Re: Building on the z50

How do I do this?  I'm not building my own kernel or anything; just
using downloaded stuff from the main distribution

-s

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:45 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Have you tried enabling softdep?  That is probably the one single largest improvement you can make.  It may ultimately make you flash live a bit longer too.
>
> -S-
>
> --- On Wed, 10/7/09, Scott Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> From: Scott Lawrence <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Building on the z50
>> To: "hpcmips NetBSD mailing list" <[email protected]>
>> Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 7:17 AM
>> Hey all.
>>
>> I use my z50 as a portable development machine.  It
>> works great.
>> Awesome keyboard, excellent battery life, etc.
>>
>> One thing though; the drive access times to the CF card are
>> painful,
>> due to PIO access times.
>>
>> Does anyone have any configuration suggestions wrt
>> this?  I was
>> thinking that a 5 or 10 meg ramdisk would be great; have
>> gcc put its
>> build files out there, or possibly have the source files
>> copied out
>> there, then just refreshed back to the CF every so often.
>> (whatever)
>>
>> Anyone have suggestions on how to get a ramdisk/partition
>> to be configured?
>>
>> I tried to do it a few months back, with no good results.
>>
>> -s
>>
>> --
>> Scott Lawrence
>> [email protected]
>>
>



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