Commit Graph

9 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
sobomax
9d703dcfed Add splitfs vfs layer into libstand, which allows loading big kernels and
modules split across several physical medias. Following is how it works:

The splitfs code, when asked to open "foo" looks for a file "foo.split"
which is a text file containing a list of filenames and media names, e.g.

	foo.aa "Kernel floppy 1"
	foo.ab "Kernel floppy 2"
	foo.ac "Kernel and modules floppy"

For each file segment, the process is:

- try to open the file
- prompt "Insert the disk labelled <whatever> and press any key..."
- try to open the file
- return error if file could not be located

RE team is free to use this feature in the upcoming 5.0-DP1.

Reviewed by:	msmith, dcs
2002-03-17 12:18:05 +00:00
dillon
f6666a61a9 Add __FBSDID()s to libstand 2001-09-30 22:28:01 +00:00
sobomax
f261311bf8 Add support for loading bzip2-compressed filesystems. Among other things
this would allow to load bzip2-compressed kernels/modules from the loader(8)
(support for that will be committer separately).

MFC after:	1 month
2001-09-18 13:01:12 +00:00
kris
bc52b0fc56 Check for malloc failure in a couple of cases
MFC after:	2 weeks
2001-09-03 05:57:06 +00:00
jlemon
9f5d586c97 Add a readdir function to the loader fsops vector, and implement the
functionality for some of the filesystesms.
2000-04-29 20:47:10 +00:00
peter
76f0c923fe $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 00:22:10 +00:00
msmith
ea783268e7 Replace the old and extremely icky Mach/NetBSD allocator with a similarly
compact and much better one donated by Matt Dillon.  Implement a simple
sbrk() which uses the existing setheap() api.

Remove the custom allocator from the UFS code.  It wasn't working quite
right, and it shouldn't be needed with the new allocator.

Fix a serious problem with changing the value of already-existent
environment variables.  Don't attempt to modify the supposedly-const
argument to putenv()

Fix an off-by-one sizing error in the zipfs code detected by the new
allocator.

Submitted by:	zmalloc from Matt Dillon <dillon@backplane.com>
1998-09-26 01:42:40 +00:00
msmith
3b7700ffef Path arguments to *_open functions should be const, but we were mangling
them.

Submitted by:	write-protected text segment in BTX
1998-09-18 22:58:01 +00:00
msmith
335c4be5b1 This is libstand; a support library for standalone executables (eg. bootstrap
modules).
Obtained from: NetBSD, with some architectural changes and many additions.
1998-08-20 08:19:55 +00:00