FreeBSD/alpha. The most significant item is to change the command
argument to ioctl functions from int to u_long. This change brings us
inline with various other BSD versions. Driver writers may like to
use (__FreeBSD_version == 300003) to detect this change.
The prototype FreeBSD/alpha machdep will follow in a couple of days
time.
probe and intialisation. This will ultimately remove the grubby (but
functional) hack that copies a real-mode function into low memory
early in locore.s.
a test of the irq number, and made failure of this test non-fatal.
Removed related unused complications for the APIC_IO case. Removed the
no-test3 flag.
Deverbosified the failure messages for the other tests. Removed the
per-port verbose flag - just use the general verbose flag.
Clean up (or if antipodic: down) some of the msgbuf stuff.
Use an inline function rather than a macro for timecounter delta.
Maintain process "on-cpu" time as 64 bits of microseconds to avoid
needless second rollover overhead.
Avoid calling microuptime the second time in mi_switch() if we do
not pass through _idle in cpu_switch()
This should reduce our context-switch overhead a bit, in particular
on pre-P5 and SMP systems.
WARNING: Programs which muck about with struct proc in userland
will have to be fixed.
Reviewed, but found imperfect by: bde
unexpectedly do not complete writes even with sync I/O requests.
This should help the behavior of mmaped files when using
softupdates (and perhaps in other circumstances also.)
Althought the comments say the datasheet doesn't list the device ID
registers on the M2/MX, they seem to be there and quite alive.
(It's interesting to note that the M2/MX calls itself a 686 class cpu but
is missing a heck of a lot of features, including VME, PGE, PSE, etc)
available. The per-cpu variable ss_tpr has been replaced by ss_eflags.
This reduced the number of interrupts sent to the wrong CPU, due to
the cpu having the global lock being inside a critical region.
Remove some unneeded manipulation of tpr register in mplock.s.
Adjust code in mplock.s to be aware of variables on the stack being
destroyed by MPgetlock if GRAB_LOPRIO is defined.
update of cpu usage as shown by top when one process is cpu bound
(no system calls) while the system is otherwise idle (except for top).
Don't attempt to switch to the BSP in boot(). If the system was idle when
an interrupt caused a panic, this won't work. Instead, switch to the BSP
in cpu_reset.
Remove some spurious forward_statclock/forward_hardclock warnings.
Windows 95 after rebooting FreeBSD without power off. In PC-98
system, reboot mode is set via I/O port 0x37 in cpu_reset(), and
accessing of this port is the reason of the problem. To avnoid the
fault, current status of reboot mode should be checked before
accessing the I/O port.
that local APIC should be disabled in UP system. However, some of old
BIOS does not disable local APIC, and virtual wire mode through local
APIC may cause int 15.
This is a result of discussions on the mailing lists. Kudos to those who
have found the issue and created work-arounds. I have chosen Tor's fix
for now, before we can all work the issue more completely.
Submitted by: Tor Egge
possibly non-open devices, and we don't want to restrict dumping
to swap devices anwyay. It is especially invalid to call d_ioctl()
in non-process context for panics. d_psize() can be called on
non-open devices, at least on non-SLICED ones that support d_dump(),
and setdumpdev() has depended on this for a long time although it
is probably wrong, but even d_psize() can't be called in non-process
context - that's why dumpsys() depends on previously computed values
although these values may be stale. The historical restriction to
devices with dkpart(dev) == SWAP_PART should go away.
Linux emulation. This make Allegro Common Lisp 4.3 work under
FreeBSD!
Submitted by: Fred Gilham <gilham@csl.sri.com>
Commented on by: bde, dg, msmith, tg
Hoping he got everything right: eivind
This code will be turned on with the TWO options
DEVFS and SLICE. (see LINT)
Two labels PRE_DEVFS_SLICE and POST_DEVFS_SLICE will deliniate these changes.
/dev will be automatically mounted by init (thanks phk)
on bootup. See /sys/dev/slice/slice.4 for more info.
All code should act the same without these options enabled.
Mike Smith, Poul Henning Kamp, Soeren, and a few dozen others
This code does not support the following:
bad144 handling.
Persistance. (My head is still hurting from the last time we discussed this)
ATAPI flopies are not handled by the SLICE code yet.
When this code is running, all major numbers are arbitrary and COULD
be dynamically assigned. (this is not done, for POLA only)
Minor numbers for disk slices ARE arbitray and dynamically assigned.
