Re: Port help wanted/needed?

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, John Carr wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:46:04PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > > What's the latest on 3/50 support, by the way? I remember a thread from
> > > about '05 or so that mentioned that either miniroot or the INSTALL kernel
> > > was too big now to boot. Has anyone even attempted it?
> >         The 3/50 has IIRC its framebuffer at 1MB, so the kernel size is
> >         very constrained. Could you try building a kernel with just
> >         about everything disabled for the 3/50?
>
> Sure thing. I lent it away a few years ago, but I can get it back over
> the weekend to give it a try. This one is a stock 3/50 minus the extra 8Mb
> board. We'll see what we can do with only 3Mb to work with. I remember
> the last time I did get a kernel booting on it (GENERIC, no less) a few
> years ago, it was swapping by the time it hit the login prompt.

        I think its worth adding a SUN350 kernel config to the tree.
        I'm curious to see how much free memory we can get :)

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