On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 4:32 PM, Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Devin Teske <dteske_at_freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> > On Feb 19, 2018, at 2:21 PM, Kyle Evans <kevans_at_freebsd.org> wrote: >> > >> > It seems that the Forth loader might be doing something sneaky and >> > replacing the standard common "boot" with a Forth boot that handles >> > this a lot better. CC'ing dteske_at_ so they can confirm. >> >> I can indeed confirm this as fact. >> >> Not able to help much because I am driving cross-country (San Francisco to >> Orlando) right now with the spouse and dog. >> >> We get back March 3rd, but I will be checking-in from time to time for >> sporadic responses during downtime. > > > The command in loader.4th is defined as: > > : boot > 0= if ( interpreted ) get_arguments then > > \ Unload only if a path was passed > dup if > >r over r> swap > c_at_ [char] - <> if > 0 1 unload drop > else > s" kernelname" getenv? if ( a kernel has been loaded ) > try-menu-unset > bootmsg 1 boot exit > then > load_kernel_and_modules > ?dup if exit then > try-menu-unset > bootmsg 0 1 boot exit > then > else > s" kernelname" getenv? if ( a kernel has been loaded ) > try-menu-unset > bootmsg 1 boot exit > then > load_kernel_and_modules > ?dup if exit then > try-menu-unset > bootmsg 0 1 boot exit > then > load_kernel_and_modules > ?dup 0= if bootmsg 0 1 boot then > ; > > The thing to know here is when you see 'boot' as part of above script, it's > calling the 'boot' cli command, not itself recursively. > > I can help do more interpretation of the details if you need Kyle. Not sure > how much to spell out, but the brief pseudo code is: > > If there were any arguments that didn't start with '-', unload. > otherwise if kernelname is in in the environment, run the 'menu-unset' > forth word if it exists, print the boot message and boot. > Otherwise load the kernel and modules, run the 'menu-unset' forth word (if > it exists), print the boot message and boot with kernelname > Otherwise load the kernel and modules, run the 'menu-unset' forth word (if > it exists), print the boot message and boot with kernelname > if all that fails, load the kernel and modules and if that works boot them. > Yeah, we have something like this on the lua side. Unfortunately, it's going to wreck people's muscle memory- dropping to the loader prompt and typing "boot [x]" will never work as expected because lua won't recognize that as a function call due to spaces as delimiters. We'd need some shim that takes "cmd [x]" and tries it as "cmd([x])" (for some [x] that could be multiple space-delimited arguments) before falling back to the originally typed "cmd [x]" if we want Lua to have any chance to intercept it and adds its own salt and pepper like Forth does.Received on Mon Feb 19 2018 - 21:44:30 UTC
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