This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
1/ Makefile: the maximum size for boot2 is 7.5K not 7K,
so don't complain until it reaches THAT size..
newfs leaves 8K and boot 1 is 512k. leaving 7.5K becasue the disklabel
is considered to part of the boot2 file.
[512 boot1][512 disklabel][ 7K boot2 code ]
[boot1 file][ boot2 file ]
2/ Boot2.S: move the soring of the default name read from block 2 to AFTER
clearing the BSS.
3/ boot.c:
Move the parsing of the command line into the
place it's called for clarity.. alsoi comment it a bit and clean it
up a bit.. for some reason this seems ot have made it a little
larger, but I can't work out why.. maybe bruce might have ideas?
compensated for by shrinkage elsewhere..
the practical result of this is htat the default string can now contain args
e.g. if you change the default string to have -gd
then the machine will boot to the dgb debugger stub by default..
this is mostly useful with the nextboot utility..
as it now allows you to remotely force a machine to reboot into
the debugger.
Add code to the boot blocks to allow the user to place default boot strings
on block 1 of the disk (2nd block), should the correct magic numbers be present.
If the correct options are used it will 'delete' the name used from block1,
thereby assuring that if the boot fails it won't be stuck in an infinite loop.
the boot strings are set by the utility "nextboot"
(not yet checked in, but being tested.)
By default these changes should have no effect on existing installations
and if compiled without the NAMEBLOCK option should be essentially identical
to the old ones.
(Boot with the -D flag if you want symbols.)
Make it easier to extend `struct bootinfo' without losing either forwards
or backwards compatibility.
ddb_aout.c:
Get the symbol table from wherever the loader put it.
Nuke db_symtab[SYMTAB_SPACE].
boot.c:
Enable loading of symbols. Align them on a page boundary. Add printfs
about the symbol table sizes.
Pass the memory sizes to the kernel.
Fix initialization of `unit' (it got moved out of the loop).
Fix adding the bss size (it got moved inside an ifdef).
Initialize serial port when RB_SERIAL is toggled on.
Fix comments.
Clean up formatting of recently added code.
io.c:
Clean up formatting of recently added code.
netboot/main.c, machdep.c, wd.c:
Change names of bootinfo fields.
LINT:
Nuke SYMTAB_SPACE.
Fix comment about DODUMP.
Makefile.i386:
Nuke use of dbsym.
Exclude gcc symbols from kernel unless compiling with -g.
Remove unused macro.
Fix comments and formatting.
genassym.c:
Generate defines for some new bootinfo fields. Change names of old ones.
locore.s:
Copy only the valid part of the `struct bootinfo' passed by the loader.
Reserve space for symbol table, if any.
machdep.c:
Check the memory sizes passed by the loader, if any. Don't use them yet.
bootinfo.h:
Add a size field so that we can resolve some mismatches between the loader
bootinfo and the kernel boot info. The version number is not so good for
this because of historical botches and because it's harder to maintain.
Add memory size and symbol table fields. Change the names of everything.
Hacks to save a few bytes:
asm.S, boot.c, boot2.S:
Replace `ouraddr' by `(BOOTSEG << 4)'.
boot.c:
Don't statically initialize `loadflags' to 0. Disable the "REDUNDANT"
code that skips the BIOS variables. Eliminate `total'. Combine some
more printfs.
boot.h, disk.c, io.c, table.c:
Move all statically initialzed data to table.c.
io.c:
Don't put the A20 gate bits in a variable.
from David Greenman, Bruce Evans and Julian Elischer.
They are:
[vnode pager - David/Bruce]:
The following patch fixes a problem where some data could be lost in a
delayed-write buffer if the cached buffer was larger than a page. This fix was
provided by Bruce Evans and modified slightly by me.
[st.c - Julian]:
My fix for "bad request, must be between 0 and 0"
RTFS if you're interested).
[gnu/fpemul - David/Bruce]:
These changes fix single stepping of emulated FPU instructions.
Previously, the instruction after an emulated instruction was
executed without causing a SIGTRAP ...
The also fix the initial control word being different for the
GPL emulator (it is still wrong for the old emulator) and remove
an unnecessary panic when emulation is not configured (I hope at
least init, sh and reboot will run without floating point. I
remember only df and mkfs being broken by the lack of FP in 0.0).
[Various fixes described below - Bruce/David]:
sys/i386/boot/boot2.S:
Yet another attempt to propagate the correct fix for 16 vs
32-bit mode bugs. [verified]
sys/i386/i386/db_interface.c:
Protect against reentering Debugger().
sys/kern/kern_time.c:
Don't allow 'time.tv_usec == 0' except at clock interrupts.
sys/pcfs/pcfs_fat.c:
Make it compile without -O.
sys/scsi/sd.c:
Fix as posted to some freebsd mailing list.
(changes the order of the assignment of "sectors" because it earlier
value is needed first -DG)
sys/vm/vm_glue.c:
Fix stale comments and verbose code.
sys/vm/vm_mmap.c
Fix off by 1 errors and verbose code.
[From Nate - cosmetic but non-intrusive and useful enough to go in]
sys/i386/isa/isa.c:
Appended you'll find a patch to the NMI error log routine in isa/isa.c.
The below patch just adds some additional information when an NMI occurs
which can help debug the hardware problem.
Change movl %es: -2(reg) to use a subl $2,reg when fixing up the IDT
entries for bdb. This seems to be the best way to go.
Some day soon #ifdef BDB all of Bruces debugger code.
