Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:16:48 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha Makefile.inc src/sys/boot/ficl Makefile Message-ID: <20040822191648.GA70654@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200408220940.18504.dfr@nlsystems.com> References: <200408220624.i7M6OxAK010053@repoman.freebsd.org> <200408220940.18504.dfr@nlsystems.com>
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On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 09:40:18AM +0100, 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. High fives to Marcel I would say! When will this go into RELENG_5? I'm having a lot of fun with 5.3-<foo> builds failing so I would really love to see the mod go into RELENG_5 so that if/when a build finally succeeds it has the fixed loader included. Wilko -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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