9600 was a standard baud rate decades ago, but 115200 is now more common
so choose defaults that are useful to the largest number of users.
Note that boot0sio does not support rates above 9600 so it remains
unchanged.
Reviewed by: bz, imp, manu
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36295
We plan to increase the default serial rate to 115200 (see review
D36295) but early boot components that use BIOS interfaces do not
support higher rates. Add a note to that effect.
Reported by: imp
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Fix the 'renaming kludge' that we absolutely cannot do going forward
(it's cost us days of engineering time).
console=comconsole talks to the hardware directly. This is available
only on amd64. It is not available anywhere else (and so requires
changes for people doing comconsole on aarch64)
console=eficom talks to the console via EFI protocols. It's available
on amd64, aarch64 and riscv64. It's the first port that we find, though
it can be overriden by efi_com_port (which should be set to the UID of
the serial port, not the I/O port, despite the name). devinfo -v
will give the UID to uartX mapping.
This is an incompatible change for HYPER-V on amd64. It only works with
eficom console, so you'll need to change your configuration in
loader.conf. No compatibility hack will ever be provided for this (since
it requires renamig, which the loader cannot reliably do).
It's also an incompatible change for aarch64. comconsole will need to
change to eficom. There might be a comconsole "shim" for this.
All the interlock to keep only eficom and comconsole from both attaching
have been removed.
RelNotes: Yes
Sponsored by: Netflix
Discussed with: kevans
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D39982
Every file should be installed exactly once by `make installworld`.
This is especially important for pkgbase.
Loader help files were being installed by each loader variant (e.g.,
the simp, lua, and 4th EFI loaders). Add a (slightly hacky) mechanism
to skip installing help files for all but one variant.
PR: 271178
Reviewed by: imp
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40021
SEGDESC_t needs to be PACKED
there is no status in t_PXENV_UNDI_MCAST_ADDRESS
Reviewed by: imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D39799
This shouldn't be an option (and I added it in the first place back in
4ae4202e70 and
83f4b92050). However, unlike the other
knobs I added back then, this really shouldn't be a knob since it is
hardcoded in the source.
This really shouldn't even be an option given it is hardcoded as a
constant named ORIGIN in the assembly. mbr.S also uses 0x600 and
hardcodes it in both the assembly and the Makefile.
It may be the case that we need to set hw.uart.console manually in some
scenarios that comconsole can't necessarily support. Avoid clobbering
hw.uart.console unless we've actually selected comconsole so that one
could at least get kernel console output..
Discussed with: imp
Sponsored by: Zenith Electronics LLC
Sponsored by: Klara, Inc.
UEFI provides ConIn/ConOut handles for consoles that it supports,
which include the text-video and serial ports. When the serial port
is available, use the UEFI driver instead of direct io-port accesses
to avoid conflicts between the firmware and direct hardware access, as
happens on Hyper-V (Azure) setups.
This change enables efiserialio to be built for efi-amd64 and has
higher order priority vs comconsole, and only uses efiserialio
if the hypervisor is Hyper-V. When efiserialio successfully
probes, it will set efi_comconsole_avail=true which will prevent
comconsole from probing in this setup.
Tested on Hyper-V, ESXi and Azure VMs.
PR: 264267
Reviewed by: kevans, whu
Tested by: whu
Obtained from: Rubicon Communications, LLC (Netgate)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications, LLC (Netgate)
Address two issues with current help file logic:
The existing condition prevents the common help file from being
installed when there are no additional help files defined. This results
in no loader.help on EFI platforms, for example.
Second, due to the fact that we build and install multiple loader types,
each successive install will clobber the previous loader.help. The
result is that we could lose type-specific commands, or possibly list
them in loaders that do not have such commands.
Instead, give each loader type a uniquely named help file. The EFI
loader will look for /boot/loader.help.efi, userboot will look for
/boot/loader.help.userboot, etc. The interpreter variant has no effect
on which help file is loaded.
This leaves the old /boot/loader.help unused.
Some credit for the final approach goes to Mathieu <sigsys@gmail.com>
for their version of the fix in https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22951.
PR: 267134
Reported by: Daniel O'Connor <darius@dons.net.au>
Reviewed by: imp
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28591
Pull together the nearly identical copies of set_currdev in i386,
userboot and efi. Other boot loaders have variances that might be fine
to use the common routine, or not. Since they are harder to test for me,
and ofw and uboot do handle these setting differently, leave them be for
now.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: kevans
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38005
Replace 4 identical copies of *_setcurrdev with gen_setcurrdev to avoid
having to create a 5th copy. uboot_setcurrdev is actually different and
needs to remain separate (even though it's quite similar).
Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: fuz@fuz.su, kevans
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38003
Pass in 'true' if you'd like to search this device's partitions or
'false' if you should just search the device. EFI and (in the future)
kboot have discrete partitions that aren't accessed via the full disk
device. Weird things happen if you try to search in these cases.
Sponsored by: Netflix
To support more flexible device matching, we now pass in the full
devspec to the parsedev routines. For everything execpt uboot, this is
just a drop in (since everything except uboot and openfirmware always
uses disk...: and/or zfs:, but openfirmware isn't really affected).
uboot we kludge around it by subtracting 4 from where the rest of the
device name starts. This is unforunate, and can compute the address one
before the string. But we never dereference that address. uboot needs
more work, and this is an acceptable UB until that other work happens.
OFW doesn't really use the parsedev routines these days (since none of
the supported device uses this... yet). It too needs more work, but it
needs device matching support first.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: delphij
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37553
devinit() marches through all the devices, calling the inint routines if
any exist. Replace all the identical copies of this code.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37349
We no longer need the zfs stubs since we're no longer referencing these
functions outside of zfs.c.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37345
We no longer need to have to hand-code this for each boot loader since
devparse() handles them all with dv_parsedev().
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37341
Change the first argument to zfs_parsedev() to be a pointer to a struct
devdesc *. This now gets filled in with a malloc'd structure that's
returned to the caller that the caller is repsonsible for freeing. Most
nplaces in the tree passed in a malloc'd pointer anyway, and this moves
knowledge of zfs_devdesc more firmly into the zfs.c code.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37336
Change the first argument to disk_parsedev() to be a pointer to a struct
devdesc *. This now gets filled in with a malloc'd structure that's
returned to the caller that the caller is repsonsible for freeing. Most
places in the tree passed in a malloc'd pointer anyway, and this moves
knowledge of disk_devdesc more firmly into the disk.[ch] code.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37335
Remove support for booting off of firewire, and for having dcons via
firewire in the loader. Kernel support for these things is unchanged.
Discussed on arch@ and the current state is not working (and the build
was wrong to boot).
Sponsored by: Netflix
Discussed: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arch/2022-November/000267.html
Reviewed by: kevans, melifaro, emaste
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37334
This saves 80 bytes (the new bootinfo structure was 84 bytes, and a
pointer is 4 bytes). The bi_load32 code is the same size.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: tsoome
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36575
FreeBSD 4.x and earlier used the bi_bios_geom to get the geometry of the
device. Starting in 5.x, with the wdc -> ata rewrite, it was used only
in pc98 kernels to report geometry of the drives. It can be safely
removed as booting kernels this old is no longer supported. This saves
176 bytes in the BIOS loader.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: adrian, emaste
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36543
We set this value twice: once to 0 and once to the VA that has the name
of the kernel. The first store is redundant. In addition, these two
stores of 0 are also redundant. Since we never set them, they will
always be zero, even if we're called multiple times. This saves 21
bytes on BIOS loader.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36541
Use the efi's bi_copyenv to md_copyenv and place it in modinfo.c. Remove
all other nearly identical and efi's has the best error handling.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36574
md_copymodules, bi_copymdoules, bi_copymodules32 (x2) and
bi_copymodules64 (x2) are all the same routine... Replace them all with
md_copymodules. This saves about 800 bytes on i386 BIOS loader, which is
a nice bonus.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36572
Move all the MOD_xxx macros to this header. Each user of this interface
is currently required to define MOD_ALIGNMENT(l). modinfo was selected
because it sits inbetween modules and metadata and will make it easier
to migrate to new, shared intefaces.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36571
To further reduce the differences between the different MOD_xxx macros,
use MOD_ALIGN to do the proper alignment for the given use.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36570
Since archsw.arch_copyin is always i386_copyin, this will be a nop in
terms of functionality. This is a diff reduction against other copies of
the code that differ only by what copyin routine they call.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: tsoome
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36568
disk_blocks assumes BIOSDISK_SECSIZE, but the media may not be using
it. In particular, bioscd on Parallels presents a 2K sector size, so
we end up with a short disk_blocks and subsequent validation fails when
trying to read /boot/lua.
PR: 233098
Reviewed by: imp, tsoome
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36490
And thus has a limited range of supported baud rates. Also add that
setting BOOT_BOOT0_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=0 will leave it unchanged which
sometimes can give you 115200 if the BIOS initialized things outside of
the normal BIOS baud rates (which many x86 enbedded-targetted boards
do).
Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: emaste, manu (earlier versions)
Suggestions by: jhb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36300
The commit message documented it as /etc/src.conf but the comment in the
source mentioned the non-existent /etc/loader.conf.
Fixes: f8a199f28f ("stand: Raise limit to 550,000 bytes for loader")
Raise the limit for /boot/loader to be 550k. The IBM PC imposes a limit
of 640k of RAM below 1MB, which is needed for real mode calls. BTX takes
40k of that. The BIOS takes some amount (25k seems a good "99% take less
than or equal to this" estimate for that, though some systems consume
more). Most typical setups need 25k of stack. This leaves 550k for
code. We set the limit to 550,000 which gives about an extra 13,000
bytes of buffer for machines that whose setups use a little more stack
or whose BIOS reserves a bit more...
Add this derivation in the Makefile. Also recommend setting LOADERSIZE
lower in /etc/src.conf when the loader has to run on a system whose BIOS
takes up more space, or for a complex setup. Add a recipe for how to
find how much RAM your BIOS uses as well (thanks to jhb@ for the
trick). Network cards that boot via PXE and HBAs with their BIOS enabled
are known to be large consumers of lomem space.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: jhb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36152
Turns out there's two hidden a.out dependencies. pxeldr.S assumes it has
access to the a.out header from /boot/loader and cdboot.S assumes that
/boot/loader is also a.out and doesn't use boot2.
So, go back to making a.out files for these and adjust the size checks
to use ls, but we only need to check loader.bin. Trim the size we check
against by 2,000. The difference in size between loader and loader.bin
is about 3000 bytes, but clang15 produces binaries that are a smidge
bigger so we need to relax the check just a little and accept some
additional risk for the moment.
Add some comments to loader's Makefile about this.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: emaste
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36142
It's sometimes desirable to override the size limit: It's a soft limit
and there are times we exceed the limit by just a little bit and don't
want the build to fail (or we are hitting runtime failures below the
510,000 byte limit).
Sponsored by: Netflix
devformat produces the same output as i386_fmtdev, so just use it to
reduce on the dependencies.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: tsoome
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35927
