All configurations were built using i386-mach cross-build tools, which can be found at: ftp://flux.cs.utah.edu/flux/binaries/i386.
The kernel was tested with Lites-1.1.u3 running on the following base systems:
Limitations:
To enable the serial console support, you must change a #define in mach4-i386/kernel/bogus/rc.h. RCLINE is the number of the serial device that you want to use, and RCADDR is the port. The options for RCLINE and RCADDR are shown below, as taken from autoconf.c, for the ``com'' device (these are also in rc.h).
options for RCLINE: RCLINE RCADDR info ------ ------ --------------------------- 0 0x3f8 (port 0x3f8/irq 4 DOS COM1) 1 0x2f8 (port 0x2f8/irq 3 DOS COM2) 2 0x3e8 (port 0x3e8/irq 5 DOS COM3) 3 0x2e8 (port 0x2e8/irq 9 DOS COM4)RCBAUD is now #defined in mach4-i386/kernel/i386at/com.c and defaults to 9600 baud.
Slices map directly to DOS partitions. Slices 1-4 are DOS primary partitions 1-4, slices >=5 map to any DOS extended partitions, in the order that they appear on the disk. In addition to this, there is a ``whole disk'' device (ie. sd0, hd0). To access a BSD partition within a slice, you add the BSD partition letter suffix (ie. To access partition a in slice 1 on your IDE disk, you would use wd0s1a).
To make things even more confusing, there is also a ``compatability slice'' that maps to the first slice with a BSD label (usually what you want, since BSD's on the x86 have generally only allowed one BSD partition per disk). If there are no DOS partitions on the disk, then the compatibility slice maps to the whole disk. The compatability slice is there so that old programs that don't know about slices will still work.
To disable all the partition code's output if you aren't using the linux device drivers (since they use their own partitioning code), change PARTITION_DEBUG to 0 in mach4/kernel/scsi/disk_label.c
Some examples:
sd0 -> whole disk sd0s1 -> DOS primary partition 1 sd0s5 -> 1st DOS extended partition sd0s7 -> 3rd DOS extended partition
sd0s1a -> BSD partition a, in DOS primary partition 1 sd0a -> BSD partition a, in first `slice' with disklabelYou need to get Lites-1.1.u3 if you want to use slice names/devices with the Lites system.
--enable-fipc on your configure
line.
kern_return_t fipc_send (fipc_endpoint_t dest, char *buffer, int length);
The fipc_endpoint_t struct contains the 6 byte ethernet hardware address (hwaddr) and the unsigned short fipc_port number (port).
kern_return_t fipc_recv (unsigned short fipc_port, char *buffer, int *len,
fipc_endpoint_t *sender);
fipc_recv() copies up to len bytes into the user buffer, returning the actual message size back in len. The hardware address of the sender is returned in the hwaddr field of the *sender parameter. There is currently no concept of a sending port number.
A receiving thread will pick up the first available message on a port's queue. If there is a waiting message, the thread will pick that up and return immediately, else it will block until a message arrives. During the time that a thread is blocked on a fipc_port, that port is considered "bound." There is no other reservation mechanism.
There is a receive queue (currently of length 4) for each open fipc_port. There is currently a limit of how many open ports are allowed, in total. This is to guarantee receive buffer space for a full queue on each open port. There are no guarantees of message delivery, however. A successful send does not imply packet receipt. The network card may drop a packet, if the receiving port's queue is full, or there are no more available ports, and the message is not for an open port (with available queue space) the packet will be dropped.
fipc_send() does no fragmentation and sends messages up to ETHERMTU size, less the size of fipc header structure. Similarly, fipc_recv() does no reassembly.
fipc_send() and fipc_recv() are currently only available when using the native mach NE2000 ethernet driver.