Call for opinion: Linaro 'Nano' Image

[Alexander Sack]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Pawel Moll <mail at pawelmoll.com> wrote:
>>  * Download Size: 64M
>>  * Download size with OMAP3 hwpack: 100M
>> The current thoughts are to cut this image down as much as possible
>> whilst still retaining the ability to boot to a command prompt. The
>> new image would be a 'nano' image and would be useful for verifying
>> that the hardware boots.
>
> Yes, please :-)
>
> Just for comparison, the current ALIP images, we would like to replace with
> Linaro in future, are "slightly" smaller:
>
> http://www.arm.com/community/software-enablement/linux.php
>    * Minimal ARMv5T cramfs (30 MB) - with debug symbols, no X11 or optional
> applications
>    * Minimal ARMv6 cramfs (30 MB) - with debug symbols, no X11 or optional
> applications
>    * Minimal ARMv7 Thumb-2 cramfs (30 MB) - compiled for Thumb-2 with NEON
> support
>    * Full ARMv5T cramfs (49 MB) - with X11 and optional applications
>    * Full ARMv6 cramfs (49 MB) - with X11 and optional applications
>    * Full ARMv7 Thumb-2 cramfs (47 MB) - compiled for Thumb-2 with NEON
> support

the above sizes are with or without kernel? Anyone knows how
compression of cramfs compares to tar.gz? e.g. can we compare those
sizes directly to our gzipped tarballs?

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 - Alexander