Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 16:06:42 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hans@brandinnovators.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bootloader & memory test... Message-ID: <199612280536.QAA00707@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <32C4ADBA.41C67EA6@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Dec 27, 96 09:18:50 pm"
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Julian Elischer stands accused of saying: > I was thinking more in line of cloning that code as a starting point > fpr a stand-alone memory tester.. > dd it to to a floppy and reboot for a test..:) That's what it does already. I've rewritten it almost completely with the goal of getting it into the bootloader, but the best I can do is too big : lovely:~/work/sys/i386/boot/biosboot>size mtest.o text data bss dec hex 1040 32 84 1156 484 By stripping some options it can go a little smaller, but I'm still about 200 bytes short. Any idea how easy it is to make a kernel-substitute; something else one can boot? -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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