cvs commit: src/release/alpha dokern.sh drivers.conf

[John Baldwin]

On 21-May-2003 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:36:24AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
>> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>> >On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 08:28:05AM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
>> >
>> >>And I can't say I'm happy to discover I'm 
>> >>wrong, since my plans call for an increase of 40Kb on i386 for the 
>> >>loader on i386 (rather more on 64 bits archs). I counted on not being 
>> >>encumbered by floppy's loader.
>> >>
>> >
>> >FWIW, recompiling loader without FICL, saved me 100K on the kern.flp
>> >for Alpha!  The patch that does this isn't ready for committing yet,
>> >but I will make sure to polish it to the required shape.
>> >
>> 
>> I have plans for FICL and boot media.  I'd rather not reduce the
>> functionality of the loader, and instead do easy things like compress
>> the .ko files like has been suggested before.
>> 
> Whatever.  Here's a working patch that recompiles boot loaders
> without FICL for the purposes of boot floppies.

I think we can hold off on this change for now since things are fitting
again.  I don't think it is wise to blow off people's concerns about
more advanced uses of the loader on the boot floppy.

> I'm real sorry, but that well-known change that split release.9
> into release.9 and release.9.alpha now gets in the way, so its
> reversion is also included in the patch.

Be patient and less whiny about that please.  Beating that dead horse
only serves to make things worse.

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