- Fix btxldr to preserve a NULL bootinfo pointer when it copies the kernel
arguments.
- Add the cdldr bootstrap program. This program is tacked onto the
beginning of the standard 3rd stage boot loader (/boot/loader) to form
the CD boot loader (/boot/cdboot). When a CD is booted, the cdboot file
is copied into memory instead and executed. The cdldr stub emulates the
environment normally provided by boot2 and then starts the loader. This
booting method does not emulate a floppy drive, but boots directly off of
the CD. This should fix the problems some BIOS's have with emulating a
2.88 MB floppy image.
- Add support to the loader to recognize that it has been booted by cdldr
instead of boot2 and use a simpler method of extracting the BIOS boot
device.
of %cr0 wasn't reloaded into %eax before being modified to turn protected
mode off if PAGING was not defined. The result was that the processor did
not exit protected mode, so when it tried to jump to segment 0x0 in the
next instruction to clear the prefetch cache like one should when leaving
protected mode, it actually tried to jump to a null selector, causing a
GPF.
for our use. Use the same search order for BIOS memory size functions
as the kernel will later use.
Allow the loader to use all of the detected physical memory (this will
greatly help people trying to load enormous memory disk images).
More correctly handle running out of memory when loading an object.
Use the end of base memory for the top of the heap, rather than
blindly hoping that there is 384k left.
Add copyrights to a couple of files I forgot.
-fschedule-insns as it wasn't such a big win with 2.95 after all.
Add the *BIG* win "-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2" optimiztion submitted by
Dima. GCC 2.95 ensures the stack frame is always properly [opitimally]
aligned by surrounding every function call by code simular to
"addl $-12, %esp" / "addl $12, %esp". Here we need the reduction in space,
with speed not an issue.
Remove some printf() calls, reduce size of buffers, and abbreviate
some strings.
Hopefully the boot people will fix this spamage after the cut over to
Gcc 2.95.2 as the system compiler.
either one gives us an additional 32 bytes of additional space available
when using EGCS 1.1.2. With GCC 2.95.2 -fforce-addr gives us 12 more bytes,
and adding -fschedule-insns gives us an additional 4 bytes.
Memory" called as function 0x87 of interrupt 0x15. Since the Mylex RAID
adapter's BIOS used this function to access memory (actually PCI bus
space) beyond 16 MB, this patch also allows BTX to address all 4 Gig of
possible address space on i386+. Since the loader does not have room for
4 MB of page tables, this was done by turning off paging.
Paging was turned off via a compile time setting which defaults to off.
To enable paging, simply define the make variable PAGING.
rnordier might want to clean this up later.
Submitted by: W. Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>,
Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@ares.dsuper.net>
Reviewed by: msmith
Required by: Mylex RAID adapter's BIOS
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.
This should resolve the problem raised in PR 12315, and incidentally
makes it easier to determine what geometry the BIOS is actually using
(by way of boot -v and dmesg).
flag to the kernel to mount a CDROM as the root filesystem. Alternatively,
the boot_cdrom env var can be set.
As Mike Smith noted, "-C is the "wrong" way to do this", but this is
an acceptable stopgap in lieu of a better way.
PR: bin/11884
Reviewed by: msmith@freebsd.org
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).
