Ahhh ... one lovely advantage to Sparc, is that it doesn't have the same silly size limitations that x86 does. So ... _don't_ worry about the size of the kernel. If you have room in memory, it will load. In fat, my own kernel on my Ultra 10 is 3.3MB. That's one reason why there is no "make zImage" for sparc. Of course, a smaller kernel means lower memory utilization, and that of course has its own benefits, but it's not necessary to do all that slimming that is needed for x86. Also, if you want to save some space on your disk, at the cost of a little bit of speed at boot time, you can just gzip -9 your kernel. I did this, myself. The SILO boot loader is smart enough to notice that it is a gzipped image and just decompress it itself. See on my own machine: gomer@callisto:/boot$ ls -l vmlinuz* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 May 18 2005 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.4.18-sun4u -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1379575 May 18 2005 vmlinuz-2.4.18-sun4u gomer@callisto:/boot$ file vmlinuz-2.4.18-sun4u vmlinuz-2.4.18-sun4u: gzip compressed data, was "vmlinux", from Unix, max compression gomer@callisto:/boot$ cp vmlinuz-2.4.18-sun4u ~/kernel.gz gomer@callisto:~$ gzip -d kernel.gz gomer@callisto:~$ ls -l kernel -rw-r--r-- 1 gomer gomer 3371524 Apr 15 09:06 kernel gomer@callisto:~$ file kernel kernel: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, SPARC V9, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped (not even stripped), lol. So, please, don't lose any sleep over the size of your Kernel ... not on Sparc64 at least. --Adam On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 17:51 -0400, Eric Martin wrote:
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I realize I may need to qualify my last post. by 'Make as many modules as possible' I meant what Mike said. Anything that you don't need to get the root filesystem is a good candidate for a module.
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
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
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