On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 05:50:42PM +0100, Franco Fichtner wrote: > Hi, > > With regard to a commit[1] by Theo in 2013, several questions > in the years before and a partial lift of the limitation on > i386 a while back (2015?) I'd like to ask what the future plans > are for OpenBSD. > > Peeking at NetBSD, where the amd64 was bootstrapped, they are at > 48 MB kernel size at the moment. > > Will a future OpenBSD release increase it? > > What can we do to help? > > > Cheers, > Franco > > -- > [1] https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/453010f2034 >
That commit was only to move the kernel phys load address to 16MB. If the kernel should grow to a point where we run past some limit, we'll fix it. Right now, bsd.gdb kernels are > 50MB and load fine. -ml
