Re: Port help wanted/needed?

David Brownlee <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:37:31 +0000 (GMT)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sun3
Message-ID <alpine.NEB.2.00.0901232336200.15027@localhost>
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, John Carr wrote:

> 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.

 	I think its worth adding a SUN350 kernel config to the tree.
 	I'm curious to see how much free memory we can get :)

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