Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 11:22:18 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Fred Clift <fclift@verio.net> Cc: "alpha@freebsd.org" <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd) Message-ID: <15815.61498.679542.992377@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20021105091514.L69586-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> References: <XFMail.20021105093952.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20021105091514.L69586-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net>
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Fred Clift writes: > On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > On 05-Nov-2002 Thyer, Matthew wrote: > > > I'd hope we can split the Alpha boot floppies even further to get around these kind of problems. > > > > > > What is required at minimum is the following: > > > > This is what we do already. Even i386 now uses 3 floppies to install. The problem is > > that a really, really stripped down 5.0 kernel still doesn't fit onto kern.flp with the > > loader. > > Being new to the alpha architecture, my biggest problem with all this is > that I dont know enough to even have vague ideas of _why_ the i386 bare > kernel is so much smaller than the alpha bare kernel. > > Can anyone explain this? I'm really just curious :). 64 bit longs and pointers vs 32 bit longs and pointers is a big part of it. Another issue is that alpha is risc, and x86 is cisc. Alpha generally requires more instructions to do the same job. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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