From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 21 09:36:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4801937B401; Wed, 21 May 2003 09:36:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic-mail.adaptec.com [208.236.45.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 692FA43F85; Wed, 21 May 2003 09:36:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott_long@btc.adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h4LGWQZ30782; Wed, 21 May 2003 09:32:26 -0700 Received: from btc.adaptec.com (hollin.btc.adaptec.com [10.100.253.56]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8p2+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA18294; Wed, 21 May 2003 09:36:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3ECBAB08.9060800@btc.adaptec.com> Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 10:36:24 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030425 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ruslan Ermilov References: <20030521162718.GB73115@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20030521162718.GB73115@sunbay.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" cc: "Long, Scott" cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/alpha dokern.sh drivers.conf X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 16:36:44 -0000 Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > 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? >> >>[checking facts] >> >>Ooops, I did a Terry. :-) >> >>Well, it used to be true. >> > > 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 >>wrong, since my plans call for an increase of 40Kb on i386 for the >>loader on i386 (rather more on 64 bits archs). I counted on not being >>encumbered by floppy's loader. >> > > 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. > I have plans for FICL and boot media. I'd rather not reduce the functionality of the loader, and instead do easy things like compress the .ko files like has been suggested before. Scott