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Re: booting old sparc with floppy



Eric Delaunay:

> It seems the sparc2 is too slow to handle both reading and decompressing on the
> fly :-((
> 
> This test was made with silo to 0.8.6.

Can anyone explain why the reading and decompressing of the floppy has
to be handled as a real-time task that fails when the processor is too
slow to keep up? Is this a bug in SILO? Can it be fixed?

Edmund


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