Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:00:20 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [regression] loader stalls on compressed module Message-ID: <200912150900.20229.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200912151124.58478.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> References: <200912151124.58478.naylor.b.david@gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 15 December 2009 4:24:54 am David Naylor wrote: > Hi, > > It appears that recently (~6 months) loader can no longer load compressed > kernel objects (gzipped) . This regression is present on both FreeBSD-8 and - > Current. > > This can be reproduced by doing: > # cd /boot/kernel ; gzip -9 unionfs.ko > (Choose option 6 from loader and enter: load unionfs) > > I have experienced this on both i386 and amd64. It appears that loader can > handle a compressed generic kernel (and maybe other modules). Does a loader from TOT still exhibit this? If you build the loader w/o GPT support (LOADER_NO_GPT or some such, it's in sys/boot/i386/loader/Makefile) does that fix it? -- John Baldwin
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