Hi Daniel

On 22/11/11 21:59, Daniel Baluta wrote:

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Graeme Russ [off-list ref] wrote:

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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 :)

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Note that vmlinux.o is not used to generate bzImage but I've included it
for completeness

[...]

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+ net/built-in.o
|
* ld -m elf_i386 -r -o vmlinux.o
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\->vmlinux.o (2,889,050)

What is the purpose of vmlinux.o then?

I don't know - Anyone?

Regards,

Graeme