I've gone to the 'these kernels work' page and it would appear that a 2.4.23-pre5 would work in SMP mode on my dual ROSS Hypersparcs ss20, but it still goes out to lunch during the boot up sequence. (512M RAM)
I've gotten my vmlinux size down to 2,365,108 but am not sure that I'm not running out of memory. Anyone know what the limit is? And I'm wondering how can off loading builtins to modules help if the modules have to be loaded into memory at the same time anyway. Don't modules count towards the memory limit block? I noticed a reference to stripping the kernel. Is this necessary? Useful? And if so, what's the command so I can man on it and learn how to use it. Should I be falling back to an old 2.2.X series kernel for sparc32 hypersparc SMP? I'm wanting to leverage the nice extras iptables provides, but will fall back to earlier flavor if have to. I'm also wondering if I am hanging on a console/ttyS0 cross up. Right now I'm recompiling without prom console and without framebuffer support. I've also sym linked /dev/console over to /dev/ttyS0 and am _not_ using devfs. I'm running headless over ttya. I've put in over two days at the moment on trying to set this box up (was running Solaris fine but I wanted to run Linux which I'm more familiar with, particularly to rig up firewall, proxies, etc.) and am wondering if I'm just crashing into a dead end trying to setup SMP on this box. Any pointers would be appreciated. I've googled on most word combos but am not seeing recent references to the hypersparc/smp combo. Thanks! Heitzso
