Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 16:44:32 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. Message-ID: <199510021544.QAA23794@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199510021449.KAA14101@spooky.rwwa.com> from "Robert Withrow" at Oct 2, 95 10:49:11 am
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> I have a suggestion that you (i.e. hackers) probably won't like, > but why not uncompress the kernel *from* the boot media. The > way this would work would be kinda like how VMS boots. There > would be a tertiary bootstrap whose job it would be to read > and uncompress the kernel into the proper place in memory and > start it running. > Nice idea. The only objection, the savings are a fraction of the size of a compressed kernel (you need room for the decompression code, plus a buffer for data being decompressed). If you kernel is in the 4..8MB range then it really makes sense... :) Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================
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