to the El Torito standard for CD booting, a CD may boot in "No emulation"
mode without using a floppy image. In this mode, the BIOS loads a program
off of the CD into memory and creates a BIOS device using 2048 byte sectors
for the CD. According to the standard, this program can be up to 0xFFFF
virtual (512-byte) sectors long. The old cdldr depended on this by having
the BIOS load the entire loader and the small cdldr stub as one binary
similar to pxeboot so that cdldr didn't have to read the CD to find the
loader. However, the NT no emulation loader just uses 1 disk sector
(4 virtual sectors), so it seems that at least some BIOS writers just did
enough to get NT to boot by only loading 1 sector and ignoring the sector
count. Thus, while cdldr should have worked in theory, it doesn't in
practice. This replacment fits entirely in 1 sector and includes simple
ISO 9660 support. It looks for /boot/loader on the CD and loads it up
using the BIOS. This allows us to not have to depend on the limited size
of floppy images but use a full GENERIC kernel for CD-ROM installs in the
future, among other things.
This version of cdboot is a bit bloated as it includes some useful
debugging routines that people can pull to use in other x86 assembly
modules. Even with all the debugging cruft, we still have 272 bytes to
spare.
devices in 'lsdev' output rather than printing out a pointer to the
print function since the user really could care less about the pointer
value. Perhaps this was intended to be a debugging printf?
when debugging boot problems. It is not on by default but is enabled via
the BTX_SERIAL variable. The port and speed can be set via the same
variables used by boot2 and the loader.
Add an ``UPTIME'' variable to indicate the bundle uptime.
It's now possible to put something like this in ppp.linkdown
for a server setup:
MYADDR:
log Session closing: User USER, address HISADDR, up UPTIME
Fixed some memory leakage with commands that expand words.
Made some functions static.
Fixed a diagnostic bug (iface add .... SIOCDIFADDR)
be set to 1 to make FreeBSD and Tru64 coexist peacefully on a dual
boot system and not clobber each other's year in the TOY clock.
(Tru64 uses an offset 52 years higher than one would expect)
Obtained from: NetBSD
MFC After: 1 week
by one - see _SIG_IDX(). Revert part of my mis-correction in kern_sig.c
(but signal 0 still has to be allowed) and fix _SIG_VALID() (it was
rejecting ignal 128).
argument of 0. You cannot return EINVAL for signal 0. This broke
(in 5 minutes of testing) at least ssh-agent and screen.
However, there was a bug in the original code. Signal 128 is not
valid.
Pointy-hat to: des, jhb
and/or libgnumalloc on anything but i386. The other platforms
post-date this mistake.
Do not build libc_r for ia64. There are some fundamental issues that
need to be resolved (ie: it cannot use setjmp/longjmp for thread
switching, which isn't likely to be fixed soon. libc_r has to be
reimplemented using something like makecontext()/swapcontext() etc
in order to work in ia64.)
