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authorVisa Hankala <visa@cvs.openbsd.org>2019-07-17 14:36:33 +0000
committerVisa Hankala <visa@cvs.openbsd.org>2019-07-17 14:36:33 +0000
commit7d6a9688220aab82c1addcb720b5ce7233307f74 (patch)
treea30696d5351cd63f7f197bae74e8afed52e85719 /usr.sbin
parentc09161ec3dc5b7e09e301126a008ff7b9a8ee841 (diff)
Add a bootloader for octeon.
The firmware on OCTEON machines usually does not provide an interface for accessing devices, which has made it tricky to implement an OpenBSD bootloader. To solve this device access problem, this new loader has been built on top of a small kernel. The kernel provides all the necessary devices drivers, while most of the usual bootloader logic is in a userspace program in a ramdisk. The loader program is accompanied by a special device, octboot(4). The main purpose of this device is to implement a mechanism for loading and launching kernels. The mechanism has been inspired by Linux' kexec(2) system call. The bootloader will be enabled later when it is ready for general use. Discussed with deraadt@
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