<karlp>
well, 30MB doesn't leave much space for a RFS on a 32MB flash either....
<apritzel>
karlp: then give it more storage? SD card? eMMC? Not sure why you want to take a 64-bit chip and then starve it with memory?
<apritzel>
karlp: also that's why I said gzip: U-Boot's v2021.04 booti supports transparent decompression
<karlp>
someone has to be around to occasionalyl say, "but why is it 30MB" :)
<apritzel>
because it's a kick-ass single image kernel, booting on a large number of 64-bit machines out of the box, with sophisticated scheduling, advanced file systems and world-leading network support?
<karlp>
oh of course, I know the defconfig should be pretty complete :)
<apritzel>
not complete, but enough to boot on as many boards as possible, and reach some mass storage there
<apritzel>
because it's a common sensible config to be used as a reference among developers, as in: can you reproduce the bug with defconfig?
<apritzel>
because if you can, I can run it on my board and see if I can reproduce it there
<apritzel>
karlp: gzip -9 compresses the 31.4 MB defconfig kernel down to 11 MB
<apritzel>
and just disabling PCI and all other platforms gives a 19MB Image/8MB Image.gz