Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 09:15:30 +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: <20030425061530.GC32731@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <3EA8448E.5010607@tcoip.com.br> References: <20030424171439.GA56367@sunbay.com> <3EA821A7.5000504@tcoip.com.br> <20030424175657.GB59206@sunbay.com> <3EA8448E.5010607@tcoip.com.br>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 05:09:50PM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > 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. > *Sigh* And I'm working on exactly this; on trimming loader(8) as much as possible. Currently, it's a pretty normal loader(8) built during the "buildworld" phase, and it's only different because it's kgzip(8)'ed. 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+qNKCUkv4P6juNwoRApCkAJ9gTefVyFtKEniYpccVx/3HtOtE5wCff/BV dNpgPhzCjnctA59xyEDwxe0= =AK68 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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