1. Make libefi portable by removing ia64 specific code and build
it on i386 and amd64 by default to prevent regressions. These
changes include fixes and improvements over previous code to
establish or improve APIs where none existed or when the amount
of kluging was unacceptably high.
2. Increase the amount of sharing between the efi and ski loaders
to improve maintainability of the loaders and simplify making
changes to the loader-kernel handshaking in the future.
The version of the efi and ski loaders are now both changed to 1.2
as user visible improvements and changes have been made.
to get the physical address doesn't work for all values of KVA_PAGES,
while masking 8 MSBs works for all values of KVA_PAGES that are
multiple of 4 for non-PAE and 8 for PAE. (This leaves us limited
with 12MB for non-PAE kernels and 14MB for PAE kernels.)
To get things right, we'd need to subtract the KERNBASE from the
virtual address (but KERNBASE is not easy to figure out from here),
or have physical addresses set properly in the ELF headers.
Discussed with: jhb
device (kind) specific unit field to the common field. This change
allows a future version of libefi to work without requiring anything
more than what is defined in struct devdesc and as such makes it
possible to compile said version of libefi for different platforms
without requiring that those platforms have identical derivatives
of struct devdesc.
are no longer limited to a virtual address space of 16 megabytes,
only mask high two bits of a virtual address. This allows to load
larger kernels (up to 1 gigabyte). Not masking addresses at all
was a bad idea on machines with less than >3G of memory -- kernels
are linked at 0xc0xxxxxx, and that would attempt to load a kernel
at above 3G. By masking only two highest bits we stay within the
safe limits while still allowing to boot larger kernels.
(This is a safer reimplmentation of sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot.2.c
rev. 1.71.)
Prodded by: jhb
Tested by: nyan (pc98)
Massive update. The highlights:
o dramatically cut memory usage by writing better, less intertwingled
code.
o implement booting off mmc/sd cards (sd only tested one at the moment)
o start to split out board specific stuff for boot2.
commits. For some reason I thought the scale factor was a shift count
rather than the multiplicand (that is, I thought leal (%eax,%edx,4) was
going to generate %eax + %edx << 4 rather than %eax + %edx * 4). What
I need is to multiply by 16 to convert a real-mode (seg, offset) tuple
into a flat address. However, the max multiplicand for scaled/index
addressing on i386 is 8, so go back to using a shl and an add.
- Convert two more inter-register mov instructions where we don't need to
preserve the source register to xchg instructions to keep our space
savings.
Tested by: Ian FREISLICH if at hetzner.co.za
MFC after: 1 week
another 16 bytes off of BTX (and thus boot2):
- Compare against the value of %eax that is saved on the stack instead of
loading it into %eax (which requires saving the current %eax on the
stack).
- Use %ch to examine the keyboard flag state in the BIOS to see if
Ctrl-Alt-Del is pressed instead of %al so we don't have to save %eax on
the stack anymore.
MFC after: 1 week
BTX (and thus boot2):
- Don't bother saving %eax, %ebx, or %ecx as it is not necessary.
- Use a more compact sequence to load the base value out of a GDT entry
by loading the contiguous low 24 bits into the upper 24 bits of %eax,
loading the high 8 bits into %al, and using a ror to rotate the bits
(2 mov's and a ror) rather than loading the pieces in smaller chunks
(3 mov's and a shl).
- Use movzwl + leal instead of movl + movw + shll + addl.
- Use 'xchgl %eax,%foo' rather than 'movl %eax,%foo' for cases where
it's ok to trash %eax. xchgl %eax, foo is a 1-byte opcode whereas the
mov is a 2-byte opcode.
- Use movzwl rather than xorl + movw.
MFC after: 1 week
rather than just emulating mov cr0, eax. This fixes some Compaq/HP BIOS
with DMA (as the BIOS tried to read cr3 so it could translate addresses
if paging was enabled).
MFC after: 1 week
sync() and sync_fsync() without losing MNT_ASYNC. Add MNTK_ASYNC flag
which is set only when MNT_ASYNC is set and mnt_noasync is zero, and
check that flag instead of MNT_ASYNC before initiating async io.
- Make the PROBE_KEYBOARD option better resemble the -P option in
boot2, i.e., if keyboard isn't present then boot with both
RB_SERIAL and RB_MULTIPLE set.
Reviewed by: jhb
8k boundary with this program still.
text data bss dec hex filename
7925 4 4476 12405 3075 bootiic.out
so we have like 293 bytes left before we have to play games. There
may be ways to reduce that somewhat, but they start to be very board
specific.
changes in the future. This helps with getting started and to
overcome the really sucky level of granuality this timeout has in
getc. A timeout of 1 means 'wait until top of next second' rather
than 'wait for at least a second'.
fixes filesystem corruption when nextboot.conf is located after
cylinder 1023. The bug appears to have been introduced at the time
bd_read was copied to create bd_write.
PR: bin/98005
Reported by: yar
MFC after: 1 week
selection and not always beeping on startup. The two bytes for the extra
'jmp' instruction were obtained by removing recognition of BSD/OS
partitions.
Requested by: many
Tested by: subset of many
Head nod: imp, keramida
MFC after: 2 weeks
Make this compile, assuming that you have linux installed in a
sensible place. tag_list is disabled by default, since we don't
distribute linux, but it is desirable to allow the boot loader to boot
Linux or FreeBSD (mostly for testing).
xmodem download. Then download the image you want in the flash.
This will burn the image into the flash. You must then reset the
unit and the new flash image will be used for booting...
xmodem download. Then download the image you want in the eeprom.
This will burn the image into the eeprom. You must then reset the
unit and the new eeprom image will be used for booting...
