From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Sep 18 8:27:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7B6E37B422 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 08:27:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newsguy.com (p03-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.132]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id AAA02711; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 00:27:21 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <39C63428.49F39F5D@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 00:26:32 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Peter Wemm , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loader badly broken on the alpha References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matthew Jacob wrote: > > Whoa! Take it easy... > > Fine insofar as it goes, and, err, umm, I wasn't asking you to pull the 3KB > out of the FICL code. I was trying to squeeze it elsewhere coz I *like* the > FICL code. > > There are some fun && games for alpha boot space and how FreeBSD uses it which > makes this dance somewhat interesting. > > But see later mail- we've solved the problem for now. A bit more cleverness > will extend things even further. I doubt that we'll need to require any > scrunch from FICL, which, as you correctly are hinting it, is the queen bee of > the boot code which everything else should bust butt to serve. I wasn't suggesting taking anything out. Just that there is this huge string of source code that is linked, which could be compressed before linked, and then uncompressed before use with the gunzip code we already have. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.secret.bsdconspiracy.net "I demand that my picture show a handsome face, even if it doesn't look like me." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message