Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:42:05 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha Makefile.inc src/sys/boot/ficl Makefile Message-ID: <20040824204205.GA83854@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200408241002.39948.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <200408220624.i7M6OxAK010053@repoman.freebsd.org> <200408220940.18504.dfr@nlsystems.com> <200408241002.39948.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:02:39AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote.. > On Sunday 22 August 2004 04:40 am, Doug Rabson wrote: > > 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. > > That would just require bumping the XTRA_PAGES constant up, yes? Maybe we > could bump it to 96 to add 768k for a total of 1m? The i386 loader has to > fit into ~600kb including stack and heap, so hopefully 1m would be enough > room for Alpha. :) Well, it works now (the loader) so I would like to see this defered to post-5.3. Or experiment in -current to your hearts desire of course ;) -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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