[LEDE-DEV] ar71xx kernel size starts getting oversized

[Dirk Neukirchen]

On 04.06.2016 16:15, Yousong Zhou wrote:
> It has been quite a while since I tried building ar71xx kernel by
> deleting unneeded mach files first.  I believe the size reduction was
> not so impressive that I do not remember them at all...

Some results on TP-LINK WDR3600 target:

without mach-files:
 1835528  4. Jun 20:44 lede-ar71xx-generic-uImage-gzip.bin
 1294713  4. Jun 20:44 lede-ar71xx-generic-uImage-lzma.bin

with mach-files:
 1867906  4. Jun 20:35 lede-ar71xx-generic-uImage-gzip.bin
 1319890  4. Jun 20:35 lede-ar71xx-generic-uImage-lzma.bin

compile a normal image, switch to a new branch,
I removed mach-XXXX.c files in target/linux/ar71xx/files... ,
unset CONFIG_ATH79_MACH_XXXXX symbols target/linux/ar71xx/config-4.4 
make clean and make