[OpenPower-Firmware] skiroot images size

[Dave Heller]

On 04/28/2016 01:14 AM, Joel Stanley wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 7:26 AM, Dave Heller
> <hellerda at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> It's off the topic but I'm curious to know how you got a zImage.epapr so
>> small.  I'm getting one about 1MB larger when I build with
>> habanero_defconfig.
>
> Looking at the latest build: https://openpower.xyz/job/openpower-op-build/64/
>
> Habanero: 15369504
> Palmetto: 14169376
>
> In bytes.
>
> Looking at the defconfig differences, aside from product names:
> $ diff -up openpower/configs/{habanero,palmetto}_defconfig
> -BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE_WHITELIST="C de en es fr it ja ko pt_BR ru zh_CN zh_TW"
> -BR2_GENERATE_LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8 de_DE.UTF-8 es_ES.UTF-8 fr_FR.UTF-8
> it_IT.UTF-8 ja_JP.UTF-8 ko_KR.UTF-8 pt_BR.UTF-8 ru_RU.UTF-8
> zh_CN.UTF-8 zh_TW.UTF-8"
> +BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE_WHITELIST="C en_US"
> +BR2_GENERATE_LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
>
> So we keep more locales in the habanero builds. This makes sense as
> the palmetto was the limited run development platform that was
> probably not seen by many people outside of the US and Australia.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joel

Thanks, Joel!  That does eliminate about 1MB from the final image, and 
this is a nice workaround we can use in testing, to avoid hitting the limit.

Dave