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David van Moolenbroek
2e26c872c4 blocktest: make fewer assumptions about driver
In particular, allow partial results to be returned in some cases,
and do not require that the driver fail on word-unaligned access.
2012-10-15 11:50:59 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
c9f644bd68 blocktest: switch from rand() to lrand48()
Apparently, with NetBSD's libc, the exclusive OR of the lower eight
bits of 4096 consecutive rand() values is zero, breaking some tests.
2012-09-10 11:35:04 +02:00
Arne Welzel
4fbdf1946d blocktest: fix segfault on vectored read 2012-09-10 11:32:38 +02:00
David van Moolenbroek
2fbc9b274b blocktest: make script more newbie-friendly 2012-09-07 14:25:46 +00:00
Ben Gras
7336a67dfe retire PUBLIC, PRIVATE and FORWARD 2012-03-25 21:58:14 +02:00
David van Moolenbroek
c729ff0050 blocktest: updates for sys_vumap() 2012-03-24 19:51:13 +01:00
Ben Gras
2fe8fb192f Full switch to clang/ELF. Drop ack. Simplify.
There is important information about booting non-ack images in
docs/UPDATING. ack/aout-format images can't be built any more, and
booting clang/ELF-format ones is a little different. Updating to the
new boot monitor is recommended.

Changes in this commit:

	. drop boot monitor -> allowing dropping ack support
	. facility to copy ELF boot files to /boot so that old boot monitor
	  can still boot fairly easily, see UPDATING
	. no more ack-format libraries -> single-case libraries
	. some cleanup of OBJECT_FMT, COMPILER_TYPE, etc cases
	. drop several ack toolchain commands, but not all support
	  commands (e.g. aal is gone but acksize is not yet).
	. a few libc files moved to netbsd libc dir
	. new /bin/date as minix date used code in libc/
	. test compile fix
	. harmonize includes
	. /usr/lib is no longer special: without ack, /usr/lib plays no
	  kind of special bootstrapping role any more and bootstrapping
	  is done exclusively through packages, so releases depend even
	  less on the state of the machine making them now.
	. rename nbsd_lib* to lib*
	. reduce mtree
2012-02-14 14:52:02 +01:00
David van Moolenbroek
f65e531ee4 blocktest: support for stateless driver restarts 2011-12-11 22:41:51 +01:00
David van Moolenbroek
95d1f25b28 blocktest: resolve label/minor in userland
The test script now resolves the device node into a <label,minor>
pair, so that the blocktest driver itself no longer has to. This
removes blocktest's dependency on VFS' internal data structures.

Also allow blocktest to be linked using with gcc/clang.
2011-12-11 22:35:37 +01:00
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
David van Moolenbroek
a80eb6545a blocktest: add system.conf file, too 2011-11-07 18:26:16 +01:00
David van Moolenbroek
2602861f23 Move optset.c into libsys; remove redundant copies 2011-11-07 16:16:08 +01:00
David van Moolenbroek
fc34180cca Add "blocktest" test, for testing block drivers
The test is located in test/blocktest. It requires hand-editing of
its configuration, and is not part of any automated test set.
2011-11-07 14:55:55 +01:00