From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 15 16:43:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FC5D1065696 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:43:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 012668FC08 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:43:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A898646B0C; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:43:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C41348A01B; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:43:05 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:00:20 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (FreeBSD/7.2-CBSD-20091103; KDE/4.3.1; amd64; ; ) References: <200912151124.58478.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200912151124.58478.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200912150900.20229.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:43:06 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: David Naylor Subject: Re: [regression] loader stalls on compressed module X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:43:07 -0000 On Tuesday 15 December 2009 4:24:54 am David Naylor wrote: > Hi, > > It appears that recently (~6 months) loader can no longer load compressed > kernel objects (gzipped) . This regression is present on both FreeBSD-8 and - > Current. > > This can be reproduced by doing: > # cd /boot/kernel ; gzip -9 unionfs.ko > (Choose option 6 from loader and enter: load unionfs) > > I have experienced this on both i386 and amd64. It appears that loader can > handle a compressed generic kernel (and maybe other modules). Does a loader from TOT still exhibit this? If you build the loader w/o GPT support (LOADER_NO_GPT or some such, it's in sys/boot/i386/loader/Makefile) does that fix it? -- John Baldwin