Old BSD musings

I was thinking after rebuilding the Mach disk, that back in the say it was insinuated that the changes from Net/2 to 386BSD 0.0 were quite minimal.  So I figured I should take a look.  The first thing to do would be to clean up Net/2’s kernel to look more like 386 BSD’s.  This was trivial as there wasn’t much of anything structure wise done.  Running the patch was pretty easy:

$ diff -ruN ../../../../net.2/sys . > /tmp/net2-386bsd00.patch

The patch is about 1MB.  Much larger than I expected!  Applying the patch to Net/2 shows that a substantial amount of files changed:

$ patch -p0 < /tmp/net2-386bsd00.patch
patching file ./conf/files
patching file ./i386/conf/GENERIC.i386
patching file ./i386/conf/Makefile.i386
patching file ./i386/conf/devices.i386
patching file ./i386/conf/files.i386
patching file ./i386/i386/autoconf.c
patching file ./i386/i386/conf.c
patching file ./i386/i386/genassym.c
patching file ./i386/i386/locore.s
patching file ./i386/i386/machdep.c
patching file ./i386/i386/pmap.c
patching file ./i386/i386/symbols.raw
patching file ./i386/i386/trap.c
patching file ./i386/i386/vm_machdep.c
patching file ./i386/include/psl.h
patching file ./i386/isa/com.c
patching file ./i386/isa/fd.c
patching file ./i386/isa/isa.c
patching file ./i386/isa/npx.c
patching file ./i386/isa/pccons.c
patching file ./i386/isa/wd.c
patching file ./i386/isa/wt.c
patching file ./i386/stand/Makefile
patching file ./i386/stand/bmap.c
patching file ./i386/stand/boot.c
patching file ./i386/stand/bootxx.c
patching file ./i386/stand/breadxx.c
patching file ./i386/stand/cga.c
patching file ./i386/stand/conf.c
patching file ./i386/stand/confxx.c
patching file ./i386/stand/fd.c
patching file ./i386/stand/fdbootblk.c
patching file ./i386/stand/fs.c
patching file ./i386/stand/kbd.c
patching file ./i386/stand/libsa/Makefile
patching file ./i386/stand/libsmsa/Makefile
patching file ./i386/stand/prf.c
patching file ./i386/stand/saio.h
patching file ./i386/stand/srt0.c
patching file ./i386/stand/trimhd.c
patching file ./i386/stand/wd.c
patching file ./kern/Makefile
patching file ./kern/init_main.c
patching file ./kern/kern__physio.c
patching file ./kern/kern_descrip.c
patching file ./kern/kern_exec.c
patching file ./kern/kern_execve.c
patching file ./kern/kern_exit.c
patching file ./kern/kern_fork.c
patching file ./kern/kern_malloc.c
patching file ./kern/kern_physio.c
patching file ./kern/kern_proc.c
patching file ./kern/kern_sig.c
patching file ./kern/kern_subr.c
patching file ./kern/makesyscalls.sh
patching file ./kern/subr_rlist.c
patching file ./kern/subr_rmap.c
patching file ./kern/sys_process.c
patching file ./kern/syscalls.master
patching file ./kern/tty.c
patching file ./kern/tty_pty.c
patching file ./kern/tty_ring.c
patching file ./kern/tty_subr.c
patching file ./kern/uipc_mbuf.c
patching file ./kern/vfs__bio.c
patching file ./kern/vfs_bio.c
patching file ./net/af.h
patching file ./net/bpf.c
patching file ./net/bpf.h
patching file ./net/bpfdesc.h
patching file ./net/if.h
patching file ./net/if_arp.h
patching file ./net/if_dl.h
patching file ./net/if_llc.h
patching file ./net/if_sl.c
patching file ./net/if_slvar.h
patching file ./net/if_types.h
patching file ./net/netisr.h
patching file ./net/radix.h
patching file ./net/raw_cb.h
patching file ./net/route.h
patching file ./net/slcompress.h
patching file ./netinet/icmp_var.h
patching file ./netinet/if_ether.h
patching file ./netinet/in.h
patching file ./netinet/in_pcb.h
patching file ./netinet/in_proto.c
patching file ./netinet/in_systm.h
patching file ./netinet/in_var.h
patching file ./netinet/ip.h
patching file ./netinet/ip_icmp.h
patching file ./netinet/ip_var.h
patching file ./netinet/tcp.h
patching file ./netinet/tcp_debug.h
patching file ./netinet/tcp_fsm.h
patching file ./netinet/tcp_seq.h
patching file ./netinet/tcp_timer.h
patching file ./netinet/tcp_var.h
patching file ./netinet/tcpip.h
patching file ./netinet/udp.h
patching file ./netinet/udp_var.h
patching file ./nfs/nfs.h
patching file ./nfs/nfs_subs.c
patching file ./nfs/nfs_vnops.c
patching file ./nfs/nfscompress.h
patching file ./nfs/nfsdiskless.h
patching file ./nfs/nfsiom.h
patching file ./nfs/nfsm_subs.h
patching file ./nfs/nfsmount.h
patching file ./nfs/nfsnode.h
patching file ./nfs/nfsrvcache.h
patching file ./nfs/nfsv2.h
patching file ./nfs/rpcv2.h
patching file ./nfs/xdr_subs.h
patching file ./stand/printf.c
patching file ./stand/saerrno.h
patching file ./stand/saioctl.h
patching file ./sys/acct.h
patching file ./sys/buf.h
patching file ./sys/callout.h
patching file ./sys/cdefs.h
patching file ./sys/clist.h
patching file ./sys/conf.h
patching file ./sys/dir.h
patching file ./sys/disklabel.h
patching file ./sys/dkbad.h
patching file ./sys/dkstat.h
patching file ./sys/dmap.h
patching file ./sys/domain.h
patching file ./sys/errno.h
patching file ./sys/exec.h
patching file ./sys/fcntl.h
patching file ./sys/fifo.h
patching file ./sys/file.h
patching file ./sys/filedesc.h
patching file ./sys/gprof.h
patching file ./sys/ioctl.h
patching file ./sys/ioctl_compat.h
patching file ./sys/ipc.h
patching file ./sys/kernel.h
patching file ./sys/kinfo.h
patching file ./sys/kinfo_proc.h
patching file ./sys/ktrace.h
patching file ./sys/malloc.h
patching file ./sys/map.h
patching file ./sys/mapmem.h
patching file ./sys/mbuf.h
patching file ./sys/mman.h
patching file ./sys/mount.h
patching file ./sys/msgbuf.h
patching file ./sys/mtio.h
patching file ./sys/namei.h
patching file ./sys/param.h
patching file ./sys/proc.h
patching file ./sys/protosw.h
patching file ./sys/ptrace.h
patching file ./sys/reboot.h
patching file ./sys/resource.h
patching file ./sys/resourcevar.h
patching file ./sys/seg.h
patching file ./sys/shm.h
patching file ./sys/signal.h
patching file ./sys/signalvar.h
patching file ./sys/socket.h
patching file ./sys/socketvar.h
patching file ./sys/specdev.h
patching file ./sys/stat.h
patching file ./sys/syscall.h
patching file ./sys/syslimits.h
patching file ./sys/syslog.h
patching file ./sys/systm.h
patching file ./sys/tablet.h
patching file ./sys/termios.h
patching file ./sys/time.h
patching file ./sys/timeb.h
patching file ./sys/times.h
patching file ./sys/tprintf.h
patching file ./sys/trace.h
patching file ./sys/tty.h
patching file ./sys/ttychars.h
patching file ./sys/ttydefaults.h
patching file ./sys/ttydev.h
patching file ./sys/types.h
patching file ./sys/ucred.h
patching file ./sys/uio.h
patching file ./sys/un.h
patching file ./sys/unistd.h
patching file ./sys/unpcb.h
patching file ./sys/user.h
patching file ./sys/vadvise.h
patching file ./sys/vcmd.h
patching file ./sys/vlimit.h
patching file ./sys/vmmeter.h
patching file ./sys/vnode.h
patching file ./sys/vsio.h
patching file ./sys/vtimes.h
patching file ./sys/wait.h
patching file ./ufs/dinode.h
patching file ./ufs/dir.h
patching file ./ufs/fs.h
patching file ./ufs/inode.h
patching file ./ufs/lockf.h
patching file ./ufs/mfs_vnops.c
patching file ./ufs/mfsiom.h
patching file ./ufs/mfsnode.h
patching file ./ufs/quota.h
patching file ./ufs/ufsmount.h
patching file ./vm/device_pager.h
patching file ./vm/lock.h
patching file ./vm/pmap.h
patching file ./vm/queue.h
patching file ./vm/swap_pager.c
patching file ./vm/swap_pager.h
patching file ./vm/vm.h
patching file ./vm/vm_fault.c
patching file ./vm/vm_glue.c
patching file ./vm/vm_inherit.h
patching file ./vm/vm_kern.c
patching file ./vm/vm_kern.h
patching file ./vm/vm_map.h
patching file ./vm/vm_object.h
patching file ./vm/vm_page.h
patching file ./vm/vm_pageout.h
patching file ./vm/vm_pager.h
patching file ./vm/vm_param.h
patching file ./vm/vm_prot.h
patching file ./vm/vm_statistics.h
patching file ./vm/vm_swap.c
patching file ./vm/vm_user.h
patching file ./vm/vnode_pager.h

Clearly the move from Net/2 to 386BSD 0.0 was not trivial.  Which I’ve always wondered, as quotes like this:

Closing the gap from the Networking Release 2 distribution to a fully functioning system did not take long. Within six months of the release, Bill Jolitz had written replacements for the six missing files. He promptly released a fully compiled and bootable system for the 386-based PC architecture which he called 386/BSD.

Make it sound like Bill spent six months on six files.

I guess the real question is can I find a so called encumbered 4.4 BSD, and compare that to the lite to see the magical “six files” and then check the drift into Net/2, to 386BSD 0.0 …

3 thoughts on “Old BSD musings

  1. Take a look at the output from diffstat, the vast majority of changes are just deleted lines (possibly the whole file). Deleted lines are fully contained in unified diff, so when you delete a file, you essentially have that whole file in the patch.

    There are more than 6 files with additions, though.

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