The CD now boots directly from the ISO 9660 filesystem instead of using
MBR partitioning with Minix file systems. This saves some space on the
CD and reduces memory requirements by some unknown amount as the root
ramdisk is completely eliminated.
The setup is also modified to be more NetBSD-like (unpacking sets
tarballs instead of blindly copying the CD contents). This allows
massive space savings because only the base system used for installation
is stored uncompressed and more modularity (to be exploited at a later
time). The sets themselves are to be refined, but are enough for now.
Those two steps are melded together because copying the CD contents with
isofs as the root filesystem results in some failed tests in
minix-posix, probably due to some obscure corner-case bugs in isofs.
Having a read-only root filesystem outputs some error messages because
it isn't properly supported. Ramdisks on /var and /tmp are used to
mitigate this, but the clean solution would involve union mounts,
something Minix 3 doesn't support for the time being.
Change-Id: Ib4700d9f10c5b4b297e0994b5338847951fc79b4
isofs now uses an in-memory directory listing built on-the-fly instead
of parsing the ISO 9660 data structures over and over for almost every
request. This yields huge performance improvements.
The directory listing is allocated dynamically, but Minix servers aren't
normally supposed to do that because critical servers would crash if the
system runs out of memory. isofs is quite frugal, won't allocate memory
after having the whole directory tree cached and is not that critical
(its most important job is to serve as a root file system during
installation).
The benefits and elegance of this scheme far outweights this small
problem in practice.
Change-Id: I13d070388c07d274cbee0645cbc50295c447c5b6
Removes the following man pages:
* awk.1x -- for a version of awk we no longer have
* kermit.1x -- seems gone altogether
* macros.1x -- not useful for anyone anymore
Moves the following man pages:
* mined.1x -- Moved to minix/commands/mined/mined.1
and reformatted to use the mdoc macros instead of the
Minix macros so that it displays properly.
Removes /usr/man/man1x from the directory tree.
closes#44
Change-Id: I59b8bd54cf5cba6d188e51e99a92b36e90c275c1
Bochs has switched from port base 0x240 to 0x300 for its default
NE2000 ISA configuration, and QEMU is using the same settings.
Change-Id: Ide6cdb14321eb4324d0bf6d6314c5970b3493e95
The expected argument name would include the instance number, which
is not only redundant in many cases (FOOETHn_n=arg.., "n" being the
instance number) and conflicted with what netconf(8) does, but some
drivers need to be able to see the arguments for all instances of its
driver type--for example, dp8390 needs to know how many earlier
instances have been configured to use PCI.
Change-Id: I4830b823352722f554a032979464aba8b08fc166
This patch adds (very limited) support for memory-mapping pages on
file systems that are mounted on the special "none" device and that
do not implement PEEK support by themselves. This includes hgfs,
vbfs, and procfs.
The solution is implemented in libvtreefs, and consists of allocating
pages, filling them with content by calling the file system's READ
functionality, passing the pages to VM, and freeing them again. A new
VM flag is used to indicate that these pages should be mapped in only
once, and thus not cached beyond their single use. This prevents
stale data from getting mapped in without the involvement of the file
system, which would be problematic on file systems where file contents
may become outdated at any time. No VM caching means no sharing and
poor performance, but mmap no longer fails on these file systems.
Compared to a libc-based approach, this patch retains the on-demand
nature of mmap. Especially tail(1) is known to map in a large file
area only to use a small portion of it.
All file systems now need to be given permission for the SETCACHEPAGE
and CLEARCACHE calls to VM.
A very basic regression test is added to test74.
Change-Id: I17afc4cb97315b515cad1542521b98f293b6b559
With the import of Xorg, a proper separation between login-time and sub
shell-time of the environment setup is necessary.
Instead of re-developping this from scratch, I am taking the opportunity
to import the NetBSD default environment.
Change-Id: Ib6a8fbd9c2f407ccd59be57a52ef9df21c2c9ce7
- Adding missing fields for PCI device lookup
- Adding the domain (for now set to zero) as part of the slot name
Change-Id: Iebaf3b21f6ab5024738cbc1dea66d5ad3ada175d
We have to use SOCK_SEQPACKET instead of SOCK_STREAM for client/server
communication, because UDS does things with control messages that tmux
does not expect.
Change-Id: I3edb1875d61fb976cf6485c650f4fd4b82fa354c
/etc/profile enables by default tabcompletion, as well as emacs mode,
in order to keep the old MINIX ash behavior.
Note: The shell now refuses to source a script without a relative or
absolute path.
This means:
- '. myscript.sh' fails, while
- '. ./myscript.sh' succeeds
Change-Id: I0be89b0747bd005e4c05cadb937af86883627dc6
. add /sbin to tests $PATH for ping
. take disable file mmap item from default boot menu
. ask for feedback in motd
. fix ext2fs on arm (the memory alloced with STATICINIT is flaky on arm)
Change-Id: I7525207074d62abc47ed3891139f6ef7ef6025be
- This improves the user messages.
- This update the pkgsrc checkout rules to point to the new repository,
as well as the new work process we are introducing.
- This introduces rules for the MINIX sources, as we don't have the
space anymore to distribute them by default on the official ISO.
Change-Id: Id1867286bd15efc46bad1d906c1ca1b3a883b064
The bin user doesn't need an actual home folder to run the tests. As
such this account should not be used in 'su - bin'. To be noted that
'su bin' still works as expected, and allow to run the minix test set
as usual.
Change-Id: I21fd178bf3b7b28849f05ef24930b553094cc851
We used to have an account "ast" as a token to Andrew S. Tannebaum,
the creator of MINIX. The account was disable by default, with no
possible way to login.
It seems it generates more confusion than it is worth, so this removes it.
The default skeleton user profile is still stored into /etc/ast instead
of the usual /etc/skel.
Change-Id: I71818c0bb9580cdecfa9621f8693586fc48d17cb
This concerns all services, a.k.a drivers, filesystem drivers, network
(inet, lwip, uds) servers, and the system servers.
Change-Id: I626fd15c795e15af42df2d10d47fb4a703665d63
/bin/false is often used by PKGSRC packages which create unpriviledged
users as part of their install process.
This fixes the generation and installation of such packages.
Change-Id: Ie2a590c56c86dc40a61e3c08d14f5443ebe4f58c
- Fix for possible unset uid/gid in toproto
- Fix for default mtree style
- Update libelf
- Importing libexecinfo
- Resynchronize GCC, mpc, gmp, mpfr
- build.sh: Replace params with show-params.
This has been done as the make target has been renamed in the same
way, while a new target named params has been added. This new
target generates a file containing all the parameters, instead of
printing it on the console.
- Update test48 with new etc/services (Fix by Ben Gras <ben@minix3.org)
get getservbyport() out of the inner loop
Change-Id: Ie6ad5226fa2621ff9f0dee8782ea48f9443d2091
import/switch of:
init, getty, reboot, halt, shutdown, wall, last
changes:
. change reboot() call to netbsd prototype and args
. allows pristine <utmp.h>
. use clean <sys/reboot.h> instead of <minix/reboot.h>
. implement TIOCSCTTY for use by getty so getty can get
controlling terminal from init's child(ren)
. allow NULL envp for exec
Change-Id: I5ca02cb4230857140c08794bbfeba7df982c58a3
* Remove support for the Poor Man fstab
* Remove checks for the missing ARCH kernel variable
* Remove .ashrc which is anyway only read once per login
* Cleanup PATH variable
Change-Id: Ic32e5749fba502dfa38d4d538860e717580bad60
- introduce new call numbers, names, and field aliases;
- initialize request messages to zero for all ABI calls;
- format callnr.h in the same way as com.h;
- redo call tables in both servers;
- remove param.h namespace pollution in the servers;
- make brk(2) go to VM directly, rather than through PM;
- remove obsolete BRK, UTIME, and WAIT calls;
- clean up path copying routine in VFS;
- move remaining system calls from libminlib to libc;
- correct some errno-related mistakes in libc routines.
Change-Id: I2d8ec5d061cd7e0b30c51ffd77aa72ebf84e2565