On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Michael Engel wrote:
>
> > Did you run objcopy and strip out the unneeded information from the kernel
> > image? i.e.:
> >
> > mipsel-linux-objcopy --remove-section=.reginfo --remove-section=.mdebug \
> > --remove-section=.fixup --remove-section=__ex_tab dec_vmlinux
>
> Well, this works at least .... sorry, Ralf ;-)
>
> > For me at least, this takes a kernel image which is about 1.5 meg and
> > reduces
> > it to a little under a meg. The resulting image also boots, at least to
> > some
> > extent!
>
> The DS5000/200 hangs after displaying the D-Cache size, the 2100 crashes
> immediately after printing "Linux version 2.1.14 ...". But the d*mn thing
> boots at least ! I will try to build an ELF kernel and run it through
> elf2ecoff tonight ...
Hi Michael,
the crash is caused by missing nop's in the SAVEALL and RESTOR macro
regards,
Frieder
>
> regards,
> Michael Engel (engel@unix-ag.uni-siegen.de)
>
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