On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:24:51AM +0200, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 04:20:45PM -0500, Rick C. Petty typed: > > On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:39:04AM +0200, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:46:50AM +0200, Dimitry Andric typed: > > > > > > > > Right, so it's a lot bigger on amd64. I guess those 64-bit pointers > > > > aren't entirely free. :) > > > > > > I'm not sure where the size difference comes from. I have some sparc64 > > > systems running -current with symbols and the size of /boot/kernel is > > > more comparable to i386, even with the 8-byte pointer size: > > > > Um, probably there are a lot of devices on amd64 that aren't available for > > sparc64? > > Yes, That's probably it.
It was just a theory; I don't have sparc64. What's your output of "ls -1 /boot/kernel | wc"? -- Rick C. Petty _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
