Re: Floppyless release build of sparc64
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:50:10PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: 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. You're missing the point. The size should be set now to something that will *never* be too small. Waiting until make release is broken is stupid in this case. -- -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Floppyless release build of sparc64
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:39:14PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:50:10PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: 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. You're missing the point. The size should be set now to something that will *never* be too small. Waiting until make release is broken is stupid in this case. I will leave this up to the sparc64 port maintainers, okay? Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunbay Software Ltd, [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Floppyless release build of sparc64
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. -- -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Floppyless release build of sparc64
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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunbay Software Ltd, [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Floppyless release build of sparc64
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). On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:53:53PM -0700, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: ru 2003/07/22 22:53:53 PDT FreeBSD src repository Modified files: release Makefile Log: Do not define BIGBOOTSIZE and the friends for amd64; it serves no useful purpose other than wasting CPU time in make release creating useless boot.flp. Desired by: peter Revision ChangesPath 1.789 +0 -3 src/release/Makefile Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunbay Software Ltd, [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer Index: Makefile === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/release/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.790 diff -u -r1.790 Makefile --- Makefile23 Jul 2003 06:00:56 - 1.790 +++ Makefile23 Jul 2003 06:09:41 - @@ -202,11 +202,8 @@ BIGBOOTLABEL= minimum2 .elif ${TARGET_ARCH} == sparc64 DISKLABEL= sunlabel -BIGBOOTSIZE= 4096 MFSSIZE= 4096 -BOOTINODE= 8192 MFSINODE= 8192 -BIGBOOTLABEL= auto MFSLABEL= auto .elif ${TARGET_ARCH} == ia64 BIGBOOTLABEL= efi Index: sparc64/dokern.sh === RCS file: sparc64/dokern.sh diff -N sparc64/dokern.sh --- sparc64/dokern.sh 13 Oct 2002 18:36:06 - 1.1 +++ /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 - @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh -# -# $FreeBSD: src/release/sparc64/dokern.sh,v 1.1 2002/10/13 18:36:06 jake Exp $ -# - -sed-e 's/ident.*GENERIC/ident BOOTMFS/g' pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Floppyless release build of sparc64
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. Jake On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:53:53PM -0700, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: ru 2003/07/22 22:53:53 PDT FreeBSD src repository Modified files: release Makefile Log: Do not define BIGBOOTSIZE and the friends for amd64; it serves no useful purpose other than wasting CPU time in make release creating useless boot.flp. Desired by: peter Revision ChangesPath 1.789 +0 -3 src/release/Makefile Cheers, -- Ruslan ErmilovSysadmin and DBA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunbay Software Ltd, [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer Index: Makefile === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/release/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.790 diff -u -r1.790 Makefile --- Makefile 23 Jul 2003 06:00:56 - 1.790 +++ Makefile 23 Jul 2003 06:09:41 - @@ -202,11 +202,8 @@ BIGBOOTLABEL=minimum2 .elif ${TARGET_ARCH} == sparc64 DISKLABEL= sunlabel -BIGBOOTSIZE= 4096 MFSSIZE= 4096 -BOOTINODE= 8192 MFSINODE=8192 -BIGBOOTLABEL=auto MFSLABEL=auto .elif ${TARGET_ARCH} == ia64 BIGBOOTLABEL=efi Index: sparc64/dokern.sh === RCS file: sparc64/dokern.sh diff -N sparc64/dokern.sh --- sparc64/dokern.sh 13 Oct 2002 18:36:06 - 1.1 +++ /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 - @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh -# -# $FreeBSD: src/release/sparc64/dokern.sh,v 1.1 2002/10/13 18:36:06 jake Exp $ -# - -sed -e 's/ident.*GENERIC/ident BOOTMFS/g' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Floppyless release build of sparc64
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). Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunbay Software Ltd, [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature