From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) Subject: Re: ALPHA-pl10 Gripe Date: 1 Jun 1993 00:03:15 -0500
jason@sunrise.bf.rmit.OZ.AU (jason andrade) writes:
>Jerry Shekhel (jerry@msi.com) wrote:
>: Hello! I just picked up the Alpha pl10 kernel, and I have a selfish gripe
>: to report :-)
>: I usually try to build a very small kernel. I include no FPU emulation,
>: no networking, no SCSI support, no busmouse support, and no more than three
>: filesystems (xiafs, msdos, proc).
>[...]
>The Linux makefile does seem a bit strange to me .. i think i ended up
>editing one of the assembler files (syscall.S ? i dont remember) to take
>out _math_emulation .. to disable FPU-emu .. hmm as well as a few things
>like xd.o since i dont need xt harddisk support .... still end up
>needing a compressed kernel to be able to boot tho..
Why don't you just do a make config like the README says?????
Really, those files are there for a real reason, and just running make config
will save you the effort of making changes that could possibly cause
problems later on down the road.
James