Subject: Re: Kernel Thoughts
To: Andy R <quadreverb@yahoo.com>
From: Alex Kirk <alex@schnarff.com>
List: port-dreamcast
Date: 09/24/2002 15:37:26
> Cool, how does it look on the TV?
Not sure yet...I set the kernel on to compile before leaving for work this
morning, so I haven't had a chance to see it at home yet.
> Comment out the MEMORY_DISK_ROOT_SIZE options (I
> believe that's correct, look through the archives for
> the answer for sure, Marcus answered it).
Do we know what that is??
> Josh was playing with this. I think you use the
> IPSLAVE program to do it, but I haven't figured it out
> yet. I figure I won't be building kernels too much so
> I'm fine with burning kernels, when I actually learn
> how to do it! I'm still using Josh's kernel from his
> howto.
I suppose I'll wait for his answer on that one.
> I've asked this too, but I never got an answer. I'm
> not sure if it's possible to load a kernel, then turn
> control over to a new kernel and overwrite the
> previous one though... I must warn you, I have no idea
> what I'm talking about.
Hmmm...guess we'll have to wait for some of the more experienced folks on
the list to answer that one.
BTW, oddly enough, since I said something, my swap is acting up on me again.
Basically, I decided to shrink it to 64MB after the comment that a large
swapfile could suck physical RAM; so I "swapctl -U"'d it once I saw it
wasn't in use, created a smaller file on my NFS server system, and "swapctl
-A"'d to get it back up. This worked great; however, after a reboot (which
happened while FTP'ing down Perl-5.8.0 from pkgsrc...weird), swapctl -l
still showed a 128MB swapfile. Huh???
Alex Kirk