better relocation support for the amd64 and i386 platforms. This
should not result in any change in functionality, but moves a step
towards supporting the relocatable object file modules on amd64.
The same hack/trick as load_elf*.c uses is used here to simultaneously
support both elf32 and elf64 on amd64 and i386.
This way of operation is more robust than the "AI" used
before.
Add flags to mbr accessible from make.conf as BOOT_MBR_FLAGS.
Only one flag is defined now, "allow using packet mode", which
is 0x80 in accord with the rest of i386 boot code. The "packet"
flag is on by default.
PR: i386/70241
Submitted by: Valentin Nechayev <netch <@> netch.kiev.ua> (inital version)
Discussed with: jhb (by Valentin Nechayev)
Tested on: bochs (with EDD turned on or off by patching the BIOS), PCs
the flag, fall back to the old INT13/AH=02 function if that fails.
This way of operation is less likely to fail with modern BIOSes and
large disks of strange geometries.
PR: i386/70241
Submitted by: Valentin Nechayev <netch <@> netch.kiev.ua> (inital version)
Discussed with: jhb (by Valentin Nechayev)
Tested on: bochs (with EDD turned on or off by patching the BIOS), PCs
The whole problem seems to be size. Which is odd, because it is said
that size doesn't matter. Anyway... Add -Os to strategic places in the
makefile to have the final loader be as mall as possible. This seems
to be enough to make it work. For now... I think something is more
fundamentally wrong; or something more fundamental is wrong. Potato,
potaato.
The binutils 2.15 assembler now automaticly and non-optionally adds
the .eh_frame section for unwind information. This section appears
to wreck havoc to the final boot code. Fix this by using a special
linker script that discards the .eh_frame sections, but is otherwise
identical to the linker internal script used for -N.
Compiler used: gcc 3.3.5
Verified with: binutils 2.14 & binutils 2.15 (stock and in-tree)
Tested with: /boot/loader & /boot/netboot
changes to the ATA driver cause a kernel crash, no fault of the ATA
code. Work is in progress to add the necessary feature to the sparc64
kernel and this commit will be backed out when it is complete. This
bandaid is being put in mostly in the interests of getting the first
release snapshot done and out the door.
Tested on: Ultra-10 exhibiting the insta-panic.
MFC: Real Soon
will prepend the current kernel booting... This prevents a problem of
loading /boot/kernel's modules when a different kernel has no modules,
but you left your module_load="YES" in loader.conf...
Reviewed by: dcs (minus the help part)
have clear idea on boot2 BSS size and leaves portion of it not zeroed out.
btxcsu.s is in much better position for this job.
Obtained from: DragonflyBSD (with minor adjustments)
we construct the EFI image. It doesn't seem to actually end up
in the EFI image, AFAICT.
o Replace .quad, .long and .short with data8, data4 and data2 resp.
The former are gnuisms.
o Redefine _start_plabel as a data16 with @iplt(_start) as its
value. This is the preferred way to create user PLT entries.
binutils 2.15. The linker now creates a .rela.dyn section for
dynamic relocations, while our script created a .rela section.
Likewise, we copied the .rela section to the EFI image, but not
the .rela.dyn section. The fix is to rename .rela to .rela.dyn
in the linker script so that all relocations end up in the same
section again. This we copy into the EFI image.
bootp -> BOOTP
bootp.nfsroot -> BOOTP_NFSROOT
bootp.nfsv3 -> BOOTP_NFSV3
bootp.compat -> BOOTP_COMPAT
bootp.wired_to -> BOOTP_WIRED_TO
- i.e. back out the previous commit. It's already possible to
pxeboot(8) with a GENERIC kernel.
Pointed out by: dwmalone
BOOTP -> bootp
BOOTP_NFSROOT -> bootp.nfsroot
BOOTP_NFSV3 -> bootp.nfsv3
BOOTP_COMPAT -> bootp.compat
BOOTP_WIRED_TO -> bootp.wired_to
This lets you PXE boot with a GENERIC kernel by putting this sort of thing
in loader.conf:
bootp="YES"
bootp.nfsroot="YES"
bootp.nfsv3="YES"
bootp.wired_to="bge1"
or even setting the variables manually from the OK prompt.
work on a G5 (no BAT registers) or on PearPC (dBAT3 used for mapping
the framebuffer and BATs not re-inited on OpenFirmware calls).
It also hid a number of bugs.
jumping to the kernel. Another bug exposed by removing the
1:1 BAT mapping. Sparc64 doesn't do this either.
Compile tested on: panther (sparc64). Code built, but not used, on sparc64.
of the 256Mb 1:1 BAT mapping exposed this as copying into memory that
hadn't been claimed from OpenFirmware.
compiled-tested on: panther (sparc64). Code built, but not used, on sparc64
%di will already point to the character after the nul char when the
'repnz scasb' terminates.
Submitted by: Tom Cosgrove tom dot cosgrove at arches-consulting dot com
fills its field (6 characters). In that case the OEMID is not
null-terminated, and the sprintf that was used would copy up to the
next null byte, which could be pretty far away.
boot0sio.s was repo-copied to boot0.S.
- Rename boot0ext.s to boot0ext.S, to stay consistent
with other preprocessed asm files around here, and
for better portability.
Repocopied by: joe
switch to using C99-style comments everywhere in preprocessed
assembler. The reason is that lines starting with the regexp
'^[[:space:]]#' are treated as preprocessing directives, and
while it seems to work now with GCC, it's not necessarily has
to work. Use C99 comments `//' for the trailing comments to
save whitespace.
Merge boot0.s and boot0sio.s into boot0_512.s controlled by "#ifdef SIO".
Add Makefile magic to generate boot0.s and boot0sio.s from boot0_512.s.
The compile boot0 and boot0sio have unchanged MD5 checksums.
"...If "keyboard" is the selected input-device and "screen" the
output-device (both via /options) but the keyboard is unplugged,
OF automatically switches to ttya for the console, it even prints
a line telling so on "screen". Solaris respects this behaviour and
uses ttya as the console in this case and people probably expect
FreeBSD to do the same (it's also very handy to temporarily switch
consoles)..."
"...I changed the comparison of the console device with "ttya" ||
"ttyb" to "tty" because on AXe boards all 4 onboard UARTs end in
SUB-D connectors (ttya and ttyb being 16550 and ttyc and ttyd a
SAB82532) and there's no Sun keyboard connector (but PS/2). If one
plugs a serial card in a box there also can be more than just ttya
and ttyb available for a console..."
Submitted by: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
Has no doubt that the change is correct: marcel
to build the kernel. It doesn't affect the operation if gcc.
Most of the changes are just adding __INTEL_COMPILER to #ifdef's, as
icc v8 may define __GNUC__ some parts may look strange but are
necessary.
Additional changes:
- in_cksum.[ch]:
* use a generic C version instead of the assembly version in the !gcc
case (ASM code breaks with the optimizations icc does)
-> no bad checksums with an icc compiled kernel
Help from: andre, grehan, das
Stolen from: alpha version via ppc version
The entire checksum code should IMHO be replaced with the DragonFly
version (because it isn't guaranteed future revisions of gcc will
include similar optimizations) as in:
---snip---
Revision Changes Path
1.12 +1 -0 src/sys/conf/files.i386
1.4 +142 -558 src/sys/i386/i386/in_cksum.c
1.5 +33 -69 src/sys/i386/include/in_cksum.h
1.5 +2 -0 src/sys/netinet/igmp.c
1.6 +0 -1 src/sys/netinet/in.h
1.6 +2 -0 src/sys/netinet/ip_icmp.c
1.4 +3 -4 src/contrib/ipfilter/ip_compat.h
1.3 +1 -2 src/sbin/natd/icmp.c
1.4 +0 -1 src/sbin/natd/natd.c
1.48 +1 -0 src/sys/conf/files
1.2 +0 -1 src/sys/conf/files.amd64
1.13 +0 -1 src/sys/conf/files.i386
1.5 +0 -1 src/sys/conf/files.pc98
1.7 +1 -1 src/sys/contrib/ipfilter/netinet/fil.c
1.10 +2 -3 src/sys/contrib/ipfilter/netinet/ip_compat.h
1.10 +1 -1 src/sys/contrib/ipfilter/netinet/ip_fil.c
1.7 +1 -1 src/sys/dev/netif/txp/if_txp.c
1.7 +1 -1 src/sys/net/ip_mroute/ip_mroute.c
1.7 +1 -2 src/sys/net/ipfw/ip_fw2.c
1.6 +1 -2 src/sys/netinet/igmp.c
1.4 +158 -116 src/sys/netinet/in_cksum.c
1.6 +1 -1 src/sys/netinet/ip_gre.c
1.7 +1 -2 src/sys/netinet/ip_icmp.c
1.10 +1 -1 src/sys/netinet/ip_input.c
1.10 +1 -2 src/sys/netinet/ip_output.c
1.13 +1 -2 src/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c
1.9 +1 -2 src/sys/netinet/tcp_output.c
1.10 +1 -1 src/sys/netinet/tcp_subr.c
1.10 +1 -1 src/sys/netinet/tcp_syncache.c
1.9 +1 -2 src/sys/netinet/udp_usrreq.c
1.5 +1 -2 src/sys/netinet6/ipsec.c
1.5 +1 -2 src/sys/netproto/ipsec/ipsec.c
1.5 +1 -1 src/sys/netproto/ipsec/ipsec_input.c
1.4 +1 -2 src/sys/netproto/ipsec/ipsec_output.c
and finally remove
sys/i386/i386 in_cksum.c
sys/i386/include in_cksum.h
---snip---
- endian.h:
* DTRT in C++ mode
- quad.h:
* we don't use gcc v1 anymore, remove support for it
Suggested by: bde (long ago)
- assym.h:
* avoid zero-length arrays (remove dependency on a gcc specific
feature)
This change changes the contents of the object file, but as it's
only used to generate some values for a header, and the generator
knows how to handle this, there's no impact in the gcc case.
Explained by: bde
Submitted by: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
- aicasm.c:
* minor change to teach it about the way icc spells "-nostdinc"
Not approved by: gibbs (no reply to my mail)
- bump __FreeBSD_version (lang/icc needs to know about the changes)
Incarnations of this patch survive gcc compiles since a loooong time,
I use it on my desktop. An icc compiled kernel works since Nov. 2003
(exceptions: snd_* if used as modules), it survives a build of the
entire ports collection with icc.
Parts of this commit contains suggestions or submissions from
Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>.
Reviewed by: -arch
Submitted by: netchild
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.
pf/pflog/pfsync as modules. Do not list them in NOTES or modules/Makefile
(i.e. do not connect it to any (automatic) builds - yet).
Approved by: bms(mentor)
is reserved by the loader, and thus any tunable name with that suffix will
be silently discarded.
Document this in the header and man page so that other developers do not
develop so many bumps on the head after banging it against the wall.
Detective work by: Mark Santcroos, grehan
- Factor out common settings and put them in an upper level Makefile.inc.
- Properly use PROG for real programs, not their products.
- Further reduce diffs to i386 versions.
Tested on: sparc64 (panther)
- 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
assure backward compatibility (conditional on !BURN_BRIDGES), look it up
by its old name first, and log a warning (but accept the setting) if it
was found. If both the old and new name are defined, the new name takes
precedence.
Also export vm.kmem_size as a read-only sysctl variable; I find it hard to
tune a parameter when I don't know its default value, especially when that
default value is computed at boot time.
use a bounce buffer for the actual transfer to avoid crossing a 64k
boundary. To do this, we malloc a buffer twice as big as we need and then
find an aligned block within that buffer to do the transfer. The check
to see which part of the block we use used the wrong variable for part of
the condition meaning that in certain edge cases we would ask the BIOS to
cross a 64k boundary. The BIOS request would then fail resulting in file
transfers that just magically fail in the middle without any apparent
reason. Specifically, my tests for the splitfs boot floppies managed to
trigger this edge case.
MFC after: 1 week
X-MFC-info: along with fixes to libstand filesystems
count.
- Fix the twiddle output so that it actually spins.
- Save %cx around BIOS calls to read in sectors from the disc as at least
one BIOS trashes %cx when called to read off of a USB CD-ROM drive.
Submitted by: Martin Nilsson <martin@gneto.com>
MFC after: 1 week
- handle multiple Ofw memory regions when determining mem size
- allow currdev to be set as a loader command-line option.
parse() is used to allow future options to be processed.
flag rather than explicitly halting if a lookup failed.
- Add a loop around the call to lookup() to traverse an array of
nul-terminated strings for possible paths to the boot loader. A double
nul character denotes the end of the list.
- Add a new message to say that the boot failed if all of the path lookups
for a boot loader file failed.
- Add '/boot/loader' as a second boot path. If you build an ISO using
risky options to mkisofs such as -U then the loader will be called
'/boot/loader' rather than '/BOOT/LOADER;0'. This allows cdboot to work
with such risky ISO images.
- Bump version to 1.2 to denote added functionality.
The basic idea as well as some of the code were provided by the submitter,
but I added some extra code to use a loop rather than hard-code just 2
possible paths.
PR: misc/43543
Submitted by: kientzle
MFC after: 1 week
- Move loader relocation up to 0x1C00000. This is in line with OSX bootx,
and allows more space for boot-time modules/ramdisks without conflicting
with OpenFirmware's use of RAM
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)
While we end up the same place, we end up with two different CS register
values after the jump and 0xf000 is compatible with the hardware reset
value.
This makes a difference if the BIOS does a near jump before a far jump.
Detective work and patch by: Adrian Steinmann <ast@marabu.ch>
value as reserved for internal use in boot blocks, because RB_PAUSE
broke binary compatibility by usurping the RB_DUAL flag. Probably no
one except me has boot blocks for which this matters, since most boot
blocks based on biosboot including pc98's boot2 can't boot elf kernels,
and /boot/loader doesn't properly pass flags set by the previous stage.
reboot.h:
Also mark the historical RB_PROBEKBD flag (0x80000) as reserved for
internal use in boot blocks.
boot2.c:
Added comments to inhibit usurping of other flags.
Approved by: guido, imp
MFC after: 1 week
This ensures that uart gets a higher console priority than syscons when
a serial console is being used. Testing against the "console" environment
variable doesn't make sense since we only have one loader console driver.
commit broke the world because it depended on namespace pollution that
was only in my version of <machine/bootinfo.h>. The include was removed
in rev.1.63 after the last reference to it went away in rev.1.61.
comment about this flag in rev.1.61. It is not historical like the
comment said; it is the flag that says that most of what is laboriously
put in the bootinfo struct is actually there. Newer kernels were
bootable by even the broken boot2 without losing anything except the
symbol table, but older kernels need at least the memory sizes.
Restoring the "|" with RB_BOOTINFO that was lost in rev.1.43 costs 5
bytes. The fix can be done in only 4 bytes by fixing some code that
was removed in rev.1.61 (put RB_BOOTINFO back in in the initial value
of "opts" and fix RBX_MASK to not clobber it.)
the root path. This is reported to make non-PXE netbooting, such as
is used on sparc64 systems, work correctly when the TFTP server is
not the same as the root server.
PR: kern/57328
Submitted by: Per Kristian Hove <Per.Hove@math.ntnu.no>
boot time. Instead, read it a sector at a time. While this sounds
like a significant slowdown, I've not been able to measure any
signficant difference.
Submitted by: luigi
Reviewed by: jhb, sam (both a while ago)
MFC After: 3 days
EFI file system. When booting from a CD and there's already an EFI
system partition on the disk, setting the current device to unit 0
will select the harddisk. This invariably breaks installing FreeBSD
when other operating systems have been installed before.
We obviously want to do the same when we're booting over the network.
Maybe later.
Based on a patch (from memory) from: arun
bsd.lib.mk and thus broke the build since AFLAGS were not taken
into considered anymore, as bsd.lib.mk currently has wrong .s.o
rule that uses cc(1) instead of as(1).
Revision 1.14 reverted to using as(1), and revision 1.15 brought
AFLAGS back to the business, but revision 1.14 also broke "make
clean".
To fix this, but not break anything that was fixed in revisions
1.13-1.15, we revert mostly to revision 1.13 except for switching
back to using bsd.prog.mk. This gives us back the default .s.o
rule from sys.mk that uses as(1), and fixes "make clean" by
restoring the full contents of OBJS.
Also fixed LDFLAGS.
the terminating '\0'. Since the initialisation of rootpath in
libstand/bootp.c may copy junk into the rest of the buffer, it was
possible for the code to find a ':' after the '\0' and do the wrong
thing.
Reviewed by: ps
MFC after: 1 week
common code, the non-trivial part is #ifdef'ed and only executes when
loading amd64 kernels. The rest is trivial but needed for the the amd64
case. (Two variables changed from char ** to Elf_Addr).
Approved by: re (amd64 "low-risk" stuff)
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.
* AcpiOsDerivePciId(): finds a bus number, given the slot/func and the
acpi parse tree.
* AcpiOsPredefinedOverride(): use the sysctl hw.acpi.os_name to
override the value for _OS.
Ideas from: takawata, jhb
Reviewed by: takawata, marcel
Tested on: i386, ia64
Move the remaining bits of <sys/diskslice.h> to <i386/include/bootinfo.h>
Move i386/pc98 specific bits from <sys/reboot.h> to
<i386/include/bootinfo.h> as well.
Adjust includes in sys/boot accordingly.
queue items that can be allocated by netgraph and the number of free queue
items that are cached on a private list.
Netgraph places an upper limit on the number of queue items it may allocate.
When there is a large number of netgraph messages travelling through the
system (100k/sec and more) there is a high probability, that messages get
queued at the nodes and netgraph runs out of queue items. In this case the data
flow through netgraph gets blocked. The tuneable for the number of free
items lets one trade memory for performance.
The tunables are also available as read-only sysctls.
PR: kern/47393
Reviewed by: julian
Approved by: jake (mentor)
introduce a preprocessor define for it. The larger block size
significantly speeds up the loading of the kernel.
Submitted by: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
and instead add platform, firmware and EFI stubs to the loader.
The net effect of this change is that besides a special console and
disk driver, the kernel has no knowledge of the simulator. This has
the following advantages:
o Simulator support is much harder to break,
o It's easier to make use of more feature complete simulators.
This would only need a change in the simulator specific loader,
o Running SMP kernels within the simulator. Note that ski at this
time does not simulate IPIs, so there's no way to start APs.
The platform, firmware and EFI stubs describe the following hardware:
o 4 CPU Itanium,
o 128 MB RAM within the 4GB address space,
o 64 MB RAM above the 4GB address space.
NOTE: The stubs in the skiloader describe a machine that should in
parts be defined by the simulator. Things like processor interrupt
block and AP wakeup vector cannot be choosen at random because they
require interpretation by the simulator. Currently the simulator is
ignorant of this.
This change introduces an unofficial SSC call SSC_SAL_SET_VECTORS
which is ignored by the simulator.
Tested with: ski (version 0.943 for linux)
o Revision 1.38 introduced the -n flag. It conflicted with the
RB_BOOTINFO flag, so was in effect always on. Change the -n flag to
be bit 0x1c instead of 0x1f. This also had the consequence that a mal-formed
/boot.config would render the system unbootable because the user was
unable to enter anything at all on the command line.
o Remove the initialization of opt to be RB_BOOTINFO since we filter that bit
out and do not otherwise use it.
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 3 days
It is not complete (the LILO root= specification isn't passed to our
loader for instance), it has not been touched in over 2 years. Linux has
moved on to GRUB, so this is OBE now. If someone creeps up to work on it,
it could become a port.
the last second before the commit.
# likely we can remove this hack now that gcc generates better aligned code
# in the align to word case.
Noticed by: bde
subset of Peter's patchs that are believed to be safe.
Makefile tweaks:
o -fomit-frame-pointer
o Change default to building both UFS1 and UFS2 bootblocks.
Lots of boot2 tweaks:
o lookup is only ever called with kname, so use it directly.
o inline memsize
o getstr are only ever called with cmd, so hardware that.
o tweaks to the parsing code to test after the conversion rather than
before since we tested after anyways.
o eliminate support for %x in printf.
o eliminate a few bytes in printfs.
o Tweak the boot banner.
o eliminate support for wd and " " devices (I might add wd back to
keep bde happy).
o eliminate support for a few arguments.
This takes us from -162 bytes free to 67 bytes free.
I've tested this only on a few systems, so be careful when updating to
this change.
Submitted by: peter, imp, ian
it possible to make UFS1_ONLY and UFS2_ONLY versions which fit inside the
traditional 16 sectors.
Remove assorted now unneeded hackery.
UFS1_AND_UFS2 still needs another 150 bytes to work, and that is probably
not within our reach, ever.
NULL is passed. The address of the HCDP table can be found by
iterating over the configuration tables in the EFI system table.
To avoid more duplication, a function can be called with the GUID
of interest. The function will do the scanning. Use the function
in all places where we iterate over the configuration tables in
an attempt to find a specific one.
Bump the loader version number as the result of this.
Approved by: re (blanket)
accept load options (=command line options).
The call graph changes from *entry*->efi_main->efi_init, where
efi_main is the EFI equivalent of main to *entry*->efi_main->main,
where main is what you'd expect. efi_main now is what efi_init was.
The prototype of main follows that of C. The first argument is argc
and the second is argv. There is no third argument.
Allocation of heap pages is now handled by the EFI library and it
now deallocates the pages when main() returns or when exit() is
called. This allows us to safely return to the boot manager (or
EFI shell) without leaks. EFI applications are responsible to free
all memory themselves.
Handling of the load options is a bit tricky. There are either no
load options, load options in ASCII or load options in Unicode.
The EFI library will translate the ASCII options to Unicode options
as to simplify user code. Since the load options are passed as a
single string (if present) and main() accepts argc and argv, the
startup code also has to split the string into words and build the
argv vector. Here the trickiness starts. When the loader is started
from the EFI shell, argv[0] will automaticly load the program name.
In all other cases (ie through the boot manager), this is not the
case. Unfortunately, there's no trivial way to check. Hence, a
set of conditions is checked to determine if we need to fill in
argv[0] ourselves or not. This checking is not perfect. There are
known cases where it fails to do the right thing. The logic works
for most expected cases, though. This includes the case where no
options are given.
Approved by: re (blanket)
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)
the signaled state of the apropriate event. As a side-effect of
checking the event, it's signaled state is cleared if it was set.
In efi_cons_getchar we used to wait for the apropriate event to be
signaled before reading a character. This however does not work if
we poll before reading the characteri, such as during autoboot. On
a more compliant EFI implementation this resulted in the behaviour
that hitting a key during autoboot would stop the countdown, but
would then wait for a new character to arrive instead of reading
the already pending key that stopped the countdown.
The correct behaviour for efi_cons_getchar is to try to read a key
and if none is pending, to wait for the apropriate event to signal
the arrival of a new key.
Note that with the previous behaviour, the second key would determine
how the autoboot was interrupted. This would indicate that the first
key got lost. This indicates that EFI does not necessarily maintain
a queue of pending keys. FWIW...
Approved by: re (carte blanche)
French corrected by: various people :-)
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)
