From owner-cvs-all Wed Sep 20 15:24: 2 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net (finch-post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56E9D37B422; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:23:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by finch-post-12.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13bsHT-0007u5-0C; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:23:56 +0000 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA49202; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 23:26:50 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 23:23:56 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Mike Smith Cc: Matt Jacob , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha/common main.c In-Reply-To: <200009180834.BAA00543@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > mjacob 2000/09/18 01:19:05 PDT > > > > Modified files: > > sys/boot/alpha/common main.c > > Log: > > Steal 512KB more from system memory for heap instead of 256KB. We died > > without the extra space. What a pity. > > Is there some way we can do this in boot1? The loader isn't going to get > a lot smaller anytime soon. 8( I experimented with this and it is possible do to it in boot1 without overflowing the 7.5k limit. It didn't fix the loader problem so I didn't pursue it further. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8348 3944 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message