cvs commit: src/release/alpha dokern.sh drivers.conf

[Scott Long]

Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 08:28:05AM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> 
>>Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>>
>>>>Alas, the floppy disk loader doesn't come with ficl at all. :-)
>>>
>>>Daniel, would you please stop spreading this non-true fact now?
>>
>>[checking facts]
>>
>>Ooops, I did a Terry. :-)
>>
>>Well, it used to be true.
>>
> 
> Hm, can you please tell me when it was the case, and how this
> was done?  I can't find it anywhere in the CVS history of
> src/release/.
> 
> 
>>And I can't say I'm happy to discover I'm 
>>wrong, since my plans call for an increase of 40Kb on i386 for the 
>>loader on i386 (rather more on 64 bits archs). I counted on not being 
>>encumbered by floppy's loader.
>>
> 
> FWIW, recompiling loader without FICL, saved me 100K on the kern.flp
> for Alpha!  The patch that does this isn't ready for committing yet,
> but I will make sure to polish it to the required shape.
> 

I have plans for FICL and boot media.  I'd rather not reduce the
functionality of the loader, and instead do easy things like compress
the .ko files like has been suggested before.

Scott