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Date:      Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:51:19 +0000
From:      Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 boot2.c 
Message-ID:   <200201111451.aa87058@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:09:12 %2B0100." <20020111140912.A520@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> 

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In message <20020111140912.A520@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>, Christian Weisgerber wri
tes:
>> An alternative patch for the alpha 16k/2k block size issue is below.
>> This is more complex, but it should make boot1 work for any block
>> size without the need for large buffers or a #defined maximum block
>> size.  It is completely untested, apart the fact that it compiles,
>
>This works for me for both 16k/2k and 8k/1k filesystems.
>(-CURRENT, PC164)

Great! Thanks for testing it! I guess we must have been very near
to the runtime memory limit for boot1 with 8k buffers. Now that I
look more carefully, there may be a 48k limit for boot1 based on
the PRIMARY_LOAD_ADDRESS and SECONDARY_LOAD_ADDRESS definitions.
That would certainly explain why 4*8k buffers worked, but 4*16k
didn't - sorry for suggesting that you hadn't installed the new
blocks correctly :-)

Ian

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