On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 18:17, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > 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.
Yep, it's your change. It works for me on something like a SS4 clone. -- Pedro Ramalhais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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
