provides the correct functions for primary, secondary, and unified
boot blocks. actually behave correctly (e.g. expect correct arguments,
perform correct operations) depending on which you are. also
some minor cleanup.
guts were actually functionally equivalent to the current guts, but were
much larger, filled with bugs, and indeed poked around at the disklabel
when some of those bugs prevented them from ever using the disklabel!
had a few bugs fixed that let the problem slip in, and since bootxx's
Makefile now goes out of its way to satisfy installboot's undocumented
and totally unreasonable assumptions about the bootxx file it's operating
on. No point in fixing the assumptions, because sooner rather than later
this incarnation of installboot is going to die.
assuming that there's always going to be space for the whole boot
block info struct. (the assumption would cause a malloc'd region
to be overrun, if it proved false.)
call to __main(), and therefore saves the size of the call and the
size of a stub implementation of __main().
in the primary boot block, don't bother saving/restoring the argument
passed in from the caller. There is no such argument (that we care
about, at least) to the primary. (for secondary, it's the firmware
FD being used.)
Clean up the "Region 1" related definitions, and define load addresses,
max load size, and max total size for as many boot block types as we can.
(types = unified, primary, secondary). We can't always define all
values for all boot blocks, though.
Make CPP flags selection less gross.
Use objcopy rather than headersize (yay, evil gets a stake to the heart!).
Use a little shell script to verify that the sizes of the boot blocks are OK.
Do not compile too much more of libsa than we actually have to.
an absolute block address. It's cheating, as the motivation is support for
the libsa ustar tfs `filesystem' and the solution symmetrical to ufs and
cd9660 would have been to teach installboot about tfs. However, it still
would have been different as you can't mount a tfs with the kernel, and
this option gets possibly useful support for any contiguous format, even
completely raw boot images.
In this case, all it has in it are the never-referenced printable names
for the ELF sections themselves. It's located at the end of the (ramdisk)
netbsd.gz file, so it is a very expensive seek and read for only 85 bytes.
Boot floppy load time:
before: 5 minutes
now: 3 minutes
cgd