From owner-cvs-all Tue May 25 11:59:39 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D36215A10; Tue, 25 May 1999 11:59:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00433; Tue, 25 May 1999 11:56:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199905251856.LAA00433@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: Robert Nordier , cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, brian@Awfulhak.org, bde@zeta.org.au Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot table.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 25 May 1999 19:44:42 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 11:56:56 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > On Tue, 25 May 1999, Robert Nordier wrote: > > > Bruce Evans wrote: > > > > > My version passes the typed-in device name to the kernel and the kernel > > > ignores the boot blocks' guess of the major if it can make sense of > > > the name. I might finish this if anyone still uses the old boot blocks. > > > > I'm hoping that we can start dropping the /sys/i386/boot stuff, > > with the probable temporary exception of netboot, within the next > > few weeks, unless there are serious objections to doing so. > > Please don't drop the kzipboot without some functional replacement. I keep asking people for small execute-in-place unpackers. The best I've had suggested so far was lzo, which is GPLed and not really very compact or suitable. There must be at least one ex-demo coder here that has a set of simple but compact decompression routines up their sleeve. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message