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From: balbi@ti•com (Felipe Balbi)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm: omap2plus_defconfig: enable SPLIT and DWARF4
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:52:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvsad9l3.fsf@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160111233438.GB12777@atomide.com>


Hi,

Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide•com> writes:
> * Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti•com> [160111 13:26]:
>> CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT will split debug info on
>> .dwo files. This will generate a smaller vmlinux and
>> smaller .ko modules, which will be easier to ship on
>> certain products.
>> 
>> CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 will generate debug info in
>> DWARF4 format, which ends up being larger, but
>> improves the probability of resolving variables in
>> optmized code.
>
> Nice, this makes my initramfs go down from about 17MB
> to 4.7 MB :)

That's nice, let's just hope nobody has issues with this patch.

cheers

-- 
balbi
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      reply	other threads:[~2016-01-12 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-11 21:26 [PATCH] arm: omap2plus_defconfig: enable SPLIT and DWARF4 Felipe Balbi
2016-01-11 23:34 ` Tony Lindgren
2016-01-12 16:52   ` Felipe Balbi [this message]

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