Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 09:34:43 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org, Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>, peter@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Loader fixed Message-ID: <200005121334.JAA10067@server.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <391C04CB.27F8B95F@newsguy.com>
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On 12-May-00 Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Boris Popov wrote: >> >> There was a bug introduced by recent commit to the loader. It was >> caused by long != int problem. Now it fixed. However loader still has >> problem with sizes more 128k? and Peter Wemm has disabled FICL support on >> Alphas. > > If there is a problem with sizes greater than 128Kb, that would > certainly explain the problems with FICL. Alas, why do you say that? > Have you actually seen any suspect code? > > As for Peter disabling FICL on Alpha... it was never enabled in first > place! It was enabled. However, the problem is not 128k. The loader from 4.0 worked fine and it was this size: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 182680 Mar 20 16:36 /boot/loader.works Here's a broken one: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 186648 May 11 11:48 /boot/loader.old If we do a little hex work: > printf "%x %x" 182680 186648 2c998 2d918 Thus, one possiblity for the upper limit on size may be: > printf "%d" 0x2d000 184320 -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "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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