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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Cc: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>,
        VDA <VDA@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel size 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Oct 2001 16:43:48 +0200."
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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:27:49 +1000
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On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 16:43:48 +0200, 
Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
>strip -R .ident -R .comment -R .note
>
>is your friend. 
>
>Or if we would like to solve it more elegant:
>
>--- linux-2.4.10/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds       Tue Oct  9 16:36:06 2001
>+++ linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds   Tue Oct  9 16:36:28 2001
>@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@
>        *(.text.exit)
>        *(.data.exit)
>        *(.exitcall.exit)
>+       *(.ident)
>+       *(.comment)
>+       *(.note)
>        }
>
>   /* Stabs debugging sections.  */
>
>
>which puts it into the list of sections to be discarde on i386.

Already done.  When vmlinux is converted to [b]Zimage kbuild runs
  objcopy -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S
The comments are stripped out at that stage.  Before you start fiddling
with vmlinux.lds, try this:

  objcopy -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S vmlinux vmlinux.stripped

Look at vmlinux.stripped, it is what actually gets loaded.  If there
are any offending strings from gcc then we can look at them but I
really doubt that there are any.

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