From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 5 7:54:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail11.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 950E837B416 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 07:52:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 25636 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2002 15:52:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([65.91.137.49]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 5 Mar 2002 15:52:13 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g25Fq0G57090; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:52:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3C84974D.37F683BD@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 10:51:48 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Maxim Sobolev Subject: RE: Extending loader(8) for loading kerels/modules split across Cc: re@FreeBSD.org, audit@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Mar-02 Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Hi folks, > > Please review attached patch, which adds long overdue feature to our > loader(8), allowing it to load sequence of files as a single object. > This should allow us to lift 1.44M limit on compressed kernel for the > installation diskette. Please note, that to use this feature to load > gzip-compressed objects you need to split the object first and then > compress each piece individually, not compress first and then split > already compressed file. Therefore tight fitting of each piece to the > 1.44M limit could be a little tricky, but not impossible. Other way > around is to use kgzip(8) utility to compress kernel and then split it > into pieces 1.44M each. > > If there are no objections I would like to commit it ASAP, so that our > RE team is able to use this feature in the forthcoming 5.0-DP1 > release. > > Any feedback is appreciated. Looks good to me I guess. :) Do you have an example loader.conf that can be used on the floppies to demonstrate it? > -Maxim -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message