V100, the firmware is known to be broken and not allowing to simultaneously
open disk devices, causing attempts to boot from a mirror or RAIDZ to cause
a crash. This will be worked around later. The firmwares of newer sun4u models
don't seem to exhibit this problem though.
Steps for ZFS booting:
1. create VTOC8 label
# gpart create -s vtoc8 da0
2. add partitions, f.e.:
# gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -s 60g da0
# gpart add -t freebsd-swap da0
resulting in something like:
# gpart show
=> 0 143331930 da0 VTOC8 (68G)
0 125821080 1 freebsd-zfs (60G)
125821080 17510850 2 freebsd-swap (8.4G)
3. create zpool
# zpool create bunker da0a
or for mirror/RAIDZ (after preparing additional disks as in steps 1. + 2.):
# zpool create bunker mirror da0a da1a
# zpool create bunker raidz da0a da1a da2a ...
4. set bootfs
# zpool set bootfs=bunker bunker
5. install zfsboot
# zpool export bunker
# gpart bootcode -p /boot/zfsboot da0
6. write zfsloader to the ZFS Boot Block (so far, there's no dedicated tool
for this, so dd(1) has to be used for this purpose)
When using mirror/RAIDZ, step 4. and the dd(1) invocation should be repeated
for the additional disks in order to be able to boot from another disk in
case of failure.
# sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10
# dd if=/boot/zfsloader of=/dev/da0a bs=512 oseek=1024 conv=notrunc
# zpool import bunker
7. install system on ZFS filesystem
Don't forget to set 'zfs_load="YES"' and vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:bunker" in
loader.conf as well as 'zfs_enable="YES"'in rc.conf.
8. copy zpool.cache to the ZFS filesystem
cp -p /boot/zfs/zpool.cache /bunker/boot/zfs/zpool.cache
9. set mountpoint
# zfs set mountpoint=/ bunker
10. Now, given that aliases for all disks in the zpool exists (check with
the `devalias` command on the boot monitor prompt) and disk0 corresponds
to da0 (likewise for additional disks), the system can be booted from the
ZFS with:
{1} ok boot disk0
PR: 165025
Submitted by: Gavin Mu
Discussed on hackers and recommended for inclusion into 9.0 at the devsummit.
All support email to devin dteske at vicor dot ignoreme dot com .
Submitted by: dteske at vicor dot ignoreme dot com
Reviewed by: me and many others
by keeping it opened after the first open and closing it via the
cleanup handler when NETIF_OPEN_CLOSE_ONCE is defined in order to
avoid the open-close-dance on every file access which with firmware
that for example performs an auto-negotiation on every open causes
netbooting to take horribly long. Basically the behavior with this
knob enabled resembles the one employed between r60506 and r177108
(and for sparc64 also again since r182919) with the addition that
the network device now is closed eventually before entering the
kernel and before rebooting. Actually I think this should be the
desired MI behavior, however the U-Boot loader actually requires
net_close() to be called after every transaction in order for some
local shutdown operations to be performed (and which I think thus
will break on concurrent opens, i.e. when netdev_opens is > 1, like
the loader does at least for disks when LOADER_GZIP_SUPPORT is
enabled).
- Use NETIF_OPEN_CLOSE_ONCE to replace the hack, which artificially
increased netdev_opens for sparc64 in order to keep the network
device opened forever, as at least some firmware versions require
the network device to be closed eventually before entering the
kernel or otherwise will DMA received packets to stale memory.
The powerpc OFW loader probably wants NETIF_OPEN_CLOSE_ONCE to be
set as well for the same reasons.
- It is opt-out for now so as to give it maximum testing, but it may be
turned opt-in for stable branches depending on the consensus. You
can turn it off with WITHOUT_SSP.
- WITHOUT_SSP was previously used to disable the build of GNU libssp.
It is harmless to steal the knob as SSP symbols have been provided
by libc for a long time, GNU libssp should not have been much used.
- SSP is disabled in a few corners such as system bootstrap programs
(sys/boot), process bootstrap code (rtld, csu) and SSP symbols themselves.
- It should be safe to use -fstack-protector-all to build world, however
libc will be automatically downgraded to -fstack-protector because it
breaks rtld otherwise.
- This option is unavailable on ia64.
Enable GCC stack protection (aka Propolice) for kernel:
- It is opt-out for now so as to give it maximum testing.
- Do not compile your kernel with -fstack-protector-all, it won't work.
Submitted by: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
- Factor out common settings and put them in an upper level Makefile.inc.
- Properly use PROG for real programs, not their products.
- Further reduce diffs to i386 versions.
Tested on: sparc64 (panther)
path, instead of an internal i386 specific one. Don't try to interpret
a disklabel in ofw_disk.c, open the partition's device node directly and
let the firmware do it. This fixes booting from a partition other than 'a'
on sparc64, which is needed to support more installation methods.
No objection: ppc
special-case make rule
2.) Cleanups, remove superfluous expicit rules, add -nostdlib to LDFLAGS,
remove -X and -g, remove -g from CFLAGS
3.) Add BINDIR
4.) Build install the loader help file, add an empty help.sparc64
5.) Change the default configuration to only support booting from disk
6.) Get libofw.a from a path relative ${.OBJDIR}, not ${.CURDIR}
Submitted by: jake (1 - 5), obrien (6)
