Re: Good news for SPARC/Linux

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Wed, 9 Dec 1998 16:41:51 +0100 (CET)

On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Alex Buell wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> > Memory: 2059720k available (1600k kernel code, 23528k data, 184k init)
>
> WTF did you put in that kernel?! 1.6MB of code and 23.5MB of data?!?

- SPARC code probably is a bit larger than equivalent Intel code
- there is funky hardware in the box
- on RISC machines the kernel has to do part of the MMUs job
--> this explains the 1.6MB code

The 23 MB data is easily explained by the fact that the kernel
has to setup administration for 2 GB (!) of main memory...

cheers,

Rik -- the flu hits, the flu hits, the flu hits -- MORE
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