Re: bootxx needs to fit within 0th track of MBR partition?

Greg Troxel <[email protected]> Fri, 25 Aug 2023 08:48:05 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.x86-64,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.i386
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tobias Nygren <[email protected]> writes:

> On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 17:43:16 +0900
> Rin Okuyama <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> If not, I will bump BOOTXX_SECTORS for amd64 in few days.
>
> Would it be on the table to only bump it for HAVE_LLVM to
> keep the status quo for official builds?

I suppose we could, but either there is a reason to keep the size
limited, or there is not.  It is really seeming like there is not a
reason to keep it where it is, and that 14 sectors (to fit old UFS1)
should be fine.

> Side note I think there are other issues with boot code built with
> clang. For example I've encountered that bootx64.efi hangs for
> me when built with clang.

Probably the code is buggy then...