a heavily stripped down FreeBSD/i386 (brutally stripped down actually) to
attempt to get a stable base to start from. There is a lot missing still.
Worth noting:
- The kernel runs at 1GB in order to cheat with the pmap code. pmap uses
a variation of the PAE code in order to avoid having to worry about 4
levels of page tables yet.
- It boots in 64 bit "long mode" with a tiny trampoline embedded in the
i386 loader. This simplifies locore.s greatly.
- There are still quite a few fragments of i386-specific code that have
not been translated yet, and some that I cheated and wrote dumb C
versions of (bcopy etc).
- It has both int 0x80 for syscalls (but using registers for argument
passing, as is native on the amd64 ABI), and the 'syscall' instruction
for syscalls. int 0x80 preserves all registers, 'syscall' does not.
- I have tried to minimize looking at the NetBSD code, except in a couple
of places (eg: to find which register they use to replace the trashed
%rcx register in the syscall instruction). As a result, there is not a
lot of similarity. I did look at NetBSD a few times while debugging to
get some ideas about what I might have done wrong in my first attempt.
of the `machdep.acpi_root' sysctl. This is required on ia64
because the root pointer hardly ever, if at all, lives in the
first MB of memory and also because scanning the first MB of
memory can cause machine checks.
This provides a save and reliable way for ACPI tools to work
with the tables if ACPI support is present in the kernel. On
ia64 ACPI is non-optional.
and attach routines have succeeded so that if they fail we can still use
the PnP BIOS to find ISA on-board devices. The fact that we do this here
is gross but fixing it properly involves a lot more work.
