From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 07:09:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED11016A4E6; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:09:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from itchy.rabson.org (mailgate.nlsystems.com [80.177.232.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0290C43D54; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:09:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from ns0.nlsystems.com (ns0.nlsystems.com [80.177.232.243]) by itchy.rabson.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7P79XxP069712; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:09:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) From: Doug Rabson To: John Baldwin Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:09:51 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200408220624.i7M6OxAK010053@repoman.freebsd.org> <200408220940.18504.dfr@nlsystems.com> <200408241002.39948.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200408241002.39948.jhb@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408250809.51769.dfr@nlsystems.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on itchy.rabson.org X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.75.1, clamav-milter version 0.75c on itchy.rabson.org X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: Marcel Moolenaar cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha Makefile.inc src/sys/boot/ficl Makefile X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:09:41 -0000 On Tuesday 24 August 2004 15:02, 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. :) I think it should be harmless to increase XTRA_PAGES although I'm not exactly certain that this was the real cause of the recent loader changes (it just seemed plausible). I also can't quite remember whether we manage to reclaim the loader's memory and give it back to the VM system after boot.