On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:55:10AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 07:07:30PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:57:58AM -0400, Jake Burkholder wrote: > > > Apparently, On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:16:43AM +0300, > > > Ruslan Ermilov said words to the effect of; > > > > > > > A similar change would be in order for sparc64. Patch is > > > > attached, please review. The net effect is that we save > > > > huge CPU times in release.9 and do not create the useless > > > > boot.flp floppy image (the sparc64/mkisoimages.sh script > > > > doesn't need it). > > > > > > boot.flp is actually useful on sparc64 because you can dd it to a disk > > > from solaris and then boot off it to install. I'm happy with having > > > the option of not building it if it saves time but please make it an > > > option. > > > > OK, then things will be left as is. There's already an option for > > this; it's called NO_FLOPPIES (documented in the release(7) manpage). > > BUT the size of the "floppy" should be something like 10MB so that we > know we will *never* overflow it during "make release". > Should the need arise for that, it's a two-line change to release/Makefile, by just bumping MFSSIZE and BIGBOOTSIZE for sparc64. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru_at_sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, ru_at_FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer
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