Re: [rfc] a few kern.mk and bsd.sys.mk related changes

2011-05-28 Thread Pan Tsu
Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org writes: On Fri May 27 11, Alexander Best wrote: On Fri May 27 11, Warner Losh wrote: These look generally good. Just one thing I had a question on: # +# Enable FreeBSD kernel-specific printf format specifiers. Also instruct gcc to +# enable

Is BOOTWAIT still used? (Was: kernel memory checks on boot vs. boot time)

2011-03-24 Thread Pan Tsu
Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de writes: [...] To be honest, I don't think that loader takes so much time. When you set autoboot_delay=-1 and beastie_disable=YES, the time spent in loader is negligible. (I'm assuming that you also set BOOTWAIT=0 in make.conf, so boot2 doesn't wait for a

Re: [GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi

2011-03-23 Thread Pan Tsu
Zhihao Yuan lich...@gmail.com writes: Hi, I'm a Computer Science student at Northern Illinois University, and I used FreeBSD for a long time. I'm interested in the idea that to improve the nvi in the base system. My proposal is slightly different: I want to fork nvi and make it iconv-awared

Re: [GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi

2011-03-23 Thread Pan Tsu
Zhihao Yuan lich...@gmail.com writes: Why not just use traditional vi? http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/ (lives under editors/2bsd-vi) This one lacks of many feature, compared with nvi. nvi also lacks some features, e.g. lisp, modelines, sourceany. ex-vi is more lightweight # both built

Re: [GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi

2011-03-23 Thread Pan Tsu
Zhihao Yuan lich...@gmail.com writes: If you really want to use vi in a 32MB mem environment, the ex-vi may make sense. It consumes 1600KB memory while nvi consumes 2000KB. Note that the ee editor uses same amount memory as ex-vi. ex-vi memory usage can be reduced a bit, e.g. by ~20% if you