and assume that the BIOS has set it up for us. This allows folks with a
serial-aware BIOS to set the BIOS to speeds above 9600 and allow boot0 to
just use the existing settings.
- Purge some gratuitous cpp comments as per style(9).
Submitted by: Danny Braniss danny at cs dot huji dot ac dot il (1)
MFC after: 1 month
assembler to cpp(1) comment conversions. This allows btx to compile again
when BTX_SERIAL is defined.
Reported by: Danny Braniss danny at cs dot huji dot ac dot il
MFC after: 1 month
to 4.0 and RELENG_3), the BTX mini-kernel used paging rather than flat
mode and clients were limited to a virtual address space of 16 megabytes.
Because of this limitation, boot2 silently masked all physical addresses
in any binaries it loaded so that they were always loaded into the first
16 Meg. Since BTX no longer has this limitation (and hasn't for a long
time), remove the masking from boot2. This allows boot2 to load kernels
larger than about 12 to 14 meg (12 for non-PAE, 14 for PAE).
Submitted by: Sergey Lyubka devnull at uptsoft dot com
MFC after: 1 month
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.
This way of operation is more robust than the "AI" used
before.
Add flags to mbr accessible from make.conf as BOOT_MBR_FLAGS.
Only one flag is defined now, "allow using packet mode", which
is 0x80 in accord with the rest of i386 boot code. The "packet"
flag is on by default.
PR: i386/70241
Submitted by: Valentin Nechayev <netch <@> netch.kiev.ua> (inital version)
Discussed with: jhb (by Valentin Nechayev)
Tested on: bochs (with EDD turned on or off by patching the BIOS), PCs
the flag, fall back to the old INT13/AH=02 function if that fails.
This way of operation is less likely to fail with modern BIOSes and
large disks of strange geometries.
PR: i386/70241
Submitted by: Valentin Nechayev <netch <@> netch.kiev.ua> (inital version)
Discussed with: jhb (by Valentin Nechayev)
Tested on: bochs (with EDD turned on or off by patching the BIOS), PCs
have clear idea on boot2 BSS size and leaves portion of it not zeroed out.
btxcsu.s is in much better position for this job.
Obtained from: DragonflyBSD (with minor adjustments)
%di will already point to the character after the nul char when the
'repnz scasb' terminates.
Submitted by: Tom Cosgrove tom dot cosgrove at arches-consulting dot com
fills its field (6 characters). In that case the OEMID is not
null-terminated, and the sprintf that was used would copy up to the
next null byte, which could be pretty far away.
boot0sio.s was repo-copied to boot0.S.
- Rename boot0ext.s to boot0ext.S, to stay consistent
with other preprocessed asm files around here, and
for better portability.
Repocopied by: joe
switch to using C99-style comments everywhere in preprocessed
assembler. The reason is that lines starting with the regexp
'^[[:space:]]#' are treated as preprocessing directives, and
while it seems to work now with GCC, it's not necessarily has
to work. Use C99 comments `//' for the trailing comments to
save whitespace.
