[yocto] The routerstationpro kernel image is huge

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 12-11-30 03:21 PM, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> On Thu 29 Nov 2012 18:59:18 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer escribió:
>> Hi! First of all, I don't know if this is the correct mailing list to write
>> this. If it is not, please point me to th right one. Thanks!
>>
>> I have found that the kernel image for the routerstationpro in poky danny
>> 8.0 is huge. The flash of the device is just 16MB, so a 86 MB image is
>> more than what fits in there ;-)
>
> JFTR: the image wasn't stripped.
>
> To strip it:
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> ../../../tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/mips32-poky-linux/mips-poky-linux-
> strip  -s -R .comment vmlinux-foo.bin

and also for the record, we have this logged in bug 3515, and we'll
make this the default for the build.

Cheers,

Bruce

>
> Kinds regards, Lisandro.
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