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Date:      Sat, 28 Dec 1996 23:29:54 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        julian@whistle.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, hans@brandinnovators.com
Subject:   Re: bootloader & memory test...
Message-ID:  <199612281229.XAA17456@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>That's what it does already.  I've rewritten it almost completely with
>the goal of getting it into the bootloader, but the best I can do is
>too big :
>
>lovely:~/work/sys/i386/boot/biosboot>size mtest.o
>text    data    bss     dec     hex
>1040    32      84      1156    484
>
>By stripping some options it can go a little smaller, but I'm still
>about 200 bytes short.

Can't you strip 7K of code from the boot loader?  There is no need to
boot FreeBSD after running the memory test.

Bruce



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