[pups] Overlays?

Steven M. Schultz sms at moe.2bsd.com
Tue Aug 1 01:58:00 AEST 2000


HI!

> From: Jorgen Pehrson <jp at spektr.eu.org>
> I've just installed 2.11BSD on one of my PDPs, from a TK50 tape I just
> re-discovered in the trunk of my car. And now I'm in the process of

	Wow - those TK50s are quite robust to survive being stored in the
	truck of a car.  I've had audio tapes that did not survive ;)

> applying patches. When I installed patch 412 and started to rebuild the
> kernel, ld complains with a "ld: too big for type 431". 
> Does this means that I have to rearrange stuff between the BASE and the
> various OV entries?

	Indeed it does mean exactly that.

> How can I find out which overlay is too big? I've tried to do a:
> 138% root--> size unix.o

	Yep - that is the correct method.

> text    data    bss     dec     hex
> 52352   6928    37622   96902   17a86   total text: 115520
>         overlays: 7680,7232,7808,7744,4864,8576,4736,6848,7680
> 
> How big is too big? And also if none of the overlays above are too big, I
> guess it must be the BASE that is too big? 

	I thought I wrote this up at one time but I may have only thought
	about it ;)

> Is there some sort of documentation anywhere that describe this voodoo
> stuff and black magic a bit? 

	Is it in one an Appendix to the "Setup&Installation" document?   

	In the case above it is OV6 (overlays are numbered from 1) that is
	too big.

	The rules are:

		1) BASE can be 56kb (57344) max

		2) OVerlays can be 8kb (8192) max

		3) There can be no 0 length overlays (except for the very
		    last one).

> Any suggestions on what .o file I should move to what overlay?

	Look at the Makefile - you should see a line that starts "OV6=".  Do
	a "size" on the .o files listed for OV6.   Pick one that will fix
	elsewhere - I'd suggest OV5 since it is only 4864 bytes and has lots
	of room.  You could also move a .o file to the BASE since it has
	adequate room also.

	Steven Schultz
	sms at moe.2bsd.com

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