[SeaBIOS] my bios.bin.elf is too big

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Wed Apr 6 14:37:23 CEST 2011


On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 06:42:09PM +0800, Rock Cui wrote:
> hello, everyone, I'm a seabios newer. I want to build a coreboot image
> with seabios as its payload.
> I need the seabios(bios.bin.elf) to be smaller then 1M, but I got a 1.3M
> one after building .
> I did not change anything in my seabios host directory. I don't know how
> to decrease the size.
> My colleague had built a smaller image(64k) with cygwin in win7, but he
> also does not know how to help me. So if anyone could give me some
> advices, that will be highly appreciated!^_^

This is normally just padding in the .elf file.  Go ahead and add it
to coreboot - the cbfstool program should remove the padding.

-Kevin



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