cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile

[David O'Brien]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 11:13:25AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 June 2005 10:28 am, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 12:28:08AM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > > David E. O'Brien wrote:
> > > >  Modified files:
> > > >    sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile
> > > >  Log:
> > > >  Put bzip2 support on equal footing with gzip support.
> > > >  Enable bzip2 support by default, set LOADER_NO_BZIP2_SUPPORT to
> > > >  disable it.
> > >
> > > This only increases the size of loader without any good reason. Please
> > > stop making nonsense commits.
> >
> > And having gzip support on by default only increases the loader without
> > any good reason.  We provide a feature rich environment.  The loader
> > isn't at the brink of its size limit like boot0 is.  I put bzip2 on par
> > with gzip support.  If this support bloats the loader too much, we should
> > disable the gzip support then, not the bzip2 support - as you know bzip2
> > compresses better.
> 
> We use gzip on the install CDs and install floppies.  This change made the 
> install floppy for i386 overflow. :)  We don't use bzip2 anywhere on the 
> install media.

We should for 6.0, it gives better compression.  We could fit more on the
floppy :-) which you've just stated we are up against the limits.
 
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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)