Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 09:26:04 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: mjacob@feral.com, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, dcs@FreeBSD.ORGG Subject: Re: Loader badly broken on the alpha Message-ID: <200009161626.JAA19366@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <200009160726.e8G7QPG10931@netplex.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "Sep 16, 2000 00:26:25 am"
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Peter Wemm wrote: > Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > I think I had determined (I thought) that it was just loader itself, but I > > could be wrong. > > The problem is that the loader is now too large, it cannot fit inside the > ~208K window that boot1 has got available to it. Isn't there a better solution where we can change the way in which we do memory setup in boot1 so that we can get rid of this limit? Or at least make it significantly larger? I thought you mentioned something along those lines at Usenix.. -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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