nanogui: Running Nano-X and ViewML separately
Subject:
Re: Running Nano-X and ViewML separately
From:
Supriyo ####@####.####
Date:
21 Feb 2001 15:48:20 -0000
Message-Id: <20010221155249.9247.qmail@web4401.mail.yahoo.com>
Thanks for all the help everyone!
Stripped all the files and they fit in easily in the
8MB ramdisk...so I guess I don't need to build a
larger ramdisk for the time being that is!
Just need to try to get the CF Socket card working now
so that I can surf the net!
Regards,
Supriyo
--- John Waldron ####@####.####
wrote: > Give us the steps you went through when
building
> your ramdisk image before
> compressing it.
>
> Should be something like:
>
> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=ramdisk.img.nogz bs=1k
> count=$RAMSIZE
> $ /sbin/mke2fs -q -F -m0 ramdisk.img.nogz
> $ mount -o loop ramdisk.img.nogz ramdisk
> % This is the point where I copy the contents into
> the image %
> $ umount ramdisk
>
> $RAMSIZE is the definition for the size of the
> ramdisk image. If it is not
> large enough strange things can happen, espcially if
> the needed size is
> close to the built size.
>
> John
>
> P.S. du -sh will give you a directory's size. Man
> it to get options.
> There is a recursive option.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Supriyo Chatterjea"
> ####@####.####
> To: "Jordan Crouse" ####@####.####
> Cc: ####@####.####
> ####@####.####
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:31 AM
> Subject: Re: Running Nano-X and ViewML separately
>
>
> > Hi Jordan,
> >
> > Stripping the viewml binary DID melt those bytes
> off!!
> > All the way from 6.5MB right down to around just
> > 1.3MB! Simply amazing! What does strip do
> actually?
> > Get rid of stuff that's required for debugging
> > purposes?
> >
> > I do have one problem though. I was using an 8MB
> > ramdisk and I had a hard time fitting in the
> viewml
> > binary together with the libwww files +
> libpthread.
> > Didn't actually manage to fit in the nano-X
> server!
> >
> > So I thought of creating a 12MB ramdisk as you had
> > advised.
> >
> > I recompiled the kernel after changing the
> following:
> >
> > int rd_size =12288 in the rd.c file
> >
> > But after creating and loading the 12MB ramdisk to
> the
> > Assabet, I got the following error:
> >
> > ....
> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
> > Freeing init memory: 64K
> > attempt to access beyond end of device
> > 01:00:rw=0, want=8205, limit=8192
> > EXT2-fs error (device ramdisk(1,0)):
> ext2_read_inode:
> > unable to read inode block - inode = 1598, block
> ....
> > ...
> > INIT: version 2.74 booting
> > INIT: No inittab file found
> > attemp to access beyond end of device
> > ...
> > INIT: can't open (/etc/ioctl.save, O_WRONLY):
> > Input/output error
> > Enter runlevel:
> >
> > Any idea why this may be happening? Is there some
> > problem with the RAMdisk driver? Seems like it's
> still
> > set to 8192!
> >
> > My kernel version is 2.4.0-test11-rmk1-np3.
> >
> > And one more elementary question...it there a way
> to
> > find out how much space is used up by a certain
> > directory (including the sub-directories)?
> Something
> > equivalent to dir/s in DOS?
> >
> > And I would really like to try out the POSE hack
> that
> > you posted but I can't try it without solving this
> > ramdisk problem. Will you be releasing the proper
> hack
> > some time this week?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Supriyo
> >
> >
> > --- Jordan Crouse ####@####.#### wrote: >
> > Supriyo Chatterjea wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to get ViewML to run on the
> Assabet. I
> > > > successfull managed to compile ViewML on my PC
> but
> > > the
> > > > thing is that the final ViewML binary file is
> a
> > > > whopping 6.5MB!!
> > >
> > > > Now I've tried creating an 8MB ramdisk but
> somehow
> > > I
> > > > can't seem to fit in ViewML and the rest of
> the
> > > basic
> > > > Linux files required.
> > >
> > > Thats about right. Make sure you strip it, it
> > > should go down to just
> > > over a meg (my last ARM copy was 1133560 bytes
> > > compiled dynamically, so
> > > you
> > > have to consider the libwwww libraries in there,
> and
> > > that will take it
> > > up to about 1.7 megs). Run arm-linux-strip on
> the
> > > ViewML file and watch
> > > those bytes just melt off.
> > >
> > > > I've got a couple of questions:
> > > > 1. Am I right to say that the ViewML binary is
> > > this
> > > > big because the nano-x server has been "built
> > > into"
> > > > it?
> > >
> > > Not unless you specified for that to happen
> (which
> > > you probably
> > > shouldn't have... if your system can support the
> > > client system model,
> > > then you
> > > should use it). Anyway, the nano-X server is
> only
> > > about 200K, so that
> > > wouldn't account for your huge file size.
> > >
> > > > 2. Does creating such a binary mean that when
> it's
> > > > finally loaded into the Assabet, it's not
> going to
> > > > require any other files to run (e.g.
> libraries,
> > > etc),
> > > > i.e. I can just copy it into any directory and
> > > just
> > > > run the ViewML binary by typing ./viewml?
> > >
> > > By default, ViewML is compiled dynamically, so
> you
> > > will need libc,
> > > libpthread, and several libwww files.
> > >
> > > > 3. Suppose I don't create such a binary and I
> > > simply
> > > > compile the browser without nano-x included,
> then
> > > I
> > > > load the nano-x server and ViewML to the
> Assabet
> > > > separately. Would this require less space (so
> that
> > > I
> > > > can fit it into the ramdisk) than the original
> > > 6.5MB
> > > > binary?
> > >
> > > That what you should be doing in the first
> place.
> > > Linux can support
> > > client server, and I can think of no reason why
> you
> > > would want to do
> > > otherwise.
> > >
> > > > 4. How do I go about installing nano-x on the
>
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