video console which doesn't take any input from keyboard and hides
all output replacing it with ``spinning'' character (useful for
embedded products and custom installations).
Sponsored by: Sippy Software, Inc.
- When the video BIOS is called to clear the region (x, y)-(79, 24)
(by scrolling), the slashed region in Fig.1 is cleared. CD() is
supposed to clear the region shown in Fig.2.
x x
+-------+ +-------+
| | | |
y| ////| y| ////|
| ////| |///////|
| ////| |///////|
+-------+ +-------+
Fig.1 Fig.2
- Don't move the cursor during this operation.
- Be consistent about placing spaces around keywords and
operators; don't mix statements like "if(A==B)" and "if (X == Y)",
"return(0)" and "return (-1)", "P=10" and "Q = 0", etc.
- Consitently indent lines. It's not good to indent by 8 columns
in one part of the file, and by 4 columns in the other part.
capabilities are: AF, AB, cm, ho, me, cd. The code is hidden behind
-DTERM_EMU - should it cause any problems, you can remove this define
to get back the old behaviour.
You'll find some examples how to use it in src/share/examples/bootforth.
Reviewed by: jkh
filesystems.
- New 'help' command and data in the help.* files (not yet installed),
provides topic and subtopic help, indexes, etc.
- Don't crash if the user tries to set an invalid console. Be helpful
instead.
- Expand tabs (badly) on the i386 video console.
- Some minor cosmetic changes.
Cosmetic change to the init-time character eater (like, make it increment
the index counter - if there's a problem, it would sit there in an infinite
loop instead of only running 10 times).
Use bd_getdev() to work out a dev_t for the root device.
Allow $rootdev to override $currdev as the root device.
biosdisk.c
Save the slice table and disklabel when opening a disk.
Add bd_getdev(), which attempts to return a dev_t corresponding
to a given device. Cases which it still doesn't get right:
- The inevitable da-when-wd-also-exists
- Disks with no slice table (the slice number is not set correctly)
The first is difficult to get right, the second will be
fixed in an upcoming commit.
comconsole.c
vidconsole.c
getchar() should return an 8-bit value; some BIOSsen pack extra
information in %eax.
libi386.h
Remove some stale prototypes, add new ones.
- Discard large amounts of BIOS-related code in favour of the more compact
BTX vm86 interface.
- Build the loader module as ELF, although the resulting object is a.out,
make gensetdefs 32/64-bit sensitive and use a single copy of it.
- Throw away installboot, as it's no longer required.
- Use direct bcopy operations in the i386_copy module, as BTX
maps the first 16M of memory. Check operations against the
detected size of actual memory.
'three-stage' bootstrap.
There are a number of caveats with the code in its current state:
- The i386 bootstrap only supports booting from a floppy.
- The kernel and kld do not yet know how to deal with the extended
information and module summary passed in.
- PnP-based autodetection and demand loading of modules is not implemented.
- i386 ELF kernel loading is not ready yet.
- The i386 bootstrap is loaded via an ugly blockmap.
On the alpha, both net- and disk-booting (SRM console machines only) is
supported. No blockmaps are used by this code.
Obtained from: Parts from the NetBSD/i386 standalone bootstrap.
