RE: char-major-11

Actually...it isn't needed. Running now with uncompressed kernel (o;

Now I have just to figure the best way to support the ALi 5451 sound chip
on my Sunblade 100. At least I get some sound now, although only with mpg123
now (xmms messes up) and freeamp core dumps (o;


thanx for your feedback
Rick

> Actually, the compression part isn't needed on Sun machines.  If I remember
> correctly, its actually NOT a good idea on slower machines to compress the
> kernel.  It only saves disk space and maybe, fractionally initial disk load
> time.  (Which on slower machines is lost during the un-compression step)
> That's mostly a vestige of the x86 systems that have the memory issues.
> (Suns don't have the memory issues that the x86s have)  I know at least for
> my little SparcClassic, it works just fine without the compression.
> 
> As to the original question from Richard, I believe that's everything you
> have to do.  With the addendum that Joseph had of modifying silo.conf if
> you're moving vmlinux to a specific version name.
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Gordon [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 9:26 AM
> To: Richard Klingler
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] char-major-11
> 
> 
> The last part, moving vmlinux to /boot is done with gzip -c --best vmlinux >
> vmlinuz (or vmlinuz.2.4.xx) and update silo.conf if required.
> While I'm thinking about it, does anyone know why when I compiled Reiserfs
> support into the kernel it caused a panic. It appears to be useless as a
> module
> since it complains that the kernel doesn't include Reiserfs support.
> 
> Richard Klingler wrote:
> 
> > Morning (o;
> >
> > I am running finally SuSE Sparc 7.3 on my Sunblade 100 thanx to
> > downgrading OpenBoot to 4.5.9 (o;
> >
> > Why do I get lots of "can't locate char-major-11" on the console?
> >
> > Also I'm recompiling the kernel with 2.4.20 'cause 2.4.14 has
> > no support for the Sunblade 100 soundchip. So the right steps
> > would just be:
> >
> >     make vmlinux
> >     make modules
> >     make modules_install
> >
> > and move the vmlinux and System-map to /boot?
> >
> > thanx for feedback
> > Rick
> >
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