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)