due to a paucity of IRQs. I have some reservations about this, so I'm
not going to MFC this just yet. I'm doing this to see how many
problems it causes so we can do this in 4.2. I've been seeing hangs
on my laptop from time to time, but sometimes it was not in polling
mode, other tmies it was. Don't know if this is one problem or more
than one.
Requested by: Sean O Connell
a NMI occured, you could type continue in DDB and the kernel would
not attempt to detect what type of NMI was recieved. Now we check
for the type of NMI first and then go to DDB if it is enabled.
This will solve the problem with having DDB enabled and getting an
NMI due to some possibly bad error and being able to continue the
operation of the kernel when you really want to panic and know
what happened.
Submitted by: jhb
(I had been busy for my own research activity until the last weekend)
Supported devices:
SB Midi Port (sbc + midi)
SB OPL3 (sbc + midi)
16550 UART (midi, needs a trick in your hint)
CS461x Midi Port (csa + midi)
OSS-compatible sequencer (seq)
Supported playing software:
playmidi (We definitely need more)
Notes:
/dev/midistat now reports installed midi drivers. /dev/sndstat reports
only pcm drivers. We need the new name(pcmstat?).
EMU8000(SB AWE) does not sound yet but does get probed so that the OPL3
synth on an AWE card works.
TODO:
MSS/PCI bridge drivers
Midi-tty interface to support general serial devices
Modules
the PnP probe is merely a stub as we make assumptions about some of this
hardware before we have probed it.
Since these devices (with the exception of the speaker) are 'standard',
suppress output in the !bootverbose case to clean up the probe messages
somewhat.
need this RSN.
Remove a pointless warning in the root device locating code.
Remove the "wd" compatibility name from the "ad" driver.
WARNING: If you have not updated to use /dev/wd* in your /etc/fstab
and modern bootblocks, it would be a very good idea to do so BEFORE
you upgrade your kernel.
errors were normally harmless because they were in unreachable code
and gcc apparently doesn't check the syntax inside asm statements
that it optimizes away.
Use Warner Losh's "hint" driver to decode ascii strings to fill the
resource table at boot time.
config(8) no longer generates an ioconf.c table - ie: the configuration
no longer has to be compiled into the kernel. You can reconfigure your
isa devices with the likes of this at loader(8) time:
set hint.ed.0.port=0x320
userconfig will be rewritten to use this style interface one day and will
move to /boot/userconfig.4th or something like that.
It is still possible to statically compile in a set of hints into a kernel
if you do not wish to use loader(8). See the "hints" directive in GENERIC
as an example.
All device wiring has been moved out of config(8). There is a set of
helper scripts (see i386/conf/gethints.pl, and the same for alpha and pc98)
that extract the 'at isa? port foo irq bar' from the old files and produces
a hints file. If you install this file as /boot/device.hints (and update
/boot/defaults/loader.conf - You can do a build/install in sys/boot) then
loader will load it automatically for you. You can also compile in the
hints directly with: hints "device.hints" as well.
There are a few things that I'm not too happy with yet. Under this scheme,
things like LINT would no longer be useful as "documentation" of settings.
I have renamed this file to 'NOTES' and stored the example hints strings
in it. However... this is not something that config(8) understands, so
there is a script that extracts the build-specific data from the
documentation file (NOTES) to produce a LINT that can be config'ed and
built. A stack of man4 pages will need updating. :-/
Also, since there is no longer a difference between 'device' and
'pseudo-device' I collapsed the two together, and the resulting 'device'
takes a 'number of units' for devices that still have it statically
allocated. eg: 'device fe 4' will compile the fe driver with NFE set
to 4. You can then set hints for 4 units (0 - 3). Also note that
'device fe0' will be interpreted as "zero units of 'fe'" which would be
bad, so there is a config warning for this. This is only needed for
old drivers that still have static limits on numbers of units.
All the statically limited drivers that I could find were marked.
Please exercise EXTREME CAUTION when transitioning!
Moral support by: phk, msmith, dfr, asmodai, imp, and others
Socket 8 to 370 converters. When (1) CPU_PPRO2CELERON option is
defined, (2) Intel CPU is found and (3) CPU ID is 0x66?, L2 cache is
enabled through MSR 0x11e. The L2 cache latency value can be
specified by CPU_L2_LATENCY option. Default value of L2 cache latency
is 5.
These options are useful if you use Socket 8 to Socket 370 converter
(e.g. Power Leap's PL-Pro/II.) Most PentiumPro BIOSs don't enable L2
cache of Mendocino Celeron CPUs because they don't know Celeron CPUs.
These options are needles if you use a Coppermine (FCPGA) Celeron or
PentiumIII, becuase the L2 cache enable bit is hard wired and L2 cache
is always enabled.
end values in bootinfo) in kernel space if it is loaded (i.e., if its
specified end address is nonzero), not just if it is loaded and DDB
is configured. This may be used to fix kldsym(2) for booting without
/dev/loader; currently, in this case, it just fixes unused pointers
and wastes space consistently. For booting in the normal way with
/boot/loader, the table is included and pointed to in a different way
and kldsym(2) works.
This will support power-off only. Fix for suspend/resume will come later.
Also, MFC on this is shceduled on next week.
Submitted by: sumitani@bd2.hnes.nec.co.jp
Reviewed by: jlemon
have their own lock and do not need the MP lock. The SMP cleanup was
a little too conservative in MP locking fast interrupts but at least
it's trivial to fix. MFC soon.
Submitted by: bde
Further experimentation showed that some Dell 2450 machines with the
prevention kludge installed still got T_RESERVED traps. CPU interrupt
vector 0x7A was observed to be triggered. This might have been the
bitwise OR of two different vectors sent from each of the IOAPICs at
the same time.
IOAPIC #0: 0x68 --> irq 8: RTC timer interrupt
IOAPIC #1: 0x32 --> irq 18: scsi host adapter or network interface
----
0x7a --> T_RESERVED
Both IOAPICs had ID 0.
Appendix B.3 in the MP spec indicates that the operating system is
responsible for assigning unique IDs to the IOAPICs.
The enclosed patch programs the IOAPIC IDs according to the IOAPIC
entries in the MP table.
Submitted by: tegge
and sysv shared memory support for it. It implements a new
PG_UNMANAGED flag that has slightly different characteristics
from PG_FICTICIOUS.
A new sysctl, kern.ipc.shm_use_phys has been added to enable the
use of physically-backed sysv shared memory rather then swap-backed.
Physically backed shm segments are not tracked with PV entries,
allowing programs which use a large shm segment as a rendezvous
point to operate without eating an insane amount of KVM in the
PV entry management. Read: Oracle.
Peter's OBJT_PHYS object will also allow us to eventually implement
page-table sharing and/or 4MB physical page support for such segments.
We're half way there.
