svn commit: r304187 - in head: . share/man/man4 sys/conf sys/dev/mcd sys/modules sys/modules/mcd

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 09:12:53PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> I normally use my version of biosboot for boot2.  I improved its caching
> just a couple of years ago.  It was using 9K buffer optimized for 1440K
> floppies.  Now it uses a 32K buffer.  Booting a 5.5MB kernel takes a
> fraction of a second.

That looks like change that everyone would benefit from.  Consider posting
a patch or committing it yourself. ;-)

> Of course I don't use modules, so not many seeks are needed.

Why not, they're convenient (apart from "kernel version mismatch" crap
that I keep hitting now and then)?  AFAIR they were slow to load at some
point but that was (not so) recently fixed.

./danfe