Re: small sysinst(8) without extended partitioning support

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Sep 20,  9:32pm, rokuyama%rk.phys.keio.ac.jp@localhost (Rin Okuyama) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: small sysinst(8) without extended partitioning support

| On 2018/09/20 20:47, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > In article <7a30a32c-4224-54c3-a3cf-0587b1b9f0d6%rk.phys.keio.ac.jp@localhost>,
| > Rin Okuyama  <rokuyama%rk.phys.keio.ac.jp@localhost> wrote:
| >> -=-=-=-=-=-
| >>
| >> Hi,
| >>
| >> Although the recent floppy overflow for atari was gone, I expected
| >> that it surely occurs again in the near future.
| >>
| >> I propose to add NOPARTMAN option to sysinst(8), which drops extended
| >> partitioning support provided by partman.c. If this option is enabled,
| >> about 30KB is reduced for crunched binary for atari install floppy.
| >> It should be useful also for old ports with sysinst(8).
| >>
| >> It requires
| >>
| >> - separate extended partitioning stuffs from menu.mi to menu.pm
| >> - 8 extra #if(n)def's
| >>
| >> I've confirmed sysinst(8) with and without this option works on amd64.
| > 
| > Go for it.
| 
| Thanks, committed! How about this?
| http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-atari/2018/09/19/msg000586.html

Instead of the nested if, perhaps would use ?= in the two KERN_AS assignments
(less code), otherwise I am all for centralizing it.

christos