TP-Link 1043ND - its tme :)

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On Thu, August 29, 2013 19:51, Warner Losh wrote:
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> On Aug 29, 2013, at 4:06 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
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>>> [mktplinkfw] *** error: rootfs image is too big
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>> OK. This isn't for root image, but to make the uncompressed kernel ~685k smaller. So maybe 200k
>> smaller after compression.
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>> http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/smalller-mips
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> I've moved this to http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/smaller-mips.diff for nicer downloading, and the
> original link had too many l's in it...
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>> basically it does EXTRA_FLAGS+=-fno-inline -Wno-inline -Os -Wno-strict-aliasing while setting
>> the inline limit to 0 and adding some libkern functions that need it. Plus adding the canonical
>> MUTEX/RWLOCK/SX_NOINLINE options.
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>>   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>> 3598994 270588	 153056	4022638 3d616e	kernel.debug	with patch
>> 4285106 270632 153056 4708794 47d9ba kernel.debug		built without
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>> Comments?
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> Btw, the extra initialization is for a few places where -Os produces different (and I think
> spurious) warnings vs -O2. That's also the purpose of the MIPS_SMALL_HACK option, so the three
> shift routines that are normally inlined by the compiler have definitions. But those few bytes may
> not be worth optimizing...

I dont know if I got it. Should I try it or not ? :)

and, I must find where to change it. Not yet familiar with the build scripts and cfg files.

thanks,

matheus

> Warner
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>> Warner
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>> P.S. Don't have this hardware, so no test boots.
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