svn commit: r298230 - in head: lib/libstand sys/boot/common sys/boot/efi/libefi sys/boot/efi/loader sys/boot/i386/libfirewire sys/boot/i386/libi386 sys/boot/i386/loader sys/boot/mips/beri/loader sy...

[Pedro Giffuni]

On 04/18/16 19:30, Devin Teske wrote:
>
>
>> On Apr 18, 2016, at 4:43 PM, Allan Jude <allanjude at FreeBSD.org
>> <mailto:allanjude at FreeBSD.org>> wrote:
>>
>> On 2016-04-18 19:36, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>> Someone pointed out how this bloats out memory requirement in loader.
>>>
>>> Did anyone check that?
>>>
>>> -adrian
>>>
>>
>> I tested down to 128mb of ram in QEMU, booted from the installer ISO,
>> did the install, and booted the installed system without issue.
>
> Hmm. Would be nice if we could claim success under 64MB too.
> If you get the chance.
> How low can it go?

FWIW, The code review comments state:

<quote>

BTW: as mentioned in very beginning of this project, I'm reserving 
fairly large chunk of memory (64MB) for loader and using same amount for 
both BIOS/UEFI variants, default in freebsd is 3MB, eventually this 
should be reviewed, but currently it will affect very small setups.

</quote>

I still think it's pretty cool, thanks to everyone involved.

Cheers,

Pedro.