From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 17 10:19:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2929937B41A for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:19:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBHIPW301205; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:25:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200112171825.fBHIPW301205@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Ian Dowse Cc: Makoto Matsushita , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Waaaarg, we just blew out the kernel again.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:13:36 GMT." <200112171413.aa87921@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:25:32 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I tried Matt's suggestion of moving some NFS macros into functions, > and it looks we can get 10k or so off the compressed kernel that > way by changing just 4 macros. I can test and commit that later if > using bzip2 isn't practical. Using bzip2 will mean finding a *compact* decompression library. The loader currently uses a cut-down version (decompression only) of libz. If there's an equivalent for bzip2, then we can do that too. A better idea, however, will be to start splitting more stuff out into modules. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message