Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] ANNOUNCEMENT: Testing phase for 2004.0 begins
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 18:37:15
Message-Id: 1073759688.9094.102.camel@music.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-releng] ANNOUNCEMENT: Testing phase for 2004.0 begins by Jason Wever
1 On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 16:23, Jason Wever wrote:
2 > Basically sparc64 is rather picky when it comes to building kernels and
3 > using initrds. There is a very small set of space to work with (3.5MB
4 > max for the kernel, and 5MB total for combined kernel + initrd size), in
5 > addition to having a different kernel compiler than userland compiler.
6 > Plus even if you wanted to, you couldn't use modules inside of the initrd
7 > due to size constraints of the kernel and initrd and the fact that
8 > dietlibc won't build.
9
10 I'd like you to work with Brad to get some kind of working solution for
11 genkernel and 2004.0.
12
13 Regards,
14
15 Daniel
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