Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 09:40:18 +0100 From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha Makefile.inc src/sys/boot/ficl Makefile Message-ID: <200408220940.18504.dfr@nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <200408220624.i7M6OxAK010053@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200408220624.i7M6OxAK010053@repoman.freebsd.org>
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On Sunday 22 August 2004 07:24, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > marcel 2004-08-22 06:24:59 UTC > > FreeBSD src repository > > Modified files: > sys/boot/alpha Makefile.inc > sys/boot/ficl Makefile > Log: > Part 2 of fixing the boot code: gcc 3.4 fixes. > > The whole problem seems to be size. Which is odd, because it is > said that size doesn't matter. Anyway... Add -Os to strategic places > in the makefile to have the final loader be as mall as possible. This > seems to be enough to make it work. For now... I think something is > more fundamentally wrong; or something more fundamental is wrong. > Potato, potaato. Size does matter for the alpha loader. The firmware gives it 256k of address space which we overflowed many years ago. I extended it in sys/boot/alpha/common/main.c:extend_heap() by adding 512k to the loader's mapped address space. It might be necessary to extend it a bit further.
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