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Subject: Re: svn commit: r298230 - in head: lib/libstand sys/boot/common
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> On Apr 18, 2016, at 6:06 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
>=20
>=20
> On 04/18/16 19:30, Devin Teske wrote:
>>=20
>>=20
>>> On Apr 18, 2016, at 4:43 PM, Allan Jude <allanjude@FreeBSD.org
>>> <mailto:allanjude@FreeBSD.org>> wrote:
>>>=20
>>> On 2016-04-18 19:36, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>>> Someone pointed out how this bloats out memory requirement in =
loader.
>>>>=20
>>>> Did anyone check that?
>>>>=20
>>>> -adrian
>>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> I tested down to 128mb of ram in QEMU, booted from the installer =
ISO,
>>> did the install, and booted the installed system without issue.
>>=20
>> Hmm. Would be nice if we could claim success under 64MB too.
>> If you get the chance.
>> How low can it go?
>=20
> FWIW, The code review comments state:
>=20
> <quote>
>=20
> BTW: as mentioned in very beginning of this project, I'm reserving =
fairly large chunk of memory (64MB) for loader and using same amount for =
both BIOS/UEFI variants, default in freebsd is 3MB, eventually this =
should be reviewed, but currently it will affect very small setups.
>=20
> </quote>
>=20
> I still think it's pretty cool, thanks to everyone involved.
>=20

Does anyone know what the original memory reservation amount was before =
it was upped to 64MB?
--=20
Devin