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Date:      Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:57:09 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>, Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release write_mfs_in_kernel.c src/release/pi
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020326145709.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020326114835.A12472@iguana.icir.org>

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On 26-Mar-2002 Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 07:35:35PM +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> ...
>> I'm not even sure whether Picobsd uses any more.  Luigi was looking for
>> a way to do without it altogether.
> 
> still does. It might be probably replaced by some Perl magic,
> but what I would really like is some way to avoid having to
> embed the MD_SIZE into the kernel config.
> Not much of a point though nowadays that compiling a new kernel takes
> so short...

Talk to Peter.  You should be able to link in the MFS root as a special ELF
section or something weird like that meaning you wouldn't need a Perl hack or
MD_SIZE.

>       cheers
>       luigi

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