Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:50:18 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Fred Clift <fclift@verio.net>, "alpha@freebsd.org" <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd) Message-ID: <15816.12042.154428.156408@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <3DC82D93.BC477690@mindspring.com> References: <XFMail.20021105115302.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <3DC82D93.BC477690@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert writes: > John Baldwin wrote: > > > 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. > > You sure it's not all of the drivers in the boot path that don't > need to be there because they aren't supported by SRM? Have you EVEN READ this thread!??? A kernel with NO DRIVERS still does not fit in the standard config. The only way to get a kernel to fit alonsdie the loader is to remove nfs and ipv6. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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