As noted in UDPATING, the new loader tunable efi.rt_disabled may be used to
disable EFIRT at runtime. It should have no effect if you are not booted via
UEFI boot.
MFC after: 6 weeks
loading.
If we are booting in a conforming UEFI Boot Manager Environment, then
use the BootCurrent variable to find the BootXXXX we're using. Once we
find that, then if it contains more than one EFI_DEVICE_PATH in its
what to boot section, try to use the last one as the kernel to
load. This will also set the default root partition as well. If
there's only one path, or if there's an error along the way, assume
that nothing specific was specified and revert to the old
algorithm. If something was specified, but not found, then fail the
boot. Otherwise you that, specific thing. On FreeBSD, this can be set
using efibootmgr -l <loader> -k <kernel>. We try a few variations of
kernel to cope with the fact that UEFI comes from a DOS world where
paths might be upper case and/or contain back-slashes.
Note: In an ideal world, we'd work out where we are in chain loading
by looking at the passed-in image handle and doing name
matching. However, that's unreliable since at least boot1.efi booted
images don't have that, hence the assumption that loader.efi needs to
load the last thing on the list, if possible.
The reason we fail for something specific is so that we can fully
participate in the UEFI Boot Manager Protocol and fail over to the
next item in the list of BootOrder choices when something goes wrong
at this stage.
This implements was was talked about in freebsd-arch@ last year
https://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3576+0+archive/2017/freebsd-arch/20171022.freebsd-arch
and documented in full (after changed resulting from the discussion) in
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aK9IqF-60JPEbUeSAUAkYjF2W_8EnmczFs6RqCT90Jg/edit#
although one or two minor details may have been modified in this
implementation to make it work, and the ZFS MEDIA PATH extension isn't
implemented. This does not yet move things to ESP:\efi\freebsd\loader.efi.
RelNotes: Yes
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16403
zfsloader as a hard link. While newer ones do, the whole point of the
link was to transition to the new world order smoothly. A hard link is
less flexible, but it works and will result in fewer bumps. Adjust
UPDATING entry to match.
This variable has been given the name "loader_env.disabled" as it's the
primary way most people will have an MD environment. This restores the
previously-default behavior of ignoring the loader(8) environment, which may
be useful for vendor distributions or other scenarios where inheriting the
loader environment may be considered a security issue or potentially
breaking of a more locked-down environment.
As the change to config(5) indicates, disabling the loader environment
should not be a choice made lightly since it may provide ACPI hints and
other useful things that the system can rely on to boot.
An UPDATING entry has been added to mention an upgrade path for those that
may have relied on the previous behavior.
Discussed with: bde
Relnotes: yes (maybe)
Replace size_t members with ksize_t (uint64_t) and pointer members
(never used as pointers in userspace, but instead as unique
idenitifiers) with kvaddr_t (uint64_t). This makes the structs
identical between 32-bit and 64-bit ABIs.
On 64-bit bit systems, the ABI is maintained. On 32-bit systems,
this is an ABI breaking change. The ABI of most of these structs
was previously broken in r315662. This also imposes a small API
change on userspace consumers who must handle kernel pointers
becoming virtual addresses.
PR: 228301 (exp-run by antoine)
Reviewed by: jtl, kib, rwatson (various versions)
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15386
- inline atomics in modules on i386 and amd64 (they were always
inline on other arches)
- allow modules to opt in to inlining locks by specifying
MODULE_TIED=1 in the makefile
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: Limelight Networks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16079
The '%I' format in the kern.corefile sysctl limits the number of
core files that a process can generate to the number stored in the
debug.ncores sysctl. The '%I' format is replaced by the single digit
index. Previously, if all indexes were taken the kernel would overwrite
only a core file with the highest index in a filename.
Currently the system will create a new core file if there is a free
index or if all slots are taken it will overwrite the oldest one.
Reviewed by: kib(code), bcr (updating)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15991
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16084
The size limits came from a flawed understanding of dump records.
The real issue was that dump was bogusly interpreting c_count
sometimes. r334978 fixes that.
This driver was merged to HEAD one week prior to Exar publicly announcing they
had left the Ethernet market. It is not known to be used and has various code
quality issues spotted by Brooks and Hiren. Retire it in preparation for
FreeBSD 12.0.
Submitted by: kbowling
Reviewed by: brooks imp
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Limelight Networks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15442
zones. This does not affect the vast majority of users who do not care about
(or even know about) the tm_isdst flag but may be slightly surprising to those
with a more specialised interest in time zone arcana.
MFC after: 3 days
This driver was for an early and uncommon legacy PCI 10GbE for a single
ASIC, Intel 82597EX. Intel quickly shifted to the long lived ixgbe family.
Submitted by: kbowling
Reviewed by: brooks imp jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Limelight Networks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15234
This driver supports legacy, 32-bit PCI devices, and had an ambiguous
license. Supported devices were already reported to be rare in 2003
(when an earlier version of the driver was removed in r123201).
Reviewed by: rgrimes
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15245
While Arcnet has some continued deployment in industrial controls, the
lack of drivers for any of the PCI, USB, or PCIe NICs on the market
suggests such users aren't running FreeBSD.
Evidence in the PR database suggests that the cm(4) driver (our sole
Arcnet NIC) was broken in 5.0 and has not worked since.
PR: 182297
Reviewed by: jhibbits, vangyzen
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15057
Defines in net/if_media.h remain in case code copied from ifconfig is in
use elsewere (supporting non-existant media type is harmless).
Reviewed by: kib, jhb
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15017
With r332099 changing syslogd(8) to parse RFC 5424 formatted syslog
messages, go ahead and also change the syslog(3) libc function to
generate them. Compared to RFC 3164, RFC 5424 has various advantages,
such as sub-second precision for log entry timestamps.
As this change could have adverse effects when not updating syslogd(8)
or using a different system logging daemon, add a notice to UPDATING and
increase __FreeBSD_version.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14926
If you're building -CURRENT releases and it fails when building ISO images on
amd64 you'll need to update makefs.
Reported by: dch
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
These problems have only been observed with boards using U-Boot (e.g. ARM)
where virtual addresses are already set in the memory map by the firmware
and the firmware is expecting a call to SetVirtualAddressMap to be made.
I refrain from mentioning this in the note because this could also be the
case on some not-yet-tested firmware on amd64 and it's not a bad
recommendation for the general case.
liblua glues the lua run time into the boot loader. It implements all
the runtime routines that lua expects. In addition, it has a few
standard 'C' headers that nueter various aspects of the LUA build that
are too specific to lua to be in libsa. Many refinements from the
original code to improve implementation and the number of included lua
libraries. Use int64_t for lua_Number. Have "/boot/lua" be the default
module path. Numerous cleanups from the original GSoC project,
including hacking libsa to allow lua to be built with only one change
outside luaconf.h.
Add the final bit of lua glue to bring in liblua and plug into the
multiple interpreter framework, previously committed.
Add LOADER_LUA option, currently off by default.
Presently, this is an experimental option. One must opt-in to using
this by defining WITH_LOADER_LUA and WITHOUT_FORTH. It's been
lightly tested, so keep a backup copy of your old loader handy.
The menu code, coming in the next commit, hasn't been exhaustively
tested. A LUA boot loader is 60k larger than a FORTH one, which is
80k larger than a no-interpreter one. Subtle changes in size
may tip things past some subtle limit (the binary is ~430k now
when built with LUA). A future version may offer coexistance.
Bump FreeBSD version to 1200058 to mark the milestone.
Pedro Souza's 2014 Summer of Code project. Rui Paulo, Pedro Arthur,
Zakary Nafziger and Wojciech A. Koszek also contributed. Warner Losh
reworked it extensively into its current form.
Obtained from: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/LuaLoader
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code
Relnotes: Yes
MFC After: 1 month
Differential Review: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14295
6.0.0 (branches/release_60 r321788). Upstream has branched for the
6.0.0 release, which should be in about 6 weeks. Please report bugs and
regressions, so we can get them into the release.
Please note that from 3.5.0 onwards, clang, llvm and lldb require C++11
support to build; see UPDATING for more information.
MFC after: 3 months
