[Haret-devel] kernel size > 5MB

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:09:15PM +0200, Lukas Gorris wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> recently we added a new testing branch for the htc leo kernel. It has
> lots of debugging stuff and the resulting Image is > 5MB. (We use non
> gzipped Image because zImage will crash the qsd8250 kernel). This is
> overwritten by initrd. With the appended patch applied (thanks to
> Martijn aka NetRipper) there is enough room for the kernel. There are
> two questions:
> 
> 1) Is it useful to implement such a 'big kerne' patch?
> 2) If so, how should it be done? NetRipper proposed to create an
> environment variable for the initrd offset.

Yeah - I think setting the offsets by a variable makes the most
sense.  Something similar to what "kernelOffset" does.

-Kevin