PERFORCE change 48016 for review

[Peter Wemm]

http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=48016

Change 48016 by peter at peter_daintree on 2004/03/02 13:46:04

	update todo list.  smp is essentially finished. netstat -i
	no longer coredumps.  common compat/i386/freebsd32 stuff broken
	out and md bits for amd64 and ia64 are in place.

Affected files ...

.. //depot/projects/hammer/TODO.txt#9 edit

Differences ...

==== //depot/projects/hammer/TODO.txt#9 (text+ko) ====

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$P4: //depot/projects/hammer/TODO.txt#8 $
+$P4: //depot/projects/hammer/TODO.txt#9 $
 
 reread the logs etc and check out the "XXX worry about this later" stuff
 
@@ -7,12 +7,13 @@
 USER_LDT (however, there is a syscall to set the %fs and %gs base values
   to arbitary 64 bit addresses).
 
-SMP (acpi MADT table based etc, ignore mptable stuff)
-(XXX: almost finished)
-
 kld module support (the elf_machdep.c relocator is wrong, it uses the old value
 rather than addends like it should.  See alpha/sparc64 for clues.)
 XXX: can't do this without hacking binutils.
+XXX: no, its worse than that.  Its completely impossible with the current
+binutils without writing a whole bunch of bfd code.  No way in hell.
+Instead, just give in and write a .o file loader, eg: the .kld file that
+we use as the final step towards producing the .ko file.
 
 finish the missing relocation types in rtld-elf/amd64/reloc.c (easy)
 
@@ -35,11 +36,6 @@
 done this, we can look at theirs)
 (XXX mostly done. need better libm support still)
 
-factor out common compat/freebsd32/* and compat/ia32/* from ia64 and amd64
-trees.  freebsd32 should be for running 32 bit binaries on a 64 bit kernel,
-while ia32 is for special MD bits.  Lots of missing syscalls.
-(XXX: lots done. ia64 MD needed. still some missing syscalls)
-
 make ia32 binary support more robust, including things that do important
 ioctls etc.
 (XXX: improving. csh etc work now. execve() was the bug)
@@ -47,9 +43,6 @@
 (XXX: need some ioctl translators and a few syscall translators that
  take dense structures with different packing)
 
-netstat -i  coredumps.  Investigate.
-Is this a compiler bug or a libkvm or /dev/kmem bug?
-
 ======= DONE =======
 ppp(8) (compiler bug, hack in http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/hammer.diff,
   but gcc-3.3 would be much better)
@@ -85,3 +78,14 @@
 make release (should be mostly there, with the bootblock patches)
 
 revert ppp(8) compiler bug workaround after gcc-3.3 is imported.
+
+SMP (acpi MADT table based etc, ignore mptable stuff)
+
+factor out common compat/freebsd32/* and compat/ia32/* from ia64 and amd64
+trees.  freebsd32 should be for running 32 bit binaries on a 64 bit kernel,
+while ia32 is for special MD bits.  Lots of missing syscalls.
+(XXX: lots done. ia64 MD needed. still some missing syscalls)
+
+netstat -i  coredumps.  Investigate.
+Is this a compiler bug or a libkvm or /dev/kmem bug?
+