Hello, On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Peter Keel wrote:
> * on the Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:44:23AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:34:58 +0100 > > Thomas Habets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I thought that was what mattered, but is it fixable? 3MB is not enough for > > > everybody. I'd say it's hardly enough for anybody actually. > > > > It's more than enough, it's enough to fit the build that > > results from using arch/sparc64/defconfig which includes all > > onboard stock devices Sun ever put into an UltraSPARC system. > > Ha! I turned off sound, parallel, framebuffer, the CD-Rom and all > related filesystems, all network-filesystems and really everything > I don't need, even things I'd need, like ipsec and ipv6. And I get > 3.9MB with that, 4.8MB with all I'd like to have. But there's LVM > and Raid and iptables in there. And ext3. And it's of course not > enough to just have the stock devices in there, you need filesystems > and other things as well. Strange. On my Ultra1, I have FB compiled in (Creator3D), parallel, SCSI with logging, all RAID & LVM, a lot of networking options (iptables, IPIP, GRE, netlink, fwmark, IPV6, QOS, Net scheduler, ...), PPP, PPPOE, ext2/3, FAT/VFAT/UMSDOS, NFS client, module support, and my kernel is "only" 3.4 MB, and boots perfectly. Once gzipped, it is 1.4MB large. > > The boot firmware only provides a few MEG of space with which > > we can unpack things. > > Uh-uh.. And this of course gets worse with 64bit, and the 32bit-wide > instructions won't help either? So in fact, I'm like struggling > with some (640kb or around) memory-limit of lilo in the old times? > Only that this isn't the magical "bill-gates-says-640k-is-enough" > barrier but something else (the magical "david-s-miller-says-3mb- > is-enough"-barrier?? ;)))? Is it the firmware which does this, or > is this a hardware-barrier (like "IC too small")? David Miller is not the author of the SUN firmware. This limit is imposed by the OBP. -- Erwann ABALEA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - RSA PGP Key ID: 0x2D0EABD5 ----- C'est pas avec la censure que tu vas censurer les censeurs. -+- JL in GNU : Las, censeurs pour l'échafaud -+-