Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 22:17:51 +0200 (SAST) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: abial@webgiro.com (Andrzej Bialecki), rnordier@nordier.com (Robert Nordier), 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: <199905252017.WAA15844@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <199905251856.LAA00433@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "May 25, 1999 11:56:56 am"
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Mike Smith wrote: > > 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. I have some. They're derived from public domain C routines by Haruyasu Yoshizaki, who wrote a utility (lharc?) which did better but slower compression than pkzip, at least at the time. Fiddling with text compression routines in assembler is really dull, but I guess it would be worth it, since something apparently needs to be done about this. I'm just not up on the legal side of things: how does "Adaptive Huffman Coding" stand in the patent world? -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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