__FreeBSD_version 500015 can be used to detect their disappearance.
- Move the symbols for SMP_prvspace and lapic from globals.s to
locore.s.
- Remove globals.s with extreme prejudice.
To use it, some dll is needed. And currently, the dll is only for NetBSD.
So one more kernel module is needed.
For more infomation,
http://chiharu.haun.org/peace/ .
Reviewed by: bp
This code has help us comprehence ACPI spec .
Contributors of this code is as follows(except for FreeBSD commiter):
Yasuo Yokoyama,
Munehiro Matsuda,
and ALL acpi-jp@jp.freebsd.org people.
Thanks.
R.I.P.
reducues the maintenance load for the mutex code. The only MD portions
of the mutex code are in machine/mutex.h now, which include the assembly
macros for handling mutexes as well as optionally overriding the mutex
micro-operations. For example, we use optimized micro-ops on the x86
platform #ifndef I386_CPU.
- Change the behavior of the SMP_DEBUG kernel option. In the new code,
mtx_assert() only depends on INVARIANTS, allowing other kernel developers
to have working mutex assertiions without having to include all of the
mutex debugging code. The SMP_DEBUG kernel option has been renamed to
MUTEX_DEBUG and now just controls extra mutex debugging code.
- Abolish the ugly mtx_f hack. Instead, we dynamically allocate
seperate mtx_debug structures on the fly in mtx_init, except for mutexes
that are initiated very early in the boot process. These mutexes
are declared using a special MUTEX_DECLARE() macro, and use a new
flag MTX_COLD when calling mtx_init. This is still somewhat hackish,
but it is less evil than the mtx_f filler struct, and the mtx struct is
now the same size with and without mutex debugging code.
- Add some micro-micro-operation macros for doing the actual atomic
operations on the mutex mtx_lock field to make it easier for other archs
to override/optimize mutex ops if needed. These new tiny ops also clean
up the code in some places by replacing long atomic operation function
calls that spanned 2-3 lines with a short 1-line macro call.
- Don't call mi_switch() from mtx_enter_hard() when we block while trying
to obtain a sleep mutex. Calling mi_switch() would bogusly release
Giant before switching to the next process. Instead, inline most of the
code from mi_switch() in the mtx_enter_hard() function. Note that when
we finally kill Giant we can back this out and go back to calling
mi_switch().
platforms.
While here, work around a strange quirk in config(8) that I do not yet
understand. Rearrange which atapi* files have 'optional' vs. 'count'
so that you can have atapifd without atapicd. The only difference should
be that this works instead of having a link error because atapi-all.o got
left out of the kernel.
drivers (again). These drivers have not compiled for 5-6 months.
Now that the new sound code supports MIDI, the major reason we had for
reviving it is gone. It is a far better investment polishing the new
midi code than trying to keep this on life support. Come 5.0-REL, if
there are major shortcomings in the pcm sound driver then maybe we can
rethink this, but until then we should focus on pcm.
Remember, these have not been compilable since ~April-May this year.
The code for suspend/resume is derived from APM device driver.
Some people suggested the original code is somewhat buggy, but I'd
like to just move it from apm.c without any major changes for the
initial version. This code should be refined later.
To use pmtimer to adjust time at resume time, add
device pmtimer
in your kernel config file, and add
hint.pmtimer.0.at="isa"
in your device.hints
Reviewed by: -current, bde
include:
* Mutual exclusion is used instead of spl*(). See mutex(9). (Note: The
alpha port is still in transition and currently uses both.)
* Per-CPU idle processes.
* Interrupts are run in their own separate kernel threads and can be
preempted (i386 only).
Partially contributed by: BSDi (BSD/OS)
Submissions by (at least): cp, dfr, dillon, grog, jake, jhb, sheldonh
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
2. Newbusify the driver.
3. Build as a module.
4. Use correct minor numbers when creating device files.
5. Correctly lock control characters.
6. Return ENXIO when device not configured.
Submitted by: Tor Egge <Tor.Egge@fast.no>
7. Fix the baud_table.
Submitted by: Elliot Dierksen <ebd@oau.org>
Note:
- the old driver still lives in src/sys/i386/isa, so that you can
revert to it if something goes wrong.
- The module does not detach very well. Attaching works fine.
config(8). This commit allows control of the creation of the
#include "foo.h" files. We now only create them explicitly when needed.
BTW; these are mostly bad because they usually imply static limits on
numbers of units for devices. eg: struct mysoftc sc[NFOO];
These static limits have Got To Go.
Symbol values are now represented using array sizes (4 arrays per symbol
so that 16-bit machines can represent 64-bit values) instead of being raw
binary values.
Reviewed by: marcel
- Move dev/aic/aic_isa.c entry from conf/files to conf/files.MACHINE
because PC-98 uses different file.
Submitted by: nyan and IMAI Takeshi <take-i@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
it's options COMPAT_OLDISA and COMPAT_OLDPCI. This is meant to be a
fairly strong incentive to update the older drivers to newbus, but doesn't
(quite) leave anybody hanging with no hardware support. I was talking with
a few folks and I was encouraged to simply break or disable the shims but
that was a bit too drastic for my liking.
Enable the driver in sys/conf/files.i386.
In isa/isavar.h increase ISA_NPORT from 32 to 50. This is required
because this brain-damaged card maps 49 (!) port ranges. This does
not have a negative impact because this value only specifies the maximum
number of entries in a linked list and not the size of an array which
is allocated in all drivers.
The register/fifo access routines were not newbus-ified because
1) I knew that the old code worked and is simpler and more efficient
2) the if_ed driver does something similar and
3) the newbus macros collapse to inb/outb anyway.
Reviewed and tested by: hm
Approved by: jkh
conditions are met rather than having to resort to #if's in the code.
> dev/syscons/scvgarndr.c optional sc vga
> dev/syscons/scvesactl.c optional sc vga vesa
> i386/isa/vesa.c optional vga vesa
same object file (atapi-cd.o) as the ata drivers. I'd have called it
wcd.[ch], but there's already one of those in the Attic that we can't
clobber - the good names are taken.
Fix building so that it can be compiled into LINT alongside ata.
Requested by: bde
- Split terminal emulation code from the main part of the driver so
that we can have alternative terminal emulator modules if we like in
the future. (We are not quite there yet, though.)
- Put sysmouse related code in a separate file, thus, simplifying the
main part of the driver.
As some files are added to the source tree, you need to run config(8)
before you compile a new kernel next time.
You shouldn't see any functional change by this commit; this is only
internal code reorganization.
Collect together the components of several drivers and export eisa from
the i386-only area (It's not, it's on some alphas too). The code hasn't
been updated to work on the Alpha yet, but that can come later.
Repository copies were done a while ago.
Moving these now keeps them in consistant place across the 4.x series
as the newbusification progresses.
Submitted by: mdodd
Driver is not functional yet, but does compile. Tests with xe cards
indicates that it doesn't panic the machine when they are present, but
fail to probe. Interface help in the pcic/pccard layers are needed to
complete this driver.
-U_KERNEL became negative when all all the genassym.c's were converted
to be cross-built. Related cleanups: PARAM went away, but was still
used here; KERNEL was renamed to _KERNEL, but was still KERNEL here;
the deprecated macros $@ and $< were still used here.
Use "genassym ... > ${.TARGET}", not "genassym -o $@ ...", so that
genassym(1) doesn't need to support -o.
Removed half-baked hard-coded dependencies of *_genassym.o on headers.
These objects should be added to the list of objects in the depend
rule to get full dependencies. This doesn't happen automatically
because they are not linked into the kernel. Half baked dependencies
don't really help.
These drivers were cloned from the ed and ep drivers back in 1994
when PCMCIA cards were a very new thing and we had no other support
for such devices. They treated the PCIC (the chip which controls the
PCCARD slot) as part of their device and generally hacked their way
to success. They have significantly bit-rotted relative to their
ancestor drivers (ed & ep) and they were a dead-end on the evolution
path to proper PCCARD support in FreeBSD.
They have been terminally broken since August 18 where mdodd forgot
them and nobody seems to have missed them enough to fix them since.
I found no outstanding PRs against these drivers.
(kern.randompid), which is currently defaulted off. Use ARC4 (RC4) for our
random number generation, which will not get me executed for violating
crypto laws; a Good Thing(tm).
Reviewed and Approved by: bde, imp
- Convert to new bus attachment scheme. Thanks to Blaz Zupan for doing
the initial work here. One thing I changed was to have the attach
and detach routines work like the PCI drivers, which means that in
theory you should be able to load and unload the driver like the PCI
NIC drivers, however the pccard support for this hasn't settled down
yet so it doesn't quite work. Once the pccard work is done, I'll have
to revisit this.
- Add device wi0 to PCCARD. If we're lucky, people should be able to
install via their WaveLAN cards now.
- Add support for signal strength caching. The wicontrol utility has
also been updated to allow zeroing and displaying the signal strength
cache.
- Add a /sys/modules/wi directory and fix a Makefile to builf if_wi.ko.
Currently this module is only built for the i386 platform, though once
the pccard stuff is done it should be able to work on the alpha too.
(Theoretically you should be able to plug one of the WaveLAN/IEEE ISA
cards into an alpha with an ISA slot, but we'll see how that turns out.
- Update LINT to use only device wi0. There is no true ISA version of
the WaveLAN/IEEE so we'll never use an ISA attachment.
- Update files.i386 so that if_wi is dependent on card.
Semiconductor CS461x/428x.
- Add support for GUS and CS461x/428x pcm.
- Move newpcm drivers for ISA cards to files.i386. The drivers for
PC98 would be something quite different from those for PC/AT.
Moving requested by: nyan
o Gut the compatibility interface, you now must attach with newbus.
o Unit numbers from pccardd are now ignored. This may change the units
assigned to a card. It now uses the first available unit.
o kill old skeleton code that is now obsolete.
o Use newbus attachment code.
o cleanup interfile dependencies some.
o kill list of devices per slot. we use the device tree for what we need.
o Remove now obsolete code.
o The ep driver (and maybe ed) may need some config file tweaks to
allow it to attach. See config files that were committed for examples
on how to do this.
Drivers to be commited shortly.
This is an interrum fix until the new pccard. ed, ep and sio will be
supported by me with this release, although others are welcome to try
to support other devices before new pccard is working.
I plan on doing minimal further work on this code base. Be careful
when upgrading, since this code is known to work on my laptop and
those of a couple others as well, but your milage may vary.
BUGS TO BE FIXED:
o system memory isn't allocated yet, it will be soon.
o No devices actually have a pccard newbus attach in the tree.
BUGS THAT MIGHT BE FIXED:
o card removal, including suspend, usually hangs the system.
Many thanks to Peter Wemm and Doug Rabson for helping me to fill in
the missing bits of New Bus understanding at FreeBSD Con '99.
now lives in the respective bus front end files.
- Add various function prototypes to if_edvar.h
- Clean up some debugging code that snuck into if_ed_isa.c
- Turn on the right bits in files.i386
Turn on the 'new' if_ep driver which supports:
ISA 3c509
MCA 3c529
EISA 3c579
PCCARD 3c589
I think all we're missing is support for the VME bus and S-100 bus
Etherlink III cards.
The new code has been tested by a number of people and all the important
bits work. I've not been able to test the EISA code but will do so once
my hardware arrives. Since I've changed nothing in the EISA code I suspect
it will perform the same manner as before.
Future changes involve whacking the ISA and PCCARD front ends to use
newbus and to convert the driver to bus_space and make it use ifmedia.
This is the first working network driver that supports MCA bus devices btw.
Enjoy.
It is about 2.5 microseconds or roughly 3 times faster to use this
"PIIX" timecounter than the "i8254" timecounter. Resolution is
also 3 times better.
The code cheats and don't register the PCI device, because other pieces
of code want to use it too.
Originally spotted by: msmith
new system is integrated with the ISA bus code more cleanly and allows
the future addition of more enumerators such as PnPBIOS and ACPI.
This commit also enables the new pcm driver since it is somewhat tied to
the new PnP code.
discussed on current.
The following variables are defined (for now):
osname (defaults to "Linux")
Allow users to change the name of the OS as returned by uname(2),
specially added for all those Linux Netscape users and statistics
maniacs :-) We now have what we all wanted!
osrelease (defaults to "2.2.5")
Allow users to change the version of the OS as returned by uname(2).
Since -current supports glibc2.1 now, change the default to 2.2.5
(was 2.0.36).
oss_version (defaults to 198144 [0x030600])
This one will be used by the OSS_GETVERSION ioctl (PR 12917) which I
can commit now that we have the MIB. The default version number is the
lowest version possible with the current 'encoding'.
A note about imprisoned processes (see jail(2)):
These variables are copy-on-write (as suggested by phk). This means that
imprisoned processes will use the system wide value unless it is written/set
by the process. From that moment on, a copy local to the prison will be
used.
A note about the implementation:
I choose to add a single pointer to struct prison, because I didn't like the
idea of changing struct prison every time I come up with a new variable. As
a side effect, the extra storage is only needed when a variable is set from
within the prison. This also minimizes kernel bloat when the Linuxulator is
not used; both compiled in or as a module.
Reviewed by: bde (first version only) and phk
that are linked into the kernel. The KLD compilation options are
changed to call these functions, rather than in-lining the
atomic operations.
This approach makes atomic operations from KLDs significantly
faster on UP systems (though somewhat slower on SMP systems).
PR: i386/13111
Submitted by: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au
- Add support for calling 32-bit code in other segments
- Add support for calling 16-bit protected mode code
Update APM to use this facility.
Submitted by: jlemon
On the VAX, it used to be used for special compilation to avoid the
optimizer which would mess with memory mapped devices etc. These days
we use 'volatile'.
- Split syscons source code into manageable chunks and reorganize
some of complicated functions.
- Many static variables are moved to the softc structure.
- Added a new key function, PREV. When this key is pressed, the vty
immediately before the current vty will become foreground. Analogue
to PREV, which is usually assigned to the PrntScrn key.
PR: kern/10113
Submitted by: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
- Modified the kernel console input function sccngetc() so that it
handles function keys properly.
- Reorganized the screen update routine.
- VT switching code is reorganized. It now should be slightly more
robust than before.
- Added the DEVICE_RESUME function so that syscons no longer hooks the
APM resume event directly.
- New kernel configuration options: SC_NO_CUTPASTE, SC_NO_FONT_LOADING,
SC_NO_HISTORY and SC_NO_SYSMOUSE.
Various parts of syscons can be omitted so that the kernel size is
reduced.
SC_PIXEL_MODE
Made the VESA 800x600 mode an option, rather than a standard part of
syscons.
SC_DISABLE_DDBKEY
Disables the `debug' key combination.
SC_ALT_MOUSE_IMAGE
Inverse the character cell at the mouse cursor position in the text
console, rather than drawing an arrow on the screen.
Submitted by: Nick Hibma (n_hibma@FreeBSD.ORG)
SC_DFLT_FONT
makeoptions "SC_DFLT_FONT=_font_name_"
Include the named font as the default font of syscons. 16-line,
14-line and 8-line font data will be compiled in. This option replaces
the existing STD8X16FONT option, which loads 16-line font data only.
- The VGA driver is split into /sys/dev/fb/vga.c and /sys/isa/vga_isa.c.
- The video driver provides a set of ioctl commands to manipulate the
frame buffer.
- New kernel configuration option: VGA_WIDTH90
Enables 90 column modes: 90x25, 90x30, 90x43, 90x50, 90x60. These
modes are mot always supported by the video card.
PR: i386/7510
Submitted by: kbyanc@freedomnet.com and alexv@sui.gda.itesm.mx.
- The header file machine/console.h is reorganized; its contents is now
split into sys/fbio.h, sys/kbio.h (a new file) and sys/consio.h
(another new file). machine/console.h is still maintained for
compatibility reasons.
- Kernel console selection/installation routines are fixed and
slightly rebumped so that it should now be possible to switch between
the interanl kernel console (sc or vt) and a remote kernel console
(sio) again, as it was in 2.x, 3.0 and 3.1.
- Screen savers and splash screen decoders
Because of the header file reorganization described above, screen
savers and splash screen decoders are slightly modified. After this
update, /sys/modules/syscons/saver.h is no longer necessary and is
removed.
This is tested, but I really can't say whether it works entirely. I
don't know exactly what to look for when testing it. So let's say this
is open for testing. Send any results to green@FreeBSD.org
Reviewed by: msmith (long ago)
config kernel mumble mumble
line has been obsoleted and removed and with it went all knowledge of
devices on the part of config.
You can still configure a root device (which is used if you give
the "-r" flag) but now with an option:
options ROOTDEVNAME=\"da0s2e\"
The string is parsed by the same code as at the "boot -a" prompt.
At the same time, make the "boot -a" prompt both more able and more
informative.
ALPHA/PC98 people: You will have to adapt a few simple changes
(defining rootdev and dumpdev somewhere else) before config works
for you again, sorry, but it's all in the name of progress.
adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol
utility to manipulate some of the card parameters.
This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light
library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly
because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross).
The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF
library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has
just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone
with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would
have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary
too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary
HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.)
Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have
only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on
BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with
an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results
to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
i386 platform boots, it is no longer ISA-centric, and is fully dynamic.
Most old drivers compile and run without modification via 'compatability
shims' to enable a smoother transition. eisa, isapnp and pccard* are
not yet using the new resource manager. Once fully converted, all drivers
will be loadable, including PCI and ISA.
(Some other changes appear to have snuck in, including a port of Soren's
ATA driver to the Alpha. Soren, back this out if you need to.)
This is a checkpoint of work-in-progress, but is quite functional.
The bulk of the work was done over the last few years by Doug Rabson and
Garrett Wollman.
Approved by: core
only worked for configurations with "swap on generic".
usr.sbin/config/config.y:
- ignore all "swap [on] device ...' specifications except for
warning about them. They haven't done anything related to swap
for almost 4 years, and were previously silently ignored,
except for "swap on generic" which stopped swap${KERNEL}.c
from being generated. Code to support swapping is now deader
than before.
usr.sbin/config/mkswapconf.c:
- don't generate a dummy setconf() function in swap${KERNEL}.c.
sys/i386/conf/files.i386:
- swapgeneric.c is now standard. It should be merged into autoconf.c
so that it doesn't conflict with swap${KERNEL}.c for kernels named
"generic".
sys/i386/i386/autoconf.c:
- don't call setroot() for mfs roots. Since setroot() doesn't do anything
harmful, this was just a waste of time, except possibly for booting with
-a it may have helped prevent an undesireable call to setconf() by
finding a bogus rootdev.
- honor -a for ffs roots. -a now overrides all other ways of specifying
the root device. Previously, -r had precedence over -a, and the -a
handling was usually a no-op.
- don't honor -a for non-ffs roots, since it would currently just get in
the way of a clean panic.
sys/i386/i386/swapgeneric.c:
- don't declare things that are now always declared in swap${KERNEL}.c.
Don't decide things that are now decided in autoconf.c. Code to
support the "generic" case is now dead instead of useless.
perform a cleanup/unifdef sweep over it to tidy things up. The atapi
code is permanently attached to the wd driver and is always probed.
I will add an extra option bit in the flags to disable an atapi probe on
either the master or slave if needed, if people want this.
Remember, this driver is destined to die some time. It's possible that
it will loose all atapi support down the track and only be used for
dumb non-ATA disks and all ata/atapi devices will be handled by the new
ata system.
ATAPI, ATAPI_STATIC and CMD640 are no longer options, all are implicit.
Previously discussed with: sos
Well, better late than newer, but things has been hectic
around here, sorry for the long delay.
DMA support has been added to the ATA disk driver.
This only works on Intel PIIX3/4, Acer Aladdin and Promise controllers.
The promise support works without the BIOS on the board,
and timing modes are set to support up to UDMA speed. This
solves the problems with having more than one promise controller
in the same system.
There is support for "generic" DMA, that might work on other
controllers, but now you have been warned :)
More chipset specific code will come soon, I have to find testers
with the approbiate HW, more on that when I have it ready.
The system now uses its own major numbers, please run MAKEDEV
with the devices you need (ad?, acd?, afd?, ast?).
For now the disk driver will also attach to the old wd major
so one can at least boot without this step, but be warned, this
will eventually go away. The bootblocks will have to be changed
before one can boot directly from an "ad" device though.
Fixed problems:
All known hang problems should be solved
The probe code has been sligthly changed, this should solve
the reports I have lying around (I hope).
Hangs when accessing ata & atapi device on the same channel simultaniously.
A real braino in ata_start caused this, fixed.
As usual USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!, this is still pre alpha level code.
Especially the DMA support can hose your disk real bad if anything
goes wrong, agaiin you have been warned :)
But please tell me how it works for you!
Enjoy!
-Søren
- Refined internal interface in keyboard drivers so that:
1. the side effect of device probe is kept minimal,
2. polling mode function is added,
3. and new ioctl and configuration options are added (see below).
- Added new ioctl: KDSETREPEAT
Set keyboard typematic rate. There has existed an ioctl command,
KDSETRAD, for the same purpose. However, KDSETRAD is dependent on
the AT keyboard. KDSETREPEAT provides more generic interface.
KDSETRAD will still be supported in the atkbd driver.
- Added new configuration options:
ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP
Specify a keymap to be used as the default, built-in keymap.
(There has been undocumented options, DKKEYMAP, UKKEYMAP, GRKEYMAP,
SWKEYMAP, RUKEYMAP, ESKEYMAP, and ISKEYMAP to set the default keymap.
These options are now gone for good. The new option is more general.)
KBD_DISABLE_KEYMAP_LOADING
Don't allow the user to change the keymap.
Move the Olicom token ring driver to the officially sanctionned location of
/sys/contrib. Also fix some brokenness in the generic token ring support.
Be warned that if_dl.h has been changed and SOME programs might
like recompilation.
The much roumored replacement for our current IDE/ATA/ATAPI is
materialising in the CVS repositories around the globe.
So what does this bring us:
A new reengineered ATA/ATAPI subsystem, that tries to overcome
most of the deficiencies with the current drivers.
It supports PCI as well as ISA devices without all the hackery
in ide_pci.c to make PCI devices look like ISA counterparts.
It doesn't have the excessive wait problem on probe, in fact you
shouldn't notice any delay when your devices are getting probed.
Probing and attaching of devices are postponed until interrupts
are enabled (well almost, not finished yet for disks), making
things alot cleaner.
Improved performance, although DMA support is still WIP and not
in this pre alpha release, worldstone is faster with the new
driver compared to the old even with DMA.
So what does it take away:
There is NO support for old MFM/RLL/ESDI disks.
There is NO support for bad144, if your disk is bad, ditch it, it has
already outgrown its internal spare sectors, and is dying.
For you to try this out, you will have to modify your kernel config
file to use the "ata" controller instead of all wdc? entries.
example:
# for a PCI only system (most modern machines)
controller ata0
device atadisk0 # ATA disks
device atapicd0 # ATAPI CDROM's
device atapist0 # ATAPI tapes
#You should add the following on ISA systems:
controller ata1 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14
controller ata2 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15
You can leave it all in there, the system knows how to manage.
For now this driver reuses the device entries from the old system
(that will probably change later), but remember that disks are
now numbered in the sequence they are found (like the SCSI system)
not as absolute positions as the old system.
Although I have tested this on all the systems I can get my hands on,
there might very well be gremlins in there, so use AT YOU OWN RISK!!
This is still WIP, so there are lots of rough edges and unfinished
things in there, and what I have in my lab might look very different
from whats in CVS at any given time. So please have all eventual
changes go through me, or chances are they just dissapears...
I would very much like to hear from you, both good and bad news
are very welcome.
Enjoy!!
-Søren
This is for various Olicom cards. An IBM driver is following.
This patch also adds support to tcpdump to decode packets on tokenring.
Congratulations to the proud father.. (below)
Submitted by: Larry Lile <lile@stdio.com>
- Bring down the splash screen when a vty is opened for the first
time.
- Make sure the splash screen/screen saver is stopped before
switching vtys.
- Read and save initial values in the BIOS data area early.
VESA BIOS may change BIOS data values when switching modes.
- Fix missing '&' operator.
- Move ISA specific part of driver initialization to syscons_isa.c.
atkbd
- kbdtables.h is now in /sys/dev/kbd.
all
- Adjust for forthcoming alpha port. Submitted by: dfr
keyboard and video card drivers.
Because of the changes, you are required to update your kernel
configuration file now!
The files in sys/dev/syscons are still i386-specific (but less so than
before), and won't compile for alpha and PC98 yet.
syscons still directly accesses the video card registers here and
there; this will be rectified in the later stages.
ISDN4BSD is the work of our brand-new comitter: Hellmuth Michaelis,
who has done a tremendous amount of work to bring us this far.
There are still some outstanding issues and files to bring into
the tree, and for now it will be needed to pick up all the extra
docs from the isdn4bsd release.
It is probably also a very good idea to subscribe to the isdn@freebsd.org
mailing list before you try this out.
These files correspond to release "beta Version 0.70.00 / December
1998" from Hellmuth.
