Re: Kernelcompileproblems on SR870BN4

David Mosberger <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Mar 2003 12:05:38 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.ia64.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> On 27 Mar 2003 09:51:41 +0100, Daniel Wernle <[email protected]> said:

  Daniel> Hello, I have problems compiling a new kernel on a
  Daniel> SR870BN4. I have read the docs but i can't make a bzImage
  Daniel> zImage bzdisk ... when i try to do a "make" i get a 77mb
  Daniel> uncompressed kernel ( <- i don't think this is ok)

The size is due to debug info (unfortunately, gcc isn't very good yet
at generating space-efficient DWARF2 debug info).  Anyhow, "strip"
will take care of that.  Alternatively, use "make compressed", as it
will produce a stripped & compressed vmlinux.gz.

	--david