On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Stanislaw Skowronek wrote:
> True, the kernel is *huge* (some 7 MB). But there *will* be pointer crops
Hmm, it depends on the number of drivers built-in -- my binaries are
usually around 3MB. Or perhaps you should try strip? ;-) You'll lose
symbol information for ksymoops then, though.
> if I'm using the xkphys, and I can't use ckseg0 because there are only 16
> kilobytes of RAM mapped there for exceptions. So I have to use abi=64. It
> does work for me, anyway.
Sure, why wouldn't it? Note, the current Makefile setup is intentionally
easily tweakable for a fully 64-bit build.
> I think it really should be a config option. Even if not actually
> user-selectable (why should it be?), it should default to 'y' for Octanes
> and 'n' for everything else :)
Well, I don't need it to be selectable, but I'd set all systems to use
the (n)64 ABI unconditionally, and the next minute someone would complain.
;-) Perhaps it can be unconditional for systems where the other setting
makes no sense at all.
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