Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
Can we make this optional, please? 700MB is already quite a lot, let alone 1.6GB.
The changes are fine with me, but there should be some option somewhere to not generate the extra 900MB of debug output if you don't want it.
That's also one of the reasons why I didn't ack the complete patch. I do coreboot development on my work machine which happens to be a laptop with not enough hard disk space. I would have to delete some stuff to run the new abuild.
AFAICS abuild images are not fully bootable anyway because they have no payload. I may be wrong, though. However, if I'm right, the debug symbols in abuild don't help anyone. Debug symbols in "real" builds would make sense.
Even with the most expensive laptop disks, the price per gigabyte is at 20-60 euro cents.
Are we really having this discussion in 2008?