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From: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
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Apparently, On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:16:43AM +0300,
	Ruslan Ermilov said words to the effect of;

> A similar change would be in order for sparc64.  Patch is
> attached, please review.  The net effect is that we save
> huge CPU times in release.9 and do not create the useless
> boot.flp floppy image (the sparc64/mkisoimages.sh script
> doesn't need it).

boot.flp is actually useful on sparc64 because you can dd it to a disk
from solaris and then boot off it to install.  I'm happy with having
the option of not building it if it saves time but please make it an
option.

Jake

> 
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:53:53PM -0700, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > ru          2003/07/22 22:53:53 PDT
> > 
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     release              Makefile 
> >   Log:
> >   Do not define BIGBOOTSIZE and the friends for amd64; it serves
> >   no useful purpose other than wasting CPU time in "make release"
> >   creating useless boot.flp.
> >   
> >   Desired by:     peter
> >   
> >   Revision  Changes    Path
> >   1.789     +0 -3      src/release/Makefile
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
> ru@sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
> ru@FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer

> Index: Makefile
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/release/Makefile,v
> retrieving revision 1.790
> diff -u -r1.790 Makefile
> --- Makefile	23 Jul 2003 06:00:56 -0000	1.790
> +++ Makefile	23 Jul 2003 06:09:41 -0000
> @@ -202,11 +202,8 @@
>  BIGBOOTLABEL=		minimum2
>  .elif ${TARGET_ARCH} == "sparc64"
>  DISKLABEL=		sunlabel
> -BIGBOOTSIZE=		4096
>  MFSSIZE=		4096
> -BOOTINODE=		8192
>  MFSINODE=		8192
> -BIGBOOTLABEL=		auto
>  MFSLABEL=		auto
>  .elif ${TARGET_ARCH} == "ia64"
>  BIGBOOTLABEL=		efi
> Index: sparc64/dokern.sh
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: sparc64/dokern.sh
> diff -N sparc64/dokern.sh
> --- sparc64/dokern.sh	13 Oct 2002 18:36:06 -0000	1.1
> +++ /dev/null	1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
> @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
> -#!/bin/sh
> -#
> -# $FreeBSD: src/release/sparc64/dokern.sh,v 1.1 2002/10/13 18:36:06 jake Exp $
> -#
> -
> -sed	-e 's/ident.*GENERIC/ident		BOOTMFS/g'