Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 19:27:18 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/alpha dokern.sh drivers.conf Message-ID: <20030521162718.GB73115@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <3ECB62C5.2070301@tcoip.com.br> References: <20030518005055.GG12759@sunbay.com> <200305192149.h4JLnUrt075384@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <3EC95463.50705@btc.adaptec.com> <20030519.174801.00483404.imp@bsdimp.com> <200305192355.h4JNtx4e076037@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <3EC986C6.5050800@btc.adaptec.com> <3ECA2A4D.2000204@tcoip.com.br> <20030520141601.GA827@sunbay.com> <3ECB62C5.2070301@tcoip.com.br>
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--0ntfKIWw70PvrIHh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 08:28:05AM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > >>Alas, the floppy disk loader doesn't come with ficl at all. :-) > > > >Daniel, would you please stop spreading this non-true fact now? >=20 > [checking facts] >=20 > Ooops, I did a Terry. :-) >=20 > Well, it used to be true. >=20 Hm, can you please tell me when it was the case, and how this was done? I can't find it anywhere in the CVS history of src/release/. > And I can't say I'm happy to discover I'm=20 > wrong, since my plans call for an increase of 40Kb on i386 for the=20 > loader on i386 (rather more on 64 bits archs). I counted on not being=20 > encumbered by floppy's loader. >=20 FWIW, recompiling loader without FICL, saved me 100K on the kern.flp for Alpha! The patch that does this isn't ready for committing yet, but I will make sure to polish it to the required shape. > >The boot floppies DO come with FICL support in loader(8), and it > >is how we load the kernel hints file during the initial boot. >=20 > It is not. Here is loader.rc: >=20 > include /boot/device.hints > load /kernel > echo \007\007 > echo Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter: > read > load -t mfs_root /mfsroot > set hint.acpi.0.disabled=3D1 > set driver_floppy=3DYES > set module_path=3D"/modules;/dist" > echo \007\007 > autoboot 10 >=20 > The commands are "include", "load", "echo", "read", "set" and=20 > "autoboot". They are all builtin commands, not ficl ones. The hints file= =20 > itself contains only the "set" command, which is a builtin command. >=20 I stand corrected. > So, regardless of whether FICL is present or not, it is, at the present,= =20 > not required. >=20 Indeed. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --0ntfKIWw70PvrIHh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+y6jlUkv4P6juNwoRApZlAJ0dFHqEKbLFV9hJ8yH6zXiPXoWcEgCeOTUH hZTR/3PkY188mevXcGhzrbg= =yBWE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0ntfKIWw70PvrIHh--
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