The HCDP table is one (non-proprietary) way for the platform to
inform the OS about headless operation. This field would normally
hold the address as can be found by scanning the EFI system table,
which we also pass to the kernel. The apparent duplication allows
us to synthesize a HCDP table in the loader by whatever means we
can think of, including relocating the platform table into pre-
mapped address space. In short: it gives us more freedom.
Approved by: re (blanket)
of that, there's some nasty process corruption when running with
SMP.
Note that this was already in effect for the 5.0-RC1 kernels in
the form of a local patch.
Approved by: re (blanket)
a boot option. When the timer expires the machine is rebooted.
Disable the watchdog timer for 2 reasons:
o We're an interactive program. We cannot guarantee that we've
booted the kernel in the time available to us. There have been
situations where netbooting the right kernel took 2 tries and
more time than given. Not to speak of the normal behaviour to
have the loader sitting at the prompt while the user is off
doing other things (such as figuring out what to type next ;-)
o We may not boot a kernel at all. We may exit as the result of
the user typing quit (assuming it took less than 5 minutes to
type it :-). It is documented that loaders should have disabled
the watchdog timer if they return to the boot manager. Not doing
so would cause a reboot while in the boot manager. This appears
to be harmless, besides of course the actual reboot.
Approved by: re (weisse karte)
the signaled state of the apropriate event. As a side-effect of
checking the event, it's signaled state is cleared if it was set.
In efi_cons_getchar we used to wait for the apropriate event to be
signaled before reading a character. This however does not work if
we poll before reading the characteri, such as during autoboot. On
a more compliant EFI implementation this resulted in the behaviour
that hitting a key during autoboot would stop the countdown, but
would then wait for a new character to arrive instead of reading
the already pending key that stopped the countdown.
The correct behaviour for efi_cons_getchar is to try to read a key
and if none is pending, to wait for the apropriate event to signal
the arrival of a new key.
Note that with the previous behaviour, the second key would determine
how the autoboot was interrupted. This would indicate that the first
key got lost. This indicates that EFI does not necessarily maintain
a queue of pending keys. FWIW...
Approved by: re (carte blanche)
French corrected by: various people :-)
the same as fcntl() except that it supports the new 64-bit file
locking commands (LINUX_F_GETLK64 etc) that use the `flock64'
structure. We had been interpreting all flock structures passed to
fcntl64() as `struct flock64' instead of only the ones from F_*64
commands.
The glibc in linux_base-7 uses fcntl64() by default, but the bug
was often non-fatal since the misinterpretation typically only
causes junk to appear in the `l_len' field and most junk values are
accepted as valid range lengths. The result is occasional EINVAL
errors from F_SETLK and a few bytes after the supplied `struct
flock' getting clobbered during F_GETLK.
PR: kern/37656
Reviewed by: marcel
Approved by: re
MFC after: 1 week
that were recently disabled.
There still are several references to the now-gone userconfig; these need to
be fixed before 5.0-RELEASE.
Approved by: re (rwatson)
a) track changes in the english version (aka chase Bruce)
hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml: 1.48 -> 1.49
hardware/common/dev.sgml: 1.117 -> 1.119
hardware/i386/article.sgml: 1.3 -> 1.4
installation/i386/article.sgml: 1.3 -> 1.4
relnotes/common/new.sgml: 1.461 -> 1.466
relnotes/i386/article.sgml: 1.3 -> 1.4
b) use /doc/de_DE.ISO8859-1 where possible
early-adopter/article.sgml (also bumped marker for translation no-op)
installation/common/install.sgml
installation/common/upgrade.sgml
installation/sparc64/install.sgml
readme/article.sgml
relnotes/common/new.sgml
Approved by: re (blanket)
bandwidth for other processes. Since the sleeping is done from
userland, this avoids the locking issues that affected the kernel
version.
The algorithm used here is to measure a moving average of the times
taken by a sample of read operations and then delay 1 in 8 reads
by 16 times the measured average. This should correspond to a factor
of 3 slowdown, but in practice the factor is larger (3.5 to 4) due
to hz rounding effects.
Reviewed by: mckusick
Approved by: re
the supported platforms. We build it into GENERIC, and it is currently
listed on the supported module list for drivers.conf on i386, which
breaks the release build. This may fix the release build for RC1 on
i386.
Conspiracy of: re
o improve parsing and lexing
o create data structures based on the parsed file now.
o Still need to rewrite main loop and add regex (still uses hard coded
devd-generic)
o minor man page updates.
# There should be one more commit before rc2
Approved by: re (blanket)
that we do MP on more than just i386, and add some cross-references.
This is far from a perfect update, but at least it's a start. More
will no doubt follow.
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: re
namely the ones for the timers, error handling and power management.
The registers for the timers, power management and PCI bus b errors are
reserved on Sabres (US-IIi) and can lead to false matches there.
Since all of them are never used for devices on the bus, they can be omitted
safely.
Approved by: re
where people want to have the cards configured. Lack of -z is a speed
optimization.
Submitted by: many voices on mobile@
Approved by: re@ (rwatson)
MFC after: 3 days
GENERIC. Each device can be re-enabled at startup time by unsetting the
disabled hint in the loader.
Requested by: mdodd
Approved by: re
Prodded by: rwatson
type of new slices and to change the type of existing slices. This also
has the advantage of moving a few #ifdef PC98's up to where the macros
are defined instead of in the middle of the code.
- Change the behavior of the 'T' option in the slice editor so that the
default value in the dialog box is the current type of the existing
slice rather than defaulting to changing the slice to a FreeBSD slice as
this is more intuitive.
Approved by: re
*sigh* GCC developers can't seem to make up their mind which pre-defined arch
symbols are the official ones. So make them, and the Sparc64 using Martians
happy with every permutation.
This fixes f77 and possibly changes some 'long long' handling.
Approved by: re(bmah)
32k read and write operations on datagram sockets when in fact we
reject requests larger than 16k. It must be the case that virtually
all clients use data sizes of 16k or less for UDP transport (FreeBSD's
client defaults to 8k and never exceeds 16k), as this bug has been
present ever since NFSv3 support was added.
Reported by: Senthil <lihtnes78@netscape.net>
Reviewed by: dillon
Approved by: re
MFC-after: 1 week
labels are acurate in relation to a fully compiled
sequencer program (all patches downloaded). Correct
a few occurances of a relative jump across a macro
that ended up jumping us into the last instruction
of the macro.
Spproved by: re (bmah)
