On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 7:35 AM KP Singh <kpsingh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 6:16 AM Vitaly Chikunov <vt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > We need to reduce kernel size for aarch64, because it does not fit into > > U-Boot loader on Raspberry Pi (due to it having fdt_addr_r=0x02600000) > > and one of big ELF sections in vmlinuz is .BTF taking around 5MB. > > Compression does not help because on aarch64 kernels are > > uncompressed[1]. > > > > Is it theoretically possible to make sysfs_btf a module? > > I think so, it may need some refactoring and changes > but, yeah, in theory, the module could ship with the > kernel's BTF information which can then be initialized by the module. > > Curious to see what others think as well. Yeah. That request came up a few times. Whoever has cycles to work on it... please go ahead :)
