FreeBSD on ASUS, TP-Link and D-Link routers?

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Wed Jul 10 22:59:35 UTC 2013


Yeah:

[mktplinkfw] *** error: separate kernel image is too big
lucy# ../../build/trunk/build/bin/build tl-wr1043nd tplink
*** Configuration file  : tl-wr1043nd
*** Platform            : mipseb
*** Target              : tplink
4096+2 records in
4096+1 records out
2097287 bytes transferred in 2.249939 secs (932153 bytes/sec)
[mktplinkfw] *** error: separate kernel image is too big: 2097287
bytes > 2096640 bytes

The kernel image is just plain too big. 5mb for an uncompressed
cut-down kernel? Sigh.

The downside? We can't build a cut down ath module right now that'll
work, as the module API doesn't pull in kernel config options. Sigh.


adrian


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