observations lead me to believe that the convetion for pc98 boot
loaders is to have a jump unstruction, followed by a string, followed
by code. The jump usually doesn't have a nop after it and usually the
string is NUL terminated, but Grub/98 breaks both of these rules.
# I looked for, but failed to find the Minux boot blocks for PC-9801 port.
512. If I had an audio cdrom in my cd player when I booted my system,
I'd get a panic from geom because you can't read 8192 bytes from an
audio cdrom.
Remove XXX comment about IPL1 and replace it with some information
from my soon to be published web page on the pc98 disk layout. The
IPL1 test was the result of an observation of a disk with FreeBSD's
boot0 program. It was testing part of an area what appears to be
reserved for a boot loader name, which comes after a jump over this
area. I don't yet know if it is required to be any specific jump
instruction, or if the destination has to be location 11. [1]
[1] FreeBSD Press No. 13, page 115, poorly translated by myself. The
picture there shows offset 8 as the destination of the jump, but
FreeBSD's boot0 program has three padding NULs after the IPL1 name and
uses a 16-bit 'jmp' instruction.
This also adds support for bigger disks on the controller I have access to,
and maybe others if I understood the adhoc methods used on those.
Those with more PC98 bigdrive controllers it is hereby invited to add/fix
support for those in geom_pc98.c and not using #ifdef PC98 all over the place.
shown that it is not useful.
Rename the relative count g_access_rel() function to g_access(), only
the name has changed.
Change all g_access_rel() calls in our CVS tree to call g_access() instead.
Add an #ifndef BURN_BRIDGES #define of g_access_rel() for source
code compatibility.
This replaces the current ioctl processing with a direct call path
from geom_dev() where the ioctl arrives (from SPECFS) to any directly
connected GEOM class.
The inverse of the above is no longer supported. This is the
situation were you have one or more intervening GEOM classes, for
instance a BSDlabel on top of a MBR or PC98. If you want to issue
MBR or PC98 specific ioctls, you will need to issue them on a MBR
or PC98 providers.
This paves the way for inviting CD's, FD's and other special cases
inside GEOM.
test is built to test GEOM as running in the kernel.
This commit is basically "unifdef -D_KERNEL" to remove the mainly #include
related code to support the userland-harness.
to have in your kernel since it indiscriminately attaches to anything
it is offered with a range of bogus partitions.
Stop this from happening by rejecting any label with negative numbers in
it.
event posting functions varargs to fill these.
Attribute g_call_me() to appropriate g_geom's where necessary.
Add a flag argument to g_call_me() methods which will be used to signal
cancellation of events in the future.
This commit should be a no-op.
This mostly consists of functionality to serialize accesses to
the two ATA channels (which can also be used to "fix" certain
PCI based controllers).
Add support for Acard controllers.
Enable the ATA driver in PC98 GENERIC, and add device hints.
Update man page with latest support.
The PC98 core team has kindly provided me with a PC98
machine that made this all possible, thanks to all that
contributed to that effort, without that this would
probably newer have been possible..
Approved by: re@
This is not quite the set of information I would want, but the tree where
I have the "correct" version is messed up with conflicts.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
don't take the detour over the I/O path to discover them using getattr(),
we can just pick them out directly.
Do note though, that for now they are only valid after the first open
of the underlying disk device due compatibility with the old disk_create()
API. This will change in the future so they will always be valid.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
with support for trying, doing and forcing.
This will eventually replace g_slice_addslice() which gets changed from
grabbing topology to requing it in this commit as well.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
