Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 23:44:28 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, julian@whistle.com Cc: cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org, julian@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot Makefile boot.c boot2.S Message-ID: <199609051344.XAA25473@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> Wrong. The limit is the size of a track on the boot media. It's 18 >> sectors for 1440K floppies, 15 sectors for 1200K floppies, and 9 sectors >Ok, so who broke this? I'm quite sure that >when I wrote it I set it up so that it would read an 8K chunk of data >regardless of the tracksize! It never even determined the track size early enough to read more than one track. >hmm ok I can make the code smaller, but the filesize doesn't shrink.... >wierd.. I'll check this in and continue to try to figure out >what's up.. The size of the text and data segment in object files is rounded up to a multiple of 16. This would waste an average of 8+8 bytes for each of the 11 objects file, except the data segments are laid out carefully to minimize wastage. Bruce
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