Subject: RAM update
To: None <port-mipsco@netbsd.org>
From: M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
List: port-mipsco
Date: 11/23/2002 01:06:03
OK. The 3chip 4M parts appear to work well enough to surive a build
of the system. I'm running with a mix of 80ns, 70ns and 60ns parts
(all matched to a bank). 128M makes a big difference when rebuilding.
15 hours vs 60 for build.sh -u -R for similar amount of changes. Too
bad gzip takes forever (it has been running for the past 4 hours on
each of the distribution sets)...
BTW, I was able to boot off a 36G drive, but I made sure that / was <
2G in size. Firmware was happy with it even though it is 180 times
the size of the 200M disk I removed from the system.
I'm in the last stages of building a snapshot right now. I'll try to
install it onto my box and see how well things go. If it looks good,
is there any interest in getting a newer snapshot together? Doesn't
matter to me one way or the other, but since they seem to take so long
to build I thought I'd offer.
Now, I'm off to build hpcmips and arc systems...
Warner