* Added {Create|Delete}Device() analogous to {Create|Delete}FileDevice
* Added a small DeviceWatcher class that reacts to entry creation/removal
* Implemented a way to start/stop node monitoring
* Start watching for devices after the boot volume has been mounted and the
the second initial scan was run
The disk device manager now creates and scans a device when a "raw" node is
published and deletes the device on removal. This makes hot-plugging of disk
devices (for example memory sticks using usb_disk) work. Their partitions will
be scanned and published so they can be mounted. Somehow the removal of the
partitions does not yet work however, any insights are welcome.
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* Refactored RescanDiskSystems(). Pulled out a function
_RescanDiskSystems() that scans for either file or partitioning
systems. RescanDiskSystems(), which scanned for file systems only
before, is used from the constructor as well (open_module_list()
works in the early boot process since a while).
* Made InitialDeviceScan() and partition scanning safe to be called a second
time. We call it directly after the kernel has mounted the boot
volume, now, so that additional disk systems from the boot volume have a
chance to recognize previously unrecognized partitions. This is a
temporary change only; later the disk device manager shall
automatically find out when new disk systems/devices/whatever are
available.
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* Minor cleanup, reordered header files to go from private/local to public/global.
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* Images preloaded by the boot loader had to be modules to be of any use
to the kernel. Extended the mechanism so that any images not accepted
by the module code would later be tried to be added as drivers by the
devfs. This is a little hacky ATM, since the devfs manages the drivers
using a hash map keyed by the drivers inode ID, which those drivers
obviously don't have.
* The devfs emulates read_pages() using read(), if the device driver
doesn't implement the former (all old-style drivers), thus making it
possible to BFS, which uses the file cache which in turn requires
read_pages(), on the device. write_pages() emulation is still missing.
* Replaced the kernel_args::boot_disk structure by a KMessage, which can
more flexibly be extended and deals more gracefully with
arbitrarily-size data. The disk_identifier structure still exists,
though. It is added as message field in cases where needed (non net
boot). Moved the boot_drive_number field of the bios_ia32 platform
specific args into the message.
* Made the stage 1 PXE boot loader superfluous. Moved the relevant
initialization code into the stage 2 loader, which can now be loaded
directly via PXE.
* The PXE boot loader does now download a boot tgz archive via TFTP. It
does no longer use the RemoteDisk protocol (it could actually be
removed from the boot loader). It also parses the DHCP options in the
DHCPACK packet provided by PXE and extracts the root path to be
mounted by the kernel.
* Reorganized the boot volume search in the kernel (vfs_boot.cpp) and
added support for network boot. In this case the net stack is
initialized and the network interface the boot loader used is brought
up and configured. Since NBD and RemoteDisk are our only options for
net boot (and those aren't really configurable dynamically) ATM, the
the boot device is found automatically by the disk device manager.
Booting via PXE does work to some degree now. The most grievous problem
is that loading certain drivers or kernel modules (or related activity)
causes a reboot (likely a triple fault, though one wonders where our
double fault handler is on vacation). Namely the keyboard and mouse input
server add-ons need to be deactivated as well as the media server.
A smaller problem is the net server, which apparently tries to
(re-)configure the network interface we're using to boot, which
obviously doesn't work out that well. So, if all this stuff is disabled
Haiku does fully boot, when using the RemoteDisk protocol (not being
able to use keyboard or mouse doesn't make this a particular fascinating
experience, though ;-)). I had no luck with NBD -- it seemed to have
protocol problems with the servers I tried.
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scan job in the calling thread).
* KDiskDeviceManager::InitialDeviceScan() now runs synchronously, so that
get_boot_partitions() doesn't need to do this ugly wait hack.
* KDiskDeviceManager::CreateFileDevice() can now run synchronously as well, which
fixes a deadlock in fs_mount() - note, mounting file devices still doesn't work,
though as Haiku's BFS doesn't allow this right now.
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Right now, the size of the device is ignored in the second pass. Maybe this helps
with bug #357.
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boot volume. The other (better) methods are now disabled in the boot loader.
This fixes bug #241.
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some heuristic: when you booted from a CD, CDs are preferred; else, volumes with
names like "Haiku" or "System" are preferred - if someone has better ideas, please
shout.
Note, this heuristic will only come into play if the boot loader was loaded from
an image (ie. floppy/CD/network), and you didn't choose any boot device.
Added evil methods to the Stack class that come in handy (you can now directly
access the array) for this.
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and into its own file vfs_boot.cpp.
Added basic support for booting from CD - it doesn't give CDs a higher priority,
so you could end up booting from HD when you didn't explicetly select "CD-ROM"
in the boot loader. Eventually, it should only boot from HD in this case, if
booting from CD failed (because of a missing boot partition or whatever).
fs_mount(), _kern_mount(), and _user_mount() will now return the dev_t of the
mounted device, and not just B_OK. Maybe we should have fs_unmount() work on
a dev_t instead of a path as well...
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