Re: RFC - size tool for kernel build system

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Tim Bird wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > The building blocks that would be useful are IMHO:
> > - a make target that generates a report for one kernel
> >   (like the checkstack or export_report targets)
> > - a script that compares two such reports and outputs the
> >   size differences
> > 
> > That's also easy to do, and if that's what's wanted I can send a patch 
> > that does it.
> 
> I took a stab at this with the attached two scripts.  These are
> not quite ready for prime time, but show the basic idea.
> I only have a partial list of subsystems, and am skipping the
> runtime data collection, for now.
> 
> I have only made the scripts, not any make targets for them.

Seems to work fine, after I hacked my $CROSS_COMPILE prefix into the hardcoded
nm launch.

Thanks!

With kind regards,

Geert Uytterhoeven
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