On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Stanislaw Skowronek wrote: > True, the kernel is *huge* (some 7 MB). But there *will* be pointer crops Hmm, it depends on the number of drivers built-in -- my binaries are usually around 3MB. Or perhaps you should try strip? ;-) You'll lose symbol information for ksymoops then, though. > if I'm using the xkphys, and I can't use ckseg0 because there are only 16 > kilobytes of RAM mapped there for exceptions. So I have to use abi=64. It > does work for me, anyway. Sure, why wouldn't it? Note, the current Makefile setup is intentionally easily tweakable for a fully 64-bit build. > I think it really should be a config option. Even if not actually > user-selectable (why should it be?), it should default to 'y' for Octanes > and 'n' for everything else :) Well, I don't need it to be selectable, but I'd set all systems to use the (n)64 ABI unconditionally, and the next minute someone would complain. ;-) Perhaps it can be unconditional for systems where the other setting makes no sense at all. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, PGP key available +
