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Author SHA1 Message Date
Ingo Weinhold
9e8dc2a9bb [Sorry, couldn't split this one up any further.]
* 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.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@21611 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96
2007-07-15 02:10:15 +00:00
Ingo Weinhold
12d359b85a * Removed write_link from the FS module interface. Adjusted all FS
add-ons accordingly and removed the syscall.
* Removed send_notification().
* Reimplemented notify_listener(). It used the unimplemented
  send_notification(). Now it has a chance to work. Note that
  notify_listener() is obsolete. I would already have removed it, if
  there weren't lots of FS implementations still using it (Hint!).


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@20329 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96
2007-03-05 00:46:57 +00:00
Ingo Weinhold
957a1b17eb * Introduced new build system variables
{HAIKU,HOST,TARGET}_KERNEL_PIC_{CC,LINK}FLAGS which define the
  compiler/linker flags specifying the kind of position independence
  the kernel shall have. For x86 we had and still have -fno-pic, but the
  PPC kernel has -fPIE (position independent executable) now, as we
  need to relocate it.
* The boot loader relocates the kernel now. Mostly copied the relocation
  code from the kernel ELF loader. Almost completely rewrote the PPC
  specific relocation code, though. It's more correct and more complete now
  (some things are still missing though).
* Added boot platform awareness to the kernel. Moved the generic
  Open Firmware code (openfirmware.c/h) from the boot loader to the kernel.
* The kernel PPC serial debug output is sent to the console for the time
  being.
* The PPC boot loader counts the CPUs now and allocates the kernel stacks
  (made OF device iteration a bit more flexible on the way -- the search
  can be restricted to subtree). Furthermore we really enter the kernel...
  (Yay! :-) ... and crash in the first dprintf() (in the atomic_set()
  called by acquire_spinlock()). kprintf() works, though.



git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@15756 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96
2005-12-30 21:20:07 +00:00
Axel Dörfler
ce357f41f9 Removed "bootfs" and the support for it in other components.
git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@14585 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96
2005-10-30 23:00:14 +00:00
Ingo Weinhold
338b8dc301 Merged changes from branch build_system_redesign at revision 14573.
git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@14574 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96
2005-10-29 16:27:43 +00:00
Axel Dörfler
2db3fced5f Moved vfs_bootstrap_file_systems() and vfs_mount_boot_file_system() out of vfs.cpp
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...


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@14403 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96
2005-10-17 14:01:04 +00:00
Axel Dörfler
718b5114e0 This should fix the build after all the kernel/system renaming.
If anything is still broken (and was not before :)), please shout.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@12361 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96
2005-04-13 13:59:17 +00:00
Axel Dörfler
2d690920ac Renamed system/core to system/kernel.
git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@12360 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96
2005-04-13 13:22:10 +00:00