Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 16:02:34 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "alpha@freebsd.org" <alpha@freebsd.org>, Fred Clift <fclift@verio.net> Subject: Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd) Message-ID: <XFMail.20021105160234.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3DC82D93.BC477690@mindspring.com>
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On 05-Nov-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > 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? Terry, *sigh* The current BOOTMFS kernel contains only _one_ SCSI driver, ahc. It contains _no_ ethernet drivers, no USB, etc. I think it might not contain cd9660 filesystem support. It really is a very stripped down kernel we are talking about here. -- 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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