Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:46:01 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BIOS back to Text Only by default Message-ID: <c8ecddd1-5d4b-4ae2-8f0b-40524bb66215@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfpi=Tg7YiY1Zo39D0qfJB093ttx7-=5sLTaUx4oyj8Jzw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfpi=Tg7YiY1Zo39D0qfJB093ttx7-=5sLTaUx4oyj8Jzw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/19/24 15:36, Warner Losh wrote: > Greetings, > > A while ago, I removed GZIP and BZIP2 support from the boot loader by > default to get it to fit into the space available for BIOS booting with the > lua interpreter for PXE booting. > > This made it into the 13.4 Release. Some downstream distributions started > needing to build their own loader for this release. Their MFS setup relied > on either gzip or bzip2 files working and my changes broke that. > > After talking with people at places like EuroBSDcon, irc and Discord, I > think I'll take Mark Johnson's idea of moving back to a Text-only boot > loader for BIOS by default, and putting these two options back into the > loader. When we do this, the loader shrinks 20k net (-40k for graphical > loader, +20k for decompression). > > My thoughts are that you can boot either with the graphical or text-only > loader. There's no real functional difference, apart from aesthetics. While > they are nice to have, when space is tight, we should bias towards keeping > functional things over keeping things that are just pretty when we need to > make a choice. > > EFI booting remains unchanged. > > I'd like to get this in over the next week or so. I'm soliciting comments > on this idea. I've created https://reviews.freebsd.org/D47203 for this > change. I've not regenerated the options docs yet, but I'll do that as well. > > Comments? I think this is the right tradeoff. -- John Baldwin
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