external storage. Highlights:
- additional "void *" argument to (*ext_free)(), an opaque
cookie for use by the free function.
- MCLALLOC() and MCLFREE() calls are gone. They are replaced
by MEXTADD() (add external storage to mbuf), MEXTMALLOC()
(malloc() external storage and attach to mbuf), and
MEXTREMOVE() (remove external storage from mbuf).
- completely new external storage reference counting
mechanism; mclrefcnt[] is gone.
These changes will eventually be used to pass driver DMA buffers up
the network stack, and reduce/eliminate copies in certain code paths
(e.g. NFS writes).
From Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com> and myself <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>,
with some input from Chris Demetriou <cgd@cs.cmu.edu> and review by
Charles Hannum <mycroft@mit.edu>.
Some of the stuff (e.g., rarpd, bootpd, dhcpd etc., libsa) still will
only support Ethernet. Tcpdump itself should be ok, but libpcap needs
lot of work.
For the detailed change history, look at the commit log entries for
the is-newarp branch.
work. Not quite as good as with the Lite2 merges, but it'll do until then.
* dounmount() expects to be called with the mountpoint marked busy
* all callers of dounmount() thus make the call themselves
* if a filesystem was being unmounted, and we're woken up in vfs_busy(),
don't reference the mountpoint struct pointer, as it has very probably
been freed.
in the assembly file genassym.s into the usual assym.h file. The
assym.h file generated this way is identical to the output generated
if I simply compile and run the genassym.s file. "Heh, Kewl!"
Thanks to Matthias Pfaller for the "translate the .s file" idea!
* prototype it before it is used (several ports compile with
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes), so this is _necessary_.
* conform to C syntax (yes, that's right, it wouldn't parse).
* make error check less error-prone, + style fixups.
mount the root file system. If the operator specified the root
file system type in the kernel configuration file, attempt to
mount that file system type on the root device. If the root
file system type was wildcarded (or unspecified), try all of
the file systems statically built into the kernel until one
succeeds. If no file systems succeed, return an error. The
system will recover from this condition.
- Implement vfs_getopsbyname(). This function returns the file
system ops vector given a file system name.
from the version used by NetBSD/alpha, with several changes by me.
Support for asking for root device and root file system type on any
kernel, obsoleting "options GENERIC".
- Make my mountroothook implementation used by the sparc and x68k
ports machine-independent, and use it here. Mountroothooks allow
devices to execute special functions before being mounted as the
root device (such as ejecting the floppy and prompting for a new
floppy disk).
- Make swapconf() machine-independent. It was identical on all ports.
- Run mountroot hooks before we attempt to mount the root device, and
destroy mountroot hooks after the root file system has been sucessfully
mounted.
- Don't panic if we can't mount root. Instead, set RB_ASKNAME and
call setroot(), which will prompt the operator for the root device
and file system type.
