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# 272461 02-Oct-2014 gjb

Copy stable/10@r272459 to releng/10.1 as part of
the 10.1-RELEASE process.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 241068 30-Sep-2012 ae

Reduce the number of attempts to detect proper kld format for the amd64
loader.


# 241047 29-Sep-2012 ae

Disable splitfs support, since we aren't support floppies for a long
time. This slightly reduces an overhead, when loader tries to open
file that doesn't exist.


# 240335 11-Sep-2012 ae

Slightly reduce an overhead for the open() call in the zfsloader.
libstand(3) tries to detect file system in the predefined order,
but zfsloader usually is used for the booting from ZFS, and there is
no need to try detect several file system types for each open() call.


# 235537 17-May-2012 gber

Import work done under project/nand (@235533) into head.

The NAND Flash environment consists of several distinct components:
- NAND framework (drivers harness for NAND controllers and NAND chips)
- NAND simulator (NANDsim)
- NAND file system (NAND FS)
- Companion tools and utilities
- Documentation (manual pages)

This work is still experimental. Please use with caution.

Obtained from: Semihalf
Supported by: FreeBSD Foundation, Juniper Networks


# 235329 12-May-2012 avg

zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

In zfs loader zfs device name format now is "zfs:pool/fs",
fully qualified file path is "zfs:pool/fs:/path/to/file"
loader allows accessing files from various pools and filesystems as well
as changing currdev to a different pool/filesystem.

zfsboot accepts kernel/loader name in a format pool:fs:path/to/file or,
as before, pool:path/to/file; in the latter case a default filesystem
is used (pool root or bootfs). zfsboot passes guids of the selected
pool and dataset to zfsloader to be used as its defaults.

zfs support should be architecture independent and is provided
in a separate library, but architectures wishing to use this zfs support
still have to provide some glue code and their devdesc should be
compatible with zfs_devdesc.
arch_zfs_probe method is used to discover all disk devices that may
be part of ZFS pool(s).

libi386 unconditionally includes zfs support, but some zfs-specific
functions are stubbed out as weak symbols. The strong definitions
are provided in libzfsboot.
This change mean that the size of i386_devspec becomes larger
to match zfs_devspec.

Backward-compatibility shims are provided for recently added sparc64
zfs boot support. Currently that architecture still works the old
way and does not support the new features.

TODO:
- clear up pool root filesystem vs pool bootfs filesystem distinction
- update sparc64 support
- set vfs.root.mountfrom based on currdev (for zfs)

Mid-future TODO:
- loader sub-menu for selecting alternative boot environment

Distant future TODO:
- support accessing snapshots, using a snapshot as readonly root

Reviewed by: marius (sparc64),
Gavin Mu <gavin.mu@gmail.com> (sparc64)
Tested by: Florian Wagner <florian@wagner-flo.net> (x86),
marius (sparc64)
No objections: fs@, hackers@
MFC after: 1 month


# 199855 27-Nov-2009 sobomax

Add new loader console type: "spinconsole". This console selects the
video console which doesn't take any input from keyboard and hides
all output replacing it with ``spinning'' character (useful for
embedded products and custom installations).

Sponsored by: Sippy Software, Inc.


# 185029 17-Nov-2008 pjd

Update ZFS from version 6 to 13 and bring some FreeBSD-specific changes.

This bring huge amount of changes, I'll enumerate only user-visible changes:

- Delegated Administration

Allows regular users to perform ZFS operations, like file system
creation, snapshot creation, etc.

- L2ARC

Level 2 cache for ZFS - allows to use additional disks for cache.
Huge performance improvements mostly for random read of mostly
static content.

- slog

Allow to use additional disks for ZFS Intent Log to speed up
operations like fsync(2).

- vfs.zfs.super_owner

Allows regular users to perform privileged operations on files stored
on ZFS file systems owned by him. Very careful with this one.

- chflags(2)

Not all the flags are supported. This still needs work.

- ZFSBoot

Support to boot off of ZFS pool. Not finished, AFAIK.

Submitted by: dfr

- Snapshot properties

- New failure modes

Before if write requested failed, system paniced. Now one
can select from one of three failure modes:
- panic - panic on write error
- wait - wait for disk to reappear
- continue - serve read requests if possible, block write requests

- Refquota, refreservation properties

Just quota and reservation properties, but don't count space consumed
by children file systems, clones and snapshots.

- Sparse volumes

ZVOLs that don't reserve space in the pool.

- External attributes

Compatible with extattr(2).

- NFSv4-ACLs

Not sure about the status, might not be complete yet.

Submitted by: trasz

- Creation-time properties

- Regression tests for zpool(8) command.

Obtained from: OpenSolaris


# 170101 29-May-2007 simokawa

MFp4: add FireWire/dcons support in loader for i386/amd64.

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


# 134459 28-Aug-2004 iedowse

Add the loader side of support for preloading ELF relocatable object
format modules, which are currently only used on the amd64 platform.
This initial implementation just parses enough of the module to
allow it to extract dependencies and load all the bits into the
right place in memory, so the kernel must still do the full relocation
and linking. The details of the loaded sections are passed to the
kernel by supplying a copy of the ELF section header table as module
metadata with the MODINFOMD_SHDR tag.


# 119482 25-Aug-2003 obrien

Use __FBSDID().
Also some minor copyright style cleanups.


# 114379 01-May-2003 peter

Enable the i386 loader to load and run an amd64 kernel. If this puts
things over floppy size limits, I can exclude it for release builds or
something like that. Most of the changes are to get the load_elf.c file
into a seperate elf32_ or elf64_ namespace so that you can have two
ELF loaders present at once. Note that for 64 bit kernels, it actually
starts up the kernel already in 64 bit mode with paging enabled. This
is really easy because we have a known minimum feature set.

Of note is that for amd64, we have to pass in the bios int 15 0xe821
memory map because once in long mode, you absolutely cannot make VM86
calls. amd64 does not use 'struct bootinfo' at all. It is a pure loader
metadata startup, just like sparc64 and powerpc. Much of the
infrastructure to support this was adapted from sparc64.


# 108100 19-Dec-2002 jake

Renamed the loader's zipfs to gzipfs. zipfs.c was repo-copied to gzipfs.c.


# 102556 29-Aug-2002 peter

Initiate deorbit burn of i386 a.out kld "support" in loader. Note that
this was quite broken, it never was updated for metadata support.
The a.out kld file support was never really used, as it wasn't necessary.
You could always load elf kld's, even in an a.out kernel.


# 92495 17-Mar-2002 sobomax

(forced)

Splitfs is subject of:

MFC after: 2 weeks


# 92494 17-Mar-2002 sobomax

Add splitfs vfs layer into libstand, which allows loading big kernels and
modules split across several physical medias. Following is how it works:

The splitfs code, when asked to open "foo" looks for a file "foo.split"
which is a text file containing a list of filenames and media names, e.g.

foo.aa "Kernel floppy 1"
foo.ab "Kernel floppy 2"
foo.ac "Kernel and modules floppy"

For each file segment, the process is:

- try to open the file
- prompt "Insert the disk labelled <whatever> and press any key..."
- try to open the file
- return error if file could not be located

RE team is free to use this feature in the upcoming 5.0-DP1.

Reviewed by: msmith, dcs


# 86093 05-Nov-2001 jhb

Hook up the bioscd driver and the cd9660 filesystem.


# 83616 18-Sep-2001 sobomax

Add support for loading bzip2-compressed kernels and modules. This support
is turned off by default and could be enabled by defining LOADER_BZIP2_SUPPORT
make variable. Also make gzip support optional (turned on by default) -
it could be turned off via LOADER_NO_GZIP_SUPPORT make variable.

Please note, that due to limit on the amount of memory available to the
loader(8), it is possible to load modules/kernels compressed with the smallest
block size supported by the bzip2 - 100k (`-1' bzip2(1) option), however
even in this mode bzip2(1) usually provides better compression ratio than
gzip(1) in its best compression mode.

MFC after: 1 month


# 66133 20-Sep-2000 archie

Add support for the "nullconsole" console type, for systems with
neither a video console nor a serial port. Use it if the RB_MUTE
flag is set.

Submitted by: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>
Reviewed by: jhb


# 59854 01-May-2000 bp

Update loader logic to distinguish modules vs. files.
Add support for module metadata. The old way of dependancy
handling will be supported for a while.

Reviewed by: peter


# 59767 29-Apr-2000 jlemon

Teach the loader about the ext2fs filesystem, extended partitions, and
the new readdir function.


# 59087 07-Apr-2000 ps

Make PXE use the UDP API. This allows for both TFTP and NFS support.
You may specify TFTP or NFS via compile time options in the loader,
but not both at this time.

Also, remove a warning about not knowing how to boot from network
devices. We can obviously do that now.


# 58713 27-Mar-2000 jhb

Mega i386 loader commit.
- Don't hard code 0x10000 as the entry point for the loader. Instead add
src/sys/boot/i386/Makefile.inc which defines a make variable with the
entry point for the loader. Move the loader's entry point up to
0x20000, which makes PXE happy.
- Don't try to use cpp to parse btxldr for the optional BTXLDR_VERBOSE,
instead use m4 to achieve this. Also, add a BTXLDR_VERBOSE knob in the
btxldr Makefile to turn this option on.
- Redo parts of cdldr's Makefile so that it now builds and installs cdboot
instead of having i386/loader/Makefile do that. Also, add in some more
variables to make the pxeldr Makefile almost identical and thus to ease
maintainability.
- Teach cdldr about the a.out format. Cdldr now parsers the a.out header
of the loader binary and relocates it based on that. The entry point of
the loader no longer has to be hardcoded into cdldr. Also, the boot
info table from mkisofs is no longer required to get a useful cdboot.
- Update the lsdev function for BIOS disks to parse other file systems
(such as DOS FAT) that we currently support. This is still buggy as
it assumes that a floppy with a DOS boot sector actually has a MBR and
parses it as such. I'll be fixing this in the future.
- The biggie: Add in support for booting off of PXE-enabled network
adapters. Currently, we use the TFTP API provided by the PXE BIOS.
Eventually we will switch to using the low-level NIC driver thus
allowing both TFTP and NFS to be used, but for now it's just TFTP.

Submitted by: ps, alfred
Testing by: Benno Rice <benno@netizen.com.au>


# 50477 27-Aug-1999 peter

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


# 40618 23-Oct-1998 msmith

Enable the PCI BIOS PnP enumerator.


# 40600 22-Oct-1998 msmith

Add a dependancy on the BTX crt0 object
Add the biospnp handler to the pnp handler array
Drop some old debugging code


# 40555 21-Oct-1998 msmith

- Enable PnP and ISA PnP code.
- Use the ISA PnP enumerator.
- Use the new linker set code, throw out the gensetdefs stuff.
- Produce an intermediate loader image that has symbols stripped, to aid
- in debugging.
- Supply ISA port access functions required for ISA PnP


# 40017 07-Oct-1998 msmith

Enable the DOS filesystem. NOTE: you will have to rebuild libstand in
order to be able to build again.


# 39834 30-Sep-1998 peter

Turn on i386-elf


# 39731 28-Sep-1998 peter

Reactivate the a.out kernel loader code.


# 39450 18-Sep-1998 msmith

Enable the biosdisk driver, duplicate -lstand as it both calls and is called
by the i386 platform library.


# 39441 17-Sep-1998 msmith

Initial integration of the i386 bootloader and BTX.

- Discard large amounts of BIOS-related code in favour of the more compact
BTX vm86 interface.
- Build the loader module as ELF, although the resulting object is a.out,
make gensetdefs 32/64-bit sensitive and use a single copy of it.
- Throw away installboot, as it's no longer required.
- Use direct bcopy operations in the i386_copy module, as BTX
maps the first 16M of memory. Check operations against the
detected size of actual memory.


# 39178 14-Sep-1998 msmith

Resynch with working sources before BTX integration.

- Use format-independant module allocator.
- Conditionalise ISA PnP support.
- Simplify PnP enumerator interface.
- Improve module/object searching.
- Add missing depend/install targets in BTX makefiles.
- Pass the kernel environment and module data in extended bootinfo fields.
- Add a pointer to the end of the kernel + modules in bootinfo.
- Fix parsing of old-style kernel arguments.


# 38466 21-Aug-1998 msmith

This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r38465,
which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.


# 38465 21-Aug-1998 msmith

This is the new unified bootstrap, sometimes known previously as the
'three-stage' bootstrap.
There are a number of caveats with the code in its current state:
- The i386 bootstrap only supports booting from a floppy.
- The kernel and kld do not yet know how to deal with the extended
information and module summary passed in.
- PnP-based autodetection and demand loading of modules is not implemented.
- i386 ELF kernel loading is not ready yet.
- The i386 bootstrap is loaded via an ugly blockmap.

On the alpha, both net- and disk-booting (SRM console machines only) is
supported. No blockmaps are used by this code.

Obtained from: Parts from the NetBSD/i386 standalone bootstrap.