expected. This bug caused builds of Modula-3 to fail in mysterious
ways on SMP kernels. More precisely, such builds failed on systems
with kern.fast_vfork equal to 0, the default and only supported
value for SMP kernels.
PR: kern/7468
Submitted by: tegge (Tor Egge)
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To authorities responsible for
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UTC TIME STEP
on the 1st of January 1999
A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 1998.
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1998 December 31, 23h 59m 59s
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route. If your nameserver config is wrong, this will otherwise hang for
the default resolver timeout (75 seconds), leading people to think that
the system has hung.
- Express various sizes in bytes, rather than Kbytes, in the video
mode and adapter information structures.
- Fill 0 in the linear buffer size field if the linear frame buffer
is not available.
- Remove SW_VESA_USER ioctl. It is still experimetal and was not meant
to be released.
- Fix missing cast operator.
- Correctly handle pointers returned by the VESA BIOS. The pointers
may point to the area either in the BIOS ROM or in the buffer supplied
by the caller.
- Set the destructive cursor at the right moment.
o Use the board id command to find out what kind of board
we're talking to. If we're talking to a board that is has
an ID that is shared between boards supported by the aha
driver and the bt driver, then use the bt's geometry
register to weed out the bt cards. Otherwise assume that we
support this card.
o Remove bt esetup command sending to the card. It seems to
wedge too many cards.
o Revert to doing a soft reset after an invalid command. This
change didn't fix anything, so I'm backing it out. The
whole issue of card resetting needs to be revisisted at some
point so that we can do it properly on all hardware.
o GC unused stuff in some places.
bootblocks, the kernel shows up as the primary module:
[3:24am]~-100# kldstat
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 1 0xf0100000 ff00000 /kernel
^^^^ oops.. :-)
Based heavily on aout_freebsd.c. Hmm.. There's so much in common that
these could probably be combined and just check the metadata to see which
format it is.
so far, and should probably be able to be made to work for the alpha
without too much trouble once it's connected up and my assumptions tested.
I think (but have not tested) it will also load "old" ELF kernels that
were not linked with DYNAMIC headers.
The module glue is yet to come. (oh fun.. :-)
It does not explicitly load symbols [yet]. The _DYNAMIC data contains a
runtime symbol set that ddb can use via ddb/db_kld.c. It'll be missing
some detail that stabs normally provides (eg: number of args to a function,
line numbers, etc). On the other hand, those minimal symbols will always
be available even on a stripped kernel.
This is mostly stolen from load_aout.c with some ideas from
alpha/libalpha/elf_freebsd.c.
