Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:09:50 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386/loader compiled with NOFORTH Message-ID: <3EA8448E.5010607@tcoip.com.br> In-Reply-To: <20030424175657.GB59206@sunbay.com> References: <20030424171439.GA56367@sunbay.com> <3EA821A7.5000504@tcoip.com.br> <20030424175657.GB59206@sunbay.com>
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Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> 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.
Yes. FICL is unnecessary for the simple task of booting the installation
kernel and takes quite a bit of space.
Notes that this is _only_ for the _install_ floppy, and it is custom
built for it.
>
>
>>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?
I'm not sure what the exact memory constrains are, particularly since
they changed somewhat when such issues were of interest to me. jhb can
answer this, I think.
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