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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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