git: 923069913b - main - 14.2/relnotes: Tweak wording about BIOS support
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Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2024 18:00:58 UTC
The branch main has been updated by imp:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=923069913bc513b7481defa04bc8c2e3c76d7311
commit 923069913bc513b7481defa04bc8c2e3c76d7311
Author: Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2024-12-01 18:01:26 +0000
Commit: Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2024-12-01 18:01:26 +0000
14.2/relnotes: Tweak wording about BIOS support
We added back GZIP and BZIP support which were removed for 14.1 to try
to address size issues. However, lots of downstreams and minimalist
users use this .gz feature (and a few the .bz2 feature) so those were
added back. To cope with the size issues the BIOS loader has started
running into, especially with PXEBOOT, we instead moved to text-only
instead of the graphical boot loader.
Sponsored by: Netflix
---
website/content/en/releases/14.2R/relnotes.adoc | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/website/content/en/releases/14.2R/relnotes.adoc b/website/content/en/releases/14.2R/relnotes.adoc
index 20ea99bc92..bff9cc16ce 100644
--- a/website/content/en/releases/14.2R/relnotes.adoc
+++ b/website/content/en/releases/14.2R/relnotes.adoc
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other boot-related changes.
[[boot-loader]]
=== Boot Loader Changes
-The BIOS boot loader now supports gzip and bzip2, but does not support graphics mode.
+The BIOS boot loader added back support for gzip and bzip2, but removed support graphics mode (by default) to address size problems.
(The EFI boot loader is unchanged with support for all of those.)
gitref:4d3b05a8530e[repository=src] (Sponsored by Netflix)