Jurij Smakov a écrit :
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Aurelien Jarno wrote:On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 10:18:16PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:IIRC, the size limit is 3.4MB for sparc64 and 2.4 for sparc32. However, the uncompressed size of vmlinuz is 2.1MB, so I may be wrong.Well I am wrong. 2.1MB is the size of the 2.6.8 image. The one of the 2.6.16rc2 is 2.9MB. That explains the problem, we have 500kB of stuff to remove...That's not really necessary. We are usually reducing the size of the kernel to acceptable by stripping the sparc32 kernel of non-essential sections by running the command:strip -R .comment -R .note -K sun4u_init -K _end -K _start arch/sparc/boot/imageI've implemented it in the new packaging system too, and I see in the build log that it has been invoked, however the image which got into the deb appears to be unstripped. I'll investigate that. In the meantime use this command to reduce the image size on installed system (you'll have to ungzip it first).
Yes, it worked! Thanks for the hint! BTW, I have started to look at what could be but as modules, I found that the following two options are in modules on other architectures:
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=yThe same could probably done on sparc, though the size is not anymore a problem.
Concerning the new kernel, I first tried and failed to use initramfs. It started to boot, but then udev goes in a loop, and after a few minutes, klibc failed to be executed.
I have then tried with yaird. It started to boot, but the SCSI controller module was not in the initrd. I have manually added "MODULE esp" to /etc/yaird/Default.cfg, rebuild the initrd, and it worked!
I am now running it for one hour without problem, and I am stressing it by building some packages.
I will tell you more about the stability of the kernel in a couple of days. Bye, Aurelien -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' aurel32@debian.org | aurelien@aurel32.net `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net