loader variable, which let users specify the root mount point
the exact way one does after booting the kernel.
Let's take this opportunity to document it...
around. If the kernel boots successfully, the record of this kernel
is erased, it is intended to be a one-shot option for testing
kernels.
This could be improved by having the loader remove the record of
the next kernel to boot, it is currently removed in /etc/rc immediately
after disks are mounted r/w.
I'd like to MFC this before the 4.6 freeze unless there is violent
objection.
Reviewed by: Several on IRC
MFC after: 4 days
o We don't expect the PLT relocations to follow the .rela section
anymore. We still assume that PLT relocations are long formed,
o Document register usage,
o Improve ILP,
o Fix the FPTR relocation by creating unique OPDs per function.
Comparing functions is valid now,
o The IPLT relocation naturally handles the addend. Deal with it.
We ignore the addend for FPTR relocations for now. It's not at
all clear what it means anyway.
Fix ABI misinterpretation:
o For Elf_Rela relocations, the addend is explicit and should not
be loaded from the memory address we're relocating. Only do that
for Elf_Rel relocations (ie the short form).
o DIR64LSB is not the same as REL64LSB. DIR64LSB applies to a
symbol (S+A), whereas REL64LSB applies to the base address (BD+A),
up the module_path string, we would walk one past the end of the buffer.
This hurting ia64 originally, but it was probably also happening on i386
occasionally as well. The effects were usually harmless, it would add
bogus "binary" search directories to the places it actually looked for
files.
the S_IFREG bit for regular files. This caused the path search code to
skip it when it finally did find the kernel (after the common/module.c
buffer overrun bug was fixed)
detects and uses the gas section merge support. As a result, a whole bunch
of new sections arrive, including .rodata.str1.8, which was not included
in our custom ldscript.ia64. The result was a loader binary that EFI
rejected.
While here, collect the loader shell commands linker set and include it
in the data area rather than having its own section.
/boot/loader.efi was the last holdout for having a 100% self built ia64
system.
special-case make rule
2.) Cleanups, remove superfluous expicit rules, add -nostdlib to LDFLAGS,
remove -X and -g, remove -g from CFLAGS
3.) Add BINDIR
4.) Build install the loader help file, add an empty help.sparc64
5.) Change the default configuration to only support booting from disk
6.) Get libofw.a from a path relative ${.OBJDIR}, not ${.CURDIR}
Submitted by: jake (1 - 5), obrien (6)
register r8. We continue to write the bootinfo block at the same
hardwired address, because the kernel still expects it there.
It is expected that future kernels use register r8 to get to the
bootinfo block and don't depend on the hardwired address anymore.
Bump the loader version once again due to the interface change.
only care if it's network or not at this time. If we're loaded from
the network, we set currdev (=loaddev) so that the kernel is loaded
from the network as well. In all other cases we initialize to disk.
This makes netbooting more convenient and can easily be enhanced to
do more elaborate checking.
Most significantly (from an interfacing point of view) is the
support for the FPSWA pointer passing. Even though that was added
4 months ago, it's probably not a bad idea to bump the version
number to reflect this.
