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.
The binutils 2.15 assembler now automaticly and non-optionally adds
the .eh_frame section for unwind information. This section appears
to wreck havoc to the final boot code. Fix this by using a special
linker script that discards the .eh_frame sections, but is otherwise
identical to the linker internal script used for -N.
Compiler used: gcc 3.3.5
Verified with: binutils 2.14 & binutils 2.15 (stock and in-tree)
Tested with: /boot/loader & /boot/netboot
changes to the ATA driver cause a kernel crash, no fault of the ATA
code. Work is in progress to add the necessary feature to the sparc64
kernel and this commit will be backed out when it is complete. This
bandaid is being put in mostly in the interests of getting the first
release snapshot done and out the door.
Tested on: Ultra-10 exhibiting the insta-panic.
MFC: Real Soon
will prepend the current kernel booting... This prevents a problem of
loading /boot/kernel's modules when a different kernel has no modules,
but you left your module_load="YES" in loader.conf...
Reviewed by: dcs (minus the help part)
have clear idea on boot2 BSS size and leaves portion of it not zeroed out.
btxcsu.s is in much better position for this job.
Obtained from: DragonflyBSD (with minor adjustments)
we construct the EFI image. It doesn't seem to actually end up
in the EFI image, AFAICT.
o Replace .quad, .long and .short with data8, data4 and data2 resp.
The former are gnuisms.
o Redefine _start_plabel as a data16 with @iplt(_start) as its
value. This is the preferred way to create user PLT entries.
binutils 2.15. The linker now creates a .rela.dyn section for
dynamic relocations, while our script created a .rela section.
Likewise, we copied the .rela section to the EFI image, but not
the .rela.dyn section. The fix is to rename .rela to .rela.dyn
in the linker script so that all relocations end up in the same
section again. This we copy into the EFI image.
bootp -> BOOTP
bootp.nfsroot -> BOOTP_NFSROOT
bootp.nfsv3 -> BOOTP_NFSV3
bootp.compat -> BOOTP_COMPAT
bootp.wired_to -> BOOTP_WIRED_TO
- i.e. back out the previous commit. It's already possible to
pxeboot(8) with a GENERIC kernel.
Pointed out by: dwmalone
BOOTP -> bootp
BOOTP_NFSROOT -> bootp.nfsroot
BOOTP_NFSV3 -> bootp.nfsv3
BOOTP_COMPAT -> bootp.compat
BOOTP_WIRED_TO -> bootp.wired_to
This lets you PXE boot with a GENERIC kernel by putting this sort of thing
in loader.conf:
bootp="YES"
bootp.nfsroot="YES"
bootp.nfsv3="YES"
bootp.wired_to="bge1"
or even setting the variables manually from the OK prompt.
work on a G5 (no BAT registers) or on PearPC (dBAT3 used for mapping
the framebuffer and BATs not re-inited on OpenFirmware calls).
It also hid a number of bugs.
jumping to the kernel. Another bug exposed by removing the
1:1 BAT mapping. Sparc64 doesn't do this either.
Compile tested on: panther (sparc64). Code built, but not used, on sparc64.
of the 256Mb 1:1 BAT mapping exposed this as copying into memory that
hadn't been claimed from OpenFirmware.
compiled-tested on: panther (sparc64). Code built, but not used, on sparc64
%di will already point to the character after the nul char when the
'repnz scasb' terminates.
Submitted by: Tom Cosgrove tom dot cosgrove at arches-consulting dot com
