3MB of physical memory for heap instead of range between 1MB and 4MB.
This makes this feature working with PAE and amd64 kernels, which are
loaded at 2MB. Teach i386_copyin() to avoid using range allocated by
heap in such case, so that it won't trash heap in the low memory
conditions.
This should make loading bzip2-compressed kernels/modules/mfs images
generally useable, so that re@ team is welcome to evaluate merits
of using this feature in the installation CDs.
Valuable suggestions by: jhb
provide enough room for decompression (up to 2.5MB is necessary). This
should be safe to do since we load i386 kernels after 8MB mark now, so
that 16MB is the minimum amount of RAM necessary to even boot FreeBSD.
This makes bzip2-support practically useable.
variables to loader:
hint.smbios.0.enabled "YES" when SMBIOS is detected
hint.smbios.0.bios.vendor BIOS vendor
hint.smbios.0.bios.version BIOS version
hint.smbios.0.bios.reldate BIOS release date
hint.smbios.0.system.maker System manufacturer
hint.smbios.0.system.product System product name
hint.smbios.0.system.version System version number
hint.smbios.0.planar.maker Base board manufacturer
hint.smbios.0.planar.product Base board product name
hint.smbios.0.planar.version Base board version number
hint.smbios.0.chassis.maker Enclosure manufacturer
hint.smbios.0.chassis.version Enclosure version
These strings can be used to detect hardware quirks and to set appropriate
flags. For example, Compaq R3000 series and some HP laptops require
hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x9"
to boot. See amd64/67745 for more detail.
Note: Please do not abuse this feature to resolve general problem when it
can be fixed programmatically. This must be used as a last resort.
PR: kern/81449
Approved by: anholt (mentor)
- Teach the i386 and pc98 loaders to honor multiple console requests from
their respective boot2 binaries so that the same console(s) are used in
both boot2 and the loader.
- Since the kernel doesn't support multiple consoles, whichever console is
listed first is treated as the "primary" console and is passed to the
kernel in the boot_howto flags.
PR: kern/66425
Submitted by: Gavin Atkinson gavin at ury dot york dot ac dot uk
MFC after: 1 week
format modules, which are currently only used on the amd64 platform.
This initial implementation just parses enough of the module to
allow it to extract dependencies and load all the bits into the
right place in memory, so the kernel must still do the full relocation
and linking. The details of the loaded sections are passed to the
kernel by supplying a copy of the ELF section header table as module
metadata with the MODINFOMD_SHDR tag.
work. This is odd because loader(8) doesn't suffer from this problem.
Perhaps pxeboot bootstrap can be fixed to handle this better.
Anyway, PXE booting should work again.
- Now that bsd.prog.mk deals with programs linked with -nostdlib
better, and has a notion of an "internal" program, use PROG
where possible. This has a good impact on the contents of
.depend files and causes programs to be linked with cc(1).
XXX: boot2 couldn't be converted as it's actually two programs.
Tested on: i386, amd64
- do not use PROG for what's not a real C program,
- use sys.mk transformation rules where possible,
- only create the "machine" symlink on AMD64,
- removed MAINTAINER lines in individual makefiles,
- added the LIBSTAND defitinion to <bsd.libnames.mk>,
- somewhat better contents in .depend files.
Tested on: i386, amd64
Prodded by: bde
different kernel to boot with kernel="NAME" would load the kernel and
loader.conf-selected modules from /boot/NAME, but it would not change
module_path. So, for instance, the automatically loaded acpi.ko would come
from /boot/kernel/acpi.ko, *always*.
Mind you, this happened for unassisted boot. If you interrupted, typed
"unload" and then "boot NAME", it would Do The Right Thing.
The source of the problem is the double initialization with beastie's
loader.rc. One would happen inside "start", and would load the kernel. The
next one would happen later in the loader.rc script, resetting module_path.
Because module_path is set to the Right Value by the functions in support.4th
that actually load the kernel, when beastie.4th proceeded to boot
module_path would remain wrong, as the kernel was already loaded.
This can be corrected by removing either initialization, and also by changing
the command used by beastie.4th from "boot" to "boot-conf", which makes sure
you use the right kernel and modules.
I chose to remove the second initialization, since this let you interrupt
(or confirm) boot before beastie even comes up. I avoid also doing the
boot-conf change because that would simply cause the kernel and modules to
be loaded twice (in fact, that was my original patch, until, in writing this
very commit message, I saw the error of my ways).
This commit changes the semantics of module loading when using the beastie
menu. Now it does what one would expect it to, but not what it was actually
doing, so something may break for unusual setups depending on broken
behavior. As our japanese friends so nicely put it, shikata ga nakatta. :-)
Approved by: re (scottl)
things over floppy size limits, I can exclude it for release builds or
something like that. Most of the changes are to get the load_elf.c file
into a seperate elf32_ or elf64_ namespace so that you can have two
ELF loaders present at once. Note that for 64 bit kernels, it actually
starts up the kernel already in 64 bit mode with paging enabled. This
is really easy because we have a known minimum feature set.
Of note is that for amd64, we have to pass in the bios int 15 0xe821
memory map because once in long mode, you absolutely cannot make VM86
calls. amd64 does not use 'struct bootinfo' at all. It is a pure loader
metadata startup, just like sparc64 and powerpc. Much of the
infrastructure to support this was adapted from sparc64.
Many recent machine have a broken INT 12H (Get base memory size)
implementation and boot program stops if INT 12H is called.
This commit should solve the problem at very first step of FreeBSD
installation occurred on newer some machines.
Reviewed by: bde, jhb
MFC after: 1 week
At the front is btxldr, in the middle is BTX itself (our mini-kernel), and
then the 'client' (loader.bin) which is the actual loader itself. boot2
just executes a raw ELF or a.out binary with the only setup provided being
that a bootinfo structure is passed on the stack. Now, since loader.bin
is a BTX client, the loader needs to be able to locate a BTX kernel for
the client to execute in the context. Thus, just like pxelder, btxldr
uses the a.out header on the loader binary to find the BTX kernel stored
in the loader and set it up. It does _not_ just reuse the BTX kernel
that boot2 invoked it with. This is because it can't assume that it will
_have_ a "spare" BTX kernel lying around. For example, when cdboot
loads the loader there isn't an existing BTX kernel. In fact, cdboot
will only work with an a.out loader as well since it also "borrows" the
BTX kernel in the loader binary (which it finds by parsing the a.out
header) just as pxeldr does. The only difference between cdboot and
pxeldr is where they get /boot/loader from.
If we wanted to make /boot/loader be an actual ELF binary we would need
to change the following utilites to handle that (and they all have to be
able to handle locating the BTX kernel inside of an ELF binary somehow):
- btxldr
- pxeldr
- cdboot
If we didn't want to require a flag day but make the transition smooth
then we need to be able to support both a.out and ELF versions of
/boot/loader which isn't exactly trivial since all three of these utilities
are written in assembly.
Pointy-hat to: peter
Fix device hints entry for disabling acpi(4).
This also should fix the arbitration with apm(4) when both drivers
are enabled.
Note that your /boot/device.hints needs to be updated if you want to
stop auto-loading acpi.ko or disable acpi(4).
this was quite broken, it never was updated for metadata support.
The a.out kld file support was never really used, as it wasn't necessary.
You could always load elf kld's, even in an a.out kernel.
filesystem expands the inode to 256 bytes to make space for 64-bit
block pointers. It also adds a file-creation time field, an ability
to use jumbo blocks per inode to allow extent like pointer density,
and space for extended attributes (up to twice the filesystem block
size worth of attributes, e.g., on a 16K filesystem, there is space
for 32K of attributes). UFS2 fully supports and runs existing UFS1
filesystems. New filesystems built using newfs can be built in either
UFS1 or UFS2 format using the -O option. In this commit UFS1 is
the default format, so if you want to build UFS2 format filesystems,
you must specify -O 2. This default will be changed to UFS2 when
UFS2 proves itself to be stable. In this commit the boot code for
reading UFS2 filesystems is not compiled (see /sys/boot/common/ufsread.c)
as there is insufficient space in the boot block. Once the size of the
boot block is increased, this code can be defined.
Things to note: the definition of SBSIZE has changed to SBLOCKSIZE.
The header file <ufs/ufs/dinode.h> must be included before
<ufs/ffs/fs.h> so as to get the definitions of ufs2_daddr_t and
ufs_lbn_t.
Still TODO:
Verify that the first level bootstraps work for all the architectures.
Convert the utility ffsinfo to understand UFS2 and test growfs.
Add support for the extended attribute storage. Update soft updates
to ensure integrity of extended attribute storage. Switch the
current extended attribute interfaces to use the extended attribute
storage. Add the extent like functionality (framework is there,
but is currently never used).
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
Reviewed by: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>
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
- Change the 'fopen' keyword to accept a mode parameter. Note that this
will break existing 4th scripts that use fopen. Thus, the loader
version has been bumped and loader.4th has been changed to check for a
sufficient version on i386 and alpha. Be sure that you either do a full
world build or install or full build and install of sys/boot after this
since loader.old won't work with the new 4th files and vice versa.
PR: kern/32389
Submitted by: Jonathan Mini <mini@haikugeek.com>
Sponsored by: ClickArray, Inc.
