Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 15:42:59 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Nathan <nboeger@getrelevant.com> Cc: "freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Alpha kernels Message-ID: <14504.26589.393835.493396@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <38A85C2C.C66243B8@getrelevant.com> References: <38A85C2C.C66243B8@getrelevant.com>
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Nathan writes: > Forgive me if but I have a question. > > I have 2 alpha station 200's and I noticed that the > FreebSD4.0-200xxx-CURRENT kernels are about 3.6+ megs. I re-made the > kernel several times reducing the number of supported items even atapi > support but I still have a kernel thats around 2.7+megs. I am new to > alpha so I duuno if the large size is normal ? Yes, that is normal. > or are the kernels larger for alphas than intel based kernels ? > I know that I can get an Intel kernel down to around 1.2megs. > > Also is the 20164a an EV4 or EV5 ? and what is a EV4 and EV5 ? You mean 21064a. They are EV45s The 'cpu EVx' line in the config file does absolutely nothing of any use, so it does not matter which of EV4 or EV5 you put there. It exists only to keep config happy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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