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Author SHA1 Message Date
Cristiano Giuffrida
6f912993ff Share exec images in RS.
RS CHANGES:
- RS retains information on both labels and process names now. Labels for boot
processes are configured in the boot image priv table. Process names are
inherited from the in-kernel boot image table.
- When RS_REUSE is specified in do_up, RS looks for an existing slot having the
same process name as the one we are about to start. If one is found with
an in-memory copy of its executable image, the image is then shared between
the two processes, rather than copying it again. This behavior can be specified
by using 'service -r' when starting a system service from the command line.
2009-12-23 14:05:20 +00:00
Cristiano Giuffrida
e090013056 Drivers and servers are simply known as services.
/etc CHANGES:
- /etc/drivers.conf has been renamed to /etc/system.conf. Every entry in 
the file is now marked as "service" rather than driver.
- user "service" has been added to password file /etc/passwd.
- docs/UPDATING updated accordingly, as well as every other mention to the old
drivers.conf in the system.

RS CHANGES:
- No more distinction between servers and drivers.
- RS_START has been renamed to RS_UP and the old legacy RS_UP and RS_UP_COPY
dropped.
- RS asks PCI to set / remove ACL entries only for services whose ACL properties
have been set. This change eliminates unnecessary warnings.
- Temporarily minimize the risk of potential races at boot time or when starting
a new service. Upcoming changes will eliminate races completely.
- General cleanup.
2009-12-17 01:53:26 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
b47483433c Added a hack to start binaries from the boot image only. In particular, setting
bin_img=1 in the boot monitor will make sure that during the boot procedure the
mfs binary that is part of the boot image is the only binary that is used to
mount partitions. This is useful when for some reason the mfs binary on disk 
malfunctions, rendering Minix unable to boot. By setting bin_img=1, the binary
on disk is ignored and the binary in the boot image is used instead.

- 'service' now accepts an additional flag -r. -r implies -c. -r instructs RS
  to first look in memory if the binary has already been copied to memory and
  execute that version, instead of loading the binary from disk. For example,
  the first time a MFS is being started it is copied (-c) to memory and
  executed from there. The second time MFS is being started this way, RS will
  look in memory for a previously copied MFS binary and reuse it if it exists.
- The mount and newroot commands now accept an additional flag -i, which
  instructs them to set the MS_REUSE flag in the mount flags.
- The mount system call now supports the MS_REUSE flag and invokes 'service'
  with the -r flag when MS_REUSE is set.
- /etc/rc and the rc script that's included in the boot image check for the
  existence of the bin_img flag in the boot monitor, and invoke mount and 
  newroot with the -i flag accordingly.
2009-08-18 11:36:01 +00:00
Ben Gras
1d8aed840c . no more HZ, but use sys_hz() to get that value
. memory maps in physical memory (for /dev/mem) with new vm interface
 . pci complete_bars() seems to be buggy behaviour sometimes
 . startup script opens its own stdout, stderr and stdin so init doesn't
   have to do it
2008-12-11 14:42:23 +00:00
Ben Gras
c078ec0331 Basic VM and other minor improvements.
Not complete, probably not fully debugged or optimized.
2008-11-19 12:26:10 +00:00
Ben Gras
ebde52a9bc supply instance to 2nd at_wini instance.
requires a little cooperation from at_wini.
2007-02-08 14:23:03 +00:00
Ben Gras
a12c7ad963 Start a 2nd copy of at_wini, for /dev/c1*. This requires a slightly
larger rs.
2007-02-08 14:04:59 +00:00
Philip Homburg
954ad990e5 at_wini now calls pci_reserve. 2006-11-01 14:55:00 +00:00
Philip Homburg
0c1d433f60 rs changes (also use driver configurations in the image ramdisk) 2006-10-31 13:35:04 +00:00
Philip Homburg
94717cb74c Pass -c flags to service for disk device drivers. 2006-05-11 14:53:20 +00:00
Ben Gras
28324dc841 Fixed wrong fix 2006-03-07 14:58:18 +00:00
Ben Gras
f5029b721a Include boot options 2006-03-07 14:32:41 +00:00
Philip Homburg
7034c0795d Moved PCI driver to the ramdisk. 2006-02-15 14:21:56 +00:00
Philip Homburg
c3a88d15d8 Initial root filesystem is now on a ramdisk that is part of the image. 2006-02-15 11:18:21 +00:00