From: Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: NESTED_FUNC_ATTR (was: Re: iso9660 support)
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 20:48:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vfd9m5pn.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200410172237.05155.okuji@enbug.org> (Yoshinori K. Okuji's message of "Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:37:05 +0200")
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org> writes:
>> So, what is the size constraint? Is it for machines with small stack?
>
> No. This is the same as GRUB legacy. We want to use free space right
> after the MBR, but this region is quite small (normally, 31KB). I
> reduced the binary size very seriously to make core.img fit in this
> region, and I don't want to give it up.
Do you remember how much is gained by doing this? I do agree with
you, I am just asking out of curiosity.
Thanks,
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-17 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-14 22:39 iso9660 support Marco Gerards
2004-10-14 23:27 ` Johan Rydberg
2004-10-15 0:20 ` NESTED_FUNC_ATTR (was: Re: iso9660 support) Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-10-15 1:16 ` Johan Rydberg
2004-10-15 8:40 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-10-17 18:49 ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-10-17 19:41 ` Marco Gerards
2004-10-17 20:31 ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-10-17 20:37 ` Marco Gerards
2004-10-17 20:42 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-10-17 20:38 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-10-17 20:37 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-10-17 20:48 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2004-10-17 21:42 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-10-18 6:56 ` Marco Gerards
2004-10-15 10:46 ` iso9660 support Marco Gerards
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