Re: sharp zaurus: prevent killing spitz-en

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

> > This is wrong solution, but it prevents breaking flashing mechanism on
> > spitz with too big kernel. It may be handy to someone...
> > 
> > 								Pavel
> > 
> > --- clean-rp/arch/arm/boot/Makefile	2004-12-25 13:34:57.000000000 +0100
> > +++ linux-rp/arch/arm/boot/Makefile	2005-10-25 20:43:58.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -53,6 +53,12 @@
> >  $(obj)/zImage:	$(obj)/compressed/vmlinux FORCE
> >  	$(call if_changed,objcopy)
> >  	@echo '  Kernel: $@ is ready'
> > +	@ls -al $@
> > +	@wc -c $@ | ( read SIZE Y; \
> > +		if [ $$SIZE -gt 1294336 ]; then \
> > +			echo '  Kernel is too big, would kill spitz'; \
> > +			rm $@; \
> > +		fi )
> >  
> >  endif
> 
> It would be better for each machine to export an config option
> from the Kconfig to specify if they have a maximum size.

It is probably best to stop it at the flasher script, but ... this was
quite a quick hack.
							Pavel
-- 
Thanks, Sharp!
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