Re: Debian initramfs/initrd, was Re: stack smashing detected

[Stan Johnson <userm57@yahoo.com>]

Hi Brad,

On 2/7/23 12:28 PM, Brad Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 12:31:17AM -0700, Stan Johnson wrote:
>> On 2/6/23 8:25 PM, Finn Thain wrote:
>>>
>>> These systems are too slow for needless key generation so a bug report 
>>> may be needed.
>>>
>>
>> The Mac IIci (25 MHz) is only about 50% faster that the SE/30 (16 MHz).
>> The Debian kernel booted on the IIci, though it took somewhere between
>> 30 and 60 minutes. If it were just slowness, shouldn't the SE/30 be
>> expected to boot in about 60 to 120 minutes (I let it run for 3 hours)?
>>
> 
> Is the optional L2 cache card installed in your IIci? If so, that
> could give a really big performance boost on something like this. I
> suspect the key generation routines and data don't fit in the tiny L1
> cache in a 68030, but would fit easily in the L2 cache. Any older
> models like the SE/30 weren't designed to be able to have an L2 cache.
> This difference alone could probably double or triple the performance
> even without the clock speed change.
> 

Yes, I do have the L2 cache card installed in the IIci.

If you think it would be useful, I don't mind letting the SE/30 run
overnight to see if it eventually boots.

-Stan