> arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-strip --strip-debug {} \;
>
> du -sh .
> 7,4M
>
> So you can have in 7,4Mb the same that you provide in 77Mb, just moving
> out the unneeded symbols there... This would allow to put the all the
> modules in the the phone without a big space usage.
> I think you should do this by default for your redistributed archive.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>
Are you sure there are no side effects? I finished doing the change, I
haven't sent a patch yet.
Does it work brilliantly for you? It should make a big change, as they waste
space and ram for no good reason.
--
Tom.
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