only when typing the sequence "123" (opposite to the standard 'push any
button' approach).
That results useful when using serial lines sending garbage and leading
to unwilling boot prompt appearence.
Obtained from: Sandvine Incorporated
Reviewed by: emaste, jhb
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
MFC: 1 week
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Extend the loader to parse the root file system mount options in /etc/fstab,
and set a new loader variable vfs.root.mountfrom.options with these options.
The root mount options must be a comma-delimited string, as specified in
/etc/fstab.
Only set the vfs.root.mountfrom.options variable if it has not been
set in the environment.
sys/kern/vfs_mount.c
====================
When mounting the root file system, pass the mount options
specified in vfs.root.mountfrom.options, but filter out "rw" and "noro",
since the initial mount of the root file system must be done as "ro".
While we are here, try to add a few hints to the mountroot prompt
to give users and idea what might of gone wrong during mounting
of the root file system.
Reviewed by: jhb (an earlier patch)
uses the generic struct dirent, which happens to look identical to UFS's
struct direct. If BSD ever changes dirent then this will be a problem.
Submitted by: matthew dot fleming at isilon dot com
above) exhibits some misbehaviours on machines with AMD64 CPUs,
which at least in some cases I have tracked down to a heap overflow.
It is unclear whether it depends on the CPU or on the pxe bios
itself which may use more memory on AMD machines.
Noticeably a pxeboot compiled from 6.x sources works fine on all
machines I have tried so far, while a pxeboot compiled from 7.x
sources does not.
This patch is a first step in reducing the amount of memory used
while processing the configuration files read by the loader at boot
(some of them are quite large, 1700+ lines), and it does so by:
+ moving a buffer to static memory instead of allocating in the heap;
+ skipping empty lines;
+ reducing the amount of memory used for line descriptors;
Unfortunately there are several changes between 6.x and above,
affecting the compiler, the loader code itself, and libstand,
and it is not so straightforward to
These changes fix the behaviour on one motherboard with a
single-core AMD cpu, but are still not enough e.g on an Asus
M2N-VM (with a dual-core CPU).
I need to investigate the problem a bit more before figuring
out what should be committed to RELENG_7
PR: kern/118222
This bring huge amount of changes, I'll enumerate only user-visible changes:
- Delegated Administration
Allows regular users to perform ZFS operations, like file system
creation, snapshot creation, etc.
- L2ARC
Level 2 cache for ZFS - allows to use additional disks for cache.
Huge performance improvements mostly for random read of mostly
static content.
- slog
Allow to use additional disks for ZFS Intent Log to speed up
operations like fsync(2).
- vfs.zfs.super_owner
Allows regular users to perform privileged operations on files stored
on ZFS file systems owned by him. Very careful with this one.
- chflags(2)
Not all the flags are supported. This still needs work.
- ZFSBoot
Support to boot off of ZFS pool. Not finished, AFAIK.
Submitted by: dfr
- Snapshot properties
- New failure modes
Before if write requested failed, system paniced. Now one
can select from one of three failure modes:
- panic - panic on write error
- wait - wait for disk to reappear
- continue - serve read requests if possible, block write requests
- Refquota, refreservation properties
Just quota and reservation properties, but don't count space consumed
by children file systems, clones and snapshots.
- Sparse volumes
ZVOLs that don't reserve space in the pool.
- External attributes
Compatible with extattr(2).
- NFSv4-ACLs
Not sure about the status, might not be complete yet.
Submitted by: trasz
- Creation-time properties
- Regression tests for zpool(8) command.
Obtained from: OpenSolaris
This uses the common U-Boot support lib (sys/boot/uboot, already used on
FreeBSD/powerpc), and assumes the underlying firmware has the modern API for
stand-alone apps enabled in the config (CONFIG_API).
Only netbooting is supported at the moment.
Obtained from: Marvell, Semihalf
isn't fixed to only open the network device once and not do a open
and close dance on every file access; the firmwares of newer sparc64
machines perform an auto-negotiation with every open which in turn
causes netbooting to take horribly long if we open and close the
device over and over again.
This was introduced as a workaround long time ago for some Alpha firmware
(which is now gone), and actually prevented net_close() to ever be
called.
Certain firmwares (U-Boot) need local shutdown operations to be performed on a
network controller upon transaction end: such platform-specific hooks are
supposed to be called via netif_close() (from within net_close()).
This change effectively reverts the following CVS commit:
sys/boot/common/dev_net.c
revision 1.7
date: 2000/05/13 15:40:46; author: dfr; state: Exp; lines: +2 -1
Only probe network settings on the first open of the network device.
The alpha firmware takes a seriously long time to open the network device
the first time.
Also suppress excessive output while netbooting via loader, unless debugging.
While there, make sys/boot/uboot more style(9) compliant.
Reviewed by: imp
Approved by: cognet (mentor)
(link) address and the physical (load) address. Ideally, the mapping
between link and load addresses should be abstracted by the copyin(),
copyout() and readin() functions, so that we don't have to add kluges
in __elfN(loadimage)(). Then, we could also have paged virtual memory
for the kernel. This can be important under EFI, where you need to
allocate physical memory form the firmware if you want to work in all
scenarios.
defined. This lets each boot program choose which version of cgbase() it
wants to use rather than forcing ufsread.c to have that knowledge.
MFC after: 1 week
Discussed with: imp
saves about 500 bytes in the boot code. While the AT91RM9200 has 12k
of space for the boot loader, which is more than i386's 8k, the code
generated by gcc is a bit bigger.
I've had this in p4 for about two years now.
on i386 and amd64 machines. The overall process is that /boot/pmbr lives
in the PMBR (similar to /boot/mbr for MBR disks) and is responsible for
locating and loading /boot/gptboot. /boot/gptboot is similar to /boot/boot
except that it groks GPT rather than MBR + bsdlabel. Unlike /boot/boot,
/boot/gptboot lives in its own dedicated GPT partition with a new
"FreeBSD boot" type. This partition does not have a fixed size in that
/boot/pmbr will load the entire partition into the lower 640k. However,
it is limited in that it can only be 545k. That's still a lot better than
the current 7.5k limit for boot2 on MBR. gptboot mostly acts just like
boot2 in that it reads /boot.config and loads up /boot/loader. Some more
details:
- Include uuid_equal() and uuid_is_nil() in libstand.
- Add a new 'boot' command to gpt(8) which makes a GPT disk bootable using
/boot/pmbr and /boot/gptboot. Note that the disk must have some free
space for the boot partition.
- This required exposing the backend of the 'add' function as a
gpt_add_part() function to the rest of gpt(8). 'boot' uses this to
create a boot partition if needed.
- Don't cripple cgbase() in the UFS boot code for /boot/gptboot so that
it can handle a filesystem > 1.5 TB.
- /boot/gptboot has a simple loader (gptldr) that doesn't do any I/O
unlike boot1 since /boot/pmbr loads all of gptboot up front. The
C portion of gptboot (gptboot.c) has been repocopied from boot2.c.
The primary changes are to parse the GPT to find a root filesystem
and to use 64-bit disk addresses. Currently gptboot assumes that the
first UFS partition on the disk is the / filesystem, but this algorithm
will likely be improved in the future.
- Teach the biosdisk driver in /boot/loader to understand GPT tables.
GPT partitions are identified as 'disk0pX:' (e.g. disk0p2:) which is
similar to the /dev names the kernel uses (e.g. /dev/ad0p2).
- Add a new "freebsd-boot" alias to g_part() for the new boot UUID.
MFC after: 1 month
Discussed with: marcel (some things might still change, but am committing
what I have so far)
to get the physical address doesn't work for all values of KVA_PAGES,
while masking 8 MSBs works for all values of KVA_PAGES that are
multiple of 4 for non-PAE and 8 for PAE. (This leaves us limited
with 12MB for non-PAE kernels and 14MB for PAE kernels.)
To get things right, we'd need to subtract the KERNBASE from the
virtual address (but KERNBASE is not easy to figure out from here),
or have physical addresses set properly in the ELF headers.
Discussed with: jhb
device (kind) specific unit field to the common field. This change
allows a future version of libefi to work without requiring anything
more than what is defined in struct devdesc and as such makes it
possible to compile said version of libefi for different platforms
without requiring that those platforms have identical derivatives
of struct devdesc.
are no longer limited to a virtual address space of 16 megabytes,
only mask high two bits of a virtual address. This allows to load
larger kernels (up to 1 gigabyte). Not masking addresses at all
was a bad idea on machines with less than >3G of memory -- kernels
are linked at 0xc0xxxxxx, and that would attempt to load a kernel
at above 3G. By masking only two highest bits we stay within the
safe limits while still allowing to boot larger kernels.
(This is a safer reimplmentation of sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot.2.c
rev. 1.71.)
Prodded by: jhb
Tested by: nyan (pc98)
when checking whether it's greater than a struct stat st_size in order
to also catch the case when st_size is -1. Previously this check didn't
trigger on sparc64 when st_size is -1 (as it's the case for a file on
a bzipfs, TFTP server etc.), causing the content of the linker hints
file to be copied to memory referenced by a null-pointer.
PR: 91231
MFC after: 1 week
means:
o Remove Elf64_Quarter,
o Redefine Elf64_Half to be 16-bit,
o Redefine Elf64_Word to be 32-bit,
o Add Elf64_Xword and Elf64_Sxword for 64-bit entities,
o Use Elf_Size in MI code to abstract the difference between
Elf32_Word and Elf64_Word.
o Add Elf_Ssize as the signed counterpart of Elf_Size.
MFC after: 2 weeks
the serial console speed (i386 and amd64 only). If the previous
stage boot loader requested a serial console (RB_SERIAL or RB_MULTIPLE)
then the default speed is determined from the current serial port
speed. Otherwise it is set to 9600 or the value of BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED
at compile time.
This makes it possible to set the serial port speed once in
/boot.config and the setting will propagate to boot2, loader and
the kernel serial console.
- Teach the i386 and pc98 loaders to honor multiple console requests from
their respective boot2 binaries so that the same console(s) are used in
both boot2 and the loader.
- Since the kernel doesn't support multiple consoles, whichever console is
listed first is treated as the "primary" console and is passed to the
kernel in the boot_howto flags.
PR: kern/66425
Submitted by: Gavin Atkinson gavin at ury dot york dot ac dot uk
MFC after: 1 week
user to interrupt autoboot process at all. Currently, even when
`autoboot_delay' is set to 0, loader(8) still allows autoboot process to be
interrupted by pressing any key on the console when the loader reads kernel
and modules from the disk. In some cases (i.e. untrusted environment) such
behaviour is highly indesirable and user should not be allowed to interfere
with the autoboot process at all.
Sponsored by: PBXpress Inc.
MFC after: 3 days
format modules, which are currently only used on the amd64 platform.
This initial implementation just parses enough of the module to
allow it to extract dependencies and load all the bits into the
right place in memory, so the kernel must still do the full relocation
and linking. The details of the loaded sections are passed to the
kernel by supplying a copy of the ELF section header table as module
metadata with the MODINFOMD_SHDR tag.
better relocation support for the amd64 and i386 platforms. This
should not result in any change in functionality, but moves a step
towards supporting the relocatable object file modules on amd64.
The same hack/trick as load_elf*.c uses is used here to simultaneously
support both elf32 and elf64 on amd64 and i386.
will prepend the current kernel booting... This prevents a problem of
loading /boot/kernel's modules when a different kernel has no modules,
but you left your module_load="YES" in loader.conf...
Reviewed by: dcs (minus the help part)
bootp -> BOOTP
bootp.nfsroot -> BOOTP_NFSROOT
bootp.nfsv3 -> BOOTP_NFSV3
bootp.compat -> BOOTP_COMPAT
bootp.wired_to -> BOOTP_WIRED_TO
- i.e. back out the previous commit. It's already possible to
pxeboot(8) with a GENERIC kernel.
Pointed out by: dwmalone
BOOTP -> bootp
BOOTP_NFSROOT -> bootp.nfsroot
BOOTP_NFSV3 -> bootp.nfsv3
BOOTP_COMPAT -> bootp.compat
BOOTP_WIRED_TO -> bootp.wired_to
This lets you PXE boot with a GENERIC kernel by putting this sort of thing
in loader.conf:
bootp="YES"
bootp.nfsroot="YES"
bootp.nfsv3="YES"
bootp.wired_to="bge1"
or even setting the variables manually from the OK prompt.
assure backward compatibility (conditional on !BURN_BRIDGES), look it up
by its old name first, and log a warning (but accept the setting) if it
was found. If both the old and new name are defined, the new name takes
precedence.
Also export vm.kmem_size as a read-only sysctl variable; I find it hard to
tune a parameter when I don't know its default value, especially when that
default value is computed at boot time.
the root path. This is reported to make non-PXE netbooting, such as
is used on sparc64 systems, work correctly when the TFTP server is
not the same as the root server.
PR: kern/57328
Submitted by: Per Kristian Hove <Per.Hove@math.ntnu.no>
