From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 28 16:09:02 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23E651065685 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:09:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EE7F8FC24 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:09:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (unknown [208.65.91.234]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B720D1A4D80; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:09:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.corp.yahoo.com (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m3SG8i7p088695; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:08:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: David Naylor Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:08:40 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200804252320.39121.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> <200804260822.47763.jhb@freebsd.org> <200804261840.52978.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200804261840.52978.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804281208.40413.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:08:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/6979/Mon Apr 28 10:01:56 2008 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot failed with gzip'ed modules X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:09:02 -0000 On Saturday 26 April 2008 12:40:48 pm David Naylor wrote: > Is there any plan to add bzip2 to loader (i.e. bzip2 modules and kernel) or to > geom_uzip? If not is there a good reason why it is avoided or just a case of > lacking developer interest (or time)? > > Thank you for the quick reply bzip2 is already present, though I'm not sure it is enabled by default. The bzip2 support was one of the reasons for the aforementioned change to make malloc() in the loader use memory above 1 MB because bzip2 needs a lot more memory than gzip to decompress. -- John Baldwin