On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 09:18 +0200, Sven Schuster wrote: > Hi Adrian, hi Fawad, > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:04:14AM +0200, Adrian Bunk told us: > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 05:27:02AM +0500, Fawad Lateef wrote: > > > > > > Have you tried to compile the stock kernel provided with the FC4 > > > Distribution ?? Is the size remains same ??? Because most of the > > > Debugging Symbols are already activated (Y), and the size Sven > > > mentioned 7-times bigger I don't think its just due to debugging > > > symbols !!! the debugging symbols just adds some printks and some > > > debugging code not that much code ... So plzz first try to compile the > > > FC4 kernel with the distribution ..... and watch for the size > > > difference ..... > > > > CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO adds -g to the CFLAGS, and therefore a factor of 7 in > > the code size is not a big surprise. > > yes might be but in the FC4 kernels CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is enabled, too, > and its modules aren't that big...I'm currently rebuilding a FC4 kernel > SRPM, I'll come back later when the build is finished :-) that is because RPM strips the debuginfo out to separate files, which are packaged separately into a kernel-debuginfo rpm. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
