variables to loader:
hint.smbios.0.enabled "YES" when SMBIOS is detected
hint.smbios.0.bios.vendor BIOS vendor
hint.smbios.0.bios.version BIOS version
hint.smbios.0.bios.reldate BIOS release date
hint.smbios.0.system.maker System manufacturer
hint.smbios.0.system.product System product name
hint.smbios.0.system.version System version number
hint.smbios.0.planar.maker Base board manufacturer
hint.smbios.0.planar.product Base board product name
hint.smbios.0.planar.version Base board version number
hint.smbios.0.chassis.maker Enclosure manufacturer
hint.smbios.0.chassis.version Enclosure version
These strings can be used to detect hardware quirks and to set appropriate
flags. For example, Compaq R3000 series and some HP laptops require
hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x9"
to boot. See amd64/67745 for more detail.
Note: Please do not abuse this feature to resolve general problem when it
can be fixed programmatically. This must be used as a last resort.
PR: kern/81449
Approved by: anholt (mentor)
- Teach the i386 and pc98 loaders to honor multiple console requests from
their respective boot2 binaries so that the same console(s) are used in
both boot2 and the loader.
- Since the kernel doesn't support multiple consoles, whichever console is
listed first is treated as the "primary" console and is passed to the
kernel in the boot_howto flags.
PR: kern/66425
Submitted by: Gavin Atkinson gavin at ury dot york dot ac dot uk
MFC after: 1 week
to stll be able to mount NFS root as prescribed by DCHP configuration. Since
pxeboot is using TFTP to get to the files, pxeboot can not rely on NFS to
provide it a root directory hande as a side effect. pxeboot has to make RPC
mount call itself.
format modules, which are currently only used on the amd64 platform.
This initial implementation just parses enough of the module to
allow it to extract dependencies and load all the bits into the
right place in memory, so the kernel must still do the full relocation
and linking. The details of the loaded sections are passed to the
kernel by supplying a copy of the ELF section header table as module
metadata with the MODINFOMD_SHDR tag.
fills its field (6 characters). In that case the OEMID is not
null-terminated, and the sprintf that was used would copy up to the
next null byte, which could be pretty far away.
switch to using C99-style comments everywhere in preprocessed
assembler. The reason is that lines starting with the regexp
'^[[:space:]]#' are treated as preprocessing directives, and
while it seems to work now with GCC, it's not necessarily has
to work. Use C99 comments `//' for the trailing comments to
save whitespace.
- do not use PROG for what's not a real C program,
- use sys.mk transformation rules where possible,
- only create the "machine" symlink on AMD64,
- removed MAINTAINER lines in individual makefiles,
- added the LIBSTAND defitinion to <bsd.libnames.mk>,
- somewhat better contents in .depend files.
Tested on: i386, amd64
Prodded by: bde
use a bounce buffer for the actual transfer to avoid crossing a 64k
boundary. To do this, we malloc a buffer twice as big as we need and then
find an aligned block within that buffer to do the transfer. The check
to see which part of the block we use used the wrong variable for part of
the condition meaning that in certain edge cases we would ask the BIOS to
cross a 64k boundary. The BIOS request would then fail resulting in file
transfers that just magically fail in the middle without any apparent
reason. Specifically, my tests for the splitfs boot floppies managed to
trigger this edge case.
MFC after: 1 week
X-MFC-info: along with fixes to libstand filesystems
the terminating '\0'. Since the initialisation of rootpath in
libstand/bootp.c may copy junk into the rest of the buffer, it was
possible for the code to find a ':' after the '\0' and do the wrong
thing.
Reviewed by: ps
MFC after: 1 week
things over floppy size limits, I can exclude it for release builds or
something like that. Most of the changes are to get the load_elf.c file
into a seperate elf32_ or elf64_ namespace so that you can have two
ELF loaders present at once. Note that for 64 bit kernels, it actually
starts up the kernel already in 64 bit mode with paging enabled. This
is really easy because we have a known minimum feature set.
Of note is that for amd64, we have to pass in the bios int 15 0xe821
memory map because once in long mode, you absolutely cannot make VM86
calls. amd64 does not use 'struct bootinfo' at all. It is a pure loader
metadata startup, just like sparc64 and powerpc. Much of the
infrastructure to support this was adapted from sparc64.
* AcpiOsDerivePciId(): finds a bus number, given the slot/func and the
acpi parse tree.
* AcpiOsPredefinedOverride(): use the sysctl hw.acpi.os_name to
override the value for _OS.
Ideas from: takawata, jhb
Reviewed by: takawata, marcel
Tested on: i386, ia64
Move the remaining bits of <sys/diskslice.h> to <i386/include/bootinfo.h>
Move i386/pc98 specific bits from <sys/reboot.h> to
<i386/include/bootinfo.h> as well.
Adjust includes in sys/boot accordingly.
Peter had repocopied sys/disklabel.h to sys/diskpc98.h and sys/diskmbr.h.
These two new copies are still intact copies of disklabel.h and
therefore protected by #ifndef _SYS_DISKLABEL_H_ so #including them
in programs which already include <sys.disklabel.h> is currently a
no-op.
This commit adds a number of such #includes.
Once I have verified that I have fixed all the places which need fixing,
I will commit the updated versions of the three #include files.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
