Re: [cobalt-developers] Raq3 kernel and dev86

[Greg Boehnlein <damin@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Tim Hockin wrote:

> The reason there were problems reported with dev86 is that we don't ship
> it :)  We don't use it.  When compiling a kernel rather than 'make
> zImage' use 'make vmlinux ; gzip -9 vmlinux' or on Cobalt patched
> kernels 'make cobalt'.
> 
> This skips assembling real-mode files, which we don't use :)

Hmm.. that explains why none of the kernels I originaly built would boot
properly. Your ROM based kernel doesn't understand Bzip? This may exclude
making a non-modular kernel in some cases.. Easy enough to get around with
modules...

In any case, I did manage to get around the problem using "make vmlinux ;
gzip -9 vmlinux".

One of the things that I ran into was that when I did manage to build a
working kernel w/ the new RAID code compiled in, I ran into Memory
constraints with the size of the kernel. I got around that by disabling a
variety of junk in the kernel and shrinking it's size.

Bzip might buy a little more space...

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