[PATCH] arm: omap2plus_defconfig: enable SPLIT and DWARF4

Felipe Balbi balbi at ti.com
Tue Jan 12 08:52:08 PST 2016


Hi,

Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> writes:
> * Felipe Balbi <balbi at ti.com> [160111 13:26]:
>> CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT will split debug info on
>> .dwo files. This will generate a smaller vmlinux and
>> smaller .ko modules, which will be easier to ship on
>> certain products.
>> 
>> CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 will generate debug info in
>> DWARF4 format, which ends up being larger, but
>> improves the probability of resolving variables in
>> optmized code.
>
> Nice, this makes my initramfs go down from about 17MB
> to 4.7 MB :)

That's nice, let's just hope nobody has issues with this patch.

cheers

-- 
balbi
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