Subject: Re: sun3 versus netbsd-1.3 kernel sizes
To: None <port-sun3@NetBSD.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-sun3
Date: 02/20/1998 08:55:12
>>> Whilst we're on the [tack], 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.

Why does the kernel have to be loaded entirely below the hole?  Even if
it has to be physically contiguous, every -3/50 has at least three megs
above the hole, no?

					der Mouse

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