Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:37:54 +0200 (CEST) From: carlo@vis.ethz.ch (Carlo Dapor) To: ast@marabu.ch (Adrian Steinmann) Cc: carlo@vis.ethz.ch (Carlo Dapor), stable@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fat kernel, needs dieting (again :-) Message-ID: <20010803133754.51218275B6@naboo.ethz.ch> In-Reply-To: <200108022049.WAA14916@marabu.marabu.ch> from "Adrian Steinmann" at Aug 02, 2001 10:49:01 PM
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> Someone said on stable@freebsd.org: > > > The other day a guy (sorry I forgot who) says that > > That was me, <ast@marabu.ch>, see also > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=29272 > > and the copy of the earlier message below. > But carlo@vis.ethz.ch (Carlo Dapor) questions this: > > And top(1) just works fine ? When I gzip(1)ed kernels in the past, everything > worked just fine, except for top(1) and IIRC ps, which could not access some > structure - sorry for being very vague here, it has been some time. > > We are refering to a kgziped LOADER (/boot/loader) not kernel! The > loader on the boot floppy can be kgzip-ed safely and the pr=29272 > above has the one-line patch enclosed. Maybe obrien@FreeBSD.org who > was working on this might incorporate this patch too, saving us > another 60k on boot floppies? I was actually referring to a gzip(1)'d /boot/kernel/kernel. I just tried it out and it works fine with top(1) and ps(1). Ciao, derweil, -- Carlo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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