08:45 <ukleinek> I'm building kernel modules for an arm64 machine and my modules are considerably bigger than those of my coworker. I'm using gcc-14 and they are using gcc-12. I looked at one module and mine has several sections more: .debug_info .debug_abbrev .debug_aranges .debug_rnglists .debug_line .debug_str

08:45 <ukleinek> .debug_line_str .debug_frame

08:45 <ukleinek> Is this known/expected/already debugged?

09:46 <ardb> ukleinek: that is just debug info - 'make modules_install' should remove that

09:47 <ardb> it also depends on whether CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is set

10:19 <ukleinek> ardb: I'm using modules_install and the sections are not stipped.

10:29 <ardb> ukleinek: the installed copies are stripped, the ones in the build tree are not

10:29 <ardb> is that what you are seeing?

10:30 <ardb> ah you need to set INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 for that - that may have changed at some point, or i just misremember

10:38 <ukleinek> ardb: ah. Also this was a red herring for my actual problem, the size of the modules are not the issue that made the board fail to boot with my artifacts while it worked with my coworker's.