The NAND Flash environment consists of several distinct components:
- NAND framework (drivers harness for NAND controllers and NAND chips)
- NAND simulator (NANDsim)
- NAND file system (NAND FS)
- Companion tools and utilities
- Documentation (manual pages)
This work is still experimental. Please use with caution.
Obtained from: Semihalf
Supported by: FreeBSD Foundation, Juniper Networks
In zfs loader zfs device name format now is "zfs:pool/fs",
fully qualified file path is "zfs:pool/fs:/path/to/file"
loader allows accessing files from various pools and filesystems as well
as changing currdev to a different pool/filesystem.
zfsboot accepts kernel/loader name in a format pool:fs:path/to/file or,
as before, pool:path/to/file; in the latter case a default filesystem
is used (pool root or bootfs). zfsboot passes guids of the selected
pool and dataset to zfsloader to be used as its defaults.
zfs support should be architecture independent and is provided
in a separate library, but architectures wishing to use this zfs support
still have to provide some glue code and their devdesc should be
compatible with zfs_devdesc.
arch_zfs_probe method is used to discover all disk devices that may
be part of ZFS pool(s).
libi386 unconditionally includes zfs support, but some zfs-specific
functions are stubbed out as weak symbols. The strong definitions
are provided in libzfsboot.
This change mean that the size of i386_devspec becomes larger
to match zfs_devspec.
Backward-compatibility shims are provided for recently added sparc64
zfs boot support. Currently that architecture still works the old
way and does not support the new features.
TODO:
- clear up pool root filesystem vs pool bootfs filesystem distinction
- update sparc64 support
- set vfs.root.mountfrom based on currdev (for zfs)
Mid-future TODO:
- loader sub-menu for selecting alternative boot environment
Distant future TODO:
- support accessing snapshots, using a snapshot as readonly root
Reviewed by: marius (sparc64),
Gavin Mu <gavin.mu@gmail.com> (sparc64)
Tested by: Florian Wagner <florian@wagner-flo.net> (x86),
marius (sparc64)
No objections: fs@, hackers@
MFC after: 1 month
Place the arguments at a fixed offset of 0x800 withing the argument area
(of size 0x1000). Allow variable size extended arguments first of which
should be a size of the extended arguments (including the size
parameter).
Consolidate all related definitions in a new i386/common/bootargs.h header.
Many thanks to jhb and bde for their guidance and reviews.
Reviewed by: jhb, bde
Approved by: jhb
MFC after: 1 month
code that is used to construct a loader (e.g. libstand, ficl, etc).
There is such a thing as a 64-bit EFI application, but it's not
as standard as 32-bit is. Let's make the 32-bit functional (as in
we can load and actualy boot a kernel) before solving the 64-bit
loader problem.
Before r228267 the option was honored but the original content of
boot.config was not preserved. I tried to fix that but missed the idea.
Now the proper way of doing things is taken from i386/boo2.
Also, a comment is added to explain this a little bit unobvious
behavior.
Inspired by: jhb
MFC after: 5 days
a loader or kernel. Specifically, kname cannot be pointed at cmd[] since
it's value is change to be an empty string after the initial call to
parse, and cmd[]'s value can be changed (thus losing a prior setting for
kname) due to user input at the boot prompt. While here, ensure that that
initial boot config file text is nul-terminated, that ops is initialized
to zero, and that kname is always initialized to a valid string.
Tested by: Domagoj Smolcic rank1seeker of gmail
MFC after: 1 week
get rid of testing explicitly for clang (using ${CC:T:Mclang}) in
individual Makefiles.
Instead, use the following extra macros, for use with clang:
- NO_WERROR.clang (disables -Werror)
- NO_WCAST_ALIGN.clang (disables -Wcast-align)
- NO_WFORMAT.clang (disables -Wformat and friends)
- CLANG_NO_IAS (disables integrated assembler)
- CLANG_OPT_SMALL (adds flags for extra small size optimizations)
As a side effect, this enables setting CC/CXX/CPP in src.conf instead of
make.conf! For clang, use the following:
CC=clang
CXX=clang++
CPP=clang-cpp
MFC after: 2 weeks
using LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT excludes this code. Fixes compilation of pxeldr
with -DLOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT
Applicable to stable/9 and stable/8 now.
This appears to not be needed on stable/7 as r212126 has not been MFC'd.
Obtained from: Yahoo! Inc.
MFC after: 2 weeks
'comconsole_pcidev'. The former allows to set the base address of the
serial console i/o port. The later takes the string of the format
'bus:device:function:[bar]' as a value and uses the serial port attached
as PCI device at the specified location for console.
Both variants pass 'hw.uart.console' variable to the uart driver to
properly hand-over the kernel console.
Change allows to use ISA serial ports other than COM1 for the
loader/kernel console without loader recompilation. Also, you can use
PCI-attached port as the console, e.g. Intel AMT serial pseudo-port on
some motherboards based on Q67 chipset.
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
At work, where we use use KVM+QEMU, we notice that pxeboot is pratically
impossible because of network timeouts. This is due to the fact that the
RTC code makes aggressive jumps.
Two RTC reads does not seem to be sufficient. Change the code to check
for 8 identical RTC values.
Sponsored by: Kumina bv
- Fix boot0 to check for PXE when using the pre-set setting for the
preferred slice.
- Update boot0cfg to use slice 6 to select PXE. Accept a 'pxe' argument
instead of a number for the 's' option as a way to select PXE as well.
Submitted by: Andrew Boyer aboyer averesystems
MFC after: 2 weeks
and constants related to the BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Specification.
- Use this header instead of magic numbers and various duplicate structure
definitions for doing I/O.
- Use an actual structure for the request to fetch drive parameters in
drvsize() rather than a gross hack of a char array with some magic
size. While here, change drvsize() to only pass the 1.1 version of
the structure and not request device path information. If we want
device path information you have to set the length of the device
path information as an input (along with probably checking the actual
EDD version to see which size one should use as the device path
information is variable-length). This fixes data smashing problems
from passing an EDD 3 structure to BIOSes supporting EDD 4.
Reviewed by: avg
Tested by: Dennis Koegel dk neveragain.de
MFC after: 1 week
gpt and zfs boot blocks are not nearly as size-constrained as boot2
from which they inherited their current optimization and anti-optimization
options. As such the current options do not provide any benefit, but
make debugging of the code much harder.
Also, it has been demonstrated that combination of -mrtd and
-fno-unit-at-a-time may result in mis-compilation of the boot code
with the current base gcc.
Additionally, intermediate assembly file filtering is removed for
zfsboot.
The new boot blocks are all compile- and boot- tested using qemu.
gptzfsboot is tested with real hardware.
Reported by: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> [miscompilation]
Discussed with: bde, jhb
Tested by: Sebastian Chmielewski <chmielsster@gmail.com> [gptzfsboot]
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 3 weeks
CFLAGS having '-g' in it, clang outputs several assembly directives that
are too new for our version of binutils.
Therefore, assemble the resulting .s files with clang instead. A more
general solution can be implemented when a GNU as-compatible driver for
clang's integrated assembler appears.
Reported by: dougb
floppies, so it will not be used as the start of an emulated floppy
image on a bootable CD which is what the fake BPB was used for.
- Only check that EDD packet mode is available once at the start of
zfsldr rather than for each disk sector now that we read data in one
sector at a time. As a result, collapse the remaining bits of read
up into nread and rename nread to read.
- Restore a return at the end of putstr that I removed in the previous
revision.
Tested by: Henri Hennebert (earlier version)
MFC after: 1 week
unhappy (probably they don't handle crossing the 64k boundary, etc.).
Fix this by changing zfsldr to use a loop reading from the disk one
sector at a time. To avoid trashing the saved copy of the MBR which is
used for disk I/O, read zfsboot2 at address 0x9000. This has the
advantage that BTX no longer needs to be relocated as it is read into
the correct location. However, the loop to relocate zfsboot2.bin can
now cross a 64k boundary, so change it to use relative segments instead.
(This will need further work if zfsboot2.bin ever exceeds 64k.)
While here, stop storing a relocated copy of zfsldr at 0x700. This was
only used by the xread hack which has recently been removed (and even
that use was dubious). Also, include the BIOS error code as hex when
reporting read errors to aid in debugging.
Much thanks to Henri Hennebert for patiently testing various iterations
of the patch as well as fixing the zfsboot2.bin relocation to use
relative segments.
MFC after: 1 week
Discussed on hackers and recommended for inclusion into 9.0 at the devsummit.
All support email to devin dteske at vicor dot ignoreme dot com .
Submitted by: dteske at vicor dot ignoreme dot com
Reviewed by: me and many others
boot2 calls back into boot1 to perform disk reads. The ZFS MBR boot blocks
do not have the same space constraints, so remove this hack for ZFS.
While here, remove commented out code to support C/H/S addressing from
zfsldr. The ZFS and GPT bootstraps always just use EDD LBA addressing.
MFC after: 2 weeks
This modifies CFLAGS and tweaks sio.S to use the new calling convention.
The sio_init() and sio_putc() prototypes are modified so that other
users of this code know the correct calling convention.
This makes the code smaller when compiled with clang.
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: me and Freddie Cash <fjwcash gmail com>
o bunch of variables are turned into uint8_t
o initial setting of namep[] in lookup() is removed
as it's only overwritten a few lines down
o kname is explicitly initialized in main() as BSS
in boot2 is not zeroed
o the setting and reading of "fmt" in load() is removed
o buf in printf() is made static to save space
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: me and Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen fabiankeil de>
o It switches kname to be just a pointer instead of an array
thus avoiding a couple of memcpy()s.
o It changes ioctl to unsigned from uint8_t.
o It changes the second keyhit limit to 3 seconds from 5
so that constant propagation can take place.
o It changes the ticks overflow computation as suggested by bde@.
o It removes bi_basemem/bi_extmem/bi_memsizes_valid setting from
bootinfo as it is unused.
Reviewed by: jhb
Few new things available from now on:
- Data deduplication.
- Triple parity RAIDZ (RAIDZ3).
- zfs diff.
- zpool split.
- Snapshot holds.
- zpool import -F. Allows to rewind corrupted pool to earlier
transaction group.
- Possibility to import pool in read-only mode.
MFC after: 1 month
