Re: -pipe switch in kernel compilation

2000-01-11 Thread George Cox
On 11/01 07:39, Andreas Klemm wrote: Where 4 MB isn't sufficient anymore with a GENERIC kernel. You need at least 6 MB or so to boot, then compile a custom kernel and then, if you are lucky, can perhaps run with 4 MB. Here are the two constituent process of a compilation spotted earlier

Re: -pipe switch in kernel compilation

2000-01-11 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 07:39:40AM +0100, Andreas Klemm wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 04:55:43PM +, George Cox wrote: G'day, While compiling a kernel today, I noticed that the '-pipe' option to gcc was not being used. Is there any reason for this? I think this is the

Re: -pipe switch in kernel compilation

2000-01-11 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Russell writes: : See, I knew there was a reason I hung on to all these 1M 30 pin SIMMs. :) : Old 386/40s sure make nice little router/modem/whatever boxes. :) Until their hard disks go south :-(. The biggest problems I have with them is that they also tend

Re: -pipe switch in kernel compilation

2000-01-11 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:53:10PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Russell writes: : See, I knew there was a reason I hung on to all these 1M 30 pin SIMMs. :) : Old 386/40s sure make nice little router/modem/whatever boxes. :) Until their hard disks go south

Re: -pipe switch in kernel compilation

2000-01-11 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooks Davis writes: : On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:53:10PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: : In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug :Russell writes: : : See, I knew there was a reason I hung on to all these 1M 30 pin SIMMs. :) : : Old 386/40s sure make nice little

Re: -pipe switch in kernel compilation

2000-01-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2000-Jan-12 07:58:12 +1100, Brooks Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that's why IBM has jumpers on some of their disks that limit them to 2GB. I can't see why else you would want to take a perfectly good 8GB+ disk and use it as a 2GB drive. The volumes probably mean it's not

Re: -pipe switch in kernel compilation

2000-01-11 Thread Warner Losh
Before you ask, I've also tried to use the tapr[*] CF - IDE adapter to see if I could get these systems to boot off a 16MB CF card with no luck. I even have a mini486 based system from NEC that I bought surplus that I thought could use the CF card, but no joy. Works great on all the modern

Re: -pipe switch in kernel compilation

2000-01-11 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:32:49PM -0700, Doug Russell wrote: On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: FWIW: 3.3R ran (crawled?) in 4Mb. I tried it 2 months ago on a 386SX40 with 4Mb. Compiling a GENERIC kernel was 5 hours or so ;-) That is when I gave up on my idea to 'make

Re: -pipe switch in kernel compilation

2000-01-11 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:32:49PM -0700, Doug Russell wrote: On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: FWIW: 3.3R ran (crawled?) in 4Mb. I tried it 2 months ago on a 386SX40 with 4Mb. Compiling a GENERIC kernel was 5 hours or so ;-) That is when I gave up on my idea to 'make

-pipe switch in kernel compilation

2000-01-10 Thread George Cox
G'day, While compiling a kernel today, I noticed that the '-pipe' option to gcc was not being used. Is there any reason for this? best; gjvc -- [gjvc] 4.4BSD 4.ever! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: -pipe switch in kernel compilation

2000-01-10 Thread Andreas Klemm
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 04:55:43PM +, George Cox wrote: G'day, While compiling a kernel today, I noticed that the '-pipe' option to gcc was not being used. Is there any reason for this? I think this is the (historical) default, so that people with only 4-8 MB of RAM don't get into