Kernel compiling: Why is my Kernel so big?
Dieter Wirz
didi.wirz at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 20:27:46 UTC 2009
Dear all -
I need a Vanilla kernel from Kernel.org....
cd /usr/src
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.28.10.tar.gz
tar xzf linux-2.6.30.1.tar.gz
ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.30.1 /usr/src/linux
cd /usr/src/linux
# copy Ubuntu-Config:
cp -a /boot/config-2.6.28-13-generic ./.config
make oldconfig
make-kpkg clean
make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-didi1 --revision=comedi.1.0
kernel_image kernel-header
and dpkg -i ....
And I get a running System....
- BUT -
~ du /lib/modules/* -sh #Disk usage of modules
672M /lib/modules/2.6.28.10-didi1
88M /lib/modules/2.6.28-13-generic
And initrd is about 50M!
Instead of "make oldconfig" I tried as well "menuconfig" and different
Kernels like 2.6.30.1, but the system seems to compile almost all
modules....
Any Ideas what I am doing wrong or should I write a Bug report?
Regards
-didi
# uname -a
Linux dellurz1 2.6.30.1 #1 SMP Wed Jul 8 18:22:56 CEST 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
It is an actual 9.04 downloaded some days ago....
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