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13 years ago

How to make initramfs smaller

This is what I get after compilation of kernel nios2-linux/uClinux-dist/images: -rwxrwxr-x. 1 lukasz lukasz 6592577 Jan 29 17:19 linux.initramfs.gz -rw-rw-r--. 1 lukasz lukasz 8903168 Ja...
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13 years ago

initramfs is probably something like a tar archive - google will tell you - or maybe 'file initramfs'.

Nearly 2G of kernel code is going to be a problem in itself.

You are going to need to do a lot of pruning to get a usable kernel and a RAM filesystem into 8M.

Trimming something like a NetBSD kernel & userspace might be easier - but no one has committed NetBSD kernel support for the Nios2.