roughly 10 years, and the driver has not enjoyed any significant maintenance
since long before that. Despite well-meaning efforts from a number of
people, myself included, it never made the jump to 64-bit and was relegated
to the back-corners of i386. Now its frailty is hampering forward progress
with Clang. Any renewed engineering efforts are of course welcome and can
happen outside of the tree. No MFC of this is planned.
lindev(4) was only used to provide /dev/full which is now a standard feature of
FreeBSD. /dev/full was never linux-specific and provides a generally useful
feature.
Document this in UPDATING and bump __FreeBSD_version. This will be documented
in the PH shortly.
Reported by: jkim
- Add 'hyperv' module into build;
- Allow building Hyper-V support as part of the kernel;
- Hook Hyper-V build into NOTES.
This is intended for MFC if re@ permits.
MFC after: 3 days
1.3 of Intelб╝ Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O Architecture
Specification. The Extended Context and PASIDs from the rev. 2.2 are
not supported, but I am not aware of any released hardware which
implements them. Code does not use queued invalidation, see comments
for the reason, and does not provide interrupt remapping services.
Code implements the management of the guest address space per domain
and allows to establish and tear down arbitrary mappings, but not
partial unmapping. The superpages are created as needed, but not
promoted. Faults are recorded, fault records could be obtained
programmatically, and printed on the console.
Implement the busdma(9) using DMARs. This busdma backend avoids
bouncing and provides security against misbehaving hardware and driver
bad programming, preventing leaks and corruption of the memory by wild
DMA accesses.
By default, the implementation is compiled into amd64 GENERIC kernel
but disabled; to enable, set hw.dmar.enable=1 loader tunable. Code is
written to work on i386, but testing there was low priority, and
driver is not enabled in GENERIC. Even with the DMAR turned on,
individual devices could be directed to use the bounce busdma with the
hw.busdma.pci<domain>:<bus>:<device>:<function>.bounce=1 tunable. If
DMARs are capable of the pass-through translations, it is used,
otherwise, an identity-mapping page table is constructed.
The driver was tested on Xeon 5400/5500 chipset legacy machine,
Haswell desktop and E5 SandyBridge dual-socket boxes, with ahci(4),
ata(4), bce(4), ehci(4), mfi(4), uhci(4), xhci(4) devices. It also
works with em(4) and igb(4), but there some fixes are needed for
drivers, which are not committed yet. Intel GPUs do not work with
DMAR (yet).
Many thanks to John Baldwin, who explained me the newbus integration;
Peter Holm, who did all testing and helped me to discover and
understand several incredible bugs; and to Jim Harris for the access
to the EDS and BWG and for listening when I have to explain my
findings to somebody.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 month
will prevent the kernel from linking if the device driver are included
without the virtio module. Remove pci and scbus for the same reason.
Also explain the relationship and necessity of the virtio and virtio_pci
modules. Currently in FreeBSD, we only support VirtIO PCI, but it could
be replaced with a different interface (like MMIO) and the device
(network, block, etc) will still function.
Requested by: luigi
Approved by: grehan (mentor)
MFC after: 3 days
- Move mwlfw from {amd64,i386}/conf/NOTES to sys/conf/NOTES (mwl(4) is
already present in sys/conf/NOTES).
- Remove duplicate mwl(4) entries from {amd64,i386}/conf/NOTES.
- While here, add a description to the sfxge line in amd64/conf/NOTES.
- Mark 'sdp' as requiring 'inet'.
- Always include "opt_inet.h" and "opt_inet6.h" and modify the IB
driver Makefiles to honor WITH/WITHOUT_INET/INET6/_SUPPORT options
to determine what should be enabled during a module build.
- Fix the mlxen(4) driver and the core IB code to compile without
if INET is disabled (including when both INET and INET6 are disabled).
Reviewed by: bz
MFC after: 2 weeks
Winbond Super I/O chips.
With minor efforts it should be possible the extend the driver to support
further chips/revisions available from Winbond. In the simplest case
only new IDs need to be added, while different chipsets might require
their own function to enter extended function mode, etc.
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated ULC (in 2011)
Reviewed by: emaste, brueffer
MFC after: 2 weeks
The isci driver is for the integrated SAS controller in the Intel C600
(Patsburg) chipset. Source files in sys/dev/isci directory are
FreeBSD-specific, and sys/dev/isci/scil subdirectory contains
an OS-agnostic library (SCIL) published by Intel to control the SAS
controller. This library is used primarily as-is in this driver, with
some post-processing to better integrate into the kernel build
environment.
isci.4 and a README in the sys/dev/isci directory contain a few
additional details.
This driver is only built for amd64 and i386 targets.
Sponsored by: Intel
Reviewed by: scottl
Approved by: scottl
It has more features than acpi_aiboost(4) and it will eventually replace
acpi_aiboost(4).
Submitted by: Constantine A. Murenin <cnst at FreeBSD.org>
Reviewed by: freebsd-acpi, imp
MFC after: 1 month
The hardware is compliant with WDRT specification, so I originally
considered including generic WDRT watchdog support, but decided
against it, because I couldn't find anyone to the code for me.
WDRT seems to be not very popular.
Besides, generic WDRT porbably requires a slightly different driver
approach.
Reviewed by: des, gavin, rpaulo
MFC after: 3 weeks
devices that we also support, just not by default (thus only LINT or
module builds by default).
While currently there is only "/dev/full" [2], we are planning to see more
in the future. We may decide to change the module/dependency logic in the
future should the list grow too long.
This is not part of linux.ko as also non-linux binaries like kFreeBSD
userland or ports can make use of this as well.
Suggested by: rwatson [1] (name)
Submitted by: ed [2]
Discussed with: markm, ed, rwatson, kib (weeks ago)
Reviewed by: rwatson, brueffer (prev. version)
PR: kern/68961
MFC after: 6 weeks
