Subject: Re: sun3 versus netbsd-1.3 kernel sizes
To: None <rmk@rmkhome.rmkhome.com>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 02/19/1998 23:35:49
> From: Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.rmkhome.com>
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 19:44:54 -0500 (EST)

> >            Whilst we're on the tact, could someone consider compiling a
> >1.3 netbsd-gen kernel that'll fit on the sun3/50?
> 
> Is the problem with the memory hole for video, or is it just that the
> system needs more than 4 megs of memory?.

It's the video memory at physical 1MB.  The kernel must have
(text+data+bss+symbols+symstrings) <= 1MB.  If it is close
then it might be sufficient to strip the kernel.  Let's see...

% size *
text    data    bss     dec     hex
847180  39072   82424   968676  ec7e4   netbsd-gen
630456  292300  75624   998380  f3bec   netbsd-rd
% 

Yup.  Just stripping the symbols might make 'em work on the 3/50.