Re: Building on the z50

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]
>