From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756872AbXGZFBt (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:01:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751313AbXGZFBj (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:01:39 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:47218 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751163AbXGZFBi (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:01:38 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18088.10923.67233.336636@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:01:31 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras To: Meelis Roos Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Linux Kernel list Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix ppc kernels after build-id addition In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Meelis Roos writes: > This patch fixes arch/ppc kernels, at least for prep subarch, after > build-id addition. Without the patch, kernels were 3 times the size and > bootloader refused to load them. Now they are back to normal again. I just built an ARCH=ppc kernel for the prep subarch and the vmlinux size was normal. Can you identify exactly why the kernels got so much bigger, i.e. what is taking up all the space? Paul.