On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Gordon W. Ross wrote:

> Does that mean I should pull stuff out of GENERIC until it can
> fit into the 1MB region?  Or somehow add support for booting
> kernels that use more than 1MB for the initial load?
> 
	You mentioned that a stripped generic kernel would probably boot
	on a 3/50. Would it be feasible to have the bootloader detect
	a >1MB kernel on a 3/50 and not load the symbols? (With
	appropriate diagnostics)

	The 3/50 user still has to end up using a smaller kernel, but it
	allows one set of install media to work for all...

> Note that Sun3 PROMs do not promise to make more than 1MB of
> contiguous memory available, so supporting larger kernels will
> require significant work in the boot programs and the kernel.
> The rule: KVA = PA + KERNBASE would no longer be true in all
> memory initially mapped for the kernel.  Messy...
> 
	So >1MB kernels are a potential problem on all sun3 machines?


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