From owner-cvs-all Fri Aug 30 7:59:55 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F8C37B400; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 07:59:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0952543E3B; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 07:59:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (jhb@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g7UExlJU064860; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 07:59:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g7UExl7N064859; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 07:59:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200208301459.g7UExl7N064859@freefall.freebsd.org> From: John Baldwin Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 07:59:47 -0700 (PDT) To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile X-FreeBSD-CVS-Branch: HEAD Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG jhb 2002/08/30 07:59:47 PDT Modified files: sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile Log: Revert previous untested revision. The i386 loader consists of three parts: At the front is btxldr, in the middle is BTX itself (our mini-kernel), and then the 'client' (loader.bin) which is the actual loader itself. boot2 just executes a raw ELF or a.out binary with the only setup provided being that a bootinfo structure is passed on the stack. Now, since loader.bin is a BTX client, the loader needs to be able to locate a BTX kernel for the client to execute in the context. Thus, just like pxelder, btxldr uses the a.out header on the loader binary to find the BTX kernel stored in the loader and set it up. It does _not_ just reuse the BTX kernel that boot2 invoked it with. This is because it can't assume that it will _have_ a "spare" BTX kernel lying around. For example, when cdboot loads the loader there isn't an existing BTX kernel. In fact, cdboot will only work with an a.out loader as well since it also "borrows" the BTX kernel in the loader binary (which it finds by parsing the a.out header) just as pxeldr does. The only difference between cdboot and pxeldr is where they get /boot/loader from. If we wanted to make /boot/loader be an actual ELF binary we would need to change the following utilites to handle that (and they all have to be able to handle locating the BTX kernel inside of an ELF binary somehow): - btxldr - pxeldr - cdboot If we didn't want to require a flag day but make the transition smooth then we need to be able to support both a.out and ELF versions of /boot/loader which isn't exactly trivial since all three of these utilities are written in assembly. Pointy-hat to: peter Revision Changes Path 1.62 +1 -1 src/sys/boot/i386/loader/Makefile To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message