Alpha system, conditional on MULTIPROCESSOR.
NOTE: This does not yet work completely. The secondary CPU begins the
boot process, but never makes it into the cpu spinup trampoline. This
is merely a snapshot of a work-in-progress.
These changes also recover memory that is located before the kernel in
the first system software segment on systems which do not use the PROM
for console I/O. Written by Chris Demetriou and myself.
knowledge) earlier, and gather all information needed earlier. Mark the
init code carefully re: when it can print stuff out, when it can expect
the firmware to stop working, etc. Be more careful about using the PROM
console and other PROM facilities, and hint that in the future all use
of firmware/boot program callbacks by the kernel should go away (since
the world may not be mapped the way the firmware/boot program wants!).
number passed by the boot block into a register, change the kernel's
bootinfo handing so that it always uses bootinfo to get bootinfo-ish values
(filling them in if the boot blocks didn't pass them), and make versioning
a small bit more sane.
and IEEE S and T floating datum loads and stores. VAX floating data
types not yet supported, and in the future will only be supported if
FIX_UNALIGNED_VAX_FP is defined. (No point in wasting the space when
most of the time there will never be VAX FP loads and stores.) Right
now, these features can be controlled only by sysctl. The (boolean)
integer sysctls machdep.unaligned_print, machdep.unaligned_fix, and
machdep.unaligned_sigbus control printing about unaligned accesses
(defaults on), fixing up of unaligned accesses (defaults on), and
forcing a SIGBUS on unaligned accesses (defaults off). If an access
is not fixed up (for lack of method or explicit decision), a SIGBUS is
always generated to keep programs from using bogus data. At some point,
these three choices should be controlled by per-process flags, as well.
containing a substruct (the hardware frame) and an array of registers,
treat it like one big array of registers, for easier and prettier
access. Update everything to deal with that.
thorpej