On Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:21:23 -0500 
 "Gordon W. Ross" <gwr@mc.com> wrote:

 > Technically, you could build a kernel with a funny link map that
 > puts blank space where the BW frame buffer is, but as a practical
 > matter, poor old 3/50 boxes don't want such a big kernel anyway.
 > 
 > Another easier way to deal with this is use LKMs, because after
 > the kernel is booted, the VM knows how to avoid the video.
 > 
 > Given those points, I'm not motivated to make it possible to
 > boot (initial) kernel images larger than 1MB on the 3/50.

That seems silly... if it's easy to do, it should be made possible
to boot GENERIC on all members fo the sun3 family.

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