> The first kernel was built with the stock Makefile; the second was modified > to use 64-bit ELF using gcc 2.95.4 / binutils 2.13.2.1. So I'd call those > 817559 bytes kernel obesity ;) Yeah, true. It's really appalling. Make it a config option then, default 'n'. I will set it to 'y' for SGI_IP30. The Octane firmware has no problems booting ELF64 (don't know about ELF32 though). > > Yeah. The weirdness is not in that part; what's weird is placing the rest > > of memory somewhere else. > Not uncommon on SGI systems. The Indy's memory also starts at 128MB; only > a few kB for exeption vectors are mirrored to physical address 0. They made a habit of this. The bastards. ;) Stanislaw
