there is no use for "bootdisk" variable parametrization
of /boot/boot and no point for the boot section with its
boot methods in the kernel configuration anymore. so
mkboot and boot$CONF.out are gone.
move the rules for bootfs.paq creation in 9/boot/bootmkfile.
location of bootfs.proto is now in 9/boot/bootfs.proto.
our /boot/boot target is now just "boot".
the driver should work for standard sdhc
(see http://www.sdcard.org/) controllers,
but matches for the ricoh controller only
as it was the only one i have for testing.
the software cursor starts flickering and reacts bumby if a process
spends most of its time with drawlock acquired because the timer interrupt
thats supposed to redraw the cursor fails to acquire the lock at the time
the timer fires.
instead of trying to draw the cursor on the screen from a timer interrupt
30 times per second, devmouse now creates a process calling cursoron() and
cursoroff() when the cursor needs to be redrawn. this allows the swcursor
to schedule a redraw while holding the drawlock in swcursoravoid() and
cursoron()/cursoroff() are now able to wait for a qlock (drawlock) because
they get called from process context.
the overall responsiveness is also improved with this change as the cursor
redraw rate isnt limited to 30 times a second anymore.
access to non standard serial port COM3 at i/o port 0x200 causes
kernel panic on some machines (Toshiba Sattelite 1415-S115). also,
some machines have gameport at 0x200.
i readded uartisa to the pcf and pccpuf kernel configurations so
one can use plan9.ini to add non standard uarts like:
uart2=type=isa port=0x200 irq=5
