comconsole setup. Previously the hint would be set when if you set a
custom port, but it would not be updated if you later set a custom speed.
Also, leave the hw.uart.console hint mutable so it can be overridden or
unset by the user if needed.
Reviewed by: kib (earlier version)
MFC after: 1 week
- clear capability flags when hw timeouts
- retire comc_started status variable and directly use c_flags to see
if comconsole is selected for use
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: Uffe Jakobsen <uffe@uffe.org>,
Olivier Cochard-Labbe <olivier@cochard.me>
MFC after: 26 days
disk_open(). Very often this is called several times for one file.
This leads to reading partition table metadata for each call. To
reduce the number of disk I/O we have a simple block cache, but it
is very dumb and more than half of I/O operations related to reading
metadata, misses this cache.
Introduce new cache layer to resolve this problem. It is independent
and doesn't need initialization like bcache, and will work by default
for all loaders which use the new DISK API. A successful disk_open()
call to each new disk or partition produces new entry in the cache.
Even more, when disk was already open, now opening of any nested
partitions does not require reading top level partition table.
So, if without this cache, partition table metadata was read around
20-50 times during boot, now it reads only once. This affects the booting
from GPT and MBR from the UFS.
in sys/boot/i386/libi386/biosdisk.c. Otherwise, when DISK_DEBUG is
enabled, the DEBUG() macros will clobber those fields, and cause the
probing to always fail mysteriously when debugging is enabled.
In zfs loader zfs device name format now is "zfs:pool/fs",
fully qualified file path is "zfs:pool/fs:/path/to/file"
loader allows accessing files from various pools and filesystems as well
as changing currdev to a different pool/filesystem.
zfsboot accepts kernel/loader name in a format pool:fs:path/to/file or,
as before, pool:path/to/file; in the latter case a default filesystem
is used (pool root or bootfs). zfsboot passes guids of the selected
pool and dataset to zfsloader to be used as its defaults.
zfs support should be architecture independent and is provided
in a separate library, but architectures wishing to use this zfs support
still have to provide some glue code and their devdesc should be
compatible with zfs_devdesc.
arch_zfs_probe method is used to discover all disk devices that may
be part of ZFS pool(s).
libi386 unconditionally includes zfs support, but some zfs-specific
functions are stubbed out as weak symbols. The strong definitions
are provided in libzfsboot.
This change mean that the size of i386_devspec becomes larger
to match zfs_devspec.
Backward-compatibility shims are provided for recently added sparc64
zfs boot support. Currently that architecture still works the old
way and does not support the new features.
TODO:
- clear up pool root filesystem vs pool bootfs filesystem distinction
- update sparc64 support
- set vfs.root.mountfrom based on currdev (for zfs)
Mid-future TODO:
- loader sub-menu for selecting alternative boot environment
Distant future TODO:
- support accessing snapshots, using a snapshot as readonly root
Reviewed by: marius (sparc64),
Gavin Mu <gavin.mu@gmail.com> (sparc64)
Tested by: Florian Wagner <florian@wagner-flo.net> (x86),
marius (sparc64)
No objections: fs@, hackers@
MFC after: 1 month
get rid of testing explicitly for clang (using ${CC:T:Mclang}) in
individual Makefiles.
Instead, use the following extra macros, for use with clang:
- NO_WERROR.clang (disables -Werror)
- NO_WCAST_ALIGN.clang (disables -Wcast-align)
- NO_WFORMAT.clang (disables -Wformat and friends)
- CLANG_NO_IAS (disables integrated assembler)
- CLANG_OPT_SMALL (adds flags for extra small size optimizations)
As a side effect, this enables setting CC/CXX/CPP in src.conf instead of
make.conf! For clang, use the following:
CC=clang
CXX=clang++
CPP=clang-cpp
MFC after: 2 weeks
using LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT excludes this code. Fixes compilation of pxeldr
with -DLOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT
Applicable to stable/9 and stable/8 now.
This appears to not be needed on stable/7 as r212126 has not been MFC'd.
Obtained from: Yahoo! Inc.
MFC after: 2 weeks
'comconsole_pcidev'. The former allows to set the base address of the
serial console i/o port. The later takes the string of the format
'bus:device:function:[bar]' as a value and uses the serial port attached
as PCI device at the specified location for console.
Both variants pass 'hw.uart.console' variable to the uart driver to
properly hand-over the kernel console.
Change allows to use ISA serial ports other than COM1 for the
loader/kernel console without loader recompilation. Also, you can use
PCI-attached port as the console, e.g. Intel AMT serial pseudo-port on
some motherboards based on Q67 chipset.
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
At work, where we use use KVM+QEMU, we notice that pxeboot is pratically
impossible because of network timeouts. This is due to the fact that the
RTC code makes aggressive jumps.
Two RTC reads does not seem to be sufficient. Change the code to check
for 8 identical RTC values.
Sponsored by: Kumina bv
and constants related to the BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Specification.
- Use this header instead of magic numbers and various duplicate structure
definitions for doing I/O.
- Use an actual structure for the request to fetch drive parameters in
drvsize() rather than a gross hack of a char array with some magic
size. While here, change drvsize() to only pass the 1.1 version of
the structure and not request device path information. If we want
device path information you have to set the length of the device
path information as an input (along with probably checking the actual
EDD version to see which size one should use as the device path
information is variable-length). This fixes data smashing problems
from passing an EDD 3 structure to BIOSes supporting EDD 4.
Reviewed by: avg
Tested by: Dennis Koegel dk neveragain.de
MFC after: 1 week
it possible to boot from ZFS RAIDZ for example from within VirtualBox.
The problem with VirtualBox is that its BIOS reports only one disk present.
If we choose to ignore this report, we can find all the disks available.
We can't have this work-around to be turned on by default, because some broken
BIOSes report true when it comes to number of disks, but present the same disk
multiple times.
the file handle's size and was recently committed to
lib/libstand/nfs.c. This allows pxeboot to use NFSv3 and work
correcty for non-FreeBSD as well as FreeBSD NFS servers.
If built with OLD_NFSV2 defined, the old
code that predated this patch will be used.
Tested by: danny at cs.huji.ac.il
heap when using a range above 1MB.
Previously the loader would always use the last 3MB in the first memory
range above 1MB for the heap. However, this memory range is also where the
kernel and any modules are loaded. If this memory range is "small", then
using the high 3MB for the heap may not leave enough room for the kernel
and modules.
Now the loader will use any range below 4GB for the heap, and the logic to
choose the "high" heap region has moved into biosmem.c. It sets two
variables that the loader can use for a high heap if it desires. When a
high heap is enabled (BZIP2, FireWire, GPT, or ZFS), then the following
memory ranges are preferred for the heap in order from best to worst:
- The largest memory region in the SMAP with a start address greater than
1MB. The memory region must be at least 3MB in length. This leaves the
region starting at 1MB purely for use by the kernel and modules.
- The last 3MB of the memory region starting at 1MB if it is at least 3MB
in size. This matches the current behavior except that the current loader
would break horribly if the first region was not at least 3MB in size.
- The memory range from the end of the loader up to the 640k window. This
is the range the loader uses when none of the high-heap-requesting options
are enabled.
Tested by: hrs
MFC after: 1 week
video console which doesn't take any input from keyboard and hides
all output replacing it with ``spinning'' character (useful for
embedded products and custom installations).
Sponsored by: Sippy Software, Inc.
slicei, Apple EFI hardware), the bootloader will fail to recognize the GPT
if it finds anything else but the EFI partition. Change the check to continue
detecting the GPT by looking at the EFI partition on the MBR but
stopping successfuly after finding it.
PR: kern/134590
Submitted by: Christoph Langguth <christoph at rosenkeller.org>
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
Approved by: re (kib)
- Do not iterate int 15h, function e820h twice. Instead, we use STAILQ to
store each return buffer and copy all at once.
- Export optional extended attributes defined in ACPI 3.0 as separate
metadata. Currently, there are only two bits defined in the specification.
For example, if the descriptor has extended attributes and it is not
enabled, it has to be ignored by OS. We may implement it in the kernel
later if it is necessary and proven correct in reality.
- Check return buffer size strictly as suggested in ACPI 3.0.
Reviewed by: jhb
open partition. This fixes access to partitions whose starting offset
is >= 2 TB.
Submitted by: "James R. Van Artsdalen" james jrv.org
MFC after: 3 days
- First three fields of system UUID may be little-endian as described in
SMBIOS Specification v2.6. For now, we keep the network byte order for
backward compatibility (and consistency with popular dmidecode tool)
if SMBIOS table revision is less than 2.6. However, little-endian format
can be forced by defining BOOT_LITTLE_ENDIAN_UUID from make.conf(5) if it
is necessary.
- Replace overly ambitious optimizations with more readable code.
- Update comments to SMBIOS Specification v2.6 and clean up style(9) bugs.
as 'real memory' instead of Maxmem if the value is available.
Note amd64 displayed physmem as 'usable memory' since machdep.c r1.640
to unconfuse users. Now it is consistent across amd64 and i386 again.
While I am here, clean up smbios.c a bit and update copyright date.
Reviewed by: jhb
booting because the CD driver did not use bounce buffers to ensure
request buffers sent to the BIOS were always in the first 1MB. Copy over
the bounce buffer logic from the BIOS disk driver (minus the 64k boundary
code for floppies) to fix this.
Reported by: kensmith
in make.conf or src.conf.
- When GPT is enabled (which it is by default), use memory above 1 MB and
leave the memory from the end of the bss to the end of the 640k window
purely for the stack. The loader has grown and now it is much more
common for the heap and stack to grow into each other when both are
located in the 640k window.
PR: kern/129526
MFC after: 1 week
