Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 11:56:56 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> Cc: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, brian@Awfulhak.org, bde@zeta.org.au Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot table.c Message-ID: <199905251856.LAA00433@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 May 1999 19:44:42 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905251944010.19021-100000@freja.webgiro.com>
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> On Tue, 25 May 1999, Robert Nordier wrote: > > > Bruce Evans wrote: > > > > > My version passes the typed-in device name to the kernel and the kernel > > > ignores the boot blocks' guess of the major if it can make sense of > > > the name. I might finish this if anyone still uses the old boot blocks. > > > > I'm hoping that we can start dropping the /sys/i386/boot stuff, > > with the probable temporary exception of netboot, within the next > > few weeks, unless there are serious objections to doing so. > > Please don't drop the kzipboot without some functional replacement. I keep asking people for small execute-in-place unpackers. The best I've had suggested so far was lzo, which is GPLed and not really very compact or suitable. There must be at least one ex-demo coder here that has a set of simple but compact decompression routines up their sleeve. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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