cvs commit: src/release/i386 fixit_crunch.conf

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 15 June 2007 12:52:03 pm Xin LI wrote:
> Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> > If memory serves me right, Ken Smith wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 14:41 +0000, Ken Smith wrote:
> >>> kensmith    2007-06-15 14:41:11 UTC
> >>>
> >>>   FreeBSD src repository
> >>>
> >>>   Modified files:
> >>>     release/i386         fixit_crunch.conf 
> >>>   Log:
> >>>   The i386 "fixit" floppy began overflowing, most likely due to the new
> >>>   gcc.  Replace vi(1) with ed(1) as the editor to make the contents fit
> >>>   on a floppy again.
> >>>   
> >>>   Revision  Changes    Path
> >>>   1.15      +2 -4      src/release/i386/fixit_crunch.conf
> >> Needing to deal with this was almost enough motivation to stop
> >> supporting floppies for the 7.X release but I decided that was a bit too
> >> drastic (just barely :-).
> >>
> >> But I think this does signal the end.  Please plan around floppy support
> >> being nuked from HEAD some time fairly shortly after RELENG_7 gets
> >> branched (meaning no floppy support for 8.X).
> > 
> > Clarification:  This means "no support for floppy install or fixit
> > media".  We're *not* talking about dropping support for floppy drives.
> 
> It would be nice if we can also get rid of some workaorund to make
> loader(8) fit the floppy, e.g. to enable bzip2 support by default, on
> 8-CURRENT 8-)

Actually, since 7.x uses split_mfsroot on i386 now, that should work now as 
well (assuming the resulting loader is still under 1MB in size, which it has 
to be anyway)

-- 
John Baldwin