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PR: conf/124411
Submitted by: Doctor Modiford <freebsd -at- modiford.com>
MFC after: 3 days
the user selected and then recursively installing their dependencies, finally
installing the ones the user selected after the recursion unwinds. Since
users often select "high-level" packages that are on a higher numbered
disc for the multi-volume release CDROMS this resulted in excessive disc
swapping while installing things like kde, gnome, etc.
Cut down on disc swapping by iterating through the disc volumes one at a
time if we notice the package set is on multiple volumes. If a package
is on a higher volume don't install it yet, but still "process it" so we
get its dependencies installed. Because of the way the package sets for
releases get assembled we're guaranteed dependencies will be on the same
volume or lower.
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 1 week
messages from the network. We already replace malformatted timestamps
and this option lets us replace timestamps that are correctly formatted
but wrong.
PR: 120891
Submitted by: Thomas Vogt <thomas@bsdunix.ch>
MFC after: 1 week
One of the features that prevented us from fixing some of the TTY
consumers to work once again, was an interface that allowed consumers to
do the following:
- `Sniff' incoming data, which is used by the snp(4) driver.
- Take direct control of the input and output paths of a TTY, which is
used by ng_tty(4), ppp(4), sl(4), etc.
There's no practical advantage in committing a hooks layer without
having any consumers. In P4 there is a preliminary port of snp(4) and
thompsa@ is busy porting ng_tty(4) to this interface. I already want to
have it in the tree, because this may stimulate others to work on the
remaining modules.
Discussed with: thompsa
Obtained from: //depot/projects/mpsafetty/...
control over the result of buildworld and installworld; this especially
helps packaging systems such as nanobsd
Reviewed by: various (posted to arch)
MFC after: 1 month
A very long time ago we had raw device nodes. quot(8) was supposed to
use these when running `quot -a'. For some reason the code got once
changed to strip the device name until it reaches the last slash. This
is not reliable, because this means /dev/mirror/foo will be stripped to
/dev/foo.
This bug also exists on RELENG_7 and RELENG_6, but I think I'll just
merge them back somewhere after the upcoming releases. There's no rush.
MFC after: 2 months
- When searching for the next system drive, return the next one instead
of always returning the first one.
- Plug fd lead and make sure that the MLX_NEXT_CHILD ioctl is called
on the controller fd, not the disk's one.
While there, fix a cut-n-pase error in a warning.
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: kan (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month
The old logic padded the device name out but assumed the unit number was one digit
long; this fails for things like SATA devices which (for me) begin at ad10.
Assemble the full device name in a temporary buffer and then calcluate padding
based on that string.
- Documentation of send_phy_config()
- cleanup of malloc's() and added error checking throughout
- new capability to iterate over multiple firewire buses
- update usage() display
- cleanup command line parsing to allow out of order switches
- cleanup command line parsing to allow multiple switches per invocation
- cleanup grammar of man page a bit
- add some ranges to the man page to indicate what values are valid
Since fwcontrol's code is the same across 6/7/head this can be
applied to all branches after the MFC period.
Reviewed by: Dieter freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com
Approved by: mentor Scott scottl@samsco.org
MFC after: 60 days
duplication of code in fdisk and boot0cfg. Also make use of g_providername to
fix an issue with fdisk and boot0cfg not using the correct provider when
writing the MBR.
Reviewed by: phk
Approved by: pjd (mentor)
Should fix the current weirdness in ntpd/ntpdate where the current system
time is not read/updated.
Submitted by: naddy
MFC after: 2 weeks
Pointy hat to: me
sntp includes a copy of libopts in itself in vendor code, rewrite the
Makefile to compile and use only one copy. It is an internal library, not
installed.
MFC after: 2 weeks
tape have been broken for quite a while, and I'll be removing the rest
of sysinstall's knowledge of tapes shortly. I'm doing this piece now
because I want to switch from gnu's cpio to bsdcpio being integrated
into the installation environment and bsdcpio doesn't seem to handle
block sizes at all.
The last half year I've been working on a replacement TTY layer for the
FreeBSD kernel. The new TTY layer was designed to improve the following:
- Improved driver model:
The old TTY layer has a driver model that is not abstract enough to
make it friendly to use. A good example is the output path, where the
device drivers directly access the output buffers. This means that an
in-kernel PPP implementation must always convert network buffers into
TTY buffers.
If a PPP implementation would be built on top of the new TTY layer
(still needs a hooks layer, though), it would allow the PPP
implementation to directly hand the data to the TTY driver.
- Improved hotplugging:
With the old TTY layer, it isn't entirely safe to destroy TTY's from
the system. This implementation has a two-step destructing design,
where the driver first abandons the TTY. After all threads have left
the TTY, the TTY layer calls a routine in the driver, which can be
used to free resources (unit numbers, etc).
The pts(4) driver also implements this feature, which means
posix_openpt() will now return PTY's that are created on the fly.
- Improved performance:
One of the major improvements is the per-TTY mutex, which is expected
to improve scalability when compared to the old Giant locking.
Another change is the unbuffered copying to userspace, which is both
used on TTY device nodes and PTY masters.
Upgrading should be quite straightforward. Unlike previous versions,
existing kernel configuration files do not need to be changed, except
when they reference device drivers that are listed in UPDATING.
Obtained from: //depot/projects/mpsafetty/...
Approved by: philip (ex-mentor)
Discussed: on the lists, at BSDCan, at the DevSummit
Sponsored by: Snow B.V., the Netherlands
dcons(4) fixed by: kan
