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Robert DeFreitas

09/30/2013 4:07 PM

post105508

I noticed that the Net.rtl8169 driver size jumped from 45910 bytes (11-9-2010) to 188430 bytes (5-5-2011).  The latest 
version (from 5-5-2011) has the best network stability when tested on HDD booting nodes but since the size has jumped 
over 140kB it can no longer be used in my PXE remote boot kernel as the kernel size goes over the ~500kB limit.  I 
figured the latest version wasn't "stripped" but that isn't the case.  Did the code base and/or compiler change?  Can a 
smaller latest version be built?

Hugh Brown(deleted)

10/01/2013 8:15 AM

post105517

Re: Net.rtl8169 remote booting issue

There was a lot of code added to the rtl8169 driver to support the latest
chipsets, so that is why the driver is so much bigger. I cannot make it
any smaller, as that would require removing code that supports newer
chipsets.



On 2013-09-30 4:07 PM, "Robert DeFreitas" <community-noreply@qnx.com>
wrote:

>I noticed that the Net.rtl8169 driver size jumped from 45910 bytes
>(11-9-2010) to 188430 bytes (5-5-2011).  The latest version (from
>5-5-2011) has the best network stability when tested on HDD booting nodes
>but since the size has jumped over 140kB it can no longer be used in my
>PXE remote boot kernel as the kernel size goes over the ~500kB limit.  I
>figured the latest version wasn't "stripped" but that isn't the case.
>Did the code base and/or compiler change?  Can a smaller latest version
>be built?
>
>
>
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Robert DeFreitas

10/01/2013 1:49 PM

post105538

Re: Net.rtl8169 remote booting issue

Thanks for the quick response Hugh.

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