load the modules needed according to a file relating module names
(actually, _file_ names, not really modules -- the dependency
stuff is not exported to loader's UI) to PnP IDs.
But it still lacks a number of desired features, and it's too crude
for my tastes. But since I don't have time to work on it, it might
be preferable to make it available to those who might. It's not
installed by default, much less loaded. In fact, it wouldn't even
had a copyright message (who? me? assume responsibility for _this_?),
if the cvs commit hadn't aborted for lack of $FreeBSD$, and I decided
to just cut&paste the stuff from elsewhere.
Also, export the file_findfile() function. Again, this is taken from
work in progress but frozen for the time being. Since it works, I'd
rather commit and remove any uglyness later than hide it on my tree.
code into a more modular interface, with hidden vocabularies and
such. Remove the need to a lot of ugly initialization.
Also, add a few structure definitions, from stuff used on the C
part of loader. Some of this will disappear, and the crude structure
support will most likely be replaced by full-blown OOP support
already present on FICL, but not installed by default. But it was
getting increasingly inconvenient to keep this separate on my tree,
and I already lost lots of work once because of the hurdles, so
commit this.
Anyway, it makes support.4th more structured, and I'm not proceeding
with the work on it any time soon, unfortunately.
gets the name from the environment variable kernelname, which is set
when a kernel is loaded. For this reason, autoboot will _first_ try
to load a kernel, and only proceed with the wait prompt after that
succeeds. If it fails, it will abort immediately.
While I understand some may think this behavior undesirable, I think
it is, overall, the best thing to do, even if we do not consider the
aesthetic issue. Notice that anyone using the default loader.rc
already has the kernel loaded before autoboot.
On unload, unset kernelname.
Separate the code that tries to load a kernel from the list of options
to the function loadakernel(). It is used by both boot() and
autoboot().
siosetwater() function to its previous behavior of always disabling
interrupts and obtaining the com_lock before returning.
Requested by: bde (in principle)
be used to point to a bad locale file. This is only believed to be a
minor security risk - the only risk is if some program uses the result
of a localized string as a format specifier in a vulnerable function
like sprintf(). No such code is believed to exist in the FreeBSD base
system, although it is possible that badly written third party code
would do that.
Submitted by: imp
Approved by: ache
SMPng merge. Suggest 4.x-stable for a while for those people that are
unable or unwilling to cope with problems.
After 6 hours of use tonight, my gut tells me that we're going to have
lots of problems crop up in the coming weeks.
on the NEC VersaPro NoteBook PC. This 21143 implementation has no LEDs,
and flipping the LED control bits somehow stops it from establishing
a link. We check the subsystem ID and don't flip the LED control
bits for the NEC NIC.
include:
* Mutual exclusion is used instead of spl*(). See mutex(9). (Note: The
alpha port is still in transition and currently uses both.)
* Per-CPU idle processes.
* Interrupts are run in their own separate kernel threads and can be
preempted (i386 only).
Partially contributed by: BSDi (BSD/OS)
Submissions by (at least): cp, dfr, dillon, grog, jake, jhb, sheldonh
