From 09c8d6bcd7d20ecc45aa3e25816aff8b0b2b4b12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Watson Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:37:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add UFS2 boot issue to the required feature list for 5.0. Tentatively assign ownership of this task to green@ and phk@ since they've both done some work in this space. Note that UFS2 boots fine on sparc64, the problems seem to arise from a combination of large boot block issues and emulated instruction problems on i386. --- en/releases/5.0R/todo.sgml | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/en/releases/5.0R/todo.sgml b/en/releases/5.0R/todo.sgml index 170ea3e389..2028eebaa9 100644 --- a/en/releases/5.0R/todo.sgml +++ b/en/releases/5.0R/todo.sgml @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ - + %includes; ]> @@ -127,6 +127,20 @@ of the box. + + UFS2 bootable on i386 + In progress + green@FreeBSD.org, phk@FreeBSD.org + UFS2 can be successfully booted on sparc64, but on i386 the + emulated 64-bit instructions grow boot2 beyond the 8k traditionally + allocated for that boot loader. There appear to be some combination + of books in various bits of the boot loading mecahnism relating + to this (possibly including in the i386 emulated 64-bit instructions) + that must be resolved. In addition, the installation code now needs + to start leaving room for the larger boot blocks so that freshly + installed systems can be UFS2-bootable. + +

Desired Features for 5.0-RELEASE