The CUSE library is a wrapper for the devfs kernel functionality which
is exposed through /dev/cuse . In order to function the CUSE kernel
code must either be enabled in the kernel configuration file or loaded
separately as a module. Currently none of the committed items are
connected to the default builds, except for installing the needed
header files. The CUSE code will be connected to the default world and
kernel builds in a follow-up commit.
The CUSE module was written by Hans Petter Selasky, somewhat inspired
by similar functionality found in FUSE. The CUSE library can be used
for many purposes. Currently CUSE is used when running Linux kernel
drivers in user-space, which need to create a character device node to
communicate with its applications. CUSE has full support for almost
all devfs functionality found in the kernel:
- kevents
- read
- write
- ioctl
- poll
- open
- close
- mmap
- private per file handle data
Requested by several people. Also see "multimedia/cuse4bsd-kmod" in
ports.
ismt(4) supports the SMBus Message Transport controller found on Intel
C2000 series (Avoton) and S1200 series (Briarwood) Atom SoCs.
Sponsored by: Intel
Intel 40G Ethernet Controller XL710 Family. This is
the core driver, a VF driver called i40evf, will be
following soon. Questions or comments to myself or
my co-developer Eric Joyner. Cheers!
audio device driver is detached first and not its children. This fixes
a panic in some cases when unloading "snd_uaudio" while a USB device
is plugged. The linking order affects the order in which the module
dependencies are registered.
MFC after: 1 week
cards. LSI has been maintaining this driver outside of the FreeBSD
tree. It overlaps support of ThunderBolt and Invader cards that mfi(4)
supports. By default mfi(4) will attach to cards. If the tunable:
hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1
is set then mfi(4) will not probe and attach to these newer cards and
allow mrsas(4) to attach. So by default this driver will not effect
a FreeBSD system unless mfi(4) is removed from the kernel or the
tunable is enabled.
mrsas(4) attaches disks to the CAM layer so it depends on CAM and devices
show up as /dev/daX. mfiutil(8) does not work with mrsas. The FreeBSD
version of MegaCli and StorCli from LSI do work with mrsas. It appears
that StorCli only works with mrsas. MegaCli appears to work with mfi(4)
and mrsas(4).
It would be good to add mfiutil(4) support to mrsas, emulations modes,
kernel logging, device aliases to ease the transition between mfi(4)
and mrsas(4).
Style issues should be resolved by LSI when they get committers approved.
The plan is get this driver in FreeBSD 9.3 to improve HW support.
Thanks to LSI for developing, testing and working with FreeBSD to
make this driver co-exist in FreeBSD. This improves the overall
support of MegaRAID SAS.
Submitted by: Kashyap Desai <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com>
Reviewed by: scottl
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: LSI
platforms, because these platforms do not implement the ISA DMA
API. Else the sound modules cannot be loaded when running these
platforms.
MFC after: 2 weeks
This allows to run 32bit applications on a 64bit host. This was tested
successfully with Wine (emulators/i386-wine-devel) and StarCraft II.
Submitted by: Jan Kokemüller <jan.kokemueller@gmail.com>
MFC after: 1 week
This is derived from the mps(4) driver, but it supports only the 12Gb
IT and IR hardware including the SAS 3004, SAS 3008 and SAS 3108.
Some notes about this driver:
o The 12Gb hardware can do "FastPath" I/O, and that capability is included in
this driver.
o WarpDrive functionality has been removed, since it isn't supported in
the 12Gb driver interface.
o The Scatter/Gather list handling code is significantly different between
the 6Gb and 12Gb hardware. The 12Gb boards support IEEE Scatter/Gather
lists.
Thanks to LSI for developing and testing this driver for FreeBSD.
share/man/man4/mpr.4:
mpr(4) man page.
sys/dev/mpr/*:
mpr(4) driver files.
sys/modules/Makefile,
sys/modules/mpr/Makefile:
Add a module Makefile for the mpr(4) driver.
sys/conf/files:
Add the mpr(4) driver.
sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC,
sys/i386/conf/GENERIC,
sys/mips/conf/OCTEON1,
sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC:
Add the mpr(4) driver to all config files that currently
have the mps(4) driver.
sys/ia64/conf/GENERIC:
Add the mps(4) and mpr(4) drivers to the ia64 GENERIC
config file.
sys/i386/conf/XEN:
Exclude the mpr module from building here.
Submitted by: Steve McConnell <Stephen.McConnell@lsi.com>
MFC after: 3 days
Tested by: Chris Reeves <chrisr@spectralogic.com>
Sponsored by: LSI, Spectra Logic
Relnotes: LSI 12Gb SAS driver mpr(4) added
It exposes I/O resources to user space, so that programs can peek
and poke at the hardware. It does not itself have knowledge about
the hardware device it attaches to.
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
NetFPGA-10G Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.
The current version operates on a simple PIO based interface connected
to a NetFPGA-10G port.
To avoid confusion: this driver operates on a CPU running on the FPGA,
e.g. BERI/mips, and is not suited for the PCI host interface.
MFC after: 1 week
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: DARPA/AFRL
binmisc code to be build on amd64/i386 for the kernel.
Update NOTES with some indication of what this code is used for.
Pointed out by jhb@ ... thanks!
Submitted by: jhb@
execution to a emumation program via parsing of ELF header information.
With this kernel module and userland tool, poudriere is able to build
ports packages via the QEMU userland tools (or another emulator program)
in a different architecture chroot, e.g. TARGET=mips TARGET_ARCH=mips
I'm not connecting this to GENERIC for obvious reasons, but this should
allow the kernel module to be built by default and enable the building
of the userland tool (which automatically loads the kernel module).
Submitted by: sson@
Reviewed by: jhb@
systems need fine-grained control over what's in and what's out.
That's ideal. For now, separate GPT labels from the rest and allow
g_label to be built with just GPT labels.
Obtained from: Juniper Networks, Inc.
As a prerequisite for multiple queues, the guest must have MSIX enabled.
Unfortunately, to work around device passthrough bugs, FreeBSD disables
MSIX when running as a VMWare guest due to the hw.pci.honor_msi_blacklist
tunable; this tunable must be disabled for multiple queues.
Also included is various minor changes from the projects/vmxnet branch.
MFC after: 1 month
AppleTalk was a network transport protocol for Apple Macintosh devices
in 80s and then 90s. Starting with Mac OS X in 2000 the AppleTalk was
a legacy protocol and primary networking protocol is TCP/IP. The last
Mac OS X release to support AppleTalk happened in 2009. The same year
routing equipment vendors (namely Cisco) end their support.
Thus, AppleTalk won't be supported in FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE.
IPX was a network transport protocol in Novell's NetWare network operating
system from late 80s and then 90s. The NetWare itself switched to TCP/IP
as default transport in 1998. Later, in this century the Novell Open
Enterprise Server became successor of Novell NetWare. The last release
that claimed to still support IPX was OES 2 in 2007. Routing equipment
vendors (e.g. Cisco) discontinued support for IPX in 2011.
Thus, IPX won't be supported in FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE.
New ioctls VM_ISA_ASSERT_IRQ, VM_ISA_DEASSERT_IRQ and VM_ISA_PULSE_IRQ
can be used to manipulate the pic, and optionally the ioapic, pin state.
Reviewed by: jhb, neel
Approved by: neel (co-mentor)
relative to .CURDIR if not already defined. This makes the makefiles
more readable but also more re-usable and adaptable.
Obtained from: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- netmap pipes, providing bidirectional blocking I/O while moving
100+ Mpps between processes using shared memory channels
(no mistake: over one hundred million. But mind you, i said
*moving* not *processing*);
- kqueue support (BHyVe needs it);
- improved user library. Just the interface name lets you select a NIC,
host port, VALE switch port, netmap pipe, and individual queues.
The upcoming netmap-enabled libpcap will use this feature.
- optional extra buffers associated to netmap ports, for applications
that need to buffer data yet don't want to make copies.
- segmentation offloading for the VALE switch, useful between VMs.
and a number of bug fixes and performance improvements.
My colleagues Giuseppe Lettieri and Vincenzo Maffione did a substantial
amount of work on these features so we owe them a big thanks.
There are some external repositories that can be of interest:
https://code.google.com/p/netmap
our public repository for netmap/VALE code, including
linux versions and other stuff that does not belong here,
such as python bindings.
https://code.google.com/p/netmap-libpcap
a clone of the libpcap repository with netmap support.
With this any libpcap client has access to most netmap
feature with no recompilation. E.g. tcpdump can filter
packets at 10-15 Mpps.
https://code.google.com/p/netmap-ipfw
a userspace version of ipfw+dummynet which uses netmap
to send/receive packets. Speed is up in the 7-10 Mpps
range per core for simple rulesets.
Both netmap-libpcap and netmap-ipfw will be merged upstream at some
point, but while this happens it is useful to have access to them.
And yes, this code will be merged soon. It is infinitely better
than the version currently in 10 and 9.
MFC after: 3 days
Useful for so-called USB tethering.
- Imported code from OpenBSD
- Adapted code to FreeBSD
- Removed some unused functions
- Fixed some buffer encoding and decoding issues
- Optimised data transport path a bit, by sending multiple packets at a time
- Increased receive buffer to 16K
Obtained from: OpenBSD
Requested by: eadler @
MFC after: 2 weeks
