Subject: Re: Success!
To: Josh Tolbert <hemi@scoundrelz.net>
From: Marcus Comstedt <marcus@mc.pp.se>
List: port-dreamcast
Date: 08/21/2002 14:00:11
Josh Tolbert <hemi@scoundrelz.net> writes:
> I noticed that my kernel, built with the default dreamcast GENERIC
> config, is about twice the size of the -current snapshot kernel. Is there
> anything I can do with objcopy to streamline the kernel size? Can I strip
> out debugging symbols and the like? I'm not opposed to testing out
> different kernels, but are there things I should avoid doing?
The GENERIC kernel config has a 2.8MB memory disk (for no apparent
reason, it should be removed probably). Comment out the MEMORY_DISK_*
lines and the kernel size should shrink by approx this amount.
// Marcus