From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 9 06:19:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA03636 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 06:19:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [195.187.243.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA03630 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 06:19:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA19816; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 14:22:06 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 14:22:06 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Mike Smith cc: Robert Nordier , jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't boot from CD and floppy after make release In-Reply-To: <199901082341.PAA00974@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > It'd definitely be useful for the PicoBSD people, and anyone else that > > > didn't need the loader's functionality. I'd also be interested in > > > knowing if you have any compression/decompression tools suitable for > > > use with BTX eg. to compress the application data/expand it when BTX > > > relocates. > > > > I quite like Jordan's suggestion of kzip'ing the loader. The > > compression is not especially efficient: > > > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 rnordier wheel 122880 Jan 3 23:55 loader > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 rnordier wheel 70760 Jan 8 23:05 loader.kz > > > > but boot1/boot2 don't have a problem with loader.kz. > > It's actually not that bad; there's 12k of overhead for the kzip parts, > which is why I was wondering if you had something more compact... > Kzip is certainly a feasible interim solution, but it relies on the > a.out tool chain which makes it a weak link. Not only that - when you kzip the bootloader, you end up having the same gunzip routines twice: one in the kzip stubs, and the second in the loader. The word "superfluous" comes to mind... Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message