[U-Boot-Users] u-boot.bin file is 640MBytes for SC520_CDP?

[sreedhar payavala]

Hi,

I am trying to build u-boot for sc520_cdp. After some mucking around I got a 
good ( looks like a good) elf file. But, the .bin file is huge. 640Meg.

Does anyone know what the problem could be. Here is the dump

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make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/home/linuxproject/dnetip/bootldr/u-boot-1.1.1/common'
UNDEF_SYM=`objdump -x lib_generic/libgeneric.a 
board/sc520_cdp/libsc520_cdp.a cpu/i386/libi386.a lib_i386/libi386.a 
fs/cramfs/libcramfs.a fs/fat/libfat.a fs/fdos/libfdos.a fs/jffs2/libjffs2.a 
fs/reiserfs/libreiserfs.a net/libnet.a disk/libdisk.a rtc/librtc.a 
dtt/libdtt.a drivers/libdrivers.a drivers/sk98lin/libsk98lin.a 
post/libpost.a post/cpu/libcpu.a common/libcommon.a |sed  -n -e 
's/.*\(__u_boot_cmd_.*\)/-u\1/p'|sort|uniq`;\
        ld -Bstatic -T 
/home/linuxproject/dnetip/bootldr/u-boot-1.1.1/board/sc520_cdp/u-boot.lds 
-Ttext 0x387c0000  $UNDEF_SYM cpu/i386/start.o cpu/i386/start16.o 
cpu/i386/reset.o \
                --start-group lib_generic/libgeneric.a 
board/sc520_cdp/libsc520_cdp.a cpu/i386/libi386.a lib_i386/libi386.a 
fs/cramfs/libcramfs.a fs/fat/libfat.a fs/fdos/libfdos.a fs/jffs2/libjffs2.a 
fs/reiserfs/libreiserfs.a net/libnet.a disk/libdisk.a rtc/librtc.a 
dtt/libdtt.a drivers/libdrivers.a drivers/sk98lin/libsk98lin.a 
post/libpost.a post/cpu/libcpu.a common/libcommon.a --no-warn-mismatch -L 
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2 -lgcc --end-group \
                -Map u-boot.map -o u-boot
objcopy --gap-fill=0xff -O binary u-boot u-boot.bin

ls -l gives

-rwxrwxr-x    1 sreedhar sreedhar   659764 May 28 18:22 u-boot
-rwxrwxr-x    1 sreedhar sreedhar 947911360 May 28 18:40 u-boot.bin
-rw-rw-r--    1 sreedhar sreedhar   123172 May 28 00:03 u-boot.map

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thanks
sreedhar