[U-Boot-Users] vmlinux kernel image(IN ELF BINARY format) for making uImage
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Wed Sep 21 23:35:05 CEST 2005
In message <1127323823.5f1b939cS3092131 at student.rmit.edu.au> you wrote:
>
> How do i know if the vmlinuz image that
> i have is in ELF BINARY format?
Just don't care. The Linux kernel's makefile will just do the right
thing.
> I have a vmlinux image compiled
> from MontaVista Linux for COnsumer
> Edition. The size of this image is
> 28 MB but when i use this image in
> generating uImage the linux.bin that is genrated
> is of 1.7MB and after gzipping it and finally
> making uImage the uImage is of 775Kb.
> How is this possible?
The 28 MB contain a lot of symbol tables and debug information which
get stripped off when creating the binary image - 1.7 MB sounds right
for this. And the gzip compression code is good enough to squueze
this into 775 kB. Everything sounds reasonable.
> What is exactly happening out here?
Nothing special.
> Is it a right way to pass MontaVista Kernel
> image to Uimage?
Sounds like it is.
> Why is there so much of reduction in size?
Because unnnecessary symbol and debug information gets thrown away.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
--
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