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Re: Changes to archive erbenson@alaska.net--public/yaboot--devel--1.3



On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 08:32:32PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 20:20, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > New revisions created in erbenson@alaska.net--public/yaboot--devel--1.3
> > 
> > 2003-11-04 09:19:11 GMT	Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>	patch-53
> > 
> >     Summary:
> >       Use OpenFirmware RELEASE method
> >     Revision:
> >       yaboot--devel--1.3--patch-53
> > 
> >     * second/prom.c: Use OpenFirmware's RELEASE method instead of the
> >       broken crap hack which broke on more recent Apple OpenFirmware.
> > 
> >     modified files:
> >      ./0arch-timestamps0 ./ChangeLog ./second/prom.c
> 
> Oh, btw, you may also want to increase the size of the download
> buffer for TFP in fs_of.c. 4Mb isn't really enough anymore nowadays :)
> 
> A 64 bits kernel with all debug etc... for G5 is about 8 or 9Mb :)

eww, really need to get 2.0 going where i can get a zlib in there...

i haven't messed with that buffer limit since i don't really know the
implications, raising it to 10MB seems excessive and dangerous.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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