From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 9 12:13:27 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07850 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 12:13:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles156.castles.com [208.214.165.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07840 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 12:13:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00770; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 12:09:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901092009.MAA00770@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: Mike Smith , Robert Nordier , jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't boot from CD and floppy after make release In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 09 Jan 1999 14:22:06 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 12:09:00 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > It's actually not that bad; there's 12k of overhead for the kzip parts, > > which is why I was wondering if you had something more compact... > > > Kzip is certainly a feasible interim solution, but it relies on the > > a.out tool chain which makes it a weak link. > > Not only that - when you kzip the bootloader, you end up having the same > gunzip routines twice: one in the kzip stubs, and the second in the > loader. The word "superfluous" comes to mind... Actually, the routines are somewhat different, and the kzip inflater could be trimmed a little, but the kzip stub isn't going to come under 10k in a hurry. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message