RE: [suse-sparc] char-major-11

From: Richard Klingler (richard_at_klingler.ch)
Date: Tue Dec 03 2002 - 15:55:53 CET

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From: Richard Klingler <richard@klingler.ch>
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Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] char-major-11

    Actually...it isn't needed. Running now with uncompressed kernel (o;

    Now I have just to figure the best way to support the ALi 5451 sound chip
    on my Sunblade 100. At least I get some sound now, although only with mpg123
    now (xmms messes up) and freeamp core dumps (o;

    thanx for your feedback
    Rick

    > Actually, the compression part isn't needed on Sun machines. If I remember
    > correctly, its actually NOT a good idea on slower machines to compress the
    > kernel. It only saves disk space and maybe, fractionally initial disk load
    > time. (Which on slower machines is lost during the un-compression step)
    > That's mostly a vestige of the x86 systems that have the memory issues.
    > (Suns don't have the memory issues that the x86s have) I know at least for
    > my little SparcClassic, it works just fine without the compression.
    >
    > As to the original question from Richard, I believe that's everything you
    > have to do. With the addendum that Joseph had of modifying silo.conf if
    > you're moving vmlinux to a specific version name.
    >
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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Joseph Gordon [mailto:joseph.gordon@bms.com]
    > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 9:26 AM
    > To: Richard Klingler
    > Cc: suse-sparc@suse.com
    > Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] char-major-11
    >
    >
    > The last part, moving vmlinux to /boot is done with gzip -c --best vmlinux >
    > vmlinuz (or vmlinuz.2.4.xx) and update silo.conf if required.
    > While I'm thinking about it, does anyone know why when I compiled Reiserfs
    > support into the kernel it caused a panic. It appears to be useless as a
    > module
    > since it complains that the kernel doesn't include Reiserfs support.
    >
    > Richard Klingler wrote:
    >
    > > Morning (o;
    > >
    > > I am running finally SuSE Sparc 7.3 on my Sunblade 100 thanx to
    > > downgrading OpenBoot to 4.5.9 (o;
    > >
    > > Why do I get lots of "can't locate char-major-11" on the console?
    > >
    > > Also I'm recompiling the kernel with 2.4.20 'cause 2.4.14 has
    > > no support for the Sunblade 100 soundchip. So the right steps
    > > would just be:
    > >
    > > make vmlinux
    > > make modules
    > > make modules_install
    > >
    > > and move the vmlinux and System-map to /boot?
    > >
    > > thanx for feedback
    > > Rick
    > >
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