submenus. See menusets.4th(8) for additional details including examples.
Discussed on arch and recommended for inclusion at the devsummit.
This change does not alter the appearance or user experience, only enhances
possibilities.
Reviewed by: adrian (co-mentor)
Approved by: adrian (co-mentor)
GIANT from VFS. This code is particulary broken and fragile and other
in-kernel implementations around, found in other operating systems,
don't really seem clean and solid enough to be imported at all.
If someone wants to reconsider in-kernel NTFS implementation for
inclusion again, a fair effort for completely fixing and cleaning it
up is expected.
In the while NTFS regular users can use FUSE interface and ntfs-3g
port to work with their NTFS partitions.
This is not targeted for MFC.
"boot verbose", "single user mode", "ACPI" and more are now stateful boolean
menuitems rather than direct action-items.
A short-coming in this new menu system is that when a user sets a non-default
value in loader.conf(5), this non-default state is not reflected in the menu
-- leading to confusion as to whether the option was taking effect or not.
This patch adds dynamic menuitem constructors _and_ the necessary Forth
callbacks to initialize these stateful menuitems -- causing the aforementioned
menuitems to adhere to loader.conf(5) settings.
PR: bin/172529
Approved by: adrian (co-mentor)
MFC after: 21 days
executed to better differentiate between loader-specific errors and kernel-
specific errors (if ever any of either).
This type of functionality hasn't been required before the introduction of the
advanced menu system (r222417). Adding this functionality will help different-
iate errors at the loader-level such as a BTX halt caused by heap exhaustion
and errors that may be involved with executing the kernel (wrong architecture
for example). A user can learn that messages before "Booting..." are related to
the loader(8) environment and it's Forth-ilk, while those after are not
related to loader(8) -- the point that loader(8) has ``left the building''.
This patch also includes a man-page update to color.4th(8) as the color logic
moves to a lower-level (from being included by beastie.4th to being included
by loader.4th).
After noticing a delay between execution of the overloaded "boot" FICL word and
the display of text on-screen, gcooper confirmed that the introduction of a
builtin memory test (disabled by adding hw.memtest.tests="0" to loader.conf(5))
was the cause of the delay.
This patch adds an echo to produce "Booting..." when the overloaded "boot" word
is executed (this includes from the interactive command-prompt on all arches,
from the menu system on arches that run the beastie menu, and even those arches
that run the menu but disable it by setting beastie_disable="YES" in
loader.conf(5)). When loader_color="YES" in loader.conf(5), the same message is
produced but in white text on a blue background (only the letters produced have
this background -- opposed to perhaps the entire line).
The menu item is now made completely independent with the ACPI item - most
modern systems seem to require ACPI and become even more "unsafe"
without it.
Safe Mode no longer disables APIC for the same reason.
kbdmux is not disabled as this feature has proven itself stable.
New actions:
- SMP is disabled in the Safe Mode now
- eventtimers are forced to periodic mode (some real and virtual systems
seem to have problems otherwise)
- geom extra vigorous integrity checking is disabled, this is to
facilitate migration from previous versions
Possible short term to do:
- make SMP switch a separate menu item
- restore APIC switch as a separate menu item
Longer term to do:
- turn various tweaks into separate menu items in a Safe Mode sub-menu
Please consider adding a safety tweak to Safe Mode when introducing
new major features or changes that may cause instabilities.
Discussed with: jhb, scottl, Devin Teske
MFC after: 3 weeks (stable/9 only)
Winbond Super I/O chips.
With minor efforts it should be possible the extend the driver to support
further chips/revisions available from Winbond. In the simplest case
only new IDs need to be added, while different chipsets might require
their own function to enter extended function mode, etc.
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated ULC (in 2011)
Reviewed by: emaste, brueffer
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Enter instead of ENTER
- Remove colons
- Line up option values
- Use dots to provide a line to visually connect the menu
selections with their values
- Replace Enabled/Disabled with off/On
(bigger inital cap for "On" is a visual indicator)
- Remove confusing "Boot" from selections that don't boot.
- With loader_color=1 in /boot/loader.conf, use reverse video to
highlight enabled options
PR: misc/160818
Submitted by: Warren Block <wblock wonkity com>
Reviewed by: Devin Teske <devin dot teske fisglobal com>, current@
MFC after: 1 week
from the interactive loader(8) prompt and beastie_disable="YES" is set
in loader.conf(5). In this case menu.rc is not evaluated and consequently
menu-unset does not have a body yet. This results in the ficl warning
"menu-unset not found" when try-menu-unset invokes menu-unset.
Check for beastie_disable="YES" explicitly, so that the try-menu-unset
word will not attempt to invoke menu-unset because the menu will have
never been configured. [1]
Use the sfind primitive as a last resort as an additional safer approach
conjuring a foreign word safely. [2]
PR: kern/163938
Submitted by: Devin Teske [1]
Reviewed by: Devin Teske [2]
Reported and tested by: dim
MFC after: 1 week
X-MFC with: r228985
before invoking the kernel.
Quoting submitter:
The issue is with the new boot loader menu. It adds many loader variables
including ones that contain ANSI color escapes.
Obviously, these ANSI codes don't play well with serial consoles when
kenv(1) is executed without arguments (reports vary as to what happens,
but it's never pretty).
The net-effect is that kenv(1) no longer reports menu-related variables.
In essence, kenv(1) output should now appear the same as on RELENG_8
(which lacks the new boot loader and didn't use any such variables).
Thus, restoring serial console glory.
Submitted by: Devin Teske <devin dott teske fisglobal.com>
MFC after: 2 weeks
pre-r222417 state. The behavior was essentially reversed in r222417
which can cause confusion.
PR: 159775
Submitted by: Devin Teske
Approved by: re (kib)
default/loader.conf
This should help people installing ${OS} to USB devices, where there are
frequently cases where kernel tries to mount root before actual umass sensing
is finished.
Reviewed by: mav
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 1 week
containing a kernel under /boot and that it's default value is "kernel"
not "/boot/kernel/kernel".
PR: docs/158992
Reported by: Wayne Mitchell wayne.mitchell.iz at gmail
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 1 week
Discussed on hackers and recommended for inclusion into 9.0 at the devsummit.
All support email to devin dteske at vicor dot ignoreme dot com .
Submitted by: dteske at vicor dot ignoreme dot com
Reviewed by: me and many others
The controller is commonly found on DM&P Vortex86 x86 SoC. The
driver supports all hardware features except flow control. The
flow control was intentionally disabled due to silicon bug.
DM&P Electronics, Inc. provided all necessary information including
sample board to write driver and answered many questions I had.
Many thanks for their support of FreeBSD.
H/W donated by: DM&P Electronics, Inc.
BIOS does not support ACPI. The other options in the menu retain their
existing numbers, option 2 is simply blanked out (and '2' is ignored).
MFC after: 1 month
bottom of the manpages and order them consistently.
GNU groff doesn't care about the ordering, and doesn't even mention
CAVEATS and SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS as common sections and where to put
them.
Found by: mdocml lint run
Reviewed by: ru
