iflib is already a module, but it is unconditionally compiled into the
kernel. There are drivers which do not need iflib(4), and there are
situations where somebody might not want iflib in kernel because of
using the corresponding driver as module.
Reviewed by: marius
Discussed with: erj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19041
This is an older broadcom part that implements the mips32 ISA. 32-bit
FreeBSD/mips now requires mips32r2, so retire this config. Most of the
broadcom port is shared with newer ports, so what little code may be
unique to this part has not been GC'd at this time.
Discussed on: freebsd-mips@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18543
This was useful in bring up. However, it causes more issues than the
support is worth (64-bit atomics being chief among them).
Discussed on: freebsd-mips@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18543
gxemul was a nice stop-gap while qemu support for mips was firmed
up. Now MALTA* + qemu is the platform of choice retire gxemul support.
It's unknown when this was last confirmed working.
Discussed on: freebsd-mips@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18543
relevant and is unused. It's also getting in the way of progress in
some admittedly minor ways. Better to retire it to reduce the burden
on the project.
Discussed on: freebsd-mips@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18543
Update the BOOTSTRAPPING check for libelf to require the fix for
mips64el object files committed in r338478 and re-enable kernel
modules in the MALTA64EL config file.
Reviewed by: emaste
Approved by: re (gjb)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17054
It looks like the intent was to allow ZSTD support to be
compiled into the kernel with options ZSTDIO. But it doesn't look
like that was ever implemented or I'm missing how to do it.
I did a cursory audit of kernel config files and made a decision to
enable ZSTDIO in riscv GENERIC and mips MALTA configurations. All other
kernel configurations already had this option in their kernel configs
but they didn't do anything useful as the feature was declared as
"standard" prior to this.
Reviewed by: cem allanjude
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16007
xdma(4) interface.
This allows us to switch between Altera mSGDMA or SoftDMA engines used by
atse(4) device.
This also makes atse(4) driver become 25% smaller.
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9618
The old way required the data to be present really early and copied it from
memory mapped NOR flash; this only worked during kernel boot but not for
ath/ath_hal modules.
Tested:
* AR9331, Carambola2, ath/hal modules.
is now unobtanium. It's only had API changes in the last 7 years, and
is responsible for a very large number of them. In addition, there's a
lot of code that reimplements base FreeBSD functionality, diminishing
the chances it still works. Without hardware to teset it on, or
prospects of obtaining such hardware and without vendor support, it's
time to move on.
Suggested by: kan@ in mips@ retirement discussion
it's at least 5 years out of production. I couldn't find a used one on
ebay and other secondary markets just now, nor when I tried 4 years
ago. It dates from the initial project/mips2 merge 8 years ago, and
hasn't been updated since.
Discussed on: mips@ (with some dissent)
It came into the tree with the project/mips merge 8 years ago. At the
time, it was hard to find a board with enough RAM to run. Now FreeBSD
requires at least 2x the RAM it did then. No changes have happened to
this port apart from API churn and license tagging since then. It ran
OK at the time it was committed, but no sightings in the wild have
happened since shortly after it was committed.
https://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Adm5120_devices lists a bunch of
boards that were available 5 years ago (but are no longer
available). The beefiest one had only 64MB of RAM which is too
small. The Mirktik RB1xx never had more than 32MB.
Also remove confusing QEMU config file that never ever worked in QEMU
for mips. MALTA is used for that. Another of my past mistakes, false
starts that never amounted to anything.
Discussed on: mips@ (with some dissent)
never got better. It never worked on real hardware and is still mostly
stubs after 8 years when I added it. It has had no real update in that
time apart from API churn. It was added just so it didn't get lost in
the project/mips merge, but maybe it should have been lost as nothing
has come of it. It is time to give up the ghost on this one.
Approved by: me, shooting my own dog
Discussed on: mips@
This compilation issue has been found thanks to freebsd-wifi-build:
- gpioiic requires "gpio_if.h", so "device gpio" is mandatory
- rtl8366rb works over MDIO interface, so "device mdio" is mandatory
Compilation is checked on FreeBSD 12-CURRENT machine.
The driver is functional on both BHND Wi-Fi adapters and MIPS SoCs, but
does not currently include support for features not required by bwn(4),
including GPIO interrupt handling.
Approved by: adrian (mentor, implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12708
HEAD. Enable VIMAGE in GENERIC kernels and some others (where GENERIC does
not exist) on HEAD.
Disable building LINT-VIMAGE with VIMAGE being default.
This should give it a lot more exposure in the run-up to 12 to help
us evaluate whether to keep it on by default or not.
We are also hoping to get better performance testing.
The feature can be disabled using nooptions.
Requested by: many
Reviewed by: kristof, emaste, hiren
X-MFC after: never
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12639
Turn on the required options in the ERL config file, and ensure
that the fbt module is listed as a dependency for mips in
the modules/dtrace/dtraceall/dtraceall.c file.
PR: 220346
Reviewed by: gnn, markj
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12227
* Add in the hints needed for AR933x ath(4) support - this is the nicer way
that allows ath to be a module;
* ATH_EEPROM_FIRMWARE is also required for all AR933x chipsets.
Tested:
* Carambola2, AR933x
This brings the default configurations (drivers, net80211 settings, etc) and some
of the shared configuration into std.AR_MIPS_BASE. I haven't yet moved the
-current settings (witness, memguard, etc) into it.
This should simplify building a lot of the same test images for my MIPS AP board
development and testing.
This is a work in progress; it's not designed to be perfect!
