At the point that the loader downloads stage2, it already knows what language the user wanted. If we spilt some locale specific data (translations, fonts) out into their own images (squashfs, cpio, whatever) that the loader can pick up/download, then for cases where they're not needed, the stage2 download can be shrunk by ~20MB or so.
Bill
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 15:19 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
At the point that the loader downloads stage2, it already knows what language the user wanted. If we spilt some locale specific data (translations, fonts) out into their own images (squashfs, cpio, whatever) that the loader can pick up/download, then for cases where they're not needed, the stage2 download can be shrunk by ~20MB or so.
It may be crack, but it's crack I've considered on more than one occasion. The thing that makes it tricky is language selection being done within stage2 for some cases
Jeremy
Jeremy Katz (katzj@redhat.com) said:
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 15:19 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
At the point that the loader downloads stage2, it already knows what language the user wanted. If we spilt some locale specific data (translations, fonts) out into their own images (squashfs, cpio, whatever) that the loader can pick up/download, then for cases where they're not needed, the stage2 download can be shrunk by ~20MB or so.
It may be crack, but it's crack I've considered on more than one occasion. The thing that makes it tricky is language selection being done within stage2 for some cases
In what cases are you doing lang selection from stage2 where you aren't on a live system?
Bill
Bill Nottingham (notting@redhat.com) said:
It may be crack, but it's crack I've considered on more than one occasion. The thing that makes it tricky is language selection being done within stage2 for some cases
In what cases are you doing lang selection from stage2 where you aren't on a live system?
Actually, for things like CD/nfs where you're pulling stage2 off a local FS, you might as well just pull all the lang*.img files that are there on the media.
Bill
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