Hi,

> On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 04:21:10PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> > Whomever is claiming that sun4c-only kernels don't work is seemingly
> > off their rocker:
> > 
> > [...]

I just mailed that I succeeded to build a small Sun4c only kernel for my
SLC, and that's an Sun4c machine as far as I know. It took a stunning 4+
hours :-((.

> Well, now I don't think it's related to SUN4M but rather to a ELF/binutils
> problem. It seems to be in fact dependant to the size of the kernel and/or 
> of the various sections. I just got a kernel compiled without -g to boot ...

Hmmm. is NetBSD 1.4 for the Sparc running on ELF or a.out ?

> I'll do more test but compiling on my ipc now takes more than 2 hours ...

You lucky one :-)

Greetings,

Reinoud