Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:56:57 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386/loader compiled with NOFORTH Message-ID: <20030424175657.GB59206@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <3EA821A7.5000504@tcoip.com.br> References: <20030424171439.GA56367@sunbay.com> <3EA821A7.5000504@tcoip.com.br>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:40:55PM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > >On 5.x, loader(8) compiled with -DNOFORTH, results in > >a system without a console. This does not affect the > >RELENG_4. > > > >Can someone who knows this code please look into it? > > Curious, since boot disks are compiled without Forth. > You sure they are? I somehow fail to see the code that rebuilds sys/boot during "make release" with -DNOFORTH. > Maybe it's lack of acpi? > No, acpi(4) was loaded. I experimented with bzip(2) support in loader(8), and for this I needed the stripped loader, because memory allocation really sucks in i386 loader(8). Am I right it's limited to real mode's 1M? Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+qCVpUkv4P6juNwoRAh/mAJ9ARMU3GtEKt5Erk+EtOLANf8Ys3QCeKE5w Hu408/9Lpt1dlgHQ2eMLGR0= =l2V2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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