kernel: load cpu microcode update if loaded by the bootloader

add optional fields for microcode in kernel_args.

Change-Id: Ic5fb54cf6c9f489a2d1cdda00f63980c11dcdaeb
Reviewed-on: https://review.haiku-os.org/c/haiku/+/2264
Reviewed-by: Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@gmail.com>

Boot loader: Add support for choosing an old packages state

For potential boot volumes with older packages states the respective
item in the boot volume menu now has a sub menu for selecting a state.
The boot loader functionality for this feature is complete -- i.e. the
respective kernel is loaded and the name of the old state is added to
the kernel args -- but kernel packagefs and package daemon support is
still missing.

Save previous session's debug syslog during boot

Add boot loader debug menu option "Save syslog from previous session
during boot". If enabled (defaults to true), the previous session's
debug syslog data is copy to a separate buffer and passed to the
kernel, which writes it back to the file /var/log/previous_syslog.
As long as Haiku still boots, this should now be the most convenient way
to retrieve the output from a kernel crash.

boot, kernel: Replace MAX_BOOT_CPUS with SMP_MAX_CPUS

Added an ELF64 version of preloaded_image.

* There is now 2 structures, preloaded_elf32_image and preloaded_elf64_image,
which both inherit from preloaded_image.
* For now I've just hardcoded in use of preloaded_elf32_image, but the
bootloader ELF code will shortly be converted to use templates which use
the appropriate structure. The kernel will be changed later when I add
ELF64 support to it.
* All kernel_args data is now compatible between 32-bit and 64-bit kernels.

Remove phys_addr_range, just use addr_range for both virtual and physical address ranges (as requested by Ingo).

Changes to kernel_args to make it identical for x86 and x86_64.

* Added a FixedWidthPointer template class which uses 64-bit storage to hold
a pointer. This is used in place of raw pointers in kernel_args.
* Added __attribute__((packed)) to kernel_args and all structures contained
within it. This is necessary due to different alignment behaviour for
32-bit and 64-bit compilation with GCC.
* With these changes, kernel_args will now come out the same size for both
the x86_64 kernel and the loader, excluding the preloaded_image structure
which has not yet been changed.
* Tested both an x86 GCC2 and GCC4 build, no problems caused by these changes.

Changed addr_range to use uint64.

I've tested this change on x86, causing no issues. I've checked over the code
for all other platforms and made the necessary changes and to the best of my
knowledge they should also still work, but I haven't actually built and
tested them. Once I've completed the kernel_args changes the other platforms
will need testing.

Don't store a KMessage in kernel_args for the boot volume, only the buffer address/size.

Pointers in kernel_args are going to be changed to unconditionally use 64-bit
storage (to make kernel_args compatible with both the x86 and x86_64 kernels).
KMessage stores a pointer to its buffer, however since KMessage is used
outside of the boot code it is undesirable to change it to use 64-bit storage
for the pointer as it may add additional overhead on 32-bit builds. Therefore,
only store the buffer address and size and then construct a KMessage from
those in the kernel.

Add kernel args boot volume "packaged" flag

* Add BOOT_VOLUME_PACKAGED boot volume message field name constant.
* register_boot_file_system():
- Now takes a BootVolume& parameter.
- If the boot volume is packaged, add that info to the boot volume
message.

x86 mmu_init(): Sum up the physical memory we ignore for whatever reason --
stored in kernel_args::ignored_physical_memory.


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* Introduced phys_addr_range type, an equivalent to addr_range for physical
address ranges, and a set of support functions working with it.
* Changed the type of the kernel_args physical address range arrays to
phys_addr_range and adjusted the code working with those.
* Removed a bunch of duplicated address range code in the PPC's mmu.cpp.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@36947 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

kernel:
* The kernel syslog ring buffer is no longer emptied by the syslog sender
thread. Instead we only drop the oldest data from the buffer when we're
writing to it and there's not enough free space in it.
Advantages: We drop old data rather than the most recent data when the buffer
is full. The "syslog" KDL command has more data available now. So the odds
are that kernel syslog messages not written to disk yet are at least still
in the kernel buffer.
* Changed dprintf_no_syslog() semantics: Now it writes to the syslog, but
doesn't notify the syslog sender thread.

boot loader:
* Added the ring_buffer implementation and a dummy user_memcpy().
* bios_x86: Moved the syslog stuff from serial.{cpp,h} to debug.{cpp.h}.
* Moved the debug options from the "Select safe mode options" menu to a new
"Select debug options" menu.
* Added option "Enable debug syslog" to the new menu (ATM available on x86
only). It allocates a 1 MB in-memory buffer for the syslog for this session
in such a way that it can be accessed by the boot loader after a reset.
* Added item "Display syslog from previous session" to the new menu, doing
what its name suggests.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@35816 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

* Added VESA capabilities field to the kernel args.
* The vesa driver no longer uses VGA programming if the chip does not support
VGA compatibility.
* The VESA driver now tries to set the DAC to 8 bits per color gun.
* In VESA modes, the driver no longer tries to use VGA programming; introduced
the new vesa_set_indexed_colors() that is now used for palette programming.
This should fix wrong colors of 8 bit BWindowScreen users with VESA on real
hardware (emulators usually didn't mind either way).
* Note that the app_server needs to maintain a palette per 8 bit screen, as
right now, the colors are garbled after a workspace switch. Stefano, are you
looking into that already?


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@32347 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

* Enlarged kernel_args array even more, as network boot needs this with all the
extra kernel drivers.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@32303 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

* Enlarged a single kernel_args chunk to 32 KB (was 16 KB).
* Reduced the kernel_args array size from 32 to 16 (7 are used on a normal
build).
* Cleanup.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@27690 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

* The boot loader now passes on its EDID info to the kernel, and that will
be put into a boot_item in frame_buffer_console_init().
* The VESA driver now supports gettings the EDID information as well; this
is necessary now, since the app_server no longer takes over the mode the
boot loader had chosen.
* Note, we might want to do this via vm86 instead in the future, and remove
the kernel part again.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@25786 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

Patch by Philippe Saint-Pierre:
* Implemented RLE compression for the boot splash images, resulting in
smaller kernel and boot loader.
* Only the boot loader contains the RLE compressed images, the decompressed
buffer for the icons is passed to the kernel via kernel args.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@24812 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

* Changed get_boot_item() API: it now also can retrieve the size of the boot
item entry.
* The bios_ia32 video platform code now stores the available VESA modes in
the new vesa_modes kernel_args field.
* When configuring a VESA mode via settings file, it's no longer needed to
specify the exact mode - the closest available mode is now used. This should
help with bug #1962.
* frame_buffer_console_init() now also creates a boot_item for the VESA modes
in the kernel_args.
* The VESA accelerant now filters the mode list to only contain modes that
are actually supported.
* Moved non-shared vesa driver data into its own file vesa_private.h.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@24675 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

* The boot loader now remembers the bytes per row as told by the graphics card, and
passes that information on to the kernel. This should fix wrong bytes per row with
certain resolutions and graphics cards.
* The boot loader now recognizes 15 bit modes that are advertised as 16 bit modes.
This should fix wrong colors in 16 bit modes on some cards.
* Reenabled setting MTRR for VESA mode - don't remember why I disabled it, but it
works fine on my test machines.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@23006 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

* The boot loader (bios_ia32 only) now duplicates everything that goes to the
serial output, and puts it into the new kernel_args::debug_output field.
* syslog_init() will now check if there is anything in kernel_args::debug_output
and will put that into the syslog buffer.
* dump_block() now also prints an offset.
* Fixed warning in mmu.cpp.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@23003 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

[Sorry, couldn't split this one up any further.]
* Images preloaded by the boot loader had to be modules to be of any use
to the kernel. Extended the mechanism so that any images not accepted
by the module code would later be tried to be added as drivers by the
devfs. This is a little hacky ATM, since the devfs manages the drivers
using a hash map keyed by the drivers inode ID, which those drivers
obviously don't have.
* The devfs emulates read_pages() using read(), if the device driver
doesn't implement the former (all old-style drivers), thus making it
possible to BFS, which uses the file cache which in turn requires
read_pages(), on the device. write_pages() emulation is still missing.
* Replaced the kernel_args::boot_disk structure by a KMessage, which can
more flexibly be extended and deals more gracefully with
arbitrarily-size data. The disk_identifier structure still exists,
though. It is added as message field in cases where needed (non net
boot). Moved the boot_drive_number field of the bios_ia32 platform
specific args into the message.
* Made the stage 1 PXE boot loader superfluous. Moved the relevant
initialization code into the stage 2 loader, which can now be loaded
directly via PXE.
* The PXE boot loader does now download a boot tgz archive via TFTP. It
does no longer use the RemoteDisk protocol (it could actually be
removed from the boot loader). It also parses the DHCP options in the
DHCPACK packet provided by PXE and extracts the root path to be
mounted by the kernel.
* Reorganized the boot volume search in the kernel (vfs_boot.cpp) and
added support for network boot. In this case the net stack is
initialized and the network interface the boot loader used is brought
up and configured. Since NBD and RemoteDisk are our only options for
net boot (and those aren't really configurable dynamically) ATM, the
the boot device is found automatically by the disk device manager.

Booting via PXE does work to some degree now. The most grievous problem
is that loading certain drivers or kernel modules (or related activity)
causes a reboot (likely a triple fault, though one wonders where our
double fault handler is on vacation). Namely the keyboard and mouse input
server add-ons need to be deactivated as well as the media server.
A smaller problem is the net server, which apparently tries to
(re-)configure the network interface we're using to boot, which
obviously doesn't work out that well. So, if all this stuff is disabled
Haiku does fully boot, when using the RemoteDisk protocol (not being
able to use keyboard or mouse doesn't make this a particular fascinating
experience, though ;-)). I had no luck with NBD -- it seemed to have
protocol problems with the servers I tried.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@21611 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

propagate required settings for the remote disk from boot loader to kernel (client-ip, server-ip, server-port)


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@19780 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

Greatly enlarged the number of possible kernel_arg ranges as we were already
pretty close, and the number of loaded modules have a direct influence on
this (even though we're currently loading the symbols by default).


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@19320 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

Removed unused kernel_args fields.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@15746 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

Removed platform_boot_device_is_image() again; it's now replaced by a field
"booted_from_image" in the kernel_args' boot_disk structure.
Also, added fields "cd" and "user_selected".
A CHOICE_MENU menu can now have a choice text - this is automatically updated
as entries in the menu get selected.
The boot volume menu now has the initial choice text "CD-ROM or hard drive"
in case the boot loader was loaded from an image. The "Rescan volumes" item
is no longer selected by default (only if there was no boot volume found) - but
it's still functionless anyway.
The TAR fs will now appear as "Boot from CD-ROM" in the boot volume menu.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@14388 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

Added driver_settings support to the kernel_args structure.
The driver settings are put into the kernel_args memory section and
copied on kernel startup.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/trunk/current@10635 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

Some work on the boot disk identification: the kernel_args structure has
now fields that carry information about the boot disk and partition.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/trunk/current@9956 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

Added an addr_range array for kernel_args.
Removed the "str" field I have no idea what it could have been useful for.
Changed the frame buffer part of the kernel args - "already_mapped" is
no longer there, as it doesn't make a lot of sense.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/trunk/current@9413 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

The kernel_args structure version and size can now be checked and identified
in the kernel.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/trunk/current@7986 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

Moved the addr_range struct to a separate header.
Changed the kernel image data to a preloaded image as well, to simplify
handling in the kernel.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/trunk/current@7704 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

Fixed addr_range structure: struct name didn't match typedef name, now uses
addr_t for the address base/size instead of (the non-portable) uint32.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/trunk/current@7277 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

Changes for the ELF loader in the boot loader.
Removed the arch_mmu_alloc() function, added (empty) arch_mmu_free() function.
Added platform prototypes for allocating and freeing a region.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/trunk/current@5044 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

Now includes <platform_kernel_args.h> as well as <arch_kernel_args.h>


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/trunk/current@4976 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

Moved the kernel_args structure to the new kernel_args.h header file.
stage2.h is now of interest for the stage2 boot loader only.
stage2_struct.h is no longer needed.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/trunk/current@4959 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

Boot loader: Add support for choosing an old packages state

For potential boot volumes with older packages states the respective
item in the boot volume menu now has a sub menu for selecting a state.
The boot loader functionality for this feature is complete -- i.e. the
respective kernel is loaded and the name of the old state is added to
the kernel args -- but kernel packagefs and package daemon support is
still missing.

Save previous session's debug syslog during boot

Add boot loader debug menu option "Save syslog from previous session
during boot". If enabled (defaults to true), the previous session's
debug syslog data is copy to a separate buffer and passed to the
kernel, which writes it back to the file /var/log/previous_syslog.
As long as Haiku still boots, this should now be the most convenient way
to retrieve the output from a kernel crash.

boot, kernel: Replace MAX_BOOT_CPUS with SMP_MAX_CPUS

Added an ELF64 version of preloaded_image.

* There is now 2 structures, preloaded_elf32_image and preloaded_elf64_image,
which both inherit from preloaded_image.
* For now I've just hardcoded in use of preloaded_elf32_image, but the
bootloader ELF code will shortly be converted to use templates which use
the appropriate structure. The kernel will be changed later when I add
ELF64 support to it.
* All kernel_args data is now compatible between 32-bit and 64-bit kernels.

Remove phys_addr_range, just use addr_range for both virtual and physical address ranges (as requested by Ingo).

Changes to kernel_args to make it identical for x86 and x86_64.

* Added a FixedWidthPointer template class which uses 64-bit storage to hold
a pointer. This is used in place of raw pointers in kernel_args.
* Added __attribute__((packed)) to kernel_args and all structures contained
within it. This is necessary due to different alignment behaviour for
32-bit and 64-bit compilation with GCC.
* With these changes, kernel_args will now come out the same size for both
the x86_64 kernel and the loader, excluding the preloaded_image structure
which has not yet been changed.
* Tested both an x86 GCC2 and GCC4 build, no problems caused by these changes.

Changed addr_range to use uint64.

I've tested this change on x86, causing no issues. I've checked over the code
for all other platforms and made the necessary changes and to the best of my
knowledge they should also still work, but I haven't actually built and
tested them. Once I've completed the kernel_args changes the other platforms
will need testing.

Don't store a KMessage in kernel_args for the boot volume, only the buffer address/size.

Pointers in kernel_args are going to be changed to unconditionally use 64-bit
storage (to make kernel_args compatible with both the x86 and x86_64 kernels).
KMessage stores a pointer to its buffer, however since KMessage is used
outside of the boot code it is undesirable to change it to use 64-bit storage
for the pointer as it may add additional overhead on 32-bit builds. Therefore,
only store the buffer address and size and then construct a KMessage from
those in the kernel.

Add kernel args boot volume "packaged" flag

* Add BOOT_VOLUME_PACKAGED boot volume message field name constant.
* register_boot_file_system():
- Now takes a BootVolume& parameter.
- If the boot volume is packaged, add that info to the boot volume
message.

x86 mmu_init(): Sum up the physical memory we ignore for whatever reason --
stored in kernel_args::ignored_physical_memory.


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* Introduced phys_addr_range type, an equivalent to addr_range for physical
address ranges, and a set of support functions working with it.
* Changed the type of the kernel_args physical address range arrays to
phys_addr_range and adjusted the code working with those.
* Removed a bunch of duplicated address range code in the PPC's mmu.cpp.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@36947 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

kernel:
* The kernel syslog ring buffer is no longer emptied by the syslog sender
thread. Instead we only drop the oldest data from the buffer when we're
writing to it and there's not enough free space in it.
Advantages: We drop old data rather than the most recent data when the buffer
is full. The "syslog" KDL command has more data available now. So the odds
are that kernel syslog messages not written to disk yet are at least still
in the kernel buffer.
* Changed dprintf_no_syslog() semantics: Now it writes to the syslog, but
doesn't notify the syslog sender thread.

boot loader:
* Added the ring_buffer implementation and a dummy user_memcpy().
* bios_x86: Moved the syslog stuff from serial.{cpp,h} to debug.{cpp.h}.
* Moved the debug options from the "Select safe mode options" menu to a new
"Select debug options" menu.
* Added option "Enable debug syslog" to the new menu (ATM available on x86
only). It allocates a 1 MB in-memory buffer for the syslog for this session
in such a way that it can be accessed by the boot loader after a reset.
* Added item "Display syslog from previous session" to the new menu, doing
what its name suggests.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@35816 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

* Added VESA capabilities field to the kernel args.
* The vesa driver no longer uses VGA programming if the chip does not support
VGA compatibility.
* The VESA driver now tries to set the DAC to 8 bits per color gun.
* In VESA modes, the driver no longer tries to use VGA programming; introduced
the new vesa_set_indexed_colors() that is now used for palette programming.
This should fix wrong colors of 8 bit BWindowScreen users with VESA on real
hardware (emulators usually didn't mind either way).
* Note that the app_server needs to maintain a palette per 8 bit screen, as
right now, the colors are garbled after a workspace switch. Stefano, are you
looking into that already?


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@32347 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

* Enlarged kernel_args array even more, as network boot needs this with all the
extra kernel drivers.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@32303 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

* Enlarged a single kernel_args chunk to 32 KB (was 16 KB).
* Reduced the kernel_args array size from 32 to 16 (7 are used on a normal
build).
* Cleanup.


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* The boot loader now passes on its EDID info to the kernel, and that will
be put into a boot_item in frame_buffer_console_init().
* The VESA driver now supports gettings the EDID information as well; this
is necessary now, since the app_server no longer takes over the mode the
boot loader had chosen.
* Note, we might want to do this via vm86 instead in the future, and remove
the kernel part again.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@25786 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

Patch by Philippe Saint-Pierre:
* Implemented RLE compression for the boot splash images, resulting in
smaller kernel and boot loader.
* Only the boot loader contains the RLE compressed images, the decompressed
buffer for the icons is passed to the kernel via kernel args.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@24812 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

* Changed get_boot_item() API: it now also can retrieve the size of the boot
item entry.
* The bios_ia32 video platform code now stores the available VESA modes in
the new vesa_modes kernel_args field.
* When configuring a VESA mode via settings file, it's no longer needed to
specify the exact mode - the closest available mode is now used. This should
help with bug #1962.
* frame_buffer_console_init() now also creates a boot_item for the VESA modes
in the kernel_args.
* The VESA accelerant now filters the mode list to only contain modes that
are actually supported.
* Moved non-shared vesa driver data into its own file vesa_private.h.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@24675 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

* The boot loader now remembers the bytes per row as told by the graphics card, and
passes that information on to the kernel. This should fix wrong bytes per row with
certain resolutions and graphics cards.
* The boot loader now recognizes 15 bit modes that are advertised as 16 bit modes.
This should fix wrong colors in 16 bit modes on some cards.
* Reenabled setting MTRR for VESA mode - don't remember why I disabled it, but it
works fine on my test machines.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@23006 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

* The boot loader (bios_ia32 only) now duplicates everything that goes to the
serial output, and puts it into the new kernel_args::debug_output field.
* syslog_init() will now check if there is anything in kernel_args::debug_output
and will put that into the syslog buffer.
* dump_block() now also prints an offset.
* Fixed warning in mmu.cpp.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@23003 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

[Sorry, couldn't split this one up any further.]
* Images preloaded by the boot loader had to be modules to be of any use
to the kernel. Extended the mechanism so that any images not accepted
by the module code would later be tried to be added as drivers by the
devfs. This is a little hacky ATM, since the devfs manages the drivers
using a hash map keyed by the drivers inode ID, which those drivers
obviously don't have.
* The devfs emulates read_pages() using read(), if the device driver
doesn't implement the former (all old-style drivers), thus making it
possible to BFS, which uses the file cache which in turn requires
read_pages(), on the device. write_pages() emulation is still missing.
* Replaced the kernel_args::boot_disk structure by a KMessage, which can
more flexibly be extended and deals more gracefully with
arbitrarily-size data. The disk_identifier structure still exists,
though. It is added as message field in cases where needed (non net
boot). Moved the boot_drive_number field of the bios_ia32 platform
specific args into the message.
* Made the stage 1 PXE boot loader superfluous. Moved the relevant
initialization code into the stage 2 loader, which can now be loaded
directly via PXE.
* The PXE boot loader does now download a boot tgz archive via TFTP. It
does no longer use the RemoteDisk protocol (it could actually be
removed from the boot loader). It also parses the DHCP options in the
DHCPACK packet provided by PXE and extracts the root path to be
mounted by the kernel.
* Reorganized the boot volume search in the kernel (vfs_boot.cpp) and
added support for network boot. In this case the net stack is
initialized and the network interface the boot loader used is brought
up and configured. Since NBD and RemoteDisk are our only options for
net boot (and those aren't really configurable dynamically) ATM, the
the boot device is found automatically by the disk device manager.

Booting via PXE does work to some degree now. The most grievous problem
is that loading certain drivers or kernel modules (or related activity)
causes a reboot (likely a triple fault, though one wonders where our
double fault handler is on vacation). Namely the keyboard and mouse input
server add-ons need to be deactivated as well as the media server.
A smaller problem is the net server, which apparently tries to
(re-)configure the network interface we're using to boot, which
obviously doesn't work out that well. So, if all this stuff is disabled
Haiku does fully boot, when using the RemoteDisk protocol (not being
able to use keyboard or mouse doesn't make this a particular fascinating
experience, though ;-)). I had no luck with NBD -- it seemed to have
protocol problems with the servers I tried.


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propagate required settings for the remote disk from boot loader to kernel (client-ip, server-ip, server-port)


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Greatly enlarged the number of possible kernel_arg ranges as we were already
pretty close, and the number of loaded modules have a direct influence on
this (even though we're currently loading the symbols by default).


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Removed unused kernel_args fields.


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Removed platform_boot_device_is_image() again; it's now replaced by a field
"booted_from_image" in the kernel_args' boot_disk structure.
Also, added fields "cd" and "user_selected".
A CHOICE_MENU menu can now have a choice text - this is automatically updated
as entries in the menu get selected.
The boot volume menu now has the initial choice text "CD-ROM or hard drive"
in case the boot loader was loaded from an image. The "Rescan volumes" item
is no longer selected by default (only if there was no boot volume found) - but
it's still functionless anyway.
The TAR fs will now appear as "Boot from CD-ROM" in the boot volume menu.


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Added driver_settings support to the kernel_args structure.
The driver settings are put into the kernel_args memory section and
copied on kernel startup.


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Some work on the boot disk identification: the kernel_args structure has
now fields that carry information about the boot disk and partition.


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Added an addr_range array for kernel_args.
Removed the "str" field I have no idea what it could have been useful for.
Changed the frame buffer part of the kernel args - "already_mapped" is
no longer there, as it doesn't make a lot of sense.


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The kernel_args structure version and size can now be checked and identified
in the kernel.


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Moved the addr_range struct to a separate header.
Changed the kernel image data to a preloaded image as well, to simplify
handling in the kernel.


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Fixed addr_range structure: struct name didn't match typedef name, now uses
addr_t for the address base/size instead of (the non-portable) uint32.


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Changes for the ELF loader in the boot loader.
Removed the arch_mmu_alloc() function, added (empty) arch_mmu_free() function.
Added platform prototypes for allocating and freeing a region.


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Now includes <platform_kernel_args.h> as well as <arch_kernel_args.h>


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Moved the kernel_args structure to the new kernel_args.h header file.
stage2.h is now of interest for the stage2 boot loader only.
stage2_struct.h is no longer needed.


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