From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 2 21:36:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39F0837B409 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2003 21:36:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail7.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1997F43FDF for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2003 21:36:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 7667 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2003 04:36:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender )encrypted SMTP for ; 3 Aug 2003 04:36:06 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h734a49s011011; Sun, 3 Aug 2003 00:36:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3F2C704A.6000004@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 00:36:25 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Scott Long cc: Ruslan Ermilov cc: Peter Wemm cc: Jake Burkholder cc: re@freebsd.org cc: alpha@freebsd.org cc: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: miniboot.iso X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 04:36:12 -0000 On 03-Aug-2003 Scott Long wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:42:49PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >> >>>OK, the attached (trivial) patch can be used to create the >>>miniboot.iso. Its contents is identical to what goes on the >>>miniinst.iso, except for NOT putting any distributions, docs, >>>and ports. >>> >>>The uncompressed size for i386 is 46M, bzip2(1) compressed size >>>is 16M, which I think many people can afford. (The size of the >> >> >> What in the world is on this thing to be 46MB?!?!?!? All 3 .flp's added >> together aren't this large. >> >> >> >>>Jake, a question for you: can this miniboot.iso image be used on >>>sparc64 like on Alpha (as Wilko demonstrated) instead of the ugly >>>boot.flp image? >> >> >> Why is making boot.flp "ugly"?? >> >> > > It looks like the kernel and kmods are being built with '-g'. When I > 'strip -x' /boot/kernel, it shinks from 47MB to 21MB. Taking out > kernel.debug drops another 5MB. Can anyone say why we build the release > bits with '-g'? I'd sure like to save that extra space on the mini-iso, > and have that extra space for packages on the full ISO. We only do this for CURRENT snapshots, not for releases. For releases we comment out the 'makeoptions DEBUG=-g' line in GENERIC and then all the debug stuff automatically goes away. However, for CURRENT snaps, if the kernel panics on boot, you already have a matching kernel.debug to debug with. We discussed this many moons ago. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/