After all the preparatory changes are committed, this is a final[*]
notice/warning that I am going to start committing the following patchset really
soon now[**[:
http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.9.diff
[*] unless circumstances change
[**] maybe next hour, even
--
Andriy Gapon
On 5/9/12 5:32 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>
> Here is a subversion diff to make use of the new bootargs.h header in pc98
> cdboot and loader, and i386 cdboot and pxeldr:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/bootargs.diff
> Could you please review it?
> Thank you!
Looks good.
> MFi386 of BTX changes for
Here is a subversion diff to make use of the new bootargs.h header in pc98
cdboot and loader, and i386 cdboot and pxeldr:
http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/bootargs.diff
Could you please review it?
Thank you!
MFi386 of BTX changes for support of KARGS_FLAGS_EXTARG is pending.
Do you think that it sh
on 08/05/2012 17:15 John Baldwin said the following:
> Bruce might even suggest adding a ba_ prefix to all the members of
> struct bootargs btw. I would not be opposed, but you've already done
> a fair bit of work on this patch.
Thank you for sparing me :-)
So I hope to get busy committing this s
On 5/8/12 3:14 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 07/05/2012 20:43 John Baldwin said the following:
>> On Monday, May 07, 2012 10:47:05 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>> on 07/05/2012 16:53 John Baldwin said the following:
> [snip]
>>> What do you think about the -LOCORE- change that Bruce inspired?
>>
>> In ge
on 07/05/2012 20:43 John Baldwin said the following:
> On Monday, May 07, 2012 10:47:05 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 07/05/2012 16:53 John Baldwin said the following:
[snip]
>> What do you think about the -LOCORE- change that Bruce inspired?
>
> In general I think this looks good. I have only one
On Monday, May 07, 2012 11:15:53 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 07/05/2012 17:47 Andriy Gapon said the following:
> > on 07/05/2012 16:53 John Baldwin said the following:
> >> Ok. Maybe add one comment to the bootargs.h head to explain that the
> >> 'bootargs'
> >> struct starts at ARGOFF and can gr
On Monday, May 07, 2012 10:47:05 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 07/05/2012 16:53 John Baldwin said the following:
> > On Saturday, May 05, 2012 5:53:07 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
> [snip]
> >> The new patchset: http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.7.diff
> >
> > Looks great, thanks! A few repl
on 07/05/2012 17:47 Andriy Gapon said the following:
> on 07/05/2012 16:53 John Baldwin said the following:
>> Ok. Maybe add one comment to the bootargs.h head to explain that the
>> 'bootargs'
>> struct starts at ARGOFF and can grow up, while struct bootinfo is copied
>> such that
>> it's end i
on 07/05/2012 16:53 John Baldwin said the following:
> On Saturday, May 05, 2012 5:53:07 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
[snip]
>> The new patchset: http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.7.diff
>
> Looks great, thanks! A few replies below:
Here's a followup patch for the suggestions:
http://peop
on 05/05/2012 13:49 Bruce Evans said the following:
> On Sat, 5 May 2012, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>
>> on 04/05/2012 18:25 John Baldwin said the following:
>>> On Thursday, May 03, 2012 11:23:51 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
on 03/05/2012 18:02 Andriy Gapon said the following:
>
> Here's the lat
On Saturday, May 05, 2012 5:53:07 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 05/05/2012 12:31 Andriy Gapon said the following:
> > on 04/05/2012 18:25 John Baldwin said the following:
> >> On Thursday, May 03, 2012 11:23:51 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
> >>> on 03/05/2012 18:02 Andriy Gapon said the following:
>
>
On Sat, 5 May 2012, Andriy Gapon wrote:
on 04/05/2012 18:25 John Baldwin said the following:
On Thursday, May 03, 2012 11:23:51 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
on 03/05/2012 18:02 Andriy Gapon said the following:
Here's the latest version of the patches:
http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches
on 05/05/2012 12:31 Andriy Gapon said the following:
> on 04/05/2012 18:25 John Baldwin said the following:
>> On Thursday, May 03, 2012 11:23:51 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>> on 03/05/2012 18:02 Andriy Gapon said the following:
Here's the latest version of the patches:
http://people.fr
on 04/05/2012 18:25 John Baldwin said the following:
> On Thursday, May 03, 2012 11:23:51 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 03/05/2012 18:02 Andriy Gapon said the following:
>>>
>>> Here's the latest version of the patches:
>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.4.diff
>>
>> I've found a cou
On Thursday, May 03, 2012 11:23:51 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 03/05/2012 18:02 Andriy Gapon said the following:
> >
> > Here's the latest version of the patches:
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.4.diff
>
> I've found a couple of problems in the previous version, so here's anoth
on 03/05/2012 18:02 Andriy Gapon said the following:
>
> Here's the latest version of the patches:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.4.diff
I've found a couple of problems in the previous version, so here's another one:
http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.5.diff
The impo
Here's the latest version of the patches:
http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.4.diff
John,
the first of the patches implements the approach that we previously discussed.
All arguments are passed starting at a fixed offset that should provide enough
space for extending argument list. T
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:04:17AM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 29/04/2012 19:46 Marius Strobl said the following:
> > Given that you certainly have a well better knowledge of ZFS, it
> > would be great if we could do it the other way around, i.e. commit
> > the sparc64 support first and then yo
on 29/04/2012 19:46 Marius Strobl said the following:
> Given that you certainly have a well better knowledge of ZFS, it
> would be great if we could do it the other way around, i.e. commit
> the sparc64 support first and then your patch after adapting
> whatever you have in mind with things becomi
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:06:08PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 23/04/2012 00:21 Marius Strobl said the following:
> > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 06:37:54PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> [snip]
> >> I am particularly interested in reviews of my attempt to make ZFS boot
> >> support
> >> arch-indepe
on 27/04/2012 13:37 Andrey V. Elsukov said the following:
> What you think about this concept:
> We can implement some MI API to query disks count and each disk parameters
> (mediasize,
> sectorsize). This MI code will use some IOCTL that will act with MD "disk"'s
> devsw->ioctl.
>
> devicename.
On 27.04.2012 13:14, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> I also have some WIP related to moving partition table handling into MD
Oh, i did mean MI part.
>> part. You can look here: http://people.freebsd.org/~ae/sys_boot.diff
>
> I like this patch. OTOH, I couldn't help by wonder if it is possible to
> someh
on 23/04/2012 09:23 Andrey V. Elsukov said the following:
> On 23.04.2012 1:21, Marius Strobl wrote:
>> I can't say much about these patches as a whole as they are rather big
>> and I'm not aware of all the details of ZFS. However, one bit that makes
>> the current implementation x86-specific is zf
on 23/04/2012 00:21 Marius Strobl said the following:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 06:37:54PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
[snip]
>> I am particularly interested in reviews of my attempt to make ZFS boot
>> support
>> arch-independent. The arches, of course, would have to add some code to make
>> use
On 23.04.2012 1:21, Marius Strobl wrote:
> I can't say much about these patches as a whole as they are rather
> big and I'm not aware of all the details of ZFS. However, one bit that
> makes the current implementation x86-specific is zfs_dev_init(). If
> you could move it to the MD part in the cour
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 06:37:54PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>
> I would like to ask for a review and/or testing of the following three
> patches:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.diff
>
> These patches add support for booting from an arbitrary filesystem of any
> detected ZFS p
On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 11:00:18 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 18/04/2012 17:40 Ian Lepore said the following:
> > On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 17:36 +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> >> on 18/04/2012 17:22 Ian Lepore said the following:
> >>> YES! A size field (preferably as the first field in the struct)
on 18/04/2012 17:40 Ian Lepore said the following:
> On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 17:36 +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 18/04/2012 17:22 Ian Lepore said the following:
>>> YES! A size field (preferably as the first field in the struct) along
>>> with a flag to indicate that it's a new-style boot info st
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 17:36 +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 18/04/2012 17:22 Ian Lepore said the following:
> > YES! A size field (preferably as the first field in the struct) along
> > with a flag to indicate that it's a new-style boot info struct that
> > starts with a size field, will allow fut
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 17:36 +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 18/04/2012 17:22 Ian Lepore said the following:
> > YES! A size field (preferably as the first field in the struct) along
> > with a flag to indicate that it's a new-style boot info struct that
> > starts with a size field, will allow fut
on 18/04/2012 17:22 Ian Lepore said the following:
> YES! A size field (preferably as the first field in the struct) along
> with a flag to indicate that it's a new-style boot info struct that
> starts with a size field, will allow future changes without a lot of
> drama. It can allow code that h
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 09:41 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 2:02:22 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > on 17/04/2012 23:43 John Baldwin said the following:
> > > On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 4:22:19 pm Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > >> We already have a flag for ZFS (KARGS_FLAGS_ZFS, 0x4).
On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 2:02:22 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 17/04/2012 23:43 John Baldwin said the following:
> > On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 4:22:19 pm Andriy Gapon wrote:
> >> We already have a flag for ZFS (KARGS_FLAGS_ZFS, 0x4). So the new flag
> >> could be
> >> named something ZFS-speci
on 15/04/2012 04:01 Bob Friesenhahn said the following:
> It would be nice if the updated FreeBSD bootloader could have the ability to
> boot both Solaris and FreeBSD root filesystems in the same pool so that one
> could switch between several zfs-based operating systems without needing to
> use
>
on 14/04/2012 18:37 Andriy Gapon said the following:
>
> I would like to ask for a review and/or testing of the following three
> patches:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.diff
I've put a new version of the patch here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.2.diff
Most p
on 17/04/2012 23:43 John Baldwin said the following:
> On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 4:22:19 pm Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> We already have a flag for ZFS (KARGS_FLAGS_ZFS, 0x4). So the new flag
>> could be
>> named something ZFS-specific (as silly as KARGS_FLAGS_ZFS2) or something more
>> general such a
On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 4:22:19 pm Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 16/04/2012 16:56 John Baldwin said the following:
> > On Saturday, April 14, 2012 1:35:35 pm Andriy Gapon wrote:
> >> on 14/04/2012 18:37 Andriy Gapon said the following:
> >>>
> >>> I would like to ask for a review and/or testing of th
on 16/04/2012 16:56 John Baldwin said the following:
> On Saturday, April 14, 2012 1:35:35 pm Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 14/04/2012 18:37 Andriy Gapon said the following:
>>>
>>> I would like to ask for a review and/or testing of the following three
>>> patches:
>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/z
On Saturday, April 14, 2012 1:35:35 pm Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 14/04/2012 18:37 Andriy Gapon said the following:
> >
> > I would like to ask for a review and/or testing of the following three
> > patches:
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.diff
> >
> > These patches add support
On Apr 14, 2012, at 6:01 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> It would be nice if the updated FreeBSD bootloader could have the ability to
> boot both Solaris and FreeBSD root filesystems in the same pool so that one
> could switch between several zfs-based operating systems without needing to
> use a
It would be nice if the updated FreeBSD bootloader could have the
ability to boot both Solaris and FreeBSD root filesystems in the same
pool so that one could switch between several zfs-based operating
systems without needing to use a different partition for each one.
Is this within the bounds
on 14/04/2012 18:37 Andriy Gapon said the following:
>
> I would like to ask for a review and/or testing of the following three
> patches:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.diff
>
> These patches add support for booting from an arbitrary filesystem of any
> detected ZFS pool. A f
I would like to ask for a review and/or testing of the following three patches:
http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.diff
These patches add support for booting from an arbitrary filesystem of any
detected ZFS pool. A filesystem could be selected in zfsboot and thus will
affectfrom wher
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