svn commit: r221497 - head/release/ia64

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Fri May 6 13:50:11 UTC 2011


On 05/06/11 00:21, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On May 5, 2011, at 8:29 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>
>> On 05/05/11 16:18, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>>> On May 5, 2011, at 7:16 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>>>
>>>> @@ -84,15 +63,13 @@ if [ $bootable = yes ]; then
>>>>      mv $MNT/boot/loader.efi $MNT/efi/boot/bootia64.efi
>>>>      umount $MNT
>>>>      mdconfig -d -u $md
>>>> -    BOOTOPTS="-b $EFIPART -no-emul-boot"
>>>> +    BOOTOPTS="-b bootimage=i386;$EFIPART -o no-emul-boot"
>>>> else
>>>>      BOOTOPTS=""
>>>> fi
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Can you explain what this particular change does or why it's done?
>>>
>> I'm cleaning up the release-building code, and am switching them from mkisofs to makefs, which provides the same functionality. This started with some irritation with the cdrtools port and a bug in the HFS hybrid generation that was breaking PPC release CD generation. Switching these to depend on makefs in general speeds the release-building process and removes the number of dependencies involved, since makefs is built as part of base.
> Actually, I was just interested in the 'bootimage=i386' part
> of your change. I totally get why you're doing it :-)

Ah, OK :)

That just sets the El Torito system type to 0 (x86), which is what IA64 
uses, as far as I can tell, and doesn't turn on any special magic like 
is done for the mac. I suppose while we're monkeying about with makefs, 
we could add an 'ia64' alias.
-Nathan


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