There are still about 1600 left, but they have ',' or /* ... */
in the actual variable definitions - which my awk script doesn't handle.
There are also many that need () -> (void).
(The script does handle misordered arguments.)
and amd64 where VESA VBE 2.0+ is available.
* Add helper library and stubs to invoke VBE bioscalls.
* Bump HEAP_START as we were already dangerously close to our limits.
* bootdataseg now allows access > 16MB so in the future we can scribble
on the framebuffer.
* Pass BTINFO_FRAMEBUFFER parameters to kernel when configured.
* VBE modes are configured with the new 'vesa' command. Usage, when present:
* vesa {enabled|disabled}
Enable / disable linear framebuffer, default mode is 640x480x8. May
be changed in the future to determine mode based on VBE/DDC where
available.
* vesa list
List modes supported by the firmware that meet the following criteria:
* linear framebuffer
* packed pixel or direct colour mode
* vesa {modenum|modestr}
Enable specific VBE mode. The mode can be specified either as a
VBE mode number (eg. 0x101) or as a string (eg. 800x600x16).
to avoid unnecessary 64 bit ops which would make binaries larger:
satime_t (currently unsigned int):
numbers in seconds returned by the machine dependent getsecs() function
which are used to measure relative time
saseconds_t (currently int):
numbers in seconds used to specify timeout to network drivers
Per discussion on current-users.
Patch provided by Robert Swindell with fixes for the command line
parsing and addition of passing module options from me. The kernel now
always gets the full string for modules like for the command line,
everything before the first space/tab is the path name of the module.
elf header/program headers/text/data/note/
section headers/symbol table/string table
We need to read the section headers first to find the offset of the note
and thus we requite backwards seek. The only reason we need to read the
note is to find the version of the kernel, and this seems not to be used
anywhere. We could potentially change the kernel ldscript to add the note
information in the program headers, but dealing with ldscripts is painful
and producing a more complex binary could break some dumb standalone loader.
So the simple solution is to just disable the note loading for floppies
which is what this patch does. If someone wants to fix it in a better way,
be my guest.
Add support for switching menu format between numbers and letters. Will
prefer numbers, but will automatically switch to letters if > 9 options
and timeout > 0 (i.e. need a single key press to choose).
Menu format can be explicitly set in boot.cfg file.
Add support for reading numeric choices of more than 1 digit.
Why is there a "Makefile.boot" used here, and a "Makefile.booters"
used one level up, with redundant stuff between both of them? This all
used to be so clean...
For now, we include kernel revision as a way of allowing users to
notice that boot blocks have gotten very old, so the first line of the
printout looks like this (depending on the particular block):
>> NetBSD/x86 BIOS Boot, Revision 3.4 (from NetBSD 5.0)
This may be changed a bit pending feedback. (Some people think that
the kernel revision shouldn't be there at all, for example.)
Part of the project to assure that bit-identical sources produce
bit-identical release binaries.
We now wrapper the open call for a module with module_open. It first
attempts to open the module_path munged path, if this fails it then tries
to open the original path.
This allows tftp files to be located correctly.
are taken from boot/boot2.c.
This allows an install to be started by running:
load tftp:miniroot.kmod
boot tftp:netbsd-GENERIC
Note that the change to dev_net.c to comment out the network shutdown,
suggests we need to hook the network shutdown in the the common exec code.
If the network is shutdown, it fails to reinitialise and so fails to load
the module.
