UEFI provides a protocol for accessing randomness. This is a good way
to gather early entropy, especially when there's no driver for the RNG
on the platform (as is the case on the Marvell Armada8k (MACCHIATObin)
for now).
If the entropy_efi_seed option is enabled in loader.conf (default: YES)
obtain 2048 bytes of entropy from UEFI and pass is to the kernel as a
"module" of name "efi_rng_seed" and type "boot_entropy_platform"; if
present, ingest it into the kernel RNG.
Submitted by: Greg V
Reviewed by: markm, kevans
Approved by: csprng (markm)
MFC after: 3 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20780
Booting FreeBSD on an EC2 c5.xlarge instance, the loader "twiddles"
810 times over the course of 510 ms, a rate of 1.59 kHz. Even accepting
that many systems are slower than this particular VM and will take
longer to boot (especially if using spinning-rust disks), this seems
like an unhelpfully large amount of twiddling when compared to the
~60 Hz frame rate of many displays; printing the twiddles also consumes
roughly 10% of the boot time on the aforementioned VM.
Setting the default globaldiv to 16 dramatically reduces the time spent
printing twiddles to the console while still twiddling at roughly 100
Hz; this should be ample even for systems which take longer to boot and
consequently twiddle slower.
Note that this can adjusted via the twiddle_divisor variable in
loader.conf, but that file is not processed until nearly halfway
through the loader's runtime.
Reviewed by: allanjude, jrtc27, kevans
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: https://www.patreon.com/cperciva
Differential Revision: <https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32163>
Document "NO" special value for the autoboot_delay and move the
description to loader.conf.5.
imp reworked some of the wording from danger's patch.
Reviewed by: imp
PR: 85128
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11887
hw.vga.textmode is directing VT VGA backend to use text mode.
The default screen mode for BIOS loader is text, and default
screen mode for VT VGA backend is graphics (unless we are running on
hypervisor or hw.vga.textmode is set to 1). Using hw.vga.textmode
for loader does remove possibility to have graphical mode VT VGA with
text mode loader.
screen.textmode can have possible values "0" to disable text mode,
and "1" to set text mode.
Draw console on efi.
Add vbe framebuffer for BIOS loader (vbe off, vbe on, vbe list,
vbe set xxx).
autoload font (/boot/fonts) based on resolution and font size.
Add command loadfont (set font by file) and
variable screen.font (set font by size). Pass loaded font to kernel.
Export variables:
screen.height
screen.width
screen.depth
Add gfx primitives to draw the screen and put png image on the screen.
Rework menu draw to iterate list of consoles to enamble device specific
output.
Probably something else I forgot...
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27420
loader_conf_dirs is the supporting mechanism for the included
/boot/loader.conf.d directory. When lualoader finishes processing all of
the loader_conf_files it finds after walking /boot/defaults/loader.conf,
it will now check any and all loader_conf_dirs and process files ending
in ".conf" as if they were a loader.conf.
Note that loader_conf_files may be specified in a loader.conf.d config
file, but loader_conf_dirs may *not*. It will only be processed as specified
in /boot/defaults/loader.conf and any loader_conf_files that were loaded
from there.
Reviewed by: allanjude, freqlabs, rpokala, tsoome
Includes suggestion from: imp
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25608
- whitespace at end of input line
- skipping paragraph macro: Pp at the end of Sh
- new sentence, new line
- consider using OS macro: Fx
- AUTHORS section without An macro
- skipping paragraph macro: Pp before Ss
bootonce feature is temporary, one time boot, activated by
"bectl activate -t BE", "bectl activate -T BE" will reset the bootonce flag.
By default, the bootonce setting is reset on attempt to boot and the next
boot will use previously active BE.
By setting zfs_bootonce_activate="YES" in rc.conf, the bootonce BE will
be set permanently active.
bootonce dataset name is recorded in boot pool labels, bootenv area.
in case of nextboot, the nextboot_enable boolean variable is recorded in
freebsd:nvstore nvlist, also stored in boot pool label bootenv area.
On boot, the loader will process /boot/nextboot.conf if nextboot_enable
is "YES", and will set nextboot_enable to "NO", preventing /boot/nextboot.conf
processing on next boot.
bootonce and nextboot features are usable in both UEFI and BIOS boot.
To use bootonce/nextboot features, the boot loader needs to be updated on disk;
if loader.efi is stored on ESP, then ESP needs to be updated and
for BIOS boot, stage2 (zfsboot or gptzfsboot) needs to be updated
(gpart or other tools).
At this time, only lua loader is updated.
Sponsored by: Netflix, Klara Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25512
Correct a small mistake in r363060's backaout of r362998 by reverse-applying
r362998 by hand to loader.conf.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25606
A future change in lualoader may take some liberties with the
loader_conf_files in the name of efficiency; namely, it may start omitting
it from the loader environment entirely so that it doesn't need to worry
about maintaining any specific value.
This variable has historically been incredibly volatile anyways, as it may
get set to completely different values in any given configuration file to
trigger a load of more files.
Document now that we may not maintain it in the future, but perhaps we'll
reserve the right to change our minds and eventually formally export all of
the loader configuration files that were read using this variable.
MFC after: 3 days
prison0's hostuuid will get set by the hostid rc script, either after
generating it and saving it to /etc/hostid or by simply reading /etc/hostid.
Some things (e.g. arbitrary MAC address generation) may use the hostuuid as
a factor in early boot, so providing a way to read /etc/hostid (if it's
available) and using it before userland starts up is desirable. The code is
written such that the preload doesn't *have* to be /etc/hostid, thus not
assuming that there will be newline at the end of the buffer or even the
exact shape of the newline. White trailing whitespace/non-printables
trimmed, the result will be validated as a valid uuid before it's used for
early boot purposes.
The preload can be turned off with hostuuid_load="NO" in /boot/loader.conf,
just as other preloads; it's worth noting that this is a 37-byte file, the
overhead is believed to be generally minimal.
It doesn't seem necessary at this time to be concerned with kern.hostid.
One does wonder if we should consider validating hostuuids coming in
via jail_set(2); some bits seem to care about uuid form and we bother
validating format of smbios-provided uuid and in-fact whatever uuid comes
from /etc/hostid.
Reviewed by: karels, delphij, jamie
MFC after: 1 week (don't preload by default, probably)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24288
As documented in loader.conf(5), kernels_autodetect="YES" will cause the
Lua scripts to effectively scan /boot for directories with a "kernel" file
inside, to be listed in the loader menu.
Approved by: re (kib)
This is a step in the process of easing migration into the new world order
of DRM drivers. Strongly encourage users towards loading DRM modules via
rc.conf(5) instead of loader.conf(5) by failing the load from loader(8).
Users so inclined may wipe out the blacklist via module_blacklist="" in
loader.conf(5), and it is expected that these modules will eventually be
removed from the blacklist. They may still be loaded as dependencies of
other modules or explicitly via the loader prompt, but this should not be a
major problem.
Approved by: re (rgrimes)
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16914
/etc/security/audit_event to provide a list of audit event-number <->
name mappings. However, this occurs too late for anonymous tracing.
With this change, adding 'audit_event_load="YES"' to /boot/loader.conf
will cause the boot loader to preload the file, and then the kernel
audit code will parse it to register an initial set of audit event-number
<-> name mappings. Those mappings can later be updated by auditd(8) if
the configuration file changes.
Reviewed by: gnn, asomers, markj, allanjude
Discussed with: jhb
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16589
Effectively disabling the mode changing bits in the loader. No matter which
way we go with it, it seems to be wrong- either the firmware doesn't change
the resolution and reports the resolution we requested, or the firmware
changes the resolution and doesn't report the resolution we requested. It
some cases, it does the right thing, but the bad cases outweight those.
Interested individuals can still set efi_max_resolution to 1080p or whatnot
in loader.conf(5) to restore the new behavior, but the new behavior does not
work out well for many cases.
Discussed with: imp
Default the max resolution to 1080p, we'll accept Width x Height
specifications along with the following presets:
- 480p
- 720p
- 1080p
- 2160p or 4k
- 5k
PR: 224825
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14801
The former is fairly vague; these are FDT overlays to be applied to the
running system, so /boot/dtb is a sensible location to put it without
cluttering up /boot/dtb even further if desired.
These tend to have less coverage in other places and they don't have
defaults as of yet, so mention them here:
- fdt_overlays
- kernels_autodetect (lualoader only)
Remove almost all of the _load=XXX options (kept only those relevant
to splash screens, since there were other settings).
Remove the excessively cutesy comment blocks.
Remove excessive comments and replace with similar content
Remove gratuitous blank lines (while leaving some)
We have too many modules to list them all here. There's no purpose in
doing so and it's a giant hassle to maintain. In addition the extra
~500 lines slow this down on small platforms. It slowed it down
so much small platforms forked, which caused other issues...
This is a compromise between those two extremes.
We really only need one loader.conf. The other loader.conf was created
because the current one took forever to parse in FORTH. That will be
fixed in the next commit.
