a boot option. When the timer expires the machine is rebooted.
Disable the watchdog timer for 2 reasons:
o We're an interactive program. We cannot guarantee that we've
booted the kernel in the time available to us. There have been
situations where netbooting the right kernel took 2 tries and
more time than given. Not to speak of the normal behaviour to
have the loader sitting at the prompt while the user is off
doing other things (such as figuring out what to type next ;-)
o We may not boot a kernel at all. We may exit as the result of
the user typing quit (assuming it took less than 5 minutes to
type it :-). It is documented that loaders should have disabled
the watchdog timer if they return to the boot manager. Not doing
so would cause a reboot while in the boot manager. This appears
to be harmless, besides of course the actual reboot.
Approved by: re (weisse karte)
Previous kernels unwantingly depended on this mapping, but as
of version 1.123 of src/sys/ia64/ia64/machdep.c this dependency
has been removed. Consequently, one has to update the kernel
before updating the loader. The documented/recommended upgrade
will suffice in this case.
Due to a visible (from the kernels point of view) change in
behaviour, bump the loader version number from 0.3 to 1.0.
Approved by: re (carte blanc)
o Show the contents of the AP wakeup descriptor when dumping SAL
information.
o Increase S/N ratio when listing the itr and dtr. Only show valid
mappings and give the total number of TRs.
Approved by: re (blanket)
o We don't expect the PLT relocations to follow the .rela section
anymore. We still assume that PLT relocations are long formed,
o Document register usage,
o Improve ILP,
o Fix the FPTR relocation by creating unique OPDs per function.
Comparing functions is valid now,
o The IPLT relocation naturally handles the addend. Deal with it.
We ignore the addend for FPTR relocations for now. It's not at
all clear what it means anyway.
Fix ABI misinterpretation:
o For Elf_Rela relocations, the addend is explicit and should not
be loaded from the memory address we're relocating. Only do that
for Elf_Rel relocations (ie the short form).
o DIR64LSB is not the same as REL64LSB. DIR64LSB applies to a
symbol (S+A), whereas REL64LSB applies to the base address (BD+A),
detects and uses the gas section merge support. As a result, a whole bunch
of new sections arrive, including .rodata.str1.8, which was not included
in our custom ldscript.ia64. The result was a loader binary that EFI
rejected.
While here, collect the loader shell commands linker set and include it
in the data area rather than having its own section.
/boot/loader.efi was the last holdout for having a 100% self built ia64
system.
register r8. We continue to write the bootinfo block at the same
hardwired address, because the kernel still expects it there.
It is expected that future kernels use register r8 to get to the
bootinfo block and don't depend on the hardwired address anymore.
Bump the loader version once again due to the interface change.
only care if it's network or not at this time. If we're loaded from
the network, we set currdev (=loaddev) so that the kernel is loaded
from the network as well. In all other cases we initialize to disk.
This makes netbooting more convenient and can easily be enhanced to
do more elaborate checking.
Most significantly (from an interfacing point of view) is the
support for the FPSWA pointer passing. Even though that was added
4 months ago, it's probably not a bad idea to bump the version
number to reflect this.
page of the image to load section headers and if we let the text section
start at zero, it corrupts the section table when its loaded. With this
change, the loader gets as far as the 'ok' prompt.
