Commit Graph

18 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Daniel C. Sobral
76bd51f729 Avoid copying m_args if none exists. (Perhaps this is a better solution,
Doug?)
1999-03-18 14:36:22 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
445a035707 Add MODINFO_ARGS, parameters passed to a module at load time.
VS: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
1999-03-08 11:05:52 +00:00
Mike Smith
c679ae39a8 biosdisk.c
Implement a new variable 'root_disk_unit' which supersedes
	'num_ide_disks' and makes it possible to explicitly set the
	root device unit number regardless of type considerations.

bootinfo.c
	If we can't calculate a dev_t for the root disk, complain and
	don't proceed to boot with an invalid boot device.
1999-01-24 00:12:04 +00:00
Mike Smith
8f0a6b5b8c Add a new variable $num_ide_disks which is used to offset the unit number
for SCSI disks when converting from BIOS unit numbers to da unit numbers.

Prompted by Kevin Street <street@iname.com>
1998-11-13 23:40:02 +00:00
Peter Wemm
f03d6f87b3 Get the last used address via a more conservative method, don't depend
on the module chain being in increasing address order.
1998-10-15 17:06:36 +00:00
Peter Wemm
2a26e9ea83 Align to sizeof(long) rather than sizeof(int32_t). It needs to be
long because this code is shared with the alpha.  I hope the alpha can
read 32 bit ints at 32 bit alignment (vs. 64 bit alignment).
1998-10-14 05:07:23 +00:00
Peter Wemm
7deb2dabef Attempt to at least align MODINFO_* blocks. IMHO, decoding this stuff
should be MD code since one day we'll have to recover pages from deleted
preload data.  MI code can't be expected to know how to deal with pmap
internals, assuming it gets done via pmap that is. :-)
1998-10-09 23:24:55 +00:00
Mike Smith
cab57be9ae Remove some debugging code.
Do a much better job of DWIM with partial device specifications.
Fix the module metadata build process, which was completely broken.
Use a larger read buffer when copying large objects in; this
improves performance marginally and will avoid flushning any small caches
we might choose to implement.
1998-10-09 07:11:19 +00:00
Peter Wemm
e3de88f4ff Fix that pesky boot aguments parsing bug. (I think :-) 1998-10-07 10:55:46 +00:00
Mike Smith
0f7d15efd8 - Drain the keyboard buffer when initialising.
- Be pedantic about the return from int 16 fn 01.
1998-10-07 02:39:06 +00:00
Mike Smith
afcd516b82 bootinfo.c
Strip any device name information from the kernel name
	before passing it in.

biosdisk.c
	Be more strict about matching device names to slice entries.
	Only allow unsliced syntax on unsliced disks.
1998-10-06 07:27:05 +00:00
Robert Nordier
0860fb8f8c bootinfo bi_vesa no longer exists. 1998-10-03 14:13:30 +00:00
Mike Smith
bf72f68088 Consolidate the bootinfo-loading code, greatly simplifying the _exec
functions.
1998-10-02 20:53:17 +00:00
Peter Wemm
3165db6cbf Missing return value that was kinda important. 1998-09-28 21:59:21 +00:00
Mike Smith
948486abe3 Initial integration of the i386 bootloader and BTX.
- Discard large amounts of BIOS-related code in favour of the more compact
   BTX vm86 interface.
 - Build the loader module as ELF, although the resulting object is a.out,
   make gensetdefs 32/64-bit sensitive and use a single copy of it.
 - Throw away installboot, as it's no longer required.
 - Use direct bcopy operations in the i386_copy module, as BTX
   maps the first 16M of memory.  Check operations against the
   detected size of actual memory.
1998-09-17 23:52:16 +00:00
Mike Smith
0d5d0b20dc Resynch with working sources before BTX integration.
- Use format-independant module allocator.
 - Conditionalise ISA PnP support.
 - Simplify PnP enumerator interface.
 - Improve module/object searching.
 - Add missing depend/install targets in BTX makefiles.
 - Pass the kernel environment and module data in extended bootinfo fields.
 - Add a pointer to the end of the kernel + modules in bootinfo.
 - Fix parsing of old-style kernel arguments.
1998-09-14 18:27:06 +00:00
Mike Smith
06b57b0e09 Bootstrap updates.
- Move some startup code from MD to MI sections
 - Add a 'copyout' and some copyout-related functions.  These will be
   obsoleted when BTX is available for the 386 and the kernel load
   area becomes directly addressable.
 - Add the ability load an arbitrary file as a module, associating
   and arbitrary type string with it.  This can be used eg. for loading
   splash-screen images etc.
 - Add KLD module dependancy infrastructure.  We know how to look for
   dependancies inside KLD modules, how to resolve these dependancies
   and what to do if things go wrong.  Only works for a.out at the
   moment, due to lack of an MI ELF loader.  Attach KLD module information
   to loaded modules as metadata, but don't pass it to the kernel (it
   can find it itself).
 - Load a.out KLD modules on a page boundary.  Only pad the a.out BSS
   for the kernel, as it may want to throw symbols away.  (We might want
   to do this for KLD modules too.)
 - Allow commands to be hidden from the '?' display, to avoid cluttering
   it with things like 'echo'.  Add 'echo'.
 - Bring the 'prompt' command into line with the parser syntax.
 - Fix the verbose 'ls'; it was using an uninitialised stack variable.
 - Add a '-v' flag to 'lsmod' to have it display module metadata as well
   (not terribly useful for the average user)
 - Support a 'module searchpath' for required modules.
 - The bootstrap file on i386 is now called 'loader' to permit the
   /boot directory to use that name.
 - Discard the old i386 pread() function, as it's replaced by
   arch_readin()
1998-09-03 02:10:09 +00:00
Mike Smith
c2f9d95de5 This is the new unified bootstrap, sometimes known previously as the
'three-stage' bootstrap.
There are a number of caveats with the code in its current state:
 - The i386 bootstrap only supports booting from a floppy.
 - The kernel and kld do not yet know how to deal with the extended
   information and module summary passed in.
 - PnP-based autodetection and demand loading of modules is not implemented.
 - i386 ELF kernel loading is not ready yet.
 - The i386 bootstrap is loaded via an ugly blockmap.

On the alpha, both net- and disk-booting (SRM console machines only) is
supported.  No blockmaps are used by this code.

Obtained from:	Parts from the NetBSD/i386 standalone bootstrap.
1998-08-21 03:17:42 +00:00