time and there's no indication that it will improve anytime soon.
By removing support for SimOS it is possible to build LINT on
Alpha, which is considered more important at the moment.
Not objected to on: alpha@
and the reference to db_regs is *extern* from alpha/include/db_machdep.h
(put it in alpha/alpha/machdep.c)- this avoids the problems we've had
about different 'common' sizes prohibiting the kernel from linking.
- Move PCI core code to dev/pci.
- Split bridge code out into separate modules.
- Remove the descriptive strings from the bridge drivers. If you
want to know what a device is, use pciconf. Add support for
broadly identifying devices based on class/subclass, and for
parsing a preloaded device identification database so that if
you want to waste the memory, you can identify *anything* we know
about.
- Remove machine-dependant code from the core PCI code. APIC interrupt
mapping is performed by shadowing the intline register in machine-
dependant code.
- Bring interrupt routing support to the Alpha
(although many platforms don't yet support routing or mapping
interrupts entirely correctly). This resulted in spamming
<sys/bus.h> into more places than it really should have gone.
- Put sys/dev on the kernel/modules include path. This avoids
having to change *all* the pci*.h includes.
This means that the kernel can be totally self contained now and is not
dependent on the last buildworld to update /usr/share/mk. This might
also make it easier to build 5.x kernels on 4.0 boxes etc, assuming
gensetdefs and config(8) are updated.
sys/modules Makefile after completing a buildworld.
History:
The bulk of this code was obtained from NetBSD approximately one year
ago (I have taken care to preserve the original NetBSD copyrights and
I thank the authors for their work.) At that time, the OSF/1 code was
what was left over from their initial bootstrapping off of OSF/1 and
did not provide support for executing shared binaries.
I have independently added support for shared libraries, and support
for some of the more obscure system calls. This code has been
available for testing and comment since January of 1999 and running on
production machines here at Duke since April.
Known working applications include:
- Netscape (all versions I've tried)
- Mathematica 3.0.2
- Splus 3.4
- ArcInfo 7.1
- Matlab (version unknown)
- SimOS
- Atom instrumented binaries (built on a real OSF/1 system)
Applications which are known not to work:
- All applications linking to libmach
- Adobe Acrobat (uses libmach)
This has been tested with applications running against shared
libraries from OSF/1 (aka Tru64) 4.0D and 4.0F.
Reviewed by: marcel, obrien
BDE-lint by: obrien
Agreed in principal to by: msmith
