On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 12:17:26PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote: > This configuration is useful for boot testing malta_defconfig in QEMU > with just a simple cpio initrd, instead of a full ext4 rootfs. > > This results in an increase of ~164KB of vmlinux (with GCC 11.2.0): > > $ diskus vmlinux.before > 11.19 MB (11,194,368 bytes) > > $ diskus vmlinux.after > 11.36 MB (11,358,208 bytes) > > This size increase comes from the fact that usr/Kconfig is sourced when > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is enabled, which defaults to supporting several > decompression algorithms for compressed initrds. This seems like a > reasonable tradeoff but these configurations could be disabled in the > future if there are complaints about the size increase. > > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/mips/configs/malta_defconfig | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) applied to mips-next. Thomas. -- Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]
