Built DRI modules - Can these driver sizes be right?

[Dan Nicholson]

On 4/11/07, david rankin <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
>
> Old drivers:
>
> providence:/tmp/src/mesa # ll /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri
> total 17244
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     368 2006-08-12 16:54 .
> drwxr-xr-x  8 root root    1096 2007-01-18 11:06 ..
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1707932 2005-09-12 18:26 i810_dri.so
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1777812 2005-09-12 18:26 i915_dri.so
>
> New drivers:
>
> providence:/tmp/src/mesa # ll lib
> total 236052
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  root      1008 2007-04-11 21:23 .
> drwxr-xr-x  13 david users      496 2007-04-11 21:16 ..
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  root  12836697 2007-04-11 21:22 ffb_dri.so
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  root  12637458 2007-04-11 21:18 i810_dri.so
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  root  13923323 2007-04-11 21:19 i915_dri.so
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  root  14795862 2007-04-11 21:19 i915tex_dri.so
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  root  15674162 2007-04-11 21:20 i965_dri.so
>
> Can this be right??? Or did something explode and balloon the size of the
> driver files during the compile process? Just a sanity check. What say the
> experts?

Those can indeed be right if they aren't stripped. That's about the
size they are on my system. Run file on them to find out.

$ ls -l /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16519698 2007-04-08 07:46 /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so
$ file /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so
/usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386,
version 1 (SYSV), not stripped

You can safely do "strip -g" to remove the debugging symbols if you
want them smaller. That means they'll be useless in gdb, but maybe
that doesn't matter to you. Read strip(1) for more details.

--
Dan