Patch by Andreas Faerber:
* The kernel's _start entry function expects now a second argument, the
current CPU index. The PPC boot loader didn't initialize GPR4, passing
its second argument, th

Patch by Andreas Faerber:
* The kernel's _start entry function expects now a second argument, the
current CPU index. The PPC boot loader didn't initialize GPR4, passing
its second argument, the kernel entry address, as CPU index, causing
smp_cpu_rendezvous() to loop forever. This fix gets the PPC boot to a
kernel debug prompt. The CPU index is currently fixed to 0.

Thanks a lot!


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Clear the back pointer in the root kernel stack frame, so stack traces
will end there.


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* Introduced new build system variables
{HAIKU,HOST,TARGET}_KERNEL_PIC_{CC,LINK}FLAGS which define the
compiler/linker flags specifying the kind of position independence
the kernel shall have.

* Introduced new build system variables
{HAIKU,HOST,TARGET}_KERNEL_PIC_{CC,LINK}FLAGS which define the
compiler/linker flags specifying the kind of position independence
the kernel shall have. For x86 we had and still have -fno-pic, but the
PPC kernel has -fPIE (position independent executable) now, as we
need to relocate it.
* The boot loader relocates the kernel now. Mostly copied the relocation
code from the kernel ELF loader. Almost completely rewrote the PPC
specific relocation code, though. It's more correct and more complete now
(some things are still missing though).
* Added boot platform awareness to the kernel. Moved the generic
Open Firmware code (openfirmware.c/h) from the boot loader to the kernel.
* The kernel PPC serial debug output is sent to the console for the time
being.
* The PPC boot loader counts the CPUs now and allocates the kernel stacks
(made OF device iteration a bit more flexible on the way -- the search
can be restricted to subtree). Furthermore we really enter the kernel...
(Yay! :-) ... and crash in the first dprintf() (in the atomic_set()
called by acquire_spinlock()). kprintf() works, though.



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