FreeBSD/alpha. The most significant item is to change the command
argument to ioctl functions from int to u_long. This change brings us
inline with various other BSD versions. Driver writers may like to
use (__FreeBSD_version == 300003) to detect this change.
The prototype FreeBSD/alpha machdep will follow in a couple of days
time.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
to get the prototypes.
Changed some `int's to `boolean_t's. boolean_t's are ints so they are
hard to distinguish from ints.
Converted function headers to old-style. ddb is written in K&R1 C
except where we broke it.
(Boot with the -D flag if you want symbols.)
Make it easier to extend `struct bootinfo' without losing either forwards
or backwards compatibility.
ddb_aout.c:
Get the symbol table from wherever the loader put it.
Nuke db_symtab[SYMTAB_SPACE].
boot.c:
Enable loading of symbols. Align them on a page boundary. Add printfs
about the symbol table sizes.
Pass the memory sizes to the kernel.
Fix initialization of `unit' (it got moved out of the loop).
Fix adding the bss size (it got moved inside an ifdef).
Initialize serial port when RB_SERIAL is toggled on.
Fix comments.
Clean up formatting of recently added code.
io.c:
Clean up formatting of recently added code.
netboot/main.c, machdep.c, wd.c:
Change names of bootinfo fields.
LINT:
Nuke SYMTAB_SPACE.
Fix comment about DODUMP.
Makefile.i386:
Nuke use of dbsym.
Exclude gcc symbols from kernel unless compiling with -g.
Remove unused macro.
Fix comments and formatting.
genassym.c:
Generate defines for some new bootinfo fields. Change names of old ones.
locore.s:
Copy only the valid part of the `struct bootinfo' passed by the loader.
Reserve space for symbol table, if any.
machdep.c:
Check the memory sizes passed by the loader, if any. Don't use them yet.
bootinfo.h:
Add a size field so that we can resolve some mismatches between the loader
bootinfo and the kernel boot info. The version number is not so good for
this because of historical botches and because it's harder to maintain.
Add memory size and symbol table fields. Change the names of everything.
Hacks to save a few bytes:
asm.S, boot.c, boot2.S:
Replace `ouraddr' by `(BOOTSEG << 4)'.
boot.c:
Don't statically initialize `loadflags' to 0. Disable the "REDUNDANT"
code that skips the BIOS variables. Eliminate `total'. Combine some
more printfs.
boot.h, disk.c, io.c, table.c:
Move all statically initialzed data to table.c.
io.c:
Don't put the A20 gate bits in a variable.
``changes'' are actually not changes at all, but CVS sometimes has trouble
telling the difference.
This also includes support for second-directory compiles. This is not
quite complete yet, as `config' doesn't yet do the right thing. You can
still make it work trivially, however, by doing the following:
rm /sys/compile
mkdir /usr/obj/sys/compile
ln -s M-. /sys/compile
cd /sys/i386/conf
config MYKERNEL
cd ../../compile/MYKERNEL
ln -s /sys @
rm machine
ln -s @/i386/include machine
make depend
make
I'd like to be able to say:
options "SYMTAB_SPACE=78000" # Kernel debugger symbol table size
If this seems a reasonable interim solution for freebsd, here's the
patch.. Rich
