Re: i386/loader compiled with NOFORTH

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 09:15:30 +0300
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 05:09:50PM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:40:55PM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> >
> >>Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >>
> >>>On 5.x, loader(8) compiled with -DNOFORTH, results in
> >>>a system without a console.  This does not affect the
> >>>RELENG_4.
> >>>
> >>>Can someone who knows this code please look into it?
> >>
> >>Curious, since boot disks are compiled without Forth.
> >>
> >
> >You sure they are?  I somehow fail to see the code that
> >rebuilds sys/boot during "make release" with -DNOFORTH.
> 
> Yes. FICL is unnecessary for the simple task of booting the installation 
> kernel and takes quite a bit of space.
> 
> Notes that this is _only_ for the _install_ floppy, and it is custom 
> built for it.
> 
*Sigh*

And I'm working on exactly this; on trimming loader(8) as much
as possible.  Currently, it's a pretty normal loader(8) built
during the "buildworld" phase, and it's only different because
it's kgzip(8)'ed.


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