The block cache implementation in loader has proven to be almost useless, and in worst case even slowing down the disk reads due to insufficient cache size and extra memory copy.
Also the current cache implementation does not cache reads from CDs, or work with zfs built on top of multiple disks.
Instead of an LRU, this code uses a simple hash (O(1) read from cache), and instead of a single global cache, a separate cache per block device.
The cache also implements limited read-ahead to increase performance.
To simplify read ahead management, the read ahead will not wrap over bcache end, so in worst case, single block physical read will be performed to fill the last block in bcache.
Booting from a virtual CD over IPMI:
0ms latency, before: 27 second, after: 7 seconds
60ms latency, before: over 12 minutes, after: under 5 minutes.
Submitted by: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Reviewed by: delphij (previous version), emaste (previous version)
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4713
Remove the printf("Not ufs\n") from the boot code which was hidden by the
local printf implementations, allowing these to have that code removed too.
MFC after: 2 weeks
X-MFC-With: r293268
Sponsored by: Multiplay
There have been .local version of each for user modifications for some time
This allows users to receive future updates to these files
PR: 183765
Submitted by: Bertram Scharpf, Nikolai Lifanov (patch)
Reviewed by: dteske, loos, eadler
Approved by: bapt (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: ScaleEngine Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3176
an FDT. This is how Linux and OS X boot and can avoid some issues with
using Open Firmware at runtime. The code is highly experimental and disabled
by default; it can be turned on by setting the loader environment variable
"usefdt" to a non-NULL value.
loader on PS3 and POWER8 systems. This is reasonably portable to other
architectures, especially FDT-based ones, if similar features are useful
elsewhere.
Netboot support is missing for now and will be added in a future commit,
at which time loader.ps3 will be garbage collected.
Done at: Hackathon
moving U-Boot specific code from libfdt.a to a new libuboot_fdt.a. This
needs to be a new library for linking to work correctly.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1054
Reviewed by: ian, rpaulo (earlier version)
MFC after: 1 week
The powerpc support was the only supported architecture not prepending the elf format name
with "-freebsd" in base this change makes it consistent with other architectures.
On newer version of binutils the powerpc format is also prepended with "-freebsd".
Also modify the kernel ldscripts in that regards.
As a result it is now possible cross build the kernel on powerpc using newer binutils
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D926
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D928
particular, allow loaders to define the name of the RC script the
interpreter needs to use. Use this new-found control to have the
PXE loader (when compiled with TFTP support and not NFS support)
read from ${bootfile}.4th, where ${bootfile} is the name of the
file fetched by the PXE firmware.
The normal startup process involves reading the following files:
1. /boot/boot.4th
2. /boot/loader.rc or alternatively /boot/boot.conf
When these come from a FreeBSD-defined file system, this is all
good. But when we boot over the network, subdirectories and fixed
file names are often painful to administrators and there's really
no way for them to change the behaviour of the loader.
Obtained from: Juniper Networks, Inc.
and finish the job. ncurses is now the only Makefile in the tree that
uses it since it wasn't a simple mechanical change, and will be
addressed in a future commit.
WITH[OUT]_SSP to avoid hitting an error if user has WITH_SSP in their
make.conf. Ports now use this knob.
make[7]: "/usr/src/share/mk/bsd.own.mk" line 466: WITH_SSP and
WITHOUT_SSP can't both be set.
This is similar to previous cleanup done in r188895
Approved by: bapt
Reviewed by: jlh (earlier version)
Approved by: re (marius)
MFC after: 1 week
we can find a way to get the information from petitboot or to guess it, so
the current algorithm is:
1. See if ps3disk3p1 (first GPT slice on OtherOS partition) exists, and if
so try to boot it.
2. Otherwise, netboot.
Submitted by: glevand <geoffrey.levand at mail dot ru >
Discussed on hackers and recommended for inclusion into 9.0 at the devsummit.
All support email to devin dteske at vicor dot ignoreme dot com .
Submitted by: dteske at vicor dot ignoreme dot com
Reviewed by: me and many others
x86 CPU support, better support for powerpc64, some new directives, and
many other things. Bump __FreeBSD_version, and add a note to UPDATING.
Thanks to the many people that have helped to test this.
Obtained from: projects/binutils-2.17
available on firmwares 3.15 and earlier.
Caveats: Support for the internal SATA controller is currently missing,
as is support for framebuffer resolutions other than 720x480. These
deficiencies will be remedied soon.
Special thanks to Peter Grehan for providing the hardware that made this
port possible, and thanks to Geoff Levand of Sony Computer Entertainment
for advice on the LV1 hypervisor.
