On 10 Sep 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
There are a lot of good reasons for keeping LinuxBIOS within 64K. The two top ones are to limit code bloat and because startup is very tricky if you don't fit into 64K.
true, but ... :-)
One thing you can look at is to strip down the debugging messages from the romcc code. That has at times made a large difference.
see if your auto.c has a high debug message level ... yes, this has helped me a lot.
ron