It is disabled by default. You need to put
LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT=yes in /etc/make.conf
and rebuild loader to enable it.
(cd /sys/boot/i386 && make clean && make && make install)
You can find a short introduction of dcons at
http://wiki.freebsd.org/DebugWithDcons
bioscom is called to set up serial port parameters because COMSPEED
was treated as an address instead of an immediate value, causing
serial port parameters to never be set.
PR: i386/110828
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
I created and tested this with a custom FreeSBIE cd-image.
PR: i386/96452
Submitted by: Yuichiro Goto <y7goto at gmail dot com>
MFC after: 3 days
Approved by: imp (mentor)
rather than treating them as a fatal exception and halting. At least one
storage BIOS (some newer mpt(4) parts) have a breakpoint instruction in
their disk read routine.
MFC after: 3 days
to get the physical address doesn't work for all values of KVA_PAGES,
while masking 8 MSBs works for all values of KVA_PAGES that are
multiple of 4 for non-PAE and 8 for PAE. (This leaves us limited
with 12MB for non-PAE kernels and 14MB for PAE kernels.)
To get things right, we'd need to subtract the KERNBASE from the
virtual address (but KERNBASE is not easy to figure out from here),
or have physical addresses set properly in the ELF headers.
Discussed with: jhb
device (kind) specific unit field to the common field. This change
allows a future version of libefi to work without requiring anything
more than what is defined in struct devdesc and as such makes it
possible to compile said version of libefi for different platforms
without requiring that those platforms have identical derivatives
of struct devdesc.
are no longer limited to a virtual address space of 16 megabytes,
only mask high two bits of a virtual address. This allows to load
larger kernels (up to 1 gigabyte). Not masking addresses at all
was a bad idea on machines with less than >3G of memory -- kernels
are linked at 0xc0xxxxxx, and that would attempt to load a kernel
at above 3G. By masking only two highest bits we stay within the
safe limits while still allowing to boot larger kernels.
(This is a safer reimplmentation of sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot.2.c
rev. 1.71.)
Prodded by: jhb
Tested by: nyan (pc98)
commits. For some reason I thought the scale factor was a shift count
rather than the multiplicand (that is, I thought leal (%eax,%edx,4) was
going to generate %eax + %edx << 4 rather than %eax + %edx * 4). What
I need is to multiply by 16 to convert a real-mode (seg, offset) tuple
into a flat address. However, the max multiplicand for scaled/index
addressing on i386 is 8, so go back to using a shl and an add.
- Convert two more inter-register mov instructions where we don't need to
preserve the source register to xchg instructions to keep our space
savings.
Tested by: Ian FREISLICH if at hetzner.co.za
MFC after: 1 week
another 16 bytes off of BTX (and thus boot2):
- Compare against the value of %eax that is saved on the stack instead of
loading it into %eax (which requires saving the current %eax on the
stack).
- Use %ch to examine the keyboard flag state in the BIOS to see if
Ctrl-Alt-Del is pressed instead of %al so we don't have to save %eax on
the stack anymore.
MFC after: 1 week
BTX (and thus boot2):
- Don't bother saving %eax, %ebx, or %ecx as it is not necessary.
- Use a more compact sequence to load the base value out of a GDT entry
by loading the contiguous low 24 bits into the upper 24 bits of %eax,
loading the high 8 bits into %al, and using a ror to rotate the bits
(2 mov's and a ror) rather than loading the pieces in smaller chunks
(3 mov's and a shl).
- Use movzwl + leal instead of movl + movw + shll + addl.
- Use 'xchgl %eax,%foo' rather than 'movl %eax,%foo' for cases where
it's ok to trash %eax. xchgl %eax, foo is a 1-byte opcode whereas the
mov is a 2-byte opcode.
- Use movzwl rather than xorl + movw.
MFC after: 1 week
rather than just emulating mov cr0, eax. This fixes some Compaq/HP BIOS
with DMA (as the BIOS tried to read cr3 so it could translate addresses
if paging was enabled).
MFC after: 1 week
- Make the PROBE_KEYBOARD option better resemble the -P option in
boot2, i.e., if keyboard isn't present then boot with both
RB_SERIAL and RB_MULTIPLE set.
Reviewed by: jhb
fixes filesystem corruption when nextboot.conf is located after
cylinder 1023. The bug appears to have been introduced at the time
bd_read was copied to create bd_write.
PR: bin/98005
Reported by: yar
MFC after: 1 week
selection and not always beeping on startup. The two bytes for the extra
'jmp' instruction were obtained by removing recognition of BSD/OS
partitions.
Requested by: many
Tested by: subset of many
Head nod: imp, keramida
MFC after: 2 weeks
Otherwise, we could match on a filename that had the wrong last character
(such as /boot/loaded instead of /boot/loader).
PR: kern/95625
Submitted by: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de>
MFC after: 1 month
controller to get ready (65K x ISA access time, visually around 1 second).
If we have wait more than that amount it's likely that the hardware is a
legacy-free one and simply doesn't have keyboard controller and doesn't
require enabling A20 at all.
This makes cdboot working for MacBook Pro with Boot Camp.
MFC after: 1 day
Use 'BOOT_SENSITIVE_INFO=YES' variable to turn them on.
- Use 'uint*_t' instead of 'u_int*_t', correct compilation warnings, and
update copyright while I am here.
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
provide enough room for decompression (up to 2.5MB is necessary). This
should be safe to do since we load i386 kernels after 8MB mark now, so
that 16MB is the minimum amount of RAM necessary to even boot FreeBSD.
This makes bzip2-support practically useable.
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.
