Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 15:21:56 -0800 From: Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org> To: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Devin Teske <dteske@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone use kgzip / kgzldr? Message-ID: <62C54FBA-CA69-497C-9DF5-052FD39D0EF0@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2DcfhSRe9w2JBfgG4HwsUe=XCUd-DNCY0Uzp2EDPF7KVw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPyFy2APXvn9DAtqmWm0pNqhVf00B0wSa0stWCP=PDSyUt=TGA@mail.gmail.com> <CAPyFy2DcfhSRe9w2JBfgG4HwsUe=XCUd-DNCY0Uzp2EDPF7KVw@mail.gmail.com>
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> On Nov 23, 2015, at 6:35 PM, Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >=20 > Hiya, I wanted to forward this to you in case you're not reading = -current at the moment so you don't miss it. A PR of yours from 2013 is = the only recent evidence I found of someone using kgzldr :-) >=20 Not on -current -- didn't get the original (thanks for the forward). >=20 > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org <mailto:emaste@freebsd.org>> > Date: 23 November 2015 at 20:25 > Subject: Does anyone use kgzip / kgzldr? > To: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org = <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org>> >=20 >=20 > I disconnected kgzldr from the build in r291113 because I thought > kgzip was already disconnected. As it happens kgzip was disconnected > only from the release builds, in r281658. >=20 nods. > kgzip / kgzldr only works on i386, and for quite some time the > recommended way to use a compressed kernel has been via loader(8). Is > there a compelling use case for kgzldr and loader(8)-less i386 boot? Custom media used by some enterprises. It certainly is not the norm, = I'll say, but it does work. Being "i386 only" isn't of much concern for, say, my = previous employer whereat I had modified the installer (sysinstall) to = more-aggressively sandbox itself, allowing it to do things like boot/execute i386 but lay = down an amd64 release (so long as a little bit of CPUID x86 ASM yielded a = positive hit on CPU LongMode). > I'll reconnect kgzldr (on i386 only) if it's useful, or otherwise > continue with the removal. >=20 I'd like to see it reconnected. I think that's what we had discussed last. --=20 Cheers, Devin
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