"boot.config" (relative to the root directory on the 'a' partition
on the first BSD slice) if it exists. If it doesn't exist, then
the only visible changes should be that the kernel name isn't reset
to "/kernel" after looking it up fails and that the default name
is now "kernel".
The new function readfile() can be used for other things:
- reading help messages.
- reading splash screens.
- reading userconfig info.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
They were garbage that happened to be 0 in many cases. (real_to_prot()
happens to leave the value of the real-mode %cr0 in %eax and the
memory-size BIOS calls usually don't touch the upper bits of %eax.
The upper 16 bits of %cr0 are usually 0 at boot time, at least on
486's.
Should be in 2.2.
makerom checksum check calculation was a no-op
nb8390.c had a bug which caused packet_len to be incorrect
for packets which wrapped in the buffer.
Submitted by: Linux developers (I lost the email with their names)
partition is 0, which is outside the slice unless the disk is
dangerously dedicated. There is little error checking later, and
following garbage metadata outside the slice usually caused crashes,
Empty 'a' partitions are fairly easy to create by cloning the label
for the whole disk.
Fixed a missing newline in a related error message.
the keyboard IO port definitions from <machine/console.h>.
Note: I do not have a machine available to test this yet, I sent this
for review to several people who have not replied.
This is also totally busted in 2.2, which has half of the syscons/psm/kbdio
changes in it. This really desperately needs to be tested and fixed
in 2.2 as well.
for get_diskinfo(), whose BIOS call sets %es:%edi in some cases, although
most documentation says that it doesn't change %edi in the cases that
happened to matter (for hard disks).
This shall be in 2.1.6 and 2.2.
Submitted by: Tor.Egge@idt.ntnu.no
(except I kept the unnecessary preservation of %edx and %ecx)
shipped with freebsd can be changed without modifying the Makefiles directly.
Creates: BOOT_FORCE_COMCONSOLE
BOOT_PROBE_KEYBOARD
BOOT_PROBE_KEYBOARD_LOCK
BOOT_COMCONSOLE (port value for console)
Saved a few bytes by copying `dosdev' and/or `name' to local variables.
This optimization (for dosdev) was done in one place before but this
was lost in the devread() cleanup. This optimization (for dosdev)
can almost be done by bogusly declaring dosdev as const, but gcc still
often space-pessimizes code like the following:
extern const int dosdev; ... foo(dosdev); bar(dosdev);
gcc often doesn't bother to copy dosdev to a temporary local because
the local would have to be preserved in memory across the call to
foo(). OTOH, for
extern int dosdev; ... auto int dosdev_copy = dosdev; ...
foo(dosdev_copy); bar(dosdev_copy);
the copy must be made because foo() might alter dosdev.
the pointer to the string "/kernel". This pointer was once only
statically to once save space, but it has had to be dynamically
initialized for some time, so the static initialization just wastes
space. The string gets moved to the text section, so the actual
savings may be negative due to padding.
- avoiding strcmp("?" saved 12 bytes. gcc inlined the strcmp()
but this takes as much or more code as a function call. The
inlining was bogus because the strcmp() in the bootstrap isn't
standard.
- using a char instead of an int for the boolean `last_only' saved 8
bytes. Booleans should usually be represented as chars on the i386.
- simplifying the return tests saved 9 bytes.
- using putc instead of printf to print a newline saved 3 bytes of code
and 2 bytes of const data.
- avoiding `else's by always doing the else clause and fixing it up
saved 4+8 bytes.
gcc always generates large code for accesses to globals. For locals
it only generates large code if there are more than 128 bytes of
locals. It sorts scalar locals after array locals to pessimize for
space in the usual case when there are more (static) references to
scalars than to arrays.
Saved another 16 bytes (13 before padding) by adding a `continue'.
Fall-through tests normally save space, but here one of them made
gcc do space-unoptimal register allocation (it allocates ch in %bl
because preserving this register across function calls is "free",
but comparisions with %bl take one byte fewer than comparsions with
%bl).
I just couldn't get the code to be as small as it should have gotten..
atill a LITTLE bigger than before as I need to allow the
default string to have options as well
1/ Makefile: the maximum size for boot2 is 7.5K not 7K,
so don't complain until it reaches THAT size..
newfs leaves 8K and boot 1 is 512k. leaving 7.5K becasue the disklabel
is considered to part of the boot2 file.
[512 boot1][512 disklabel][ 7K boot2 code ]
[boot1 file][ boot2 file ]
2/ Boot2.S: move the soring of the default name read from block 2 to AFTER
clearing the BSS.
3/ boot.c:
Move the parsing of the command line into the
place it's called for clarity.. alsoi comment it a bit and clean it
up a bit.. for some reason this seems ot have made it a little
larger, but I can't work out why.. maybe bruce might have ideas?
compensated for by shrinkage elsewhere..
the practical result of this is htat the default string can now contain args
e.g. if you change the default string to have -gd
then the machine will boot to the dgb debugger stub by default..
this is mostly useful with the nextboot utility..
as it now allows you to remotely force a machine to reboot into
the debugger.
