CD-ROM as the root file system. It contains a limited subset of $DESTDIR
along with sysinst. This will help to massively reduce the amount of memory
needed to install from CD or netboot, and allow us to continue using the
generic kernel on the CDs.
Instead, specify "load /miniroot.kmod" per each boot menu
so that we can use bootcds to load any specific kernel in
other devices which doesn't need ramdisk miniroot.
Tested on qemu.
and create sums for it.
This means all the pieces to do network installation are easily accessible
following a release build (and will also come out of the build servers).
netbsd-GENERIC is in binary/kernel/
pxeboot_ia32.bin is in installation/misc/
miniroot.kmod is in installation/miniroot/
improved modularity and extensibility.
In the new architecture, a directed graph of argument-matching
objects (match objects) expresses the set of feasible ifconfig
statements. Match objects are labelled by subroutines that provide
the statement semantics.
Many IPv4, IPv6, 802.11, tunnel, and media configurations have been
tested.
AppleTalk, ISO, carp(4), agr(4), and vlan(4) configuration need
testing.
- Make MULTIPROCESSOR mandatory on i386.
Installation changes:
- Update installation section of release notes to match reality.
- Rename INSTALL to INSTALL_FLOPPY, retire INSTALL_LARGE.
- Build INSTALL kernel from GENERIC, like on amd64.
- Update boot menu to allow disabling ACPI and/or SMP.
- Remove GENERIC.NOACPI from the installed kernel list.
- TODO: install default boot.cfg in etc.tgz.
- TODO: possibly enable PCI fixup stuff at runtime if ACPI is disabled.
Build changes:
- No longer build ALL, it's for verification, is slow to build and the
build process is already crippled by the number of kernels built.
- No longer build GENERIC.NOACPI.
FORTIFY_SOURCE feature of libssp, thus checking the size of arguments to
various string and memory copy and set functions (as well as a few system
calls and other miscellany) where known at function entry. RedHat has
evidently built all "core system packages" with this option for some time.
This option should be used at the top of Makefiles (or Makefile.inc where
this is used for subdirectories) but after any setting of LIB.
This is only useful for userland code, and cannot be used in libc or in
any code which includes the libc internals, because it overrides certain
libc functions with macros. Some effort has been made to make USE_FORT=yes
work correctly for a full-system build by having the bsd.sys.mk logic
disable the feature where it should not be used (libc, libssp iteself,
the kernel) but no attempt has been made to build the entire system with
USE_FORT and doing so will doubtless expose numerous bugs and misfeatures.
Adjust the system build so that all programs and libraries that are setuid,
directly handle network data (including serial comm data), perform
authentication, or appear likely to have (or have a history of having)
data-driven bugs (e.g. file(1)) are built with USE_FORT=yes by default,
with the exception of libc, which cannot use USE_FORT and thus uses
only USE_SSP by default. Tested on i386 with no ill results; USE_FORT=no
per-directory or in a system build will disable if desired.
images. amd64 gets a single kernel; i386 images gets 3 kernels:
- netbsd, copy from netbsd-INSTALL_LARGE.gz, loaded by default
- nbsd-l, copy from netbsd-INSTALL_LAPTOP.gz
- nbsd-i, copy from netbsd-INSTALL.gz for those who want the traditionnal
non-ACPI kernel
- drop the bootcd-laptop image
both gets an installcd image, which is the same as bootcd but with the
binary sets in addition to kernels.
GENERIC kernels. If ACPI is an issue on your hardware, 'boot -c' and
'disable acpi' should be a workaround. ACPI-enabled kernels works fine
on pre-acpi hardware.
for amd64:
- add ACPI to INSTALL and GENERIC, remove the *_ACPI config files.
- get rid of the bootfloppy-big.fs boot image, and got to a 3-floppy boot
image
for i386:
- introduce INSTALL_LARGE which has ACPI and some devices with big firmware
- move some devices from INSTALL to INSTALL_LARGE
- Boot floppies still use INSTALL, and bootfloppy-big.fs is still there
(for thoses who want to build el-torito floppy emulation boot CD) and use
INSTALL.
For both, drop the 'iso-image' code in etc/ to make the iso bootable, we'll
use something else to build bootable CDs.
updating. Probably to an ACPI kernel that need not fit into an 'emulated floppy'
and a 'legacy' kernel that will fit.
In any case the small/tiny kernels which are really for i386 systems with
< 16MB of memory (some are sized for a 5.25" floppy) don't need to be built.
Remove bootfloppy-small, bootfloppy-tiny, rescue-tiny and bootfloppy-ps2
and associated ramdisks.
as the bootcd* CDs just with the install sets added to
the CD as well.
XXX 1) The implementation of this is rather cludgy (copying sets around),
as our makefs(8) can't put files from multiple directories into
one image -- something that mkisofs can do with 'graft' points
XXX 2) This should be run after 'build.sh release' - It would be nice
if we had a seperate stage to add such hooks in our build framework
floppies. (The build is broken again without this.) "boot-big1.fs", from
the same ramdisk as "bootN.fs", still just fits in 2880KB by virtue of the
fact that the 9KB of padding is only added once per floppy image.
