Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 00:02:33 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Subject: Re: biosboot code size Message-ID: <199503211402.AAA17342@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I changed the biosboot sources to emulate simple ls and more/cat >(read help files, list /dev etc.) at boot prompt. It works fine for >FreeBSD-2.0. >Unfortunately, in FreeBSD-current grow the code and boot hangs. >I delete the usage printf to reduce the code. Is there any other way >to avoid this strange size limit? It needs to be split into a small stage and a large stage. The Makefile should check that its text+data size is <= 7680 bytes. Bruce
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