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9 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Maxim Sobolev
fb74e5f595 Add splitfs vfs layer into libstand, which allows loading big kernels and
modules split across several physical medias. Following is how it works:

The splitfs code, when asked to open "foo" looks for a file "foo.split"
which is a text file containing a list of filenames and media names, e.g.

	foo.aa "Kernel floppy 1"
	foo.ab "Kernel floppy 2"
	foo.ac "Kernel and modules floppy"

For each file segment, the process is:

- try to open the file
- prompt "Insert the disk labelled <whatever> and press any key..."
- try to open the file
- return error if file could not be located

RE team is free to use this feature in the upcoming 5.0-DP1.

Reviewed by:	msmith, dcs
2002-03-17 12:18:05 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
e74b6a84ce Add __FBSDID()s to libstand 2001-09-30 22:28:01 +00:00
Maxim Sobolev
13b21828a8 Add support for loading bzip2-compressed filesystems. Among other things
this would allow to load bzip2-compressed kernels/modules from the loader(8)
(support for that will be committer separately).

MFC after:	1 month
2001-09-18 13:01:12 +00:00
Kris Kennaway
af42d47866 Check for malloc failure in a couple of cases
MFC after:	2 weeks
2001-09-03 05:57:06 +00:00
Jonathan Lemon
efb8ff8532 Add a readdir function to the loader fsops vector, and implement the
functionality for some of the filesystesms.
2000-04-29 20:47:10 +00:00
Peter Wemm
7f3dea244c $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 00:22:10 +00:00
Mike Smith
95b50c2be3 Replace the old and extremely icky Mach/NetBSD allocator with a similarly
compact and much better one donated by Matt Dillon.  Implement a simple
sbrk() which uses the existing setheap() api.

Remove the custom allocator from the UFS code.  It wasn't working quite
right, and it shouldn't be needed with the new allocator.

Fix a serious problem with changing the value of already-existent
environment variables.  Don't attempt to modify the supposedly-const
argument to putenv()

Fix an off-by-one sizing error in the zipfs code detected by the new
allocator.

Submitted by:	zmalloc from Matt Dillon <dillon@backplane.com>
1998-09-26 01:42:40 +00:00
Mike Smith
4ce36a791b Path arguments to *_open functions should be const, but we were mangling
them.

Submitted by:	write-protected text segment in BTX
1998-09-18 22:58:01 +00:00
Mike Smith
6b4f575cb1 This is libstand; a support library for standalone executables (eg. bootstrap
modules).
Obtained from: NetBSD, with some architectural changes and many additions.
1998-08-20 08:19:55 +00:00