Hi Daniel On 22/11/11 21:59, Daniel Baluta wrote:
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Graeme Russ <graeme.russ@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All,
Hopefully this will help demystify the build process
Notation: <primary input file> (<file size in bytes>) | + <additional input file> | * <command> | \-> <output file> (<file size in bytes>)
The file sizes are arbitrary and are based on the current configuration options I have set for a small kernel. They are simply there to illustrate the relative differences in file sizes.
Great! Thanks for sharing this.
Your welcome :)
Note that vmlinux.o is not used to generate bzImage but I've included it for completeness
[...]
+ net/built-in.o | * ld -m elf_i386 -r -o vmlinux.o | \->vmlinux.o (2,889,050)
What is the purpose of vmlinux.o then?
I don't know - Anyone? Regards, Graeme