i386/loader compiled with NOFORTH

[Daniel C. Sobral]

Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:40:55PM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> 
>>Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>>
>>>On 5.x, loader(8) compiled with -DNOFORTH, results in
>>>a system without a console.  This does not affect the
>>>RELENG_4.
>>>
>>>Can someone who knows this code please look into it?
>>
>>Curious, since boot disks are compiled without Forth.
>>
> 
> You sure they are?  I somehow fail to see the code that
> rebuilds sys/boot during "make release" with -DNOFORTH.

Yes. FICL is unnecessary for the simple task of booting the installation 
kernel and takes quite a bit of space.

Notes that this is _only_ for the _install_ floppy, and it is custom 
built for it.

> 
> 
>>Maybe it's lack of acpi?
>>
> 
> No, acpi(4) was loaded.  I experimented with bzip(2)
> support in loader(8), and for this I needed the stripped
> loader, because memory allocation really sucks in
> i386 loader(8).  Am I right it's limited to real mode's
> 1M?

I'm not sure what the exact memory constrains are, particularly since 
they changed somewhat when such issues were of interest to me. jhb can 
answer this, I think.

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