From owner-cvs-all Wed Jul 12 11:25:48 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from modemcable127.61-201-24.mtl.mc.videotron.net (modemcable079.102-200-24.mtl.mc.videotron.net [24.200.102.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1863337C1F2 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:25:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@mindstep.com) Received: (qmail 80413 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2000 18:25:31 -0000 Received: from patrak.local.mindstep.com (HELO PATRAK) (192.168.10.4) by jacuzzi.local.mindstep.com with SMTP; 12 Jul 2000 18:25:31 -0000 Message-ID: <010d01bfec2e$93001490$040aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> From: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" To: "John Baldwin" Cc: References: <200007121811.LAA81651@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot0 Makefile boot0.s Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:25:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > Modified files: > sys/boot/i386/boot0 Makefile boot0.s > Log: > The new and improved boot0, v1.1. This version adds the following: > - Autodetection and support of the BIOS EDD extensions to work around the > 1024 cylinder limit on all but really ancient BIOS's. > - To work around some BIOS's which break when EDD is used with older drives, > we only attempt to use EDD if the cylinder is > 1023. > - Since this new code required more space than we had left, expand boot0 to > 2 sectors (1024 bytes) in length. > - Add support for boot0 being multiple sectors using predefined constants. > If boot0 needs to be extended in the future, all that is required is > bumping the NUM_SECTORS constant. > - Now that we have more room to work with, add a few more fs type > descriptions while making others more verbose. Any chance that this could be MFC'd ? If not are there any good reason to not use the new boot0 stuff with FreeBSD 4-Stable (apart from taking care of not rebuilding boot0cfg, libdisk and boot0 with subsequent buildworlds) ? Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message