IP, and UDP, as well as a home brewn UDP based protocol, "remote disk",
which provides random access to a single remote file/device. The Open
Firmware flavored boot loader automatically initializes the net stack,
searches for a remote disk, and tries to boot from it, if the boot
device is a network device (e.g. when loading the boot loader via
TFTP).
This is quite nice for developing with a two-machine setup, since one
doesn't even need to install Haiku on the test machine anymore, but can
serve it directly from the development machine. When the networking
support in the kernel is working, this method could even be used to
fully boot, not just for loading kernel and initial modules.
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"booted_from_image" in the kernel_args' boot_disk structure.
Also, added fields "cd" and "user_selected".
A CHOICE_MENU menu can now have a choice text - this is automatically updated
as entries in the menu get selected.
The boot volume menu now has the initial choice text "CD-ROM or hard drive"
in case the boot loader was loaded from an image. The "Rescan volumes" item
is no longer selected by default (only if there was no boot volume found) - but
it's still functionless anyway.
The TAR fs will now appear as "Boot from CD-ROM" in the boot volume menu.
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like floppy or CD boot.
This allows it to reduce the number of scans needed to identify the boot
partition - when booted from a real floppy, this speeds up the boot
process by a magnitude.
Also, the loader now has a fall back in case there were no "boot" links
on the disk - the current boot floppy script doesn't create them.
With these changes, I was able to boot into a HD based Haiku installation
from a floppy disk. It's not yet enough to boot from CD (as the boot
device selection is a bit too simplistic right now), but it will eventually
come next. Testing is a lot slower here, though, as neither qemu nor
Bochs support multi-session CDs (at least I have no idea how to get them
to do this).
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MenuItem::SetData() now asks for a const parameter.
The safemode menu options now set their MenuItem::Data() to the safemode option string.
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The driver settings are put into the kernel_args memory section and
copied on kernel startup.
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now fields that carry information about the boot disk and partition.
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add_partitions_for(), though).
The partition now also tracks if it refers to a partitioning system or not.
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Added super item/menu getters, and a new fSuperItem field.
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Removed the "str" field I have no idea what it could have been useful for.
Changed the frame buffer part of the kernel args - "already_mapped" is
no longer there, as it doesn't make a lot of sense.
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various addr_range arrays in the kernel_args structure.
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Replaced its functionality by a new platform_boot_options() call.
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The Partition class now maintains a module name, accessible via the new
method ModuleName().
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Changed the kernel image data to a preloaded image as well, to simplify
handling in the kernel.
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symbol table into memory and hand it over to the kernel.
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kernel didn't count an empty structure, while the boot loader reserved
4 bytes for it - dunno why, a _PACKED everywhere didn't help; it's probably
a compile option issue.
To be on the safe side always, I've now added this dummy.
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addr_t for the address base/size instead of (the non-portable) uint32.
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Updated the license; it doesn't contain a single line of the former stage2.h
anymore, and we don't have to blame Travis for it :)
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Moved gRoot into the private RootFileSystem header.
Added new register_boot_file_system() function.
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Removed the arch_mmu_alloc() function, added (empty) arch_mmu_free() function.
Added platform prototypes for allocating and freeing a region.
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platform_stage2_args.h can now only be included from stage2_args.h.
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Only stage2_args.h can now include platform_stage2_args.h.
Only kernel_args.h can now include platform_kernel_args.h.
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stage2.h is now of interest for the stage2 boot loader only.
stage2_struct.h is no longer needed.
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possible to select a boot device which is used directly.
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decide if it should mount file systems on the partition or not.
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systems in order to retrieve some parameters.
Changed the get_file_system() call to accept a Partition instead of just
a node.
Introduced the namespace boot to the public headers; I guess I should
put all classes in there (compilation of the intel partitioning system
fails without the namespace, because it defines a class Partition itself).
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New Directory class for use in file systems; file systems need to publish
their root directory as a subclass of this class.
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Ingo Weinhold