src/sys/boot/common/bootstrap.h, branch release/4.0.0_cvs

This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create tag

2000-03-20T08:47:53+00:00

'RELENG_4_0_0_RELEASE'.

This commit was manufactured to restore the state of the 4.0-RELEASE image.
Releases prior to 5.3-RELEASE are omitting the secure/ and crypto/ subdirs.

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$

1999-08-28T01:08:13+00:00

Walk around the end of all the silly guessing of device types and unit

1999-07-21T00:08:54+00:00

numbers that we have been doing in the past, and read /etc/fstab off the
proposed root filesystem to determine the actual device name and vfs
type for the root filesystem.  These are then exported to the kernel
via the environment variable vfs.root.mountfrom.

ABS_SET() and BSS_SET() are no longer used. The sole remaining user of

1999-06-26T12:27:01+00:00

TEXT_SET() is DDB's command tables.

Bring the 'new-bus' to the i386. This extensively changes the way the

1999-04-16T21:22:55+00:00

i386 platform boots, it is no longer ISA-centric, and is fully dynamic.
Most old drivers compile and run without modification via 'compatability
shims' to enable a smoother transition.  eisa, isapnp and pccard* are
not yet using the new resource manager.  Once fully converted, all drivers
will be loadable, including PCI and ISA.

(Some other changes appear to have snuck in, including a port of Soren's
 ATA driver to the Alpha.  Soren, back this out if you need to.)

This is a checkpoint of work-in-progress, but is quite functional.

The bulk of the work was done over the last few years by Doug Rabson and
Garrett Wollman.

Approved by:	core

Make use of prototypes to silence warnings.

1999-02-04T17:06:46+00:00

Change include() so it will be able to load files with forth code,
instead of just builtins. Remove #@- from the include section of the
help file, since they don't work in the new version of include, unless
BOOT_FORTH is not defined.

Change bf_run() so it will return the result returned by ficlExec(). Also,
make bf_run() push "interpret" to be executed by ficlExec(), since ficlExec()
doesn't do it by itself. (Things worked previously because nothing
recursed through ficlExec() by the way of bf_run()).

Change/extend comments on builtin behavior.

Search for "interpret" at the end of bf_init(), so /boot/boot.4th can
provide it's own version.

Remove dead code.

bootstrap.h

1999-01-22T23:50:14+00:00

help.common
interp.c
	Rename the 'source' command to 'include' in order to avoid conflict
	with the ANS Forth command of the same name. (kern/9473)

interp_forth.c:
	Changes from kern/9412 (EXCEPTION word), kern/9442 (TIB buffer
	sizing) and an improved version of kern/9460 (set
	version numbers).

load_aout.c:
	Trim some obsolete #if 0'ed cruft.

pnp.c:
	Tidy the pnpscan output, turn off the module scanning until we
	sort out how to do it right.

PR:		kern/9412 kern/9442 kern/9460 kern/9473
Submitted by:	PRs from Daniel Sobral

Replace duplicated "old" linker set definitions with an include of

1999-01-16T03:25:24+00:00

.  Note, this isn't used on the i386.

Fall back to /boot/boot.conf, if /boot/loader.rc was not fount. This is

1999-01-15T00:31:45+00:00

to cover the transition period.

Suggested by:	msmith

Implement a simple LRU block cache. By default this is initialised to 16k,

1998-11-02T23:28:11+00:00

and will bypass transfers for more than 8k.  Blocks are invalidated after
2 seconds, so removable media should not confuse the cache.

The 8k threshold is a compromise; all UFS transfers performed by
libstand are 8k or less, so large file reads thrash the cache.
However many filesystem metadata operations are also performed using
8k blocks, so using a lower threshold gives poor performance.

Those of you with an eye for cache algorithms are welcome to tell me
how badly this one sucks; you can start with the 'bcachestats' command
which will print the contents of the cache and access statistics.