From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Nov 5 12:45:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B6FE37B406; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 12:45:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4A9A43E88; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 12:45:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0104.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.104] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 189AZb-00045J-00; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 12:45:19 -0800 Message-ID: <3DC82D93.BC477690@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 12:44:03 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: Fred Clift , "alpha@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Baldwin wrote: > > Being new to the alpha architecture, my biggest problem with all this is > > that I dont know enough to even have vague ideas of _why_ the i386 bare > > kernel is so much smaller than the alpha bare kernel. > > > > Can anyone explain this? I'm really just curious :). > > For one thing, 64-bit binaries are larger than 32-bit binaries. > Another difference on 5.0 is that Alpha supports SMP out of the > box where as i386 requires a custom kernel for SMP support. You sure it's not all of the drivers in the boot path that don't need to be there because they aren't supported by SRM? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message