[illumos-gate] 17875 loader: tftp_open() should avoid adding double '/' at front of the path -- Toomas Soome <tsoome⊙mc>

[illumos-gate] 17874 loader gzipfs: directory names are not compressed -- Toomas Soome <tsoome⊙mc>

tsoome: do you recall any specific around why (or which systems) had issues with using memory > 4GB for the ramdisk or boot archive?

dboot can't see it?

the comments surrounding it suggested it wasn't dboot (though maybe that is a problem?) but that some systems seemed to have a problem with it..

after too many other issues, I was trying to get back to this dell amd box

pastebin.com/wG54CsLB is what the memory map looks like, though I'm not sure of that's page#s or actual addresses

(assumign addresses, if I'm counting my digits correctly, it looks like the largest chunk of available memory within the first 4GB of the address space is a ~480MB chunk

I'm going to try lifting that restrction in loader to test -- but even if it does work, then the question is what systems (if any are still around) need the restriction?

the comment comes from illumos#8139

hrm.. progress (a bit)

but now multiboot thins no rootfs module is provided..

my adventure for tomorrow afternoon...