Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 10:13:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ok, *now* it's End-Of-ALPHA Release Candidate time! Message-ID: <199506061413.KAA17117@hda.com> In-Reply-To: <199506061407.XAA11808@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jun 6, 95 11:37:22 pm
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Michael Smith writes: > > Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > The First trick is "kzip", or the compressed (gzip'd) kernel image. > > Those familiar with Linux already know all about compressing kernels > > to save space on boot floppies, and we're doing it now too. A kzip'd > > kernel has a small bootstrap which loads it at 3MB and expands it. > > This is why 4MB machines briefly stopped working a few days back; we'd > > allowed the kernel to get larger than 1MB, and naturally there wasn't > > much room left up there! :-) Needless to say, this trick is only good > > for medium sized kernels.. > > > > The second trick is "kernmfs", which is a kernel that contains a large > > pre-allocated array inside and into which a second utility has copied > > a small root filesystem. This means that the kernel is now > > essentially carrying its own root filesystem around with it and is > > entirely self-contained, given some memory to run in. > > At some (later) stage, I'm going to want to talk about these two, EPROMs > and embedded systems, but I think now is not a good time for that 8) I've got an EV386EX Intel Eval board for the 386EX that I hope to boot FreeBSD on. It has a .5 MB flash for boot and I'll put 4MB RAM in it. > (btw. Is it too late to put in an order for a low-numbered limited-edition > 2.0.5 jordan-wilted-over-the-keyboard picture disk? If Peter Norton > can do the unwashed pink shirt, I'm sure we can do you in shorts and > sandals 8) For a moment I thought you meant a limited-edition "picture plate". I can see it now, advertised in TV Guide next to the ST:TNG collector plate. Peter -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267
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