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. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru_at_sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru_at_FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age
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