Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 00:43:41 +0000 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: Jedrzej Kalinowski <kalinoj1@iem.pw.edu.pl> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting rid of pxeboot loader requests for .gz an .bz2 files Message-ID: <3a142e750905311743g100eecc8h749d184fc740cf90@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A230199.6090107@iem.pw.edu.pl> References: <4A230199.6090107@iem.pw.edu.pl>
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On 5/31/09, Jedrzej Kalinowski <kalinoj1@iem.pw.edu.pl> wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a FreeBSD CURRENT diskless boot set up. > > In the logs of tftpd-hpa I can see that every and each file from > boot.4th to kernel modules is tried to be fetched in compressed format > (.gz, .bz2) before it is loaded in its pure form by the pxe-enabled loader. > > So the sequence is: file.gz->file.bz2->file. > > I don't have compressed versions of these files in my environment, so I > would like to get rid of these requests. Just to make my boot lighter - > thus faster. > > I'm looking for some hints on how to do it in the sources and I only > found it on lines 88 - 93 of /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/conf.c, namely: > > #ifdef LOADER_GZIP_SUPPORT > &gzipfs_fsops, > #endif > #ifdef LOADER_BZIP2_SUPPORT > &bzipfs_fsops, > #endif > > Is it the correct idea to: > make -C /usr/src/sys/boot -DLOADER_NO_GZIP_SUPPORT > -DLOADER_NO_BZIP2_SUPPORT .... ? > > Or is it the other place I should look for? /etc/make.conf ? -- Paul
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