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Jason Wever wrote: |
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> Basically sparc64 is rather picky when it comes to building kernels and |
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> using initrds. There is a very small set of space to work with (3.5MB |
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> max for the kernel, and 5MB total for combined kernel + initrd size), in |
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> addition to having a different kernel compiler than userland compiler. |
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> Plus even if you wanted to, you couldn't use modules inside of the initrd |
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> due to size constraints of the kernel and initrd and the fact that |
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> dietlibc won't build. |
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klibc would help? check bk://klibc.bkbits.net/2.5-klibc |
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lu |
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Luca Barbato |
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Developer |
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Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |
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