[PATCH] arm: omap2plus_defconfig: enable SPLIT and DWARF4

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Mon Jan 11 15:34:39 PST 2016


* 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 :)

Regards,

Tony



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