On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 06:08:12PM +0000, Pedro Ramalhais wrote: > You should be able to reduce that to the SILO limit (not sure what the > limit is), anyway i use an ugly SILO hack to make it load bigger images. > I'll send it to you if you're interested, however i'm not sure of the > consequences of using it, but it "Works For Me (TM)".
The limit is 2.5MB, that is, 2.5 * 1024 * 1024 bytes. If you're referring to my load address change, the impact is that it only works on some machines. I think the ss10/20 are ok, not sure about any others. A first-order improvement might be to have PIC SILO and use a small linker to relocate it before loading a kernel. I remember looking at this, as well as the possibility of loading the kernel at a different address like sparc64, and basically concluded that (a) it is hard, and (b) it is a waste of time. If you want to use machines that don't map memory above 3MB, just make smaller kernels. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Site launched. Many things not yet working." --Hector Urtubia - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
