after loading such a kernel, "module_path" will be set to
an insane value. Fixed example by providing an equivalent
setting. For the record, when automatically loading a
kernel (commands "boot" and "boot-conf"), the following is
tried, in this order:
path=/boot/${kernel} file=${bootfile}
path=/boot/${kernel} file=${kernel}
path=${kernel} file=${bootfile}
path=${kernel} file=${kernel}
path=${module_path} file=${kernel}
use <machine/efi.h> for the necessary definitions. This makes the EFI
code in sys/boot/efi totally unused, except for pure EFI loaders. As
such, maintenance and porting (to IA-32) of the EFI code is made as easy
as possible.
to 4.0 and RELENG_3), the BTX mini-kernel used paging rather than flat
mode and clients were limited to a virtual address space of 16 megabytes.
Because of this limitation, boot2 silently masked all physical addresses
in any binaries it loaded so that they were always loaded into the first
16 Meg. Since BTX no longer has this limitation (and hasn't for a long
time), remove the masking from boot2. This allows boot2 to load kernels
larger than about 12 to 14 meg (12 for non-PAE, 14 for PAE).
Submitted by: Sergey Lyubka devnull at uptsoft dot com
MFC after: 1 month
format modules, which are currently only used on the amd64 platform.
This initial implementation just parses enough of the module to
allow it to extract dependencies and load all the bits into the
right place in memory, so the kernel must still do the full relocation
and linking. The details of the loaded sections are passed to the
kernel by supplying a copy of the ELF section header table as module
metadata with the MODINFOMD_SHDR tag.
better relocation support for the amd64 and i386 platforms. This
should not result in any change in functionality, but moves a step
towards supporting the relocatable object file modules on amd64.
The same hack/trick as load_elf*.c uses is used here to simultaneously
support both elf32 and elf64 on amd64 and i386.
This way of operation is more robust than the "AI" used
before.
Add flags to mbr accessible from make.conf as BOOT_MBR_FLAGS.
Only one flag is defined now, "allow using packet mode", which
is 0x80 in accord with the rest of i386 boot code. The "packet"
flag is on by default.
PR: i386/70241
Submitted by: Valentin Nechayev <netch <@> netch.kiev.ua> (inital version)
Discussed with: jhb (by Valentin Nechayev)
Tested on: bochs (with EDD turned on or off by patching the BIOS), PCs
the flag, fall back to the old INT13/AH=02 function if that fails.
This way of operation is less likely to fail with modern BIOSes and
large disks of strange geometries.
PR: i386/70241
Submitted by: Valentin Nechayev <netch <@> netch.kiev.ua> (inital version)
Discussed with: jhb (by Valentin Nechayev)
Tested on: bochs (with EDD turned on or off by patching the BIOS), PCs
The whole problem seems to be size. Which is odd, because it is said
that size doesn't matter. Anyway... Add -Os to strategic places in the
makefile to have the final loader be as mall as possible. This seems
to be enough to make it work. For now... I think something is more
fundamentally wrong; or something more fundamental is wrong. Potato,
potaato.
