[Buildroot] Buildroot at ELC: review/suggestions needed
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sun Feb 10 10:59:39 UTC 2013
Peter, All,
On Sunday 10 February 2013 Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:
> Yann> ---8<---
> Yann> Minimal network-enabled system: [*]
> Yann> ARM Raspberry Pi
> Yann> Pre-built ct-ng toolchain
> Yann> busybox + not-so-minimal kernel
> Yann> Build time: 1 minute 55 seconds
> Yann> Image size: 9.2 MiB (rootfs) + 1.8 MiB (kernel)
>
> Why is the rootfs so big? Kernel modules / glibc?
Yes, this was not a "default" configuration, and there are so many
kernel modules. And glibc does not account for much of the size.
> A default rootfs (internal toolchain, busybox) is less than 1.5MB:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 peko peko 1.4M Feb 10 09:49 output/images/rootfs.tar
> Around half of that is busybox, other half is uClibc.
Yes, we already achieved such a size at ELC-E 2 years ago, during the
Yocto presentation. ;-)
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN
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