Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 15:41:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Latest on ' HEADS UP: loader broken' Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105271536350.22458-100000@zeppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <15121.11456.143667.486928@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Your surmise about loader.4th is correct, I believe. The alpha's boot1/loader from after your commits seems to boot my PC164 just fine with the older loader.4th, but chokes on the new one. The relevant diffs in loader.4th are: -------- 49a50,52 > > 256 dictthreshold ! \ 256 cells minimum free space > 2048 dictincrease ! \ 2048 additional cells each time -------- Can you say what additional memory load for this, and in whay area, this should be? If it's stack, then we're probably screwed at the moment. If it's heap storage, that's probably fairly easy to fix (although I'm kind of *appalled* that we'd be using > 512KB of heap for the loader). -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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