Summary:
The Freescale e500v2 PowerPC core does not use a standard FPU.
Instead, it uses a Signal Processing Engine (SPE)--a DSP-style vector processor
unit, which doubles as a FPU. The PowerPC SPE ABI is incompatible with the
stock powerpc ABI, so a new MACHINE_ARCH was created to deal with this.
Additionaly, the SPE opcodes overlap with Altivec, so these are mutually
exclusive. Taking advantage of this fact, a new file, powerpc/booke/spe.c, was
created with the same function set as in powerpc/powerpc/altivec.c, so it
becomes effectively a drop-in replacement. setjmp/longjmp were modified to save
the upper 32-bits of the now-64-bit GPRs (upper 32-bits are only accessible by
the SPE).
Note: This does _not_ support the SPE in the e500v1, as the e500v1 SPE does not
support double-precision floating point.
Also, without a new MACHINE_ARCH it would be impossible to provide binary
packages which utilize the SPE.
Additionally, no work has been done to support ports, work is needed for this.
This also means no newer gcc can yet be used. However, gcc's powerpc support
has been refactored which would make adding a powerpcspe-freebsd target very
easy.
Test Plan:
This was lightly tested on a RouterBoard RB800 and an AmigaOne A1222
(P1022-based) board, compiled against the new ABI. Base system utilities
(/bin/sh, /bin/ls, etc) still function appropriately, the system is able to boot
multiuser.
Reviewed By: bdrewery, imp
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5683
dev_net.c code.
The NETIF_OPEN_CLOSE_ONCE flag was added in r201932 to prevent that behaviour
on some architectures (sparc64 and powerpc64) the default was left to always
open and close the device for each open and close of a file by the loader
because it was necessary for u-boot on arm.
Since it has been added, the flag was turned on for every arches including the
u-boot loader for arm.
This also fixes netbooting on RPi3 (tested by gonzo@)
For the loader.efi it greatly speeds up netbooting
Reviewed by: emaste, gonzo, tsoome
Approved by: gonzo
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: Gandi.net
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8230
files and, in a number of these places, there were problems with how they
were declared.
Some used int return instead of time_t. On some architectures the bit
width of time_t did not naturally fit into an integer and could lead to
some unexpected behavior. (For example, 32-bit ARM builds uses a 64-bit
time_t.)
Make sure the function prototypes always specify void for the argument
list when they do not have any arguemnts, otherwise some compilers can
complain about the prototype.
Reported by: Kevin Zheng
Reviewed by: sjg
Approved by: sjg (mentor)
Obtained from: Juniper Networks, Inc.
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7463
device argument to the stage-1 bootloader. In such cases, boot1 would
only try to read the entire device rather than checking for partitions.
Instead of panic'ing, fall back to reading the partitions as normal in
such situations. This was preventing boot of installed systems on some
versions of PowerKVM.
PR: kern/211599
MFC after: 2 days
The block cache implementation in loader has proven to be almost useless, and in worst case even slowing down the disk reads due to insufficient cache size and extra memory copy.
Also the current cache implementation does not cache reads from CDs, or work with zfs built on top of multiple disks.
Instead of an LRU, this code uses a simple hash (O(1) read from cache), and instead of a single global cache, a separate cache per block device.
The cache also implements limited read-ahead to increase performance.
To simplify read ahead management, the read ahead will not wrap over bcache end, so in worst case, single block physical read will be performed to fill the last block in bcache.
Booting from a virtual CD over IPMI:
0ms latency, before: 27 second, after: 7 seconds
60ms latency, before: over 12 minutes, after: under 5 minutes.
Submitted by: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Reviewed by: delphij (previous version), emaste (previous version)
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4713
Remove the printf("Not ufs\n") from the boot code which was hidden by the
local printf implementations, allowing these to have that code removed too.
MFC after: 2 weeks
X-MFC-With: r293268
Sponsored by: Multiplay
There have been .local version of each for user modifications for some time
This allows users to receive future updates to these files
PR: 183765
Submitted by: Bertram Scharpf, Nikolai Lifanov (patch)
Reviewed by: dteske, loos, eadler
Approved by: bapt (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: ScaleEngine Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3176
an FDT. This is how Linux and OS X boot and can avoid some issues with
using Open Firmware at runtime. The code is highly experimental and disabled
by default; it can be turned on by setting the loader environment variable
"usefdt" to a non-NULL value.
loader on PS3 and POWER8 systems. This is reasonably portable to other
architectures, especially FDT-based ones, if similar features are useful
elsewhere.
Netboot support is missing for now and will be added in a future commit,
at which time loader.ps3 will be garbage collected.
Done at: Hackathon
moving U-Boot specific code from libfdt.a to a new libuboot_fdt.a. This
needs to be a new library for linking to work correctly.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1054
Reviewed by: ian, rpaulo (earlier version)
MFC after: 1 week
The powerpc support was the only supported architecture not prepending the elf format name
with "-freebsd" in base this change makes it consistent with other architectures.
On newer version of binutils the powerpc format is also prepended with "-freebsd".
Also modify the kernel ldscripts in that regards.
As a result it is now possible cross build the kernel on powerpc using newer binutils
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D926
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D928
particular, allow loaders to define the name of the RC script the
interpreter needs to use. Use this new-found control to have the
PXE loader (when compiled with TFTP support and not NFS support)
read from ${bootfile}.4th, where ${bootfile} is the name of the
file fetched by the PXE firmware.
The normal startup process involves reading the following files:
1. /boot/boot.4th
2. /boot/loader.rc or alternatively /boot/boot.conf
When these come from a FreeBSD-defined file system, this is all
good. But when we boot over the network, subdirectories and fixed
file names are often painful to administrators and there's really
no way for them to change the behaviour of the loader.
Obtained from: Juniper Networks, Inc.
and finish the job. ncurses is now the only Makefile in the tree that
uses it since it wasn't a simple mechanical change, and will be
addressed in a future commit.
WITH[OUT]_SSP to avoid hitting an error if user has WITH_SSP in their
make.conf. Ports now use this knob.
make[7]: "/usr/src/share/mk/bsd.own.mk" line 466: WITH_SSP and
WITHOUT_SSP can't both be set.
This is similar to previous cleanup done in r188895
Approved by: bapt
Reviewed by: jlh (earlier version)
Approved by: re (marius)
MFC after: 1 week
we can find a way to get the information from petitboot or to guess it, so
the current algorithm is:
1. See if ps3disk3p1 (first GPT slice on OtherOS partition) exists, and if
so try to boot it.
2. Otherwise, netboot.
Submitted by: glevand <geoffrey.levand at mail dot ru >
