Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 13:39:15 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> Cc: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: svn commit: r304187 - in head: . share/man/man4 sys/conf sys/dev/mcd sys/modules sys/modules/mcd Message-ID: <20160819133915.GA8791@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20160819202010.Y2407@besplex.bde.org> References: <201608152038.u7FKc2NL026330@repo.freebsd.org> <2065331.KaGOSftJhd@ralph.baldwin.cx> <0d6c2e45-e4da-9bb7-a50c-212135d9ac4f@freebsd.org> <CANCZdfpY9S8ErwD6b7pHeH%2BRVF9JEszBb7zJ9m-wybfBr1ujAg@mail.gmail.com> <20160819073955.GC83214@kib.kiev.ua> <20160819202010.Y2407@besplex.bde.org>
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On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 09:12:53PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > I normally use my version of biosboot for boot2. I improved its caching > just a couple of years ago. It was using 9K buffer optimized for 1440K > floppies. Now it uses a 32K buffer. Booting a 5.5MB kernel takes a > fraction of a second. That looks like change that everyone would benefit from. Consider posting a patch or committing it yourself. ;-) > Of course I don't use modules, so not many seeks are needed. Why not, they're convenient (apart from "kernel version mismatch" crap that I keep hitting now and then)? AFAIR they were slow to load at some point but that was (not so) recently fixed. ./danfe
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