have a way to embed the revision number into the kernel's "uname -v"
output. The patch below does this, by generating a new keyword "ident"
that can be followed by any string, e.g.
ident "NOON-$Revision$"
will lead to
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
char version[] = "NetBSD 1.4P (NOON-$Revision: 1.21 $) #37: Thu Jan
20 02:01:23 MET 2000\n feyrer@noon:/usr/cvs.local/src-current/sys/arch/i386/c
ompile/NOON\n";
This will lead to a version of "MYMACHINE-$Revision$" instead of the
kernel config file name. If "ident" is not present, the current behaviour
of using the kernel config file's name as identifier is used.
Implement by writing the ident to a file ("ident") in the compile dir,
which newvers.sh will pick up for generating the ident.
a change to the config grammar, to specify a device's class (i.e. DV_xxx)
like:
device sd class disk: ...
Also emit an ioconf.h, which contains extern declarations of the
cfdriver structures.
While I'm here, add support for specifying multiple options per defopt
line, as well as specifying the file name in which the options will
appear.
defopt foo bar baz
generates "opt_foo.h", "opt_bar.h", and "opt_baz.h"
defopt opt_mumble.h foo bar baz
generates "opt_mumble.h" which contains all three options.
Also, clean up and fix some bugs in the code that generates header files.
new swap system. The dump specification syntax is now more flexible,
and supports constructs like the following:
config netbsd root on ? type ? dumps on ?
- wildcarded root, fstype, and dump device
config netbsd root on ? type ffs dumps on sd0b
- wildcarded root, ffs root fs, always dump on sd0b
config netbsd root on de0 type nfs dumps on wd0b
- mount an nfs root using de0, and write kernel crash dumps
to wd0b
Also, garbage-collect some now unused code, now that swap configuration
is no longer handled by config(8).
reported in PR #3668 from maximum entropy <entropy@tanstaafl.bernstein.com>.
The problem: The unit number is not being conveyed to the configuration
crosscheck with root is a network interface; the device number is set
to NODEV, which sets up the (correct) defaults for swap/dump devices.
We can't change NODEV to a unit number, as the PR's patch suggests, as
this breaks the swap/dump defaults. Rewriting that code is not really
justified, since it's soon to be obsoleted.
The kludge: add an "nv_ifunit" member to struct nvlist, which convey's
a network interface's unit number to the crosscheck routine. It's not
pretty, but it's not terribly invasive, and can be garbage-collected
easily when the swap/dump goo is obsoleted.
and the root device:
- New "file-system" keyword is used to configure file systems into
the kernel.
- New way of specifying root device, which allows root file system
type to always be specified. Examples:
config gennetbsd swap generic
config sdnetbsd root on sd0a swap on sd0b
config nfsnetbsd root on nfs
are replaced by:
config gennetbsd root on ? type ?
config sdnetbsd root on sd0a type ffs swap on sd0b
config nfsnetbsd root on ? type nfs
config lenetbsd root on le0 type nfs
Note that specific network interfaces may now be specified as
the root device.
- swapgeneric.c is no longer used; generate a swap*.c file for each
"config" line in the kernel configuration file.
- split softc size and match/attach out from cfdriver into
a new struct cfattach.
- new "attach" directive for files.*. May specify the name of
the cfattach structure, so that devices may be easily attached
to parents with different autoconfiguration semantics.
hubertf