This is most beneficial for vmware client os installs.
Reviewed by: jmallet, iedowse, tlambert2@mindspring.com
MFC After: never, -STABLE does not currently use this instruction
that add an instance of themselves. The npx(4) driver doesn't even check
the npx 'port' hint but hardcodes IO_NPX instead. The npx(4) driver also
will use isa IRQ 13 (on x86, 8 on pc98) by default if no 'irq' hint is
specified, so we don't need that hint either.
NB: But it will enable it in all kernels not having options "NO_GEOM"
Put the GEOM related options into the intended order.
Add "options NO_GEOM" to all kernel configs apart from NOTES.
In some order of controlled fashion, the NO_GEOM options will be
removed, architecture by architecture in the coming days.
There are currently three known issues which may force people to
need the NO_GEOM option:
boot0cfg/fdisk:
Tries to update the MBR while it is being used to control
slices. GEOM does not allow this as a direct operation.
SCSI floppy drives:
Appearantly the scsi-da driver return "EBUSY" if no media
is inserted. This is wrong, it should return ENXIO.
PC98:
It is unclear if GEOM correctly recognizes all variants of
PC98 disklabels. (Help Wanted! I have neither docs nor HW)
These issues are all being worked.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
if compiling with I686_CPU as a target. CPU_DISABLE_SSE will prevent
this from happening and will guarantee the code is not compiled in.
I am still not happy with this, but gcc is now generating code that uses
these instructions if you set CPUTYPE to p3/p4 or athlon-4/mp/xp or higher.
lnc(4) will attach to AMD PCnet/FAST NICs if pcn(4) does not attach.
I.e. pcn(4) gets first chance. There is a problem however in that pcn(4)
was moved out of the install kernel so that the module would be used.
This however causes bad installs if one has an AMD PCnet/FAST NIC.
i4bq931, i4b, isic, iwic, ifpi, ifpi2, ifpnp, ihfc, and itjc are
no longer count devices. Also remove a few other instances of N<DEVICE>
being used to control compilation of whole files.
Reviewed by: hm
This is an architecture that present a thing message passing interface
to the OS. You can query as to how many ports and what kind are attached
and enable them and so on.
A less grand view is that this is just another way to package SCSI (SPI or
FC) and FC-IP into a one-driver interface set.
This driver support the following hardware:
LSI FC909: Single channel, 1Gbps, Fibre Channel (FC-SCSI only)
LSI FC929: Dual Channel, 1-2Gbps, Fibre Channel (FC-SCSI only)
LSI 53c1020: Single Channel, Ultra4 (320M) (Untested)
LSI 53c1030: Dual Channel, Ultra4 (320M)
Currently it's in fair shape, but expect a lot of changes over the
next few weeks as it stabilizes.
Credits:
The driver is mostly from some folks from Jeff Roberson's company- I've
been slowly migrating it to broader support that I it came to me as.
The hardware used in developing support came from:
FC909: LSI-Logic, Advansys (now Connetix)
FC929: LSI-Logic
53c1030: Antares Microsystems (they make a very fine board!)
MFC after: 3 weeks
