loader variable, which let users specify the root mount point
the exact way one does after booting the kernel.
Let's take this opportunity to document it...
around. If the kernel boots successfully, the record of this kernel
is erased, it is intended to be a one-shot option for testing
kernels.
This could be improved by having the loader remove the record of
the next kernel to boot, it is currently removed in /etc/rc immediately
after disks are mounted r/w.
I'd like to MFC this before the 4.6 freeze unless there is violent
objection.
Reviewed by: Several on IRC
MFC after: 4 days
o We don't expect the PLT relocations to follow the .rela section
anymore. We still assume that PLT relocations are long formed,
o Document register usage,
o Improve ILP,
o Fix the FPTR relocation by creating unique OPDs per function.
Comparing functions is valid now,
o The IPLT relocation naturally handles the addend. Deal with it.
We ignore the addend for FPTR relocations for now. It's not at
all clear what it means anyway.
Fix ABI misinterpretation:
o For Elf_Rela relocations, the addend is explicit and should not
be loaded from the memory address we're relocating. Only do that
for Elf_Rel relocations (ie the short form).
o DIR64LSB is not the same as REL64LSB. DIR64LSB applies to a
symbol (S+A), whereas REL64LSB applies to the base address (BD+A),
up the module_path string, we would walk one past the end of the buffer.
This hurting ia64 originally, but it was probably also happening on i386
occasionally as well. The effects were usually harmless, it would add
bogus "binary" search directories to the places it actually looked for
files.
the S_IFREG bit for regular files. This caused the path search code to
skip it when it finally did find the kernel (after the common/module.c
buffer overrun bug was fixed)
detects and uses the gas section merge support. As a result, a whole bunch
of new sections arrive, including .rodata.str1.8, which was not included
in our custom ldscript.ia64. The result was a loader binary that EFI
rejected.
While here, collect the loader shell commands linker set and include it
in the data area rather than having its own section.
/boot/loader.efi was the last holdout for having a 100% self built ia64
system.
special-case make rule
2.) Cleanups, remove superfluous expicit rules, add -nostdlib to LDFLAGS,
remove -X and -g, remove -g from CFLAGS
3.) Add BINDIR
4.) Build install the loader help file, add an empty help.sparc64
5.) Change the default configuration to only support booting from disk
6.) Get libofw.a from a path relative ${.OBJDIR}, not ${.CURDIR}
Submitted by: jake (1 - 5), obrien (6)
register r8. We continue to write the bootinfo block at the same
hardwired address, because the kernel still expects it there.
It is expected that future kernels use register r8 to get to the
bootinfo block and don't depend on the hardwired address anymore.
Bump the loader version once again due to the interface change.
only care if it's network or not at this time. If we're loaded from
the network, we set currdev (=loaddev) so that the kernel is loaded
from the network as well. In all other cases we initialize to disk.
This makes netbooting more convenient and can easily be enhanced to
do more elaborate checking.
Most significantly (from an interfacing point of view) is the
support for the FPSWA pointer passing. Even though that was added
4 months ago, it's probably not a bad idea to bump the version
number to reflect this.
o Query the state field of the protocol mode to determine whether
we need to start and/or initialize the protocol. When we're
loaded across the network, the protocol has already been started
and is already initialized. When no networking has happened yet,
we have to start and initialize the protocol ourselves.
o After initialization, we have to set the receive filters. Not
doing this results in a deaf interface. We set the unicast and
broadcast filters. Multicast may not be supported. This specific
change fixes the problem we had that we could not netboot if
the loader was started from the EFI shell.
o To help future debugging, add a function that dumps the current
mode of the interface. It's conditional on EFINET_DEBUG.
o To help in runtime problems, emit a diagnostic message when we
could not initialize the protocol properly.
an efi_devdesc structure. When we're netbooting, f->f_devdata holds
the address of the network socket variable. Dereferencing this caused
some very unpredictable behaviour, including proper functioning.
So, as a sanity check, we first make sure f->f_dev points to our
own devsw. If not, the open will fail before we use f->f_devdata.
This solves the netboot hangs I invariably got whenever I used the
latest toolchain to compile the EFI loader.
layer to signal transmission of the packet. This resolves the
problem I'm seeing that an immediate call to net->Receive
after calling net->Transmit returns EFI_DEVICE_ERROR. This
condition seems to be sufficiently persistent that BOOTP and
RARP fail.
o While here, unify all functions to have 'nif' defined. Some
have it as arguments. The others now have them as locals. We
now always get the protocol interface by using the 'nif' var.
The current status of netbooting is that even though we now reliably
have BOOTP working (again), opening a file (ie loading a kernel)
across the network causes the loader to hang. I'm working on that now.
exists, otherwise we install it anyway. I interpret this as a very
high desire to install ${PROG}.help. Alas, ${PROG}.help doesn't exist
at the moment and neither does loader.help, so in practice this just
doesn't work, no matter how you interpret it. The compromise is to
install ${PROG}.help IFF it exists. I realize we lost creativity with
this commit, but style should have been preserved, AFAICT :-)
