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...

[Devin Teske]

> On Apr 18, 2016, at 6:06 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> 

Does anyone know what the original memory reservation amount was before it was upped to 64MB?
-- 
Devin