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19-Jun-2014 |
gjb |
Copy stable/9 to releng/9.3 as part of the 9.3-RELEASE cycle.
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225736 |
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22-Sep-2011 |
kensmith |
Copy head to stable/9 as part of 9.0-RELEASE release cycle.
Approved by: re (implicit)
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153589 |
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21-Dec-2005 |
sobomax |
For the cases when loading bzip2-compressed kernels enabled use last 3MB of physical memory for heap instead of range between 1MB and 4MB. This makes this feature working with PAE and amd64 kernels, which are loaded at 2MB. Teach i386_copyin() to avoid using range allocated by heap in such case, so that it won't trash heap in the low memory conditions.
This should make loading bzip2-compressed kernels/modules/mfs images generally useable, so that re@ team is welcome to evaluate merits of using this feature in the installation CDs.
Valuable suggestions by: jhb
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153535 |
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19-Dec-2005 |
sobomax |
Long-long time ago, when the trees were large and memory expensive amount of memory directly available to loader(8) and friends was limited to 640K on i386. Those times have passed long time ago and now loader(8) can directly access up to 4GB of RAM at least theoretically. At the same time, there are several places where it's assumed that malloc() will only allocate memory within first megabyte.
Remove that assumption by allocating appropriate bounce buffers for BIOS calls on stack where necessary.
This allows using memory above first megabyte for heap if necessary.
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119482 |
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25-Aug-2003 |
obrien |
Use __FBSDID(). Also some minor copyright style cleanups.
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64187 |
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03-Aug-2000 |
jhb |
Cleanup warnings. Most of these are signed/unsigned warnings, as well as some added const's.
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55211 |
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29-Dec-1999 |
msmith |
Substantially revamp the way that we determine the amount of memory available for our use. Use the same search order for BIOS memory size functions as the kernel will later use.
Allow the loader to use all of the detected physical memory (this will greatly help people trying to load enormous memory disk images).
More correctly handle running out of memory when loading an object.
Use the end of base memory for the top of the heap, rather than blindly hoping that there is 384k left.
Add copyrights to a couple of files I forgot.
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43068 |
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22-Jan-1999 |
rnordier |
Fix read error not being detected.
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40107 |
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09-Oct-1998 |
msmith |
Remove some debugging code. Do a much better job of DWIM with partial device specifications. Fix the module metadata build process, which was completely broken. Use a larger read buffer when copying large objects in; this improves performance marginally and will avoid flushning any small caches we might choose to implement.
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39733 |
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28-Sep-1998 |
peter |
Only bcopy the correct amount of data from the buffer in case it is ever in an overrun situation.
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39441 |
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17-Sep-1998 |
msmith |
Initial integration of the i386 bootloader and BTX.
- Discard large amounts of BIOS-related code in favour of the more compact BTX vm86 interface. - Build the loader module as ELF, although the resulting object is a.out, make gensetdefs 32/64-bit sensitive and use a single copy of it. - Throw away installboot, as it's no longer required. - Use direct bcopy operations in the i386_copy module, as BTX maps the first 16M of memory. Check operations against the detected size of actual memory.
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39178 |
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14-Sep-1998 |
msmith |
Resynch with working sources before BTX integration.
- Use format-independant module allocator. - Conditionalise ISA PnP support. - Simplify PnP enumerator interface. - Improve module/object searching. - Add missing depend/install targets in BTX makefiles. - Pass the kernel environment and module data in extended bootinfo fields. - Add a pointer to the end of the kernel + modules in bootinfo. - Fix parsing of old-style kernel arguments.
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38764 |
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03-Sep-1998 |
msmith |
Bootstrap updates.
- Move some startup code from MD to MI sections - Add a 'copyout' and some copyout-related functions. These will be obsoleted when BTX is available for the 386 and the kernel load area becomes directly addressable. - Add the ability load an arbitrary file as a module, associating and arbitrary type string with it. This can be used eg. for loading splash-screen images etc. - Add KLD module dependancy infrastructure. We know how to look for dependancies inside KLD modules, how to resolve these dependancies and what to do if things go wrong. Only works for a.out at the moment, due to lack of an MI ELF loader. Attach KLD module information to loaded modules as metadata, but don't pass it to the kernel (it can find it itself). - Load a.out KLD modules on a page boundary. Only pad the a.out BSS for the kernel, as it may want to throw symbols away. (We might want to do this for KLD modules too.) - Allow commands to be hidden from the '?' display, to avoid cluttering it with things like 'echo'. Add 'echo'. - Bring the 'prompt' command into line with the parser syntax. - Fix the verbose 'ls'; it was using an uninitialised stack variable. - Add a '-v' flag to 'lsmod' to have it display module metadata as well (not terribly useful for the average user) - Support a 'module searchpath' for required modules. - The bootstrap file on i386 is now called 'loader' to permit the /boot directory to use that name. - Discard the old i386 pread() function, as it's replaced by arch_readin()
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38712 |
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31-Aug-1998 |
msmith |
Bootloader update.
- Implement a new copyin/readin interface for loading modules. This allows the module loaders to become MI, reducing code duplication. - Simplify the search for an image activator for the loaded kernel. - Use the common module management code for all module metadata. - Add an 'unload' command that throws everything away. - Move the a.out module loader to MI code, add support for a.out kld modules.
Submitted by: Alpha changes fixed by Doug Rabson <dfr@freebsd.org>
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