John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote in <200912041734.24016....@freebsd.org>:
jh> On Friday 04 December 2009 10:35:59 am John Baldwin wrote:
jh> > So memtop_copyin would start off as 0xf00000 but would end up as 0xc00000,
jh> > and since the kernel starts at 4MB, I think that only leaves about 8MB for
jh> > the kernel. Probably the loader needs to be more intelligent about using
jh> > high memory for malloc by using the largest region > 1MB but < 4GB for
jh> > malloc() instead of stealing memory from bios_extmem in the SMAP case.
jh> > Try the attached patch which tries to make the loader use better smarts
jh> > when picking a memory region for the heap (warning, I haven't tested it
jh> > myself yet).
jh>
jh> Use the updated patch (actually tested in qemu) instead.
Thanks! I applied your patch and tried loading an 8.0R kernel
(without LOADER_NO_GPT_SUPPORT=yes). The "elf32_loadimage: read
failed" error message disappeared:
OK load /boot/kernel.N/kernel
/boot/kernel.N/kernel text=0x8db9a4 data=0xdd134+0xa5e84
syms=[0x4+0x99390+0x4+0xd2201
elf32_loadimage: could not read symbols - skipped!
OK
A summary so far is:
1) a <8MB 7.1R kernel + stock 8.0R loader
2a) a >8MB 8.0R kernel + stock 8.0R loader
2b) a >8MB 8.0R kernel + 8.0R loader with LOADER_NO_GPT_SUPPORT=yes
2c) a >8MB 8.0R kernel + loader with your patch
3a) a <8MB 8.0R kernel + stock 8.0R loader
3b) a <8MB 8.0R kernel + 8.0R loader with LOADER_NO_GPT_SUPPORT=yes
3c) a <8MB 8.0R kernel + loader with your patch
loading text loading syms boot
1) OK OK OK
2a) "readin failed" - -
2b) OK "skipped!" NG
2c) OK "skipped!" NG
3a) not tried yet
3b) OK OK NG
3c) OK OK NG
Loading syms sections still fails for the large kernel. The
"boot=NG" means it got stuck after l_exec() in boot.c and before
cninit() in i386/machdep.c as far as I can check by inserting
printf(). So the cause of that is something in the kernel,
I guess. Hm.
One thing something special of that box is that it has four quad-hme
PCI cards. I will try removing them and see if it changes something
or not.
-- Hiroki
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