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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: zImage now holds vmlinux, System.map and config in sections. (fwd)
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On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:25:20 +0000
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

| On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:28:46AM +0100, Mikael Starvik wrote:
| > >I don't know linker scripts very well.
| > >Can this be done for all architectures?
| > >I'd like to see a solution that is arch-independent.
| > 
| > In embedded systems it is probably not desirable to keep 
| > System.map and config in zImage (takes too much valuable space).
| 
| Agreed - zImage is already around 1MB on many ARM machines, and since
| loading zImage over a serial port using xmodem takes long enough
| already, this is one silly feature I'll definitely keep out of the
| ARM tree.

Yes, I understand that.  I would want it to be a config option.

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~Randy
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