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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
Arun Thomas
93ae43f577 boot: Add multiboot support
Not yet fully spec-compliant; work in progress
2011-06-24 17:21:51 +02:00
Thomas Veerman
ea19830de1 Add UNIX Domain Sockets internals to PFS. Contributed by Thomas Cort 2010-07-15 13:39:57 +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
Thomas Veerman
5d78cefaf2 Clean up PFS 2010-05-28 09:39:18 +00:00
Arun Thomas
007104d60e GCC build fixes/updates
-Set stack sizes for boot image processes
-Increase RS stack size
-Reduce ramdisk size
-HARDWARE task should use kernel stack
-Minor asm tweaks for leading underscores
2010-05-26 18:45:55 +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
Thomas Veerman
951c5f6b73 Add PFS (missing in previous commit) 2009-12-20 20:41:50 +00:00