NetBSD Problem Report #38576

From martin@duskware.de  Sun May  4 01:11:37 2008
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From: ad@netbsd.org
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Subject: isp_pci.o is too large
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>Number:         38576
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       isp_pci.o is too large
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun May 04 01:15:01 +0000 2008
>Last-Modified:  Sat Dec 31 04:35:01 +0000 2022
>Originator:     Andrew Doran
>Release:        4.99.62
>Organization:
The NetBSD Project
>Environment:
amd64
>Description:
-rw-r--r--  1 ad  staff   721632 May  2 23:55 isp_pci.o
>How-To-Repeat:
Notice that kernels are getting fat.
>Fix:
$ gzip isp_pci.o && ls isp_pci.o.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 ad  staff  349977 May  2 23:55 isp_pci.o.gz

Some kind of arithmetic coding (patents) or huffman encoding might
work better. With an understanding of the format that the microcode
takes it may be possible to take the size down further.

>Audit-Trail:
From: David Holland <dholland-bugs@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/38576: isp_pci.o is too large
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2022 04:23:27 +0000

 On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 01:15:01AM +0000, ad@netbsd.org wrote:
  > -rw-r--r--  1 ad  staff   721632 May  2 23:55 isp_pci.o

 Only gotten worse:
    -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1112592 Dec 28 13:39 isp_pci.o

 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland@netbsd.org

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/38576: isp_pci.o is too large
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2022 04:34:52 +0000

 On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 04:25:01AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
  >  On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 01:15:01AM +0000, ad@netbsd.org wrote:
  >   > -rw-r--r--  1 ad  staff   721632 May  2 23:55 isp_pci.o
  >  
  >  Only gotten worse:
  >     -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1112592 Dec 28 13:39 isp_pci.o

 This also applies to if_ti.o; see 38582, which I'm closing as a
 duplicate. The problem is more or less the same in both cases (large
 firmware blobs).

 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland@netbsd.org

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