Summary:
Now that mpc85xx can boot via ubldr, move ubldr to a separate
filesystem, mounted on /boot/uboot, so that a fresh install can boot correctly.
Reviewed By: nwhitehorn
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18709
Some mpc85xx devices with u-boot need MBR partitioning with a FAT boot
partition. Since the infrastructure is already in place to have a dedicated
boot partition, this adds the necessary bits to use that infrastructure with
mpc85xx boards.
Reviewed By: nwhitehorn
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15664
foundation for invoking efibootmgr as part of new-style EFI booting on
x86. On PS3 and PowerNV, which are booted using Linux kexec from petitboot
rather than by loader(8), install the kernel and the rest of /boot to a
FAT partition and set up the appropriate petitboot configuration file
there.
The new bootconfig installer stage can do platform-dependent modifications
more complex than partition layout and installation of boot blocks and can
be used to (as here) set up some special configuration files, run efibootmgr,
or boot0cfg.
MFC after: 1 month
layer, for example, to specify that the EFI boot partition should be
mounted at /efi and formatted normally with newfs_msdos rather than
splatted to from /boot/boot1.efifat.
This commit adds only the API for this; actual platform use will come later.
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
No functional change intended.
partitions of types other than "freebsd-boot" (in particular, "efi").
This allows the removal of some nasty hacks for supporting PowerPC systems,
in particular aliasing freebsd-boot to apple-boot on APM and an IBM-specific
code on MBR.
This changes the installer to use the correct names, which also breaks a
degeneracy in the meaning of "freebsd-boot" that allows the addition
of support for some newer IBM systems that can boot from GPT in addition to
MBR. Since I have no idea how to detect which those systems are, leave
the default on IBM PPC systems as MBR for now.
a sysctl to determine what firmware is in use. This sysctl does not exist
yet, so the following blocks are in front of the wheels:
- I've provisionally called this "hw.platform" after the equivalent thing
on PPC
- The logic to check the sysctl is short-circuited to always choose BIOS.
There's a comment in the top of the file about how to turn this off.
If IA64 acquired a boot1.efifat-like thing (probably with very few
modifications), the same code could be adapted there.
pc-sysinstall) a replacement for sysinstall in the 9.0 release and beyond.
Currently supported platforms are sparc64, pc98, i386, amd64, powerpc, and
powerpc64. Integration into the build system will occur in the coming
weeks.
Merging with pc-sysinstall will use this code as a frontend, while
temporarily retaining the interactive partition editor here. This work
will be done in parallel with improvements on this code and release
integration.
Thanks to all who have provided testing and comments!
