Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 21:36:05 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Ngie Cooper <ngie@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r316132 - head/sys/boot/i386/boot2 Message-ID: <46812.1490823365@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <7448826.asYms2TLO2@ralph.baldwin.cx> References: <201703290930.v2T9U3x9087583@repo.freebsd.org> <7448826.asYms2TLO2@ralph.baldwin.cx>
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-------- In message <7448826.asYms2TLO2@ralph.baldwin.cx>, John Baldwin writes: >On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 09:30:03 AM Ngie Cooper wrote: >> Log: >> Parameterize out 7680 (15 * 512) as BOOT2SIZE, similar to sys/boot/i3= 86/zfsboot/... >> = >> This is being done to make it easier to change in the future--this ac= tion might be >> needed sooner rather than later because of gcc 6.3.0 bailing, stating= that there >> is negative free space left (deficit) in the boot2 bootloader. >> = >> MFC after: 2 months >> Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon > >This can't be changed. It's baked into the BSD disklabel format. No it is not, it is baked into FFS, and for UFS2 0, 8, 64 and 256K works. -- = Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe = Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence= .
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