Re: Port help wanted/needed?

John Carr <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:29:16 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sun3
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:46:04PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
>> What's the latest on 3/50 support, by the way? I remember a thread from
>> about '05 or so that mentioned that either miniroot or the INSTALL kernel
>> was too big now to boot. Has anyone even attempted it?
> 	The 3/50 has IIRC its framebuffer at 1MB, so the kernel size is
> 	very constrained. Could you try building a kernel with just
> 	about everything disabled for the 3/50?

Sure thing. I lent it away a few years ago, but I can get it back over
the weekend to give it a try. This one is a stock 3/50 minus the extra 8Mb
board. We'll see what we can do with only 3Mb to work with. I remember
the last time I did get a kernel booting on it (GENERIC, no less) a few 
years ago, it was swapping by the time it hit the login prompt.