Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 11:53:02 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> 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: <XFMail.20021105115302.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20021105091514.L69586-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net>
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On 05-Nov-2002 Fred Clift wrote: > 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 :). For one thing, 64-bit binaries are larger than 32-bit binaries. Another difference on 5.0 is that Alpha supports SMP out of the box where as i386 requires a custom kernel for SMP support. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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