From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 24 13:50:22 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0197B37B401; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:50:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E844243F85; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:50:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@sunbay.com) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (ru@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h6OKoA0U091255 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 23:50:10 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru@sunbay.com) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.12.9/8.12.8/Submit) id h6OKoAHt091254; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 23:50:10 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 23:50:10 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: "David O'Brien" , Jake Burkholder , current@FreeBSD.org, sparc64@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20030724205010.GB90484@sunbay.com> References: <200307230553.h6N5rrpN058773@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030723061643.GC45101@sunbay.com> <20030723155758.GA372@locore.ca> <20030723160730.GA17720@sunbay.com> <20030724185510.GB85582@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030724185510.GB85582@dragon.nuxi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: Floppyless release build of sparc64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:50:22 -0000 --yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:55:10AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > 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; > > >=20 > > > > 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). > > >=20 > > > 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. > >=20 > > 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). >=20 > BUT the size of the "floppy" should be something like 10MB so that we > know we will *never* overflow it during "make release". >=20 Should the need arise for that, it's a two-line change to release/Makefile, by just bumping MFSSIZE and BIGBOOTSIZE for sparc64. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/IEaCUkv4P6juNwoRAo6WAJ9OR1UTsXqWkDEMiFarIQX6AdLw2QCcCRNv LvIke/dC0BbZ3w4sdYlKe20= =RLsB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX--