I'm not sure if this is just masking another problem (like, should
ap->a_eofflag EVER be NULL?), but if it prevents a panic for now then
it may save an ALPHA customer.
Submitted by: jhay
about them.. :-) The patches/* won't work, it needs to be patches/patch-*
to avoid catching things like CVS files when working with a checked-out
copy of ports! Whoops!
1. Make build rely on a BUILD_COOKIE now. I'm tired of builds
being redone gratuitously while I'm trying to debug a tree build
problem.
2. Remove all the literal `touch -f' commands and indirect them through
variables. This lets you "leave tracks" in different ways, depending
on the medium. Just part 1 of my planned changes to make builds
directly off the CD work.
I have walked all over Paul Richards code again, and severely lobotomized
some of his stuff, in order to cut some corners for the 2.0-Alpha release.
I belive that we can now manipulate fdisk and disklabel-stuff sufficiently
for the release to actually be produced.
It's not that I don't like Paul and his code, I just need something I
can kick out of the door RSN.
Sysinstall is now under absolute code-freeze, only Jordan has my permission
to commit to this code (stage0 & 5). I would appreciate if everybody
else would finds problems in sysinstall send patches to me, and I will
commit them. THANKYOU.
The fdisk/disklabel editors are made in pure ncurses, and follow a model
"a`la spreadsheet".
There are some important functions which are missing still, and I would
appreciate if somebody would look at them.
The FDISK part needs a "whole-disk" option, and it needs a "rewrite
MBR-boot code" option.
The DISKLABEL part needs to be able to "import DOS-partition".
Both need a "HELP" function, (display a file "/HELP" using dialog is OK).
It seems to me like the wd.c and sd.c should reread the physical record
when a DIOCGDINFO is made, so that they can pick up changes in the
MBR-data. Otherwise there will be a couple of weird cases where we
cannot avoid replicating code from the kernel.
If you want to play with this, look at src/release/Makefile. You may need
to step back to version 1.38 of sys/i386/isa/fd.c to make "rootable"
floppies, it is not clear at this time if that indeed is the problem I
have been having.
Sleep well, my friends, and expect the real Alpha in 24H, if the tree is
still solid.
created by Amancio Hasty (specificly, this, in conjunction with his sound
driver mods for dual-mode DMA will allow VAT compiled for BSD/386 1.1 to
run under FreeBSD 2.x.)
Otherwise clean up the includes. Don't include anything included by
param.h. Do include systm.h and cons.h to avoid satisfy -Wimplicit.
Don't include console.h or use NOKEY because these are for syscons
and we use generic consoles.
Don't follow null pointer for command "ls -lrt" - don't allow extra
args but do allow trailing blanks.
Check for invalid device numbers. strtol() failures are now checked
for in all cases, but not carefully enough. We should check for
trailing junk, allow any base in all cases (just like config) and
handle signs better . (Use strtoul not strtol and cast by assignment
to the correct type - always an integral type, PARM_ADDR is bogus.
Hex numbers > 0x7fffffff can't be entered now. 0xffffffff has to
be entered as -1.)
Cosmetic.
Return from trap() if trap_fatal() returns. trap_fatal() isn't
fatal if you have ddb. Returning from trap() is usually the right
thing to do and much better than falling through.
Build a dummy frame at the top of tmpstk to help debuggers trace the stack
when the system is idle.
swtch.s: idle():
Initialize the frame pointer so that debuggers don't try to trace a bogus
stack.
Load the frame pointer, load the stack pointer and switch out the old
stack in the unique order that never leaves one of the pointers pointers
invalid so that debuggers can trace idle(). Disabling interrupts
provides sufficient validity for normal operation, but debuggers use
(trace) traps.
. avoid resetting the FDC every time the last motor is going off;
instead, give it a 60-second period for possible later reactivation.
This prevents us from needing to recalibrate the FDC too often,
but still allows for an ``automagic error recovery', just in case the
controller is absolutely stuck. (Simply wait for 60 seconds, and
try it again.)
. made the floppy head settle time after a seek a constant
that might be overridden by a config option. (Well, actually the
divisor of the settle time). Pepople often reported problems with
their floppies, so i need a simply mechanism that allows them
to play with that value. (I personally cannot find any problem
on *my* drives.)
. implement the FD_DEBUG ioctl command, in case the driver
is compiled with DEBUG turned on.
. removed a bogus parameter from a printf; the remaining warnings
from gcc -Wall seem to be warnings about the %b format gcc cannot
understand
. rearrange Garett's code to fit better in the existing structure
of #define/type/function ordering.
. make everything fit into 79 columns again.
This way, it's possible for a user to activate/deactivate floppy driver
debugging, even if (s)he doesn't like the overhead of running DDB.
Since some ppl tend to have problems with their drives, this might be
valuable for investigations.
