Re: pxeboot binary is too big on FreeBSD (>640KBytes)

On 2/21/22 18:18, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote:
>>> Why should pxeboot have ZFS support?
>>
>> Well, the feature X can be helpful for recovery purposes. The root
>> cause is not the feature X itself, but the size limit. And the
>> unfortunate fact, the size limit is not fixed, but depends on the
>> system. Therefore there are two options - either to fix the size limit
>> or drop option X from default build — at least till the size limit is
>> fixed (or support for BIOS will be dropped).
> 
> Or just build separate variants.
> As Bjoern said Lua is probably the straw breaking the cammel's back
> but I think it reasonable to assume that a system that has the resources
> to support ZFS does not have an ancient BIOS ?

I have several machines in use which are capable of supporting ZFS just 
fine and all of these have a BIOS.

Just saying. ;-)