Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:55:10 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: sparc64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Floppyless release build of sparc64 Message-ID: <20030724185510.GB85582@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030723160730.GA17720@sunbay.com> References: <200307230553.h6N5rrpN058773@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030723061643.GC45101@sunbay.com> <20030723155758.GA372@locore.ca> <20030723160730.GA17720@sunbay.com>
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 07:07:30PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:57:58AM -0400, Jake Burkholder wrote: > > Apparently, On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:16:43AM +0300, > > Ruslan Ermilov said words to the effect of; > > > > > A similar change would be in order for sparc64. Patch is > > > attached, please review. The net effect is that we save > > > huge CPU times in release.9 and do not create the useless > > > boot.flp floppy image (the sparc64/mkisoimages.sh script > > > doesn't need it). > > > > boot.flp is actually useful on sparc64 because you can dd it to a disk > > from solaris and then boot off it to install. I'm happy with having > > the option of not building it if it saves time but please make it an > > option. > > OK, then things will be left as is. There's already an option for > this; it's called NO_FLOPPIES (documented in the release(7) manpage). BUT the size of the "floppy" should be something like 10MB so that we know we will *never* overflow it during "make release". -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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