cvs commit: src/release Makefile

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 04 February 2004 06:31 am, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 02:05:55PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
> > jhb         2004/02/03 14:05:55 PST
> >
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     release              Makefile
> >   Log:
> >   - Use a stock loader with forth support on the boot floppies.
> >   - Use the regular forth scripts including the stock device.hints file
> > on the boot floppies.
> >   - gzip all the various text files on the boot floppy that are larger
> > than one sector to save on space.
> >   - Generate a loader.conf to load the kernel, acpi.ko, and mfsroot
> > making use of the 'module_before' variables to prompt for a floppy to be
> > entered when required and use a stock loader.rc.  This enables the
> > beastie menu on i386.
> >   - PC98 has been changed to split the mfsroot for now so that the
> > floppies fit.  When the PC98 bootstrap is updated to work with ELF files
> > (which needs to happen anyway), then SPLIT_MFSROOT can be turned off for
> > PC98.
> >
> >   Revision  Changes    Path
> >   1.841     +23 -16    src/release/Makefile
>
> Any comments on my proposed SPLIT_SMALLMFSROOT feature?

Well, I've been thinking about possibly making it more generic and have a 
notion of floppy sets where a floppy set would have the following properties:

size
label
chunksize
inode
bootinode
split_kernel (yes/no)
split_mfsroot (yes/no)

This would allow us to reduce some of the duplication in floppies.1 for 
example (and possibly floppies.2), but that may be overkill.  Also, given 
that several folks want to kill a.out support completely, PC98 needs to grow 
ELF support anyways.  Once they do they can use kgzip and won't need to split 
the mfsroot on either set of floppies.  For the time being I think it may add 
more obfuscation that it is worth.

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