Trailing whitespace

man8.x86/boot.8: remove stray period inadvertently added

man8.x86/boot.8: various minor fixes

Fix spelling and grammar, bump date for significant changes made
earlier today, new sentence = new line.

Add support for USB-to-serial adapter in UEFI bootstrap.

This change lets UEFI bootstrap use any UEFI supported serial port.
com0 to com3 remain used for EISA based serial ports. com4 and over
are used for serial ports based on something else (USB, PCI or whatever).

Support for non-EISA serial ports may be provided by UEFI. An open
source UEFI driver exists for FTDI FT232R USB-to-serial adapter.

The change also introduce the kconsdev command, to select the kernel
console device without altering the bootstrap console device. This
useful because the device names can differ in bootstrap and kernel.
For instance an USB-to-serial device could be com4 in boostrap and
ucom0 for the kernel.

An upcoming change will add console suport to ucom(4).

Historically (prior to supporting the KERNEL_DIR build option), the
boot-commands ``boot file'' and ``boot /file'' were equivalent and
attempted to execute the same set of files. (In the boot-loader,
all path (filename) lookups start at the root directory whether or
not a leading slash is present.)

However, with the recent addition of support for the KERNEL_DIR
option, the leading slash character resulted in skipping the attempt
to load /file/kernel and /file/kernel.gz, and thus the boot loader
will not attempt to boot from a new KERNEL_DIR environment if the
leading slash is present. This commit restores attempting to load
these files, thus making these two boot-commands once again equivalent
in both legacy and KERNEL_DIR environments..

Changes were tested on both i386 (biosboot/qemu) and amd64 (both
biosboot/qemu and efiboot/bare-metal). Correct behavior was observed
using the filenames printed by a preexisting printf(). The output
from ``boot'' commands without arguments was also confirmed to meet
expectations, and commands other than ``boot'' continued to work as
expected.

As discussed on tech-kern, port-i386, and port-amd64 mailing lists.
The more extensive documentation requested by riastradh@ should have
been dealt with more than five years ago with the initial KERNEL_DIR
commit; this commit doesn't pretend to meet that request. As noted
by kre@, the changes being made here are minor/trivial and highly
unlikely to break anything. These changes only affect booting in
new KERNEL_DIR environments; "legacy" environments are not affected.

Reverrt previous. I will recomit with proper log message.

/home/paul/COMMIT.txt

Update the set of filenames/pathnames that the boot loader will try
to boot. Changes result from support of KERNEL_DIR build option.

Typos

branches: 1.30.2;
x86/boot(8): Nix trailing whitespace.

Remove XXX todo marker left by mistake

Add a SELFRELOC kernel option for the sake of documentation clarity.

Instead of telling that x86/boot(8) reloc command needs a kernel able
to self relocate, we can tell it needs a kernel built with the
SELFRELOC option. This keeps the reader from wondering what could
make a kernel able to self relocate.

Merge x86 boot options in x86/boot(8) and add undocumented UEFI options

We were supposed to keep the option list in x86/boot(8), x86/dosoot(8)
and x86/pxeboot(8) in sync, but it did not happen, hence it may work
better with all the options in x86/boot(8). Also add the undocumented
UEFI boot options.

branches: 1.26.2;
boot.8: minor grammar tweaks

Add "root" command to pass a root specification.

branches: 1.24.2;
Capitalize /EFI and /EFI/NetBSD as usual. Both are case-insensitive although.
Maybe not worth bumping dates...

Formatting fixes for PostScript output.

Mostly use .Ar instead of .Va and use -literal, .Ql, etc where
appropriate.

Fix cross-refs to x86/mbr that were still missing x86

Additionally made some typo fixes, and added some vertical whitespace
to lists that felt crowded. Unified markup for displaying commands.

Document optional speed argument to consdev

Remove obsoeolete BUGS note that UEFI bootloader does not support multiboot

New sentence, new line. Bump date for previous.

Document that bootdev option accepts device specification as NAME=label

Typo fixes, 'file system'; new sentence, new line; expand IA-32.
Bump date for previous.

Document new GPT and RAIDframe capacity of bootstrap code

While there, also document EFI setup and some bugs

branches: 1.15.2;
RB_MD3 now disables SVS.

Remove superfluous Ns.

port-i386/44562: mention correct kernel name order.

branches: 1.12.4; 1.12.6;
Remove workaround for ancient HTML generation code.

branches: 1.11.4;
remove extra /

Fix xrefs, sort.

fix crossrefs

fix cross references.

branches: 1.7.2; 1.7.4;
Fix typo.

New sentence, new line. Bump date for previous. Various minor changes.

Explain how the kernel determines the root filesystem from information
passed by the bootloader.

branches: 1.4.2;
Document supported subsets of image formats,
extracted from comments in src/sys/dev/stbi/stb_image.c.

XXX: This is not the right place to document supported image formats
for splash screens.

Document fs, menu, rndseed, and splash commands.
Add rescue(8) to SEE ALSO.
Also a little copy editing.

To get no space between [device:] and [filename],
the mdoc input needs ... Oc Ns Oo ..., not ... Ns Oc Oo ....

branches: 1.1.4; 1.1.6;
Move shared x86 man pages from man8.i386 to man8.x86.