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David van Moolenbroek
b4d909d415 Split block/character protocols and libdriver
This patch separates the character and block driver communication
protocols. The old character protocol remains the same, but a new
block protocol is introduced. The libdriver library is replaced by
two new libraries: libchardriver and libblockdriver. Their exposed
API, and drivers that use them, have been updated accordingly.
Together, libbdev and libblockdriver now completely abstract away
the message format used by the block protocol. As the memory driver
is both a character and a block device driver, it now implements its
own message loop.

The most important semantic change made to the block protocol is that
it is no longer possible to return both partial results and an error
for a single transfer. This simplifies the interaction between the
caller and the driver, as the I/O vector no longer needs to be copied
back. Also, drivers are now no longer supposed to decide based on the
layout of the I/O vector when a transfer should be cut short. Put
simply, transfers are now supposed to either succeed completely, or
result in an error.

After this patch, the state of the various pieces is as follows:
- block protocol: stable
- libbdev API: stable for synchronous communication
- libblockdriver API: needs slight revision (the drvlib/partition API
  in particular; the threading API will also change shortly)
- character protocol: needs cleanup
- libchardriver API: needs cleanup accordingly
- driver restarts: largely unsupported until endpoint changes are
  reintroduced

As a side effect, this patch eliminates several bugs, hacks, and gcc
-Wall and -W warnings all over the place. It probably introduces a
few new ones, too.

Update warning: this patch changes the protocol between MFS and disk
drivers, so in order to use old/new images, the MFS from the ramdisk
must be used to mount all file systems.
2011-11-23 14:06:37 +01:00
Ben Gras
989934b37c rename -lutil to -lminixutil
. in preparation for netbsd -lutil
2011-08-01 14:32:14 +02:00
Arun Thomas
b956c8735e Fix GCC image building 2011-07-09 15:04:42 +02:00
Arun Thomas
8173242e01 Remove redundant sha2 code from inet 2010-11-15 11:10:02 +00:00
Arun Thomas
c0c8d25799 Rename mkfiles from minix.*.mk to bsd.*.mk
Makes things easier for pkgsrc
2010-06-25 18:29:09 +00:00
Ben Gras
035c5a369c move drivers/random SHA implementation to libutil and header to <minix/sha2.h> 2010-06-02 22:58:29 +00:00
Arun Thomas
4ed3a0cf3a Convert kernel over to bsdmake 2010-04-01 22:22:33 +00:00
Arun Thomas
436d6012a3 Convert drivers/ and servers/ over to bsdmake
-Move libdriver to lib/
-Install all boot image services on filesystem to aid restartability
2010-03-22 21:25:22 +00:00
Arun Thomas
b706112487 Incorporate bsdmake into buildsystem and reorganize libs 2010-02-16 14:41:33 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
30a7fe5fa9 libdriver changes:
- remove obsolete non-safecopy support
- merge libdriver and libdriver_asyn
- change standard reply model from sendnb to senda
2009-12-02 09:57:48 +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
Philip Homburg
830b79f0d5 Link random number genertor with libdriver_asyn 2008-02-25 10:25:43 +00:00
Ben Gras
9f2f3dd488 don't call mkdep with an absolute path 2007-02-08 16:26:20 +00:00
Ben Gras
b01aff70d2 use servers/inet/mq.[ch] to queue messages using mq_queue() in
libdriver.  at_wini now queues messages it can't handle it receives when
waiting for an interrupt. this way it can do receive(ANY) and timeouts
should be working again (were broken for VFS, as with the advent of VFS,
at_wini could get requests from a filesystem while it was waiting for an
interrupt - as a hack, the receive() was changed to receive(HARDWARE)).

Added mq.c to libdriver, and made libdriver an actual library that
drivers link with -L../libdriver -ldriver. (So adding files, if
necessary, is easier next time.)
2007-01-12 13:33:12 +00:00
Ben Gras
7195fe3325 System statistical and call profiling
support by Rogier Meurs <rogier@meurs.org>.
2006-10-30 15:53:38 +00:00
Ben Gras
84c93dd20e Remove objects in aes subdir too 2006-10-05 09:58:50 +00:00
Ben Gras
9d9e14941e At least 8k stack for all drivers so that malloc() works, for grants,
for printf().
2006-08-02 22:51:47 +00:00
Ben Gras
b80626c878 safe conversion 2006-06-20 09:46:57 +00:00
Philip Homburg
c12b74dad5 Random is now a separate driver. 2005-08-03 15:22:41 +00:00