On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Graeme Russ <graeme.russ@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > Hopefully this will help demystify the build process > > Notation: > <primary input file> (<file size in bytes>) > | > + <additional input file> > | > * <command> > | > \-> <output file> (<file size in bytes>) > > The file sizes are arbitrary and are based on the current configuration > options I have set for a small kernel. They are simply there to illustrate > the relative differences in file sizes. Great! Thanks for sharing this. > Note that vmlinux.o is not used to generate bzImage but I've included it > for completeness [...] > + net/built-in.o > | > * ld -m elf_i386 -r -o vmlinux.o > | > \->vmlinux.o (2,889,050) What is the purpose of vmlinux.o then? thanks, Daniel. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
