From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Nov 5 13: 2:36 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 BC24A37B401 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 13:02:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail14.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AE2743E3B for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 13:02:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 12265 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2002 21:02:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail14.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 5 Nov 2002 21:02:42 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA5L2Xn5049639; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 16:02:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3DC82D93.BC477690@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 16:02:34 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd) Cc: "alpha@freebsd.org" , Fred Clift 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 On 05-Nov-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > 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, *sigh* The current BOOTMFS kernel contains only _one_ SCSI driver, ahc. It contains _no_ ethernet drivers, no USB, etc. I think it might not contain cd9660 filesystem support. It really is a very stripped down kernel we are talking about here. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message