From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 2 12:21:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28634 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 12:21:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA28612 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 12:21:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA23550; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 21:19:13 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 21:19:12 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Mike Smith , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New boot loader and alternate kernels In-Reply-To: <25007.910036464@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > >For on-disk usage, the key issue to me is avoiding anti-bloatist > >complaint (which have their fair justification). I'd like to think we > >can stabilise at an object under the 100k mark, although there are of > >course no real hard limits yet. > > Sigh, If Satoshi hadn't yanked tcl out, we could have used that... You must mean tcl4 or even earlier, then... Newer versions of tcl are somewhere around 300kB. Besides, you talk about 100k mark as of tcl object limit, whereas Mike was talking probably about the whole bootloader size, right? Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message