-read retries were botched, use the right sector count
-read-ahead buffer was effectively unused
-concentrate the handling of the weird BIOS geometry report at one place
-fallback for old floppies left cylinder count uninitialized
the bit is set that declares the geometry valid. The spec itself says
that this field isn't covered by the "geometry valid" bit, but at
least one BIOS implements it that way.
and sysctl to export to userland). Also, only use total number of sectors
given in the extended parameters if the physical chs geometry is
marked invalid. Hopefully fixes a problem where BIOSs would not correctly
fill in this field.
argument and to return success or error explicitely.
Now we can "error" and "end of list" cleanly; this should fix the
problem where the last list element was ignored.
The new assembler doesn't allow 16-bit relocations involving arithmetics
with 32-bit variables. (The old one did silently truncate, which was
the right thing in our case.) Further, the new assembler uses to scatter
size prefixes around if the size of the operation is not explicitely
specified, even if the result is nonsense, eg for moves to segment
registers or control registers.
Add some debugging code (generating printouts) and comments.
Remove the !BOOTROM code which was intended for a DOS harness but isn't
that useful anymore.
Some cleanup and formatting to make it more similar to the other
startup code variants.
with different flags from dosboot and biosboot. Although right now this
does not make a difference because we are building the libraries twice,
it can make a difference when we share the builds.
loadfile.h contains macros that are supposed to be MD, but loadfile.c is now MI.
Fixes:
- a.out support
- pass information values via an array not global variables
- don't assume that you can access memory directly.
- remove MD parts
- remove some printfs.
XXX: loadfile.c needs to be moved somewhere where other ports can use it.
XXX2: read() routines on the i386 don't appear to set errno on failure.
