From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@skylineaero.com>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Booting an Ultra sparc with 2.6
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 06:16:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <417DEBA4.5020808@skylineaero.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040913143811.GH30464@ruslug.rutgers.edu>
Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 07:53:28PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:32:12 -0400
>>mcgrof@studorgs.rutgers.edu (Luis R. Rodriguez) wrote:
>>
>>
>>>a. boot into vmlinux (48MB)
>>> result: image too large
>>
>>Please, why in the world do you need a 48MB kernel
>>image?
>
> Hey -- I can reduce the size, sure but that is besides the point. I want
> to know the details of the size limitations of the kernel image for
> sparc64. You told me last that there was no size limitations, that this
> was fixed in the latest version of silo.
It is something closer to "no unreasonable size limit". I believe the limit is
7.5MB, which should more than enough for *any* kernel you'd ever need to compile.
--
Andrew Gaffney
Network Administrator
Skyline Aeronautics, LLC.
636-357-1548
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-26 6:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-13 14:38 Booting an Ultra sparc with 2.6 Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-09-13 17:35 ` Clemens Buchacher
2004-09-13 22:21 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-09-13 22:38 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-13 22:47 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-09-13 22:49 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-13 23:20 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-09-13 23:32 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-26 0:32 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-10-26 0:38 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-10-26 0:42 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-10-26 2:53 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-26 6:11 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-10-26 6:16 ` Andrew Gaffney [this message]
2004-10-26 6:28 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-10-26 6:32 ` Andrew Gaffney
2004-10-26 6:46 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-26 6:48 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-26 9:34 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-10-26 9:50 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-10-27 22:58 ` Adam Kropelin
2004-10-27 23:57 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-10-28 0:33 ` David S. Miller
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