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Date:      Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:47:36 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 boot2.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.020110124736.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020110182428.E27279@cicely8.cicely.de>

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[ cc'ing Ian so he can see this ]

On 10-Jan-02 Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:58:17PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>> Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>> 
>> > A similar change is required on the alpha. Could someone check that
>> > the following patch fixes the problem with 16k/2k filesystems on
>> > the alpha?
>> 
>> > -#define BUFSIZE 8192
>> > +#define BUFSIZE 16384
>> 
>> This doesn't work for me.  The bootstrap dies like before.
>> (-CURRENT)
> 
> Can the gcc handle >64k globals on alpha?
> There are at least 4 static char arrays allocated with that size.

Seems to work ok for userland.  Just made a simple program that makes 5 16k
buffers as globals and touches all of their contents and it worked FWIW. *shrug*

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