On 05-Mar-02 Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Hi folks, > > Please review attached patch, which adds long overdue feature to our > loader(8), allowing it to load sequence of files as a single object. > This should allow us to lift 1.44M limit on compressed kernel for the > installation diskette. Please note, that to use this feature to load > gzip-compressed objects you need to split the object first and then > compress each piece individually, not compress first and then split > already compressed file. Therefore tight fitting of each piece to the > 1.44M limit could be a little tricky, but not impossible. Other way > around is to use kgzip(8) utility to compress kernel and then split it > into pieces 1.44M each. > > If there are no objections I would like to commit it ASAP, so that our > RE team is able to use this feature in the forthcoming 5.0-DP1 > release. > > Any feedback is appreciated.
Looks good to me I guess. :) Do you have an example loader.conf that can be used on the floppies to demonstrate it? > -Maxim -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
