Re: i18n on alpha, plus ramdisk size issues
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:18:04PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote:
> Package: kernel-image-2.2.20-generic
> Version: 2.2.20-1
> Severity: important
>
> I built an i18n-enabled set of boot-floppies for my alpha, and they seem to
> work OK. There isn't much space on the root disk for languages but I was
> able to fit en, de, pt, ja which is probably better than nothing.
>
> However, a latent bug causes trouble: the alpha kernels are built with the
> default ramdisk size set to 4MB, rather than 8MB as on other arches. This
> means that the root image gets truncated, leading to all sorts of hilarity.
> In theory, even the non-i18n image is too big to fit but I guess that nothing
> important happens to end up in the area that's lost. You can work around
> this by passing "ramdisk_size=8192" on the kernel command line, but I don't
> think this would be acceptable to users. I'm filing an "important" bug
> on the kernel image to see if it can be changed; I haven't actually enabled
> LC for alpha pending a resolution to this.
powerpc requires that argument; it's covered in the docs. I suspect
you may end up needing to put it in too.
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