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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > Steven's 2.2.26 does not support scsi.
>
> Have you tried my bzimage.big ?
> It's an add-on kernel for BL 3.40.

I just took a look - it is about 750K and supports 386, math coprocessor 
emulation, every scsi card as m and every type of scsi device as y (why 
not as modules to save space, since you can't use them without also 
insmodding the module for the card?) and a lot of things I never heard of, 
plus idefloppy and idetape.  Is this like bare.i 2.2.16 or more so?

The only two things I obviously can't do with this kernel (apart from 
fitting it onto a 1 or 2 floppy linux easily) are USB storage, and boot 
from a scsi drive without using initrd.  I did not check if it does 
framebuffer (vesafb, matrox, ati).  David made me a 2.4.31 which does boot 
from scsi drive and does framebuffer and is about 200K smaller and does 
USB storage.

I see that BL3.40 is now current, with 3.32 still there for floppies.  And 
the kernel config is for 2.2.26.


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