Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 14:22:06 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't boot from CD and floppy after make release Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901091419420.18584-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199901082341.PAA00974@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > It'd definitely be useful for the PicoBSD people, and anyone else that > > > didn't need the loader's functionality. I'd also be interested in > > > knowing if you have any compression/decompression tools suitable for > > > use with BTX eg. to compress the application data/expand it when BTX > > > relocates. > > > > I quite like Jordan's suggestion of kzip'ing the loader. The > > compression is not especially efficient: > > > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 rnordier wheel 122880 Jan 3 23:55 loader > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 rnordier wheel 70760 Jan 8 23:05 loader.kz > > > > but boot1/boot2 don't have a problem with loader.kz. > > It's actually not that bad; there's 12k of overhead for the kzip parts, > which is why I was wondering if you had something more compact... > Kzip is certainly a feasible interim solution, but it relies on the > a.out tool chain which makes it a weak link. Not only that - when you kzip the bootloader, you end up having the same gunzip routines twice: one in the kzip stubs, and the second in the loader. The word "superfluous" comes to mind... Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- <abial@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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