On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 11:36 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Friday 13 April 2007, ken jones wrote:
Should I take this warning seriously?
last i recall playing with my sparc the answer is yes
Not the case for Sparc64. And on older 32 bit sparc systems, the size limit was about 2.6MB
How do I figure out which drivers to deselect from menuconfig?
modularize ... turn everything you dont need to actually open the root filesystem and get network access into a module ... well, maybe not everything, but you get the hint
lspci gives me no response. I am not sure what is in my machine.
i imagine your sparc is one with some older sun-specific bus so lspci wouldnt walk it -mike
Your distribution should have come with a tool called prtconf. This will list the OBP tree for you (it's a port of the solaris version of the command). In order for the command to work, though, you need to have the device /dev/openprom. This is an option in the Kernel. So, without having to worry about size limitations, this is not really a critical issue. but if you want to slim the kernel down anyway, compile a larger kernel for now that includes /dev/openprom and then use prtconf to figure out what you need / don't need for your next compile. There is also an eeprom command (/usr/sbin/eeprom) which should provide you with similar info ... Then to save you some more disk space (if you are concerned about that, too), you can gzip -9 your kernel, and SILO will decompress it itself at boot time (just takes a couple extra seconds to boot the box). --Adam
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