Mike says the whole idea of a current device was a bad idea in first place,
and will be doing away with currdev.
Anyway, people are not supposed to even notice this. :-)
* Make it possible to type a filename to boot1 so that it is possible to
recover from fatally broken versions of /boot/loader.
* Make a start at a CD boot program (not yet functional).
numbers that we have been doing in the past, and read /etc/fstab off the
proposed root filesystem to determine the actual device name and vfs
type for the root filesystem. These are then exported to the kernel
via the environment variable vfs.root.mountfrom.
Use colons instead of semi-colons in the default init_path to behave like
UNIX instead of DOS.
Suggested by: bde
Reminded by: des (with no hint as to *which* man page).
* Make the network code in the bootstrap more chatty (helps debugging)
* Add nfs root stuff to cpu_rootconf(). I also added a check to make sure
it really was netbooting which allows the use of the same kernel for local
and network boots.
* Tweak the de driver so that it takes the speed setting from the console
for the alpha (some PWSs have broken de chipsets). This is the same
behaviour as NetBSD/alpha.
Submitted by: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
i386 platform boots, it is no longer ISA-centric, and is fully dynamic.
Most old drivers compile and run without modification via 'compatability
shims' to enable a smoother transition. eisa, isapnp and pccard* are
not yet using the new resource manager. Once fully converted, all drivers
will be loadable, including PCI and ISA.
(Some other changes appear to have snuck in, including a port of Soren's
ATA driver to the Alpha. Soren, back this out if you need to.)
This is a checkpoint of work-in-progress, but is quite functional.
The bulk of the work was done over the last few years by Doug Rabson and
Garrett Wollman.
Approved by: core
Also, unbreak the breakage introduced at the last revision of module.c.
This changes the semantics of mod_searchfile() (and mod_searchmodule())
to make the caller's responsibility freeing the buffer returned. This
is different from other functions in loader's code, and was done as a
fix for kern/9631. If someone wants to revert this to the original
behavior, don't forget to fix kern/9631 in another way.
This should also fix bin/10462, which was introduced as a result of the
first try at kern/9631 (module.c last revision).
PR: bin/10462
Submitted by: Takanori Saneto <sanewo@ba2.so-net.ne.jp>
and the variable doesn't even exist (though it is referenced elsewhere).
Just make sure it produces error messages when Mike get back to it.
PR: kern/9934
Submitted by: Adrian Filipi-Martin
Change include() so it will be able to load files with forth code,
instead of just builtins. Remove #@- from the include section of the
help file, since they don't work in the new version of include, unless
BOOT_FORTH is not defined.
Change bf_run() so it will return the result returned by ficlExec(). Also,
make bf_run() push "interpret" to be executed by ficlExec(), since ficlExec()
doesn't do it by itself. (Things worked previously because nothing
recursed through ficlExec() by the way of bf_run()).
Change/extend comments on builtin behavior.
Search for "interpret" at the end of bf_init(), so /boot/boot.4th can
provide it's own version.
Remove dead code.
the interrupt which will be given to the PCIC. If the value supplied is
illegal or not available, interrupts will be turned off and polled mode
used instead.
bootinfo structure where bi_esymtab < bi_symtab was being passed
to the kernel. In the case of older 2.x kernels, this was causing
garbage to be printed to the video console, followed by an exception.
This should resolve a problem reported on -current by Peter Jeremy
<peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au>.
help.common
interp.c
Rename the 'source' command to 'include' in order to avoid conflict
with the ANS Forth command of the same name. (kern/9473)
interp_forth.c:
Changes from kern/9412 (EXCEPTION word), kern/9442 (TIB buffer
sizing) and an improved version of kern/9460 (set
version numbers).
load_aout.c:
Trim some obsolete #if 0'ed cruft.
pnp.c:
Tidy the pnpscan output, turn off the module scanning until we
sort out how to do it right.
PR: kern/9412 kern/9442 kern/9460 kern/9473
Submitted by: PRs from Daniel Sobral <dcs@newsguy.com>
needs. This removes the dependancy on Perl for the generation of the
loader, allowing the world to be built on a perl-free system.
Submitted by: Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz>
problems in case a wrong option was given previously, and no option
is given to the next command.
PR: kern/9371
Submitted by: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
