Mike says the whole idea of a current device was a bad idea in first place,
and will be doing away with currdev.
Anyway, people are not supposed to even notice this. :-)
Memory" called as function 0x87 of interrupt 0x15. Since the Mylex RAID
adapter's BIOS used this function to access memory (actually PCI bus
space) beyond 16 MB, this patch also allows BTX to address all 4 Gig of
possible address space on i386+. Since the loader does not have room for
4 MB of page tables, this was done by turning off paging.
Paging was turned off via a compile time setting which defaults to off.
To enable paging, simply define the make variable PAGING.
rnordier might want to clean this up later.
Submitted by: W. Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>,
Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@ares.dsuper.net>
Reviewed by: msmith
Required by: Mylex RAID adapter's BIOS
This happened to be my first "for real" broken world. I had broken
it once before, but nobody noticed, so it didn't count.
So, how do I get the "I broke world and all I got was the lousy t-shirt"
t-shirt?
- Make as much of the makefile for each of the three flavours
(disk, CDROM, net) common.
- Special-case the libalpha startup module on its use in boot1, not
the other way around.
- Build the loader out of a "loader" directory
Reviewed by: mjacob, dfr
* Make it possible to type a filename to boot1 so that it is possible to
recover from fatally broken versions of /boot/loader.
* Make a start at a CD boot program (not yet functional).
the SRM environment. This makes the traditional "boot [/kernel] -s"
and similar things work on the Alpha. Since the flags are appended,
they augment and/or override those from the SRM environment.
a module. Also modified the code to work on FreeBSD/alpha and added
device vr0 to the alpha GENERIC config.
While I was in the neighborhood, I noticed that I was still using
#define NFPX 1 in all of the Makefiles that I'd copied from the fxp
module. I don't really use #define Nfoo X so it didn't matter, but
I decided to customize this correctly anyway.
is, don't assume that SCSI ID corresponds to a unit number of da
device. Unit number of da device is provided by 2nd stage loader
and 3rd stage loader now use it.
- Fix drive letter to display.
Submitted by: IMAI Takeshi <take-i@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
bootable on 1 FDD PC98 machines. (When an external FDD unit is
installed, unit numbers become discontinuous.)
Submitted by: IMAI Takeshi <take-i@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
result of a joined effort with parts contributed by Doug Rabson, Warner
Losh and Stefan Esser (hope I did not forget anybody). Part of the sources
is obtained from NetBSD with modifications.
This code is work in progress:
As of the time of the initial import, a loader.exe executable is built,
which can be loaded on an Alpha with NT only firmware, but no attempt is
made to switch to OSF PAL code as required to start an actual kernel.
numbers that we have been doing in the past, and read /etc/fstab off the
proposed root filesystem to determine the actual device name and vfs
type for the root filesystem. These are then exported to the kernel
via the environment variable vfs.root.mountfrom.
This should resolve the problem raised in PR 12315, and incidentally
makes it easier to determine what geometry the BIOS is actually using
(by way of boot -v and dmesg).
flag to the kernel to mount a CDROM as the root filesystem. Alternatively,
the boot_cdrom env var can be set.
As Mike Smith noted, "-C is the "wrong" way to do this", but this is
an acceptable stopgap in lieu of a better way.
PR: bin/11884
Reviewed by: msmith@freebsd.org
Use colons instead of semi-colons in the default init_path to behave like
UNIX instead of DOS.
Suggested by: bde
Reminded by: des (with no hint as to *which* man page).
* Make the network code in the bootstrap more chatty (helps debugging)
* Add nfs root stuff to cpu_rootconf(). I also added a check to make sure
it really was netbooting which allows the use of the same kernel for local
and network boots.
* Tweak the de driver so that it takes the speed setting from the console
for the alpha (some PWSs have broken de chipsets). This is the same
behaviour as NetBSD/alpha.
Submitted by: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
With these changes plus the egcs fix I committed a few minutes ago,
"make -DWANT_AOUT world" works again. Most likely, "make upgrade"
is fixed too, though I haven't tested that.
i386 platform boots, it is no longer ISA-centric, and is fully dynamic.
Most old drivers compile and run without modification via 'compatability
shims' to enable a smoother transition. eisa, isapnp and pccard* are
not yet using the new resource manager. Once fully converted, all drivers
will be loadable, including PCI and ISA.
(Some other changes appear to have snuck in, including a port of Soren's
ATA driver to the Alpha. Soren, back this out if you need to.)
This is a checkpoint of work-in-progress, but is quite functional.
The bulk of the work was done over the last few years by Doug Rabson and
Garrett Wollman.
Approved by: core
