Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 01:00:47 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Motomichi Matsuzaki <mzaki@e-mail.ne.jp> Cc: dcs@newsguy.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/5038: FreeBSD can't read MS Joliet CDs. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990418005854.11384B-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <19990418135558W.mzaki@e-mail.ne.jp>
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On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Motomichi Matsuzaki wrote: > > From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> > > > > I'm concerned about the possible size of GENERIC with this code. > > Remember, it has to fit in the install floppy. (Well, not really, > > with loader, but I'm not the one who is getting killed because of a > > three-disks install.) > > The UNICODE routines consist of these files. > > charset/charset.c mandatory > iso8859-1.c recommended > euc-jp.c optional <-- BIG! the object file has 53k bytes > > encoding/encoding.c mandatory > euc.c optional > > The 'mandatory + recommended' object size is no more than 5 kbytes. > The GENERIC kernel does not require necessarily > the euc-jp support or any other charsets. > I think the iso8859-1 support alone is sufficient for GENERIC. > > The custom kernels can have the euc-jp support through > the CHARSET_EUC_JP and ENCODING_EUC kernel configure option. > (They are currently defined at the top of the source files.) couldn't this be done as a KLD? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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