Massive update. The highlights:
o dramatically cut memory usage by writing better, less intertwingled
code.
o implement booting off mmc/sd cards (sd only tested one at the moment)
o start to split out board specific stuff for boot2.
commits. For some reason I thought the scale factor was a shift count
rather than the multiplicand (that is, I thought leal (%eax,%edx,4) was
going to generate %eax + %edx << 4 rather than %eax + %edx * 4). What
I need is to multiply by 16 to convert a real-mode (seg, offset) tuple
into a flat address. However, the max multiplicand for scaled/index
addressing on i386 is 8, so go back to using a shl and an add.
- Convert two more inter-register mov instructions where we don't need to
preserve the source register to xchg instructions to keep our space
savings.
Tested by: Ian FREISLICH if at hetzner.co.za
MFC after: 1 week
another 16 bytes off of BTX (and thus boot2):
- Compare against the value of %eax that is saved on the stack instead of
loading it into %eax (which requires saving the current %eax on the
stack).
- Use %ch to examine the keyboard flag state in the BIOS to see if
Ctrl-Alt-Del is pressed instead of %al so we don't have to save %eax on
the stack anymore.
MFC after: 1 week
BTX (and thus boot2):
- Don't bother saving %eax, %ebx, or %ecx as it is not necessary.
- Use a more compact sequence to load the base value out of a GDT entry
by loading the contiguous low 24 bits into the upper 24 bits of %eax,
loading the high 8 bits into %al, and using a ror to rotate the bits
(2 mov's and a ror) rather than loading the pieces in smaller chunks
(3 mov's and a shl).
- Use movzwl + leal instead of movl + movw + shll + addl.
- Use 'xchgl %eax,%foo' rather than 'movl %eax,%foo' for cases where
it's ok to trash %eax. xchgl %eax, foo is a 1-byte opcode whereas the
mov is a 2-byte opcode.
- Use movzwl rather than xorl + movw.
MFC after: 1 week
rather than just emulating mov cr0, eax. This fixes some Compaq/HP BIOS
with DMA (as the BIOS tried to read cr3 so it could translate addresses
if paging was enabled).
MFC after: 1 week
sync() and sync_fsync() without losing MNT_ASYNC. Add MNTK_ASYNC flag
which is set only when MNT_ASYNC is set and mnt_noasync is zero, and
check that flag instead of MNT_ASYNC before initiating async io.
- Make the PROBE_KEYBOARD option better resemble the -P option in
boot2, i.e., if keyboard isn't present then boot with both
RB_SERIAL and RB_MULTIPLE set.
Reviewed by: jhb
8k boundary with this program still.
text data bss dec hex filename
7925 4 4476 12405 3075 bootiic.out
so we have like 293 bytes left before we have to play games. There
may be ways to reduce that somewhat, but they start to be very board
specific.
changes in the future. This helps with getting started and to
overcome the really sucky level of granuality this timeout has in
getc. A timeout of 1 means 'wait until top of next second' rather
than 'wait for at least a second'.
fixes filesystem corruption when nextboot.conf is located after
cylinder 1023. The bug appears to have been introduced at the time
bd_read was copied to create bd_write.
PR: bin/98005
Reported by: yar
MFC after: 1 week
selection and not always beeping on startup. The two bytes for the extra
'jmp' instruction were obtained by removing recognition of BSD/OS
partitions.
Requested by: many
Tested by: subset of many
Head nod: imp, keramida
MFC after: 2 weeks
Make this compile, assuming that you have linux installed in a
sensible place. tag_list is disabled by default, since we don't
distribute linux, but it is desirable to allow the boot loader to boot
Linux or FreeBSD (mostly for testing).
xmodem download. Then download the image you want in the flash.
This will burn the image into the flash. You must then reset the
unit and the new flash image will be used for booting...
xmodem download. Then download the image you want in the eeprom.
This will burn the image into the eeprom. You must then reset the
unit and the new eeprom image will be used for booting...
o Use a directory layout that is more akin to the i386 boot layout.
o Create a libat91 for library routines that are used by one or more
of the boot loaders.
o Create bootiic for booting from an iic part.
o Create bootspi for booting from an spi part.
o Optimize the size of many of these routines (especially emac.c). Except
for the emac.c optimizations, all these have been tested.
o eliminate the inc directory, libat91 superceeds it.
o Move linker.cfg up a layer to allow it to be shared.
For 32-bit SDRAM systems, enable D16 to D31 in the PIO controller.
Otherwise they read back as 0xffff.
Shave 8 bytes from the object size by using AT91C_BASE_PIOA directly
and by not assigning PIO_BSR to 0 in the DBGU init. That's a nop in
two ways (everything defaults to peripheral A, and writing 0 changes
nothing).
Many places used #define FOO ((unsigned int) 0x23) where a simpler
#define FOO 0x23u would have sufficed. This practice is overly
verbose and has the disadvantage that you can't say
#if FOO == BAR
#endif
because the extra "unsigned int" tokens choke cpp's little brain.
Migrate to the latter style to allow use in preprocessor statements.
The two are the same semantically anyway in a C context (at least for
the uses they are put to presently, C gurus can explain to me how they
differ).
via xmodem to the DBGU port when the AT91 comes up in recovery mode.
The recovery loader will then load your program via xmodem into SDRAM
at 1MB which can do its things. It needs to be tweaked to the
specific board one is using, but it fits in < 1kB (all of Atmel's ARM
products have at least 8kb of SRAM that I can tell, so this should
work for them all).
Parts of this code were provided by Kwikbyte with copyright
specifically disclaimed. I heavily modified it to act as a recovery
loader (before it was a bootstrap loader) and to optimize for size
(before I started the size was closer to 8k).
Bootstrap loaders for SPI and IIC to follow.
Otherwise, we could match on a filename that had the wrong last character
(such as /boot/loaded instead of /boot/loader).
PR: kern/95625
Submitted by: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de>
MFC after: 1 month
controller to get ready (65K x ISA access time, visually around 1 second).
If we have wait more than that amount it's likely that the hardware is a
legacy-free one and simply doesn't have keyboard controller and doesn't
require enabling A20 at all.
This makes cdboot working for MacBook Pro with Boot Camp.
MFC after: 1 day
Use 'BOOT_SENSITIVE_INFO=YES' variable to turn them on.
- Use 'uint*_t' instead of 'u_int*_t', correct compilation warnings, and
update copyright while I am here.
when checking whether it's greater than a struct stat st_size in order
to also catch the case when st_size is -1. Previously this check didn't
trigger on sparc64 when st_size is -1 (as it's the case for a file on
a bzipfs, TFTP server etc.), causing the content of the linker hints
file to be copied to memory referenced by a null-pointer.
PR: 91231
MFC after: 1 week