Re: working on the Alpha port
>>>>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:58:01 -0500
>>>>> "NLM" == Noah L Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> wrote:
NLM>
NLM> On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:04:57PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
>> I don't know how far over alpha is, but fitting on a PC floppy might be
>> too much to ask of architectures with 64 bit code. You can always go the
>> two floppy route if you need to..
NLM>
NLM> The i386 kernel from the recent alpha snapshot is roughly half the size
NLM> of the Alpha kernel I'm working with. The initrd image is slightly
current i386 is about 650K, alpha ~ 930K. The smallest working alpha
kernel I have created was 830K. This leaves ~600K for a compressed
initrd.img. This is not enough, also.
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Alexander Kotelnikov
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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