Re: Second round of powerpc subarch investigation : boot-loaders.
On Oct 22 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
> The current miboot users simply seem to hand compress the toplevel
> vmlinux kernel and that is it.
Yes, that's exactly what I do for an oldworld here. BTW, did you (or was
it Gaudenz) get my .config file for the oldworld? Do you need
asssistance with generation of a .config file?
AFAIR, the generic powermac kernel that you package (e.g., version
2.4.22) has a .config file that is too big to be compressed for
inclusion in a miboot floppy. The vmlinux file, when compressed, is
1.5MB in size, which is obviously too big for a 1.44MB floppy.
OTOH, I think that support for some features and/or drivers could be
turned off. Also, they could (with some limiations) be put into an
initrd (depending on how the new installation system works).
[]s, Roger...
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