-Makefile updates
-Update mkdep
-Build fixes/warning cleanups for some programs
-Restore leading underscores on global syms in kernel asm files
-Increase ramdisk size
model to an instance-based model. Each ethernet driver instance is now
responsible for exactly one network interface card. The port field in
/etc/inet.conf now acts as an instance field instead.
This patch also updates the data link protocol. This update:
- eliminates the concept of ports entirely;
- eliminates DL_GETNAME entirely;
- standardizes on using m_source for IPC and DL_ENDPT for safecopies;
- removes error codes from TASK/STAT replies, as they were unused;
- removes a number of other old or unused fields;
- names and renames a few other fields.
All ethernet drivers have been changed to:
- conform to the new protocol, and exactly that;
- take on an instance number based on a given "instance" argument;
- skip that number of PCI devices in probe iterations;
- use config tables and environment variables based on that number;
- no longer be limited to a predefined maximum of cards in any way;
- get rid of any leftover non-safecopy support and other ancient junk;
- have a correct banner protocol figure, or none at all.
Other changes:
* Inet.conf is now taken to be line-based, and supports #-comments.
No existing installations are expected to be affected by this.
* A new, select-based asynchio library replaces the old one.
Kindly contributed by Kees J. Bot.
* Inet now supports use of select() on IP devices.
Combined, the last two changes together speed up dhcpd
considerably in the presence of multiple interfaces.
* A small bug has been fixed in nonamed.
boot is a normal binary with a.out again. use 'cdbootblock,' a CDBOOT
variant of bootblock, both from bootblock.s, as the first boot image
that then loads boot, exactly like the bootblock loads boot when booting
from harddisk. the sector numbers (2048 byte iso sectors) are patched in
by writeisofs, like installboot does for bootblock. bootblock unchanged.
the kernel. They are not used atm, but having them in trunk allows them
to be easily used when needed. To set a breakpoint that triggers when
the variable foo is written to (the most common use case), one calls:
breakpoint_set(vir2phys((vir_bytes) &foo), 0,
BREAKPOINT_FLAG_MODE_GLOBAL |
BREAKPOINT_FLAG_RW_WRITE |
BREAKPOINT_FLAG_LEN_4);
It can later be disabled using:
breakpoint_set(vir2phys((vir_bytes) &foo), 0,
BREAKPOINT_FLAG_MODE_OFF);
There are some limitations:
- There are at most four breakpoints (hardware limit); the index of the
breakpoint (0-3) is specified as the second parameter of
breakpoint_set.
- The breakpoint exception in the kernel is not handled and causes a
panic; it would be reasonably easy to change this by inspecing DR6,
printing a message, disabling the breakpoint and continuing. However,
in my experience even just a panic can be very useful.
- Breakpoints can be set only in the part of the address space that is
in every page table. It is useful for the kernel, but to use this for
user processes would require saving and restoring the debug registers
as part of the context switch. Although the CPU provides support for
local breakpoints (I implemened this as BREAKPOINT_FLAG_LOCAL) they
only work if task switching is used.
