From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200006281241.OAA29852@denx.local.net> To: Steven Hanley cc: Linux PPC Dev Subject: Re: problem with compressing the kernel From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jun 2000 21:45:20 +1000." <3959E550.3CC61CD@wibble.net> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:41:37 +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: In message <3959E550.3CC61CD@wibble.net> Steven Hanley wrote: > > on other architectures. I still strongly suspect the person asking on a > ppc list how to compress a kernel for linux on an NT box was somewhat > confused at least. No, I don't think so. He probably just wants (or has) to use NT as a cross development environment for building Linux images. It's pretty normal to do that usinf Linux boxen, but I guess his employer is still preferring NT installations :-( > well if the hardware is embedded or similarly lacking in space as > someone suggested I can understand the need, or possible x86. Otherwise > I would be surprised if the hardware cant handle large images. There is > a difference between "need" and "common use" Not all things that "can" be done are practical. I _can_ compile the Linux kernel on a MPC860 system with 16 MB RAM running with root filesystem over NFS. It takes well over two hours on that board - it's a good regression test, but it's not practical for software development. For some of us, embedded systems are common use. Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de "Deliver yesterday, code today, think tomorrow." ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/