On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 05:22:17PM +0000, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 03:11:45PM +0000, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> > On rare occasions, I need 'disable xxx' in /etc/bsd.re-config to be able to
> > boot a system, e.g. to ignore quirky devices crashing drivers during attach.
> >
> > bsd.re-config(5) currently applies to GENERIC(.MP) /bsd alone, but /bsd.rd
> > and /bsd.upgrade RAMDISK kernels will require the same quirks to avoid
> > crashes.
> >
> > I currently hit this with arc(4) and one specific RAID card on sparc64 where
> > manually editing /bsd.upgrade each time I sysupgrade(8) until arc(4) is
> > fixed annoys me.
> >
> > So copy over the bits from libexec/reorder_kernel/reorder_kernel.sh to make
> > sysupgrade produce bootable kernels.
>
> The crucial difference between reorder_kernel.sh and sysupgrade.sh is
> that the former links a regular kernel (`make newbsd') while the latter
> just copies a ramdisk that may or may not be compressed.
>
> Some but not all ship bsd.rd gzipped.
>
> config(8) expects plain kernels and its lseek(2) SEEK_END call in
> exec_elf.c suggests that adding gzip support would be more than adapting
> open()/read() -> gzopen()/gzread(), etc.
>
> > reorder_kernel output lands in some log, but running config(8) in sysupgrade
> > would print on stdout, which looks ugly, so hide the output we're not really
> > interested in, anyway:
>
> I still think that having bsd.re-config(5) support in sysupgrade(8)
> outweighs the added logic/code, so here's a new version that
> - only changes behaviour if /bsd.re-config is present
> - uses a temporary file to leave fetched files unmodified
> - transparently decompresses/copies ramdisk kernels in a MI way
> - yields a reconfigured ramdisk with the same permissions and fsync(2)
> behaviour as the existing code
>
> 'gzip -d | config' will not work since a) only 'gzcat -f' can cope with
> both file formats in files with unknown suffixes and b) config seeks the
> input file.
Ping.
Index: sysupgrade.sh
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RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/sysupgrade/sysupgrade.sh,v
retrieving revision 1.48
diff -u -p -r1.48 sysupgrade.sh
--- sysupgrade.sh 8 Jun 2022 09:03:11 -0000 1.48
+++ sysupgrade.sh 14 Oct 2022 11:33:29 -0000
@@ -207,7 +207,16 @@ else
fi
VNAME="${_NEXTKERNV[0]}" fw_update -p ${FW_URL} || true
-install -F -m 700 bsd.rd /bsd.upgrade
+if [ -f /etc/bsd.re-config ]; then
+ echo Reconfiguring kernel.
+ gzip -d -f -c bsd.rd > bsd.rd.config
+ config -e -c /etc/bsd.re-config -f bsd.rd.config >/dev/null
+ install -F -m 700 bsd.rd.config /bsd.upgrade
+ rm -f bsd.rd.config
+else
+ install -F -m 700 bsd.rd /bsd.upgrade
+fi
+
logger -t sysupgrade -p kern.info "installed new /bsd.upgrade. Old kernel
version: $(sysctl -n kern.version)"
sync
