assume that GPT means UEFI boot, resulting in the installation of
uninstallable systems. This needs a little more work before MFC, in
particular based on disk size (> 2 TB + BIOS + MBR is not workable). That
will come soon.
partitions of types other than "freebsd-boot" (in particular, "efi").
This allows the removal of some nasty hacks for supporting PowerPC systems,
in particular aliasing freebsd-boot to apple-boot on APM and an IBM-specific
code on MBR.
This changes the installer to use the correct names, which also breaks a
degeneracy in the meaning of "freebsd-boot" that allows the addition
of support for some newer IBM systems that can boot from GPT in addition to
MBR. Since I have no idea how to detect which those systems are, leave
the default on IBM PPC systems as MBR for now.
a sysctl to determine what firmware is in use. This sysctl does not exist
yet, so the following blocks are in front of the wheels:
- I've provisionally called this "hw.platform" after the equivalent thing
on PPC
- The logic to check the sysctl is short-circuited to always choose BIOS.
There's a comment in the top of the file about how to turn this off.
If IA64 acquired a boot1.efifat-like thing (probably with very few
modifications), the same code could be adapted there.
commit c1acf022c5
Author: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Date: Fri Jan 17 21:46:44 2014 +0000
Add an option WITHOUT_NCURSESW to suppress building and linking to
libncursesw. While wide character support it useful we'd like to
only need one ncurses library on embedded systems.
MFC after: 4 weeks
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
This is a workaround, as for unknown yet reason the keys binded on the Partition Edition window are the one from partlist instead of the one from standard "formfield"
Reported by: alfred, nwhitehorn
type. GEOM provider names can't duplicate (or shouldn't -- devfs will either
break or only use the first one if they do) so using the first provider
by that name is a sufficient check. This also lets the scripted partitioner
install onto gmirror and geli and such things.
will come soon. This lets the install process have a line like:
bsdinstall scriptedpart 'ada0 GPT {1.5G freebsd-ufs /, 10G freebsd-swap,
auto freebsd-ufs /usr}'
to set up a system with a 1.5GB /, some swap space, and a /usr using the
rest of ada0.
MFC after: 1 month
creating new ones by destroying any geom that may have come into
existence immediately after adding a partition. The EBR partition scheme
is particularly enthusiastic about false positives in this case.
MFC after: 3 days
container partitions, which didn't do anything anyway, and check for
an existing freebsd-boot partition before bothering the user to make one.
PR: bin/160931
MFC after: 3 days
order to make every operation of the partition editor fully revertable.
Under *no circumstances* will it any longer touch the disks until the user
presses Finish and confirms it.
MFC after: 3 days
Some files keep the SUN4V tags as a code reference, for the future,
if any rewamped sun4v support wants to be added again.
Reviewed by: marius
Tested by: sbruno
Approved by: re
pc-sysinstall) a replacement for sysinstall in the 9.0 release and beyond.
Currently supported platforms are sparc64, pc98, i386, amd64, powerpc, and
powerpc64. Integration into the build system will occur in the coming
weeks.
Merging with pc-sysinstall will use this code as a frontend, while
temporarily retaining the interactive partition editor here. This work
will be done in parallel with improvements on this code and release
integration.
Thanks to all who have provided testing and comments!
