Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:37:17 -0700 From: Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BIOS back to Text Only by default Message-ID: <CAK7dMtCb4SiBHaGE5OZhf%2B%2BqRSyy5Spp2iSxT84b6MwJeVu-2g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfpi=Tg7YiY1Zo39D0qfJB093ttx7-=5sLTaUx4oyj8Jzw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfpi=Tg7YiY1Zo39D0qfJB093ttx7-=5sLTaUx4oyj8Jzw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 12:36=E2=80=AFPM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote= : > > Greetings, > > A while ago, I removed GZIP and BZIP2 support from the boot loader by def= ault to get it to fit into the space available for BIOS booting with the lu= a interpreter for PXE booting. > > This made it into the 13.4 Release. Some downstream distributions started= needing to build their own loader for this release. Their MFS setup relied= on either gzip or bzip2 files working and my changes broke that. > > After talking with people at places like EuroBSDcon, irc and Discord, I t= hink I'll take Mark Johnson's idea of moving back to a Text-only boot loade= r for BIOS by default, and putting these two options back into the loader. = When we do this, the loader shrinks 20k net (-40k for graphical loader, +2= 0k for decompression). > > My thoughts are that you can boot either with the graphical or text-only = loader. There's no real functional difference, apart from aesthetics. While= they are nice to have, when space is tight, we should bias towards keeping= functional things over keeping things that are just pretty when we need to= make a choice. > > EFI booting remains unchanged. > > I'd like to get this in over the next week or so. I'm soliciting comments= on this idea. I've created https://reviews.freebsd.org/D47203 for this cha= nge. I've not regenerated the options docs yet, but I'll do that as well. > > Comments? I feel like that is a fair tradeoff to keep BIOS boot alive with other space constraints. As an anecdote I do have some still useful (to me) Westmere Xeon servers that are not UEFI capable and make use of gptzfsboot and would like to run them through 15.x. > Warner
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