On 19 Dec 2003 16:25:27 +0200 Matthew French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Biggest problem was trying to get the (stripped) kernel under 3.5Mb. > Problem may be because I want LVM and RAID compiled in - not in the mood > for mucking about with initrd's at the moment. I don't use neither logical volume manager nor software RAID layer on my system, however my kernel (stripped) remains under the one-meg barrier. It took very, very much less than three hours to compile however :) (333mhz cpu, 256 mb ram, YMMV) > Or maybe I left something in that I don't need? I removed ALL of what I didn't need (less the framebuffer, even if the machine is headless, sometimes I like to connect a monitor and look for the Sun penguin ;). Crappish stuff like devfs, extra filesystems that I'll never even see on that machine, nfs client and server support (basically, nfs sucks ;)), support for SBUS devices, some network options I barely understand (QoS anyone?), multimedia drivers and tons of debugging options, plus crypto plug-ins were unmercfully removed from my setup ;) > I saw some reports that turning preemption on actually slows down Sparc > performance? Was on an older release (test5, I think). Has this been > resolved? Was it ever a problem? Of course it was. Preemption didn't work properly on (ultra)SPARCs before pre11, according to the changelog. Antonello
