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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.
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
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
- It is opt-out for now so as to give it maximum testing, but it may be
turned opt-in for stable branches depending on the consensus. You
can turn it off with WITHOUT_SSP.
- WITHOUT_SSP was previously used to disable the build of GNU libssp.
It is harmless to steal the knob as SSP symbols have been provided
by libc for a long time, GNU libssp should not have been much used.
- SSP is disabled in a few corners such as system bootstrap programs
(sys/boot), process bootstrap code (rtld, csu) and SSP symbols themselves.
- It should be safe to use -fstack-protector-all to build world, however
libc will be automatically downgraded to -fstack-protector because it
breaks rtld otherwise.
- This option is unavailable on ia64.
Enable GCC stack protection (aka Propolice) for kernel:
- It is opt-out for now so as to give it maximum testing.
- Do not compile your kernel with -fstack-protector-all, it won't work.
Submitted by: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
Turn off TFTP support by default: when both TFTP and NFS are enabled in the
loader, strange interactions occur in the pure netbooting scenario (i.e.
loader is TFTP-ed, kernel+world mounted over NFS), leading to very slow access
to the NFS-exported files.
Reviewed by: grehan
Approved by: cognet (mentor)
work on a G5 (no BAT registers) or on PearPC (dBAT3 used for mapping
the framebuffer and BATs not re-inited on OpenFirmware calls).
It also hid a number of bugs.
- Move loader relocation up to 0x1C00000. This is in line with OSX bootx,
and allows more space for boot-time modules/ramdisks without conflicting
with OpenFirmware's use of RAM
path, instead of an internal i386 specific one. Don't try to interpret
a disklabel in ofw_disk.c, open the partition's device node directly and
let the firmware do it. This fixes booting from a partition other than 'a'
on sparc64, which is needed to support more installation methods.
No objection: ppc
- Flesh out ofw_readin routine.
- Add OpenFirmware load and exec routines.
- Make sure memory allocation for the kernel is done correctly.
- Change the way the heap is allocated so as to make it easier to deallocate
when we hand over.
- Add a command to print memory maps similar to the one for ia64.
With this patch, I can now load and hand over to a kernel on my iMac. There
are some problems with OpenFirmware routines failing after the hand over that
still need to be addressed.
