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Ronald G. Minnich
rminnich at lanl.gov
Fri Oct 29 12:20:00 CEST 2004
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> OTOH, 64k should be enough for the setup task. I would have expected
> that long term this can be pushed even further down again...?!
>
> Is there a rough estimation which part takes how much in a typical
> LinuxBIOS (AMD64) port? Maybe it makes sense to go look at the biggest
> chunks first.
last time I looked, romcc output (depending on board) was bumping in at
24-36K and c_payload made up the rest. So on some ports it is getting
tight.
today, on arima, payload is 28K, and the romcc output is big enough that
it won't fit in 64k. That was not the case yesterday :-)
ron
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