Re: Atari TT (next)

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org>]

Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic <at> googlemail.com> writes:

> > Note that the Debian kernel does not use initrd to boot (to the
> > finally installed system), especially as those tools are built
> > with klibc, which is currently still broken on m68k, and thus

> I wasn't aware of that.

Yeah. I have started trying to fix that, though ☺ see the other
mail of today.

> That's what I was suggesting - a stripped down kernel tailored to the TT 
> could then
> be 'distributed' (like you do with other stuff from your people.d.o 
> page) to those
> that need it.

That would indeed be possible and not too hard (Debian has tools for
that, and if must, these could even be cross-built).

> Not that a total of 8 MB RAM would be a lot of fun to run today's kernel 
> and userland on.

Indeed. I did that for a friend’s i486 laptop, and I’ve got one of those
myself as well except it has 12 MiB. MirBSD works – barely. (I could go
multiuser on the 12 MiB RAM one, but decided to not do it; it’s enough
for 3 virtual consoles, GNU screen, lynx, ssh client, tinyirc. Not my
regular IRC client sirc, as that one’s written in Perl. So, definitively
no stock Linux distribution…)

bye,
//mirabilos