[LEDE-DEV] Images are too big in LEDE but not in OpenWRT

[Jakub Jančo]

Hello,

is there any reason why LEDE needs more empty space in firmware for
TP-link tl-wr1043nd v3 ?

In OpenWRT 15.01 we are building 7.3MB large images and have just
enought space for configs.
In LEDE 17.01 is max size ~6.5MB and we are not able to build our
images, because we cannot strip more packages, now we are on 6.8MB.

Is it possible to configure limits?

Thanks for help.

Number of duplicate files found 281
Number of inodes 2517
Number of files 2109
Number of fragments 55
Number of symbolic links  266
Number of device nodes 1
Number of fifo nodes 0
Number of socket nodes 0
Number of directories 141
Number of ids (unique uids + gids) 1
Number of uids 1
root (0)
Number of gids 1
root (0)
13189+1 records in
13189+1 records out
6753020 bytes (6.8 MB) copied, 0.0269157 s, 251 MB/s
[mktplinkfw] kernel length aligned to 1360344
[mktplinkfw] *** error: images are too big by 249556 bytes
cp: cannot stat
'/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/openwrt-buildbot-17-01-imagebuilder/lede-imagebuilder-ar71xx-generic.Linux-x86_64/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl-1.1.16/linux-ar71xx_generic/tmp/lede-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr1043nd-v3-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin':
No such file or directory
13189+1 records in
13189+1 records out
6753020 bytes (6.8 MB) copied, 0.0267773 s, 252 MB/s
[mktplinkfw] kernel length aligned to 1360344
[mktplinkfw] *** error: images are too big by 249556 bytes
cp: cannot stat
'/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/openwrt-buildbot-17-01-imagebuilder/lede-imagebuilder-ar71xx-generic.Linux-x86_64/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl-1.1.16/linux-ar71xx_generic/tmp/lede-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr1043nd-v3-squashfs-factory.bin':
No such file or directory
padding image to 00680000
padding image to 00671000
padding image to 00672000
padding image to 00674000
padding image to 00680000
52+1 records in
53+0 records out
6946816 bytes (6.9 MB) copied, 0.00822619 s, 844 MB/s



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S pozdravom Jakub Janco