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Re: cvs commit: src Makefile



On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, John Birrell wrote:

> Doug Rabson wrote:
> > Could you possibly put a tarball of FreeBSD/alpha binaries up for ftp
> > somewhere?  I want to start running them in my prototype kernel.
> 
> One big tarball or (say) separate root and usr? It's all linked static,
> so it's big.

Separate root and usr would be good, thanks.  Hopefully it shouldn't be
too much effort to get rtld-elf working for alpha later.

> 
> Do you want my hacked kernel and boot blocks? I guess these aren't much good
> if miata can't run NetBSD. They are needed by anyone who wants to build
> ports so that the system boots as:
> 
> consinit: using prom console
> Copyright (c) 1998
>     FreeBSD Inc.  All rights reserved.
> Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998
>     The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>     The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
> 
> FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT (GENERIC) #5: Fri May 15 16:52:49 EST 1998
>     jb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/u/netbsd/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/GENERIC
> DEC 3000 - M300X, 175MHz
> 8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
> real mem = 33554432 (2097152 reserved for PROM, 31457280 used by FreeBSD)
> avail mem = 23904256
> 
> with uname -a:
> 
> FreeBSD freebsd2.cimlogic.com.au 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT (GENERIC) #5: Fri May 15 16:52:49 EST 1998     jb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/u/netbsd/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/GENERIC  alpha

I don't think I need this just yet.  I hope to get my own kernel running
on a real machine real soon now. 

> I tried building simos under FreeBSD/Alpha, but I ran out of memory linking.
> Otherwise it seemed to compile OK.

Thats odd.  I don't have any trouble building it on my Miata under Linux
but I do have a bit more memory (128M).  SimOS needs a severe hacking
before it works at all (I have patches if you are interested) and it might
thrash your machine a bit since it gives 64M of memory to the virtual
machine.

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