Subject: Re: sun3 versus netbsd-1.3 kernel sizes
To: None <rmk@rmkhome.rmkhome.com>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 02/19/1998 23:35:49
> From: Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.rmkhome.com>
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 19:44:54 -0500 (EST)
> > Whilst we're on the tact, could someone consider compiling a
> >1.3 netbsd-gen kernel that'll fit on the sun3/50?
>
> Is the problem with the memory hole for video, or is it just that the
> system needs more than 4 megs of memory?.
It's the video memory at physical 1MB. The kernel must have
(text+data+bss+symbols+symstrings) <= 1MB. If it is close
then it might be sufficient to strip the kernel. Let's see...
% size *
text data bss dec hex
847180 39072 82424 968676 ec7e4 netbsd-gen
630456 292300 75624 998380 f3bec netbsd-rd
%
Yup. Just stripping the symbols might make 'em work on the 3/50.