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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 2017 18:04:03 -0700
From:      Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>,  src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r316132 - head/sys/boot/i386/boot2
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote:

...

> One thing is - for now we know the boot2 has not changed and we do not really expect it to change in large scale anyhow.
>
> Second thing, yes the build process needs to be tested etc, and if needed we can issue statement which compiler we support or not.
>
> And finally - if the space limit is really-really on the way and no other way, then the alternate is to use freebsd-boot partition - nothing new about it.

Great! I didn't figure that it could be changed (given recent
discussions). I'll add a nice comment and open a CR/get it right so
it's clear why it's 7680. I (for instance) didn't understand exactly
why the limit was that way. It helps to document these things for
interested parties :).
-Ngie



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