Please note that, this is currently considered as an
experimental feature so there could be some rough
edges. Consult http://wiki.freebsd.org/TMPFS for
more information.
For now, connect tmpfs to build on i386 and amd64
architectures only. Please let us know if you have
success with other platforms.
This work was developed by Julio M. Merino Vidal
for NetBSD as a SoC project; Rohit Jalan ported it
from NetBSD to FreeBSD. Howard Su and Glen Leeder
are worked on it to continue this effort.
Obtained from: NetBSD via p4
Submitted by: Howard Su (with some minor changes)
Approved by: re (kensmith)
o major overhaul of the way channels are handled: channels are now
fully enumerated and uniquely identify the operating characteristics;
these changes are visible to user applications which require changes
o make scanning support independent of the state machine to enable
background scanning and roaming
o move scanning support into loadable modules based on the operating
mode to enable different policies and reduce the memory footprint
on systems w/ constrained resources
o add background scanning in station mode (no support for adhoc/ibss
mode yet)
o significantly speedup sta mode scanning with a variety of techniques
o add roaming support when background scanning is supported; for now
we use a simple algorithm to trigger a roam: we threshold the rssi
and tx rate, if either drops too low we try to roam to a new ap
o add tx fragmentation support
o add first cut at 802.11n support: this code works with forthcoming
drivers but is incomplete; it's included now to establish a baseline
for other drivers to be developed and for user applications
o adjust max_linkhdr et. al. to reflect 802.11 requirements; this eliminates
prepending mbufs for traffic generated locally
o add support for Atheros protocol extensions; mainly the fast frames
encapsulation (note this can be used with any card that can tx+rx
large frames correctly)
o add sta support for ap's that beacon both WPA1+2 support
o change all data types from bsd-style to posix-style
o propagate noise floor data from drivers to net80211 and on to user apps
o correct various issues in the sta mode state machine related to handling
authentication and association failures
o enable the addition of sta mode power save support for drivers that need
net80211 support (not in this commit)
o remove old WI compatibility ioctls (wicontrol is officially dead)
o change the data structures returned for get sta info and get scan
results so future additions will not break user apps
o fixed tx rate is now maintained internally as an ieee rate and not an
index into the rate set; this needs to be extended to deal with
multi-mode operation
o add extended channel specifications to radiotap to enable 11n sniffing
Drivers:
o ath: add support for bg scanning, tx fragmentation, fast frames,
dynamic turbo (lightly tested), 11n (sniffing only and needs
new hal)
o awi: compile tested only
o ndis: lightly tested
o ipw: lightly tested
o iwi: add support for bg scanning (well tested but may have some
rough edges)
o ral, ural, rum: add suppoort for bg scanning, calibrate rssi data
o wi: lightly tested
This work is based on contributions by Atheros, kmacy, sephe, thompsa,
mlaier, kevlo, and others. Much of the scanning work was supported by
Atheros. The 11n work was supported by Marvell.
The name trunk is misused as the networking term trunk means carrying multiple
VLANs over a single connection. The IEEE standard for link aggregation (802.3
section 3) does not talk about 'trunk' at all while it is used throughout IEEE
802.1Q in describing vlans.
The lagg(4) driver provides link aggregation, failover and fault tolerance.
Discussed on: current@
imitating an Ethernet device, so vlan(4) and if_bridge(4) can be
attached to it for testing and benchmarking purposes. Its source
can be an introduction to the anatomy of a network interface driver
due to its simplicity as well as to a bunch of comments in it.
uuencoded format along with their respective LICENSE files.
- Add new share/doc/legal directory to BSD.usr.dist mtree file. This is the
place we install LICENSE files for restricted firmwares.
- Teach firmware(9) and kmod.mk about licensed firmwares. Restricted firmwares
won't load properly unless legal.<name>.license_ack is set to 1, either
via kenv(1) or /boot/loader.conf.
Reviewed by: mlaier, sam
Permitted by: Intel (via Andrew Wilson)
MFC after: 1 month
Originally it wasn't enabled since the hardware wasn't commonplace,
but as 10GE hardware is becoming more widely used, building the module
by default should be beneficial.
Approved by: rwatson (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
PowerPC-based Apple's machines and small utility to do it from
userland modelled after the similar utility in Darwin/OSX.
Only tested on 1.25GHz G4 Mac Mini.
MFC after: 1 month
This driver was ported from OpenBSD by Shigeaki Tagashira
<shigeaki@se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp> and posted at
http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html
It was additionally cleaned up by me.
It is still a work-in-progress and thus is purposefully not in GENERIC.
And it conflicts with nve(4), so only one should be loaded.
s/myri10ge/mxge/g replacement in the myri10ge files. A few contuation
lines were joined because of the regained columns.
- Hook the mxge driver back to the build.
This driver was generously developed and donated by Highpoint.
It is enabled for i386 only at the moment. I will enable it for amd64
shortly.
Obtained from: HighPoint Technologies, Inc.
o Add the scc(4) manpage to the build.
o Update the uart(4) manpage to account for scc(4).
o Update the uart(4) module build to include support for scc(4).
- <netipx> headers [1]
- IPX library (libipx)
- IPX support in ifconfig(8)
- IPXrouted(8)
- new MK_NCP option
New MK_NCP build option controls:
- <netncp> and <fs/nwfs> headers
- NCP library (libncp)
- ncplist(1) and ncplogin(1)
- mount_nwfs(8)
- ncp and nwfs kernel modules
User knobs: WITHOUT_IPX, WITHOUT_IPX_SUPPORT, WITHOUT_NCP.
[1] <netsmb/netbios.h> unconditionally uses <netipx> headers
so they are still installed. This needs to be dealt with.
into a separate module. Accordingly, convert the option into a device
named similarly.
Note for MFC: Perhaps the option should stay in RELENG_6 for POLA reasons.
Suggested by: scottl
Reviewed by: cokane
MFC after: 5 days
in order to support the on-board LANCE in Ultra 1 and to the MI NOTES as
it should work just fine with the AMD PCnet family of chips on all archs
but is not yet meant to replace lnc(4). If a kernel includes all of le(4),
lnc(4) and pcn(4) precedence is given to lnc(4)/pcn(4) for now.
specially crafted module. There are several handrolled sollutions to this
problem in the tree already which will be replaced with this. They include
iwi(4), ipw(4), ispfw(4) and digi(4).
No objection from: arch
MFC after: 2 weeks
X-MFC after: some drivers have been converted
I'm holding off on building on sparc64 and others because I don't know
if this driver has had all the inb/outb removed (I think it has). Nor
do I know if there are byte ordering issues. There are very few word
operations on an NE2000, but I've not had time to audit them all.
Suggested by: Daniel O'Connor
The following repo-copies were made (by Mark Murray):
sys/i386/isa/spkr.c -> sys/dev/speaker/spkr.c
sys/i386/include/speaker.h -> sys/dev/speaker/speaker.h
share/man/man4/man4.i386/spkr.4 -> share/man/man4/spkr.4
drivers I started quite some time before.
Retire the old i386-only pcf driver, and activate the new general
driver that has been sitting in the tree already for quite some
time.
Build the i2c modules for sparc64 architectures as well (where I've
been developing all this on).
interface polling, compiles on 64-bit platforms, and compiles on NetBSD,
OpenBSD, BSD/OS, and Linux. Woo! Thanks to David Boggs for providing this
driver.
Altq, sppp, netgraph, and bpf are required for this driver to operate.
Userland tools and man pages will be committed next.
Submitted by: David Boggs
replacement and has additional features which make it superior.
Discussed on: -arch
Reviewed by: thompsa
X-MFC-after: never (RELENG_6 as transition period)
earlier as no one has stepped up to test recent changes to the driver.
Oddly, the module was actually turned on on ia64 though I'm fairly certain
that no ia64 machine has ever had or will ever have an ISA slot.
Axe borrowed from: phk
o Add minimal kbdmux(4) man page to the source tree (more details to follow);
o Hook up kbdmux(4) to the build.
This concludes the first part of the kbdmux(4) keyboard multiplexer
integration. It now should be possible to use kbdmux(4), however one
must configure kbdmux(4) by hand (i.e. load kbdmux(4) module and use
kbdcontrol(1) to add/remove slave keyboards to/from kbdmux(4)).
MFC after: 1 week
here on in, if_ndis.ko will be pre-built as a module, and can be built
into a static kernel (though it's not part of GENERIC). Drivers are
created using the new ndisgen(8) script, which uses ndiscvt(8) under
the covers, along with a few other tools. The result is a driver module
that can be kldloaded into the kernel.
A driver with foo.inf and foo.sys files will be converted into
foo_sys.ko (and foo_sys.o, for those who want/need to make static
kernels). This module contains all of the necessary info from the
.INF file and the driver binary image, converted into an ELF module.
You can kldload this module (or add it to /boot/loader.conf) to have
it loaded automatically. Any required firmware files can be bundled
into the module as well (or converted/loaded separately).
Also, add a workaround for a problem in NdisMSleep(). During system
bootstrap (cold == 1), msleep() always returns 0 without actually
sleeping. The Intel 2200BG driver uses NdisMSleep() to wait for
the NIC's firmware to come to life, and fails to load if NdisMSleep()
doesn't actually delay. As a workaround, if msleep() (and hence
ndis_thsuspend()) returns 0, use a hard DELAY() to sleep instead).
This is not really the right thing to do, but we can't really do much
else. At the very least, this makes the Intel driver happy.
There are probably other drivers that fail in this way during bootstrap.
Unfortunately, the only workaround for those is to avoid pre-loading
them and kldload them once the system is running instead.
Enhanced SpeedStep (that is, a follow-up of it called Foxton). Until
we actually have support for that, we build to catch regressions in
the framework.
Triggered by: njl
pc98 machines because (a) it is PCIe or PCI-X (b) there's a BIOS that
must run at boot which assumes IBM-AT compatible boot environment.
Noticed by: scottl
o ATA is now fully newbus'd and split into modules.
This means that on a modern system you just load "atapci and ata"
to get the base support, and then one or more of the device
subdrivers "atadisk atapicd atapifd atapist ataraid".
All can be loaded/unloaded anytime, but for obvious reasons you
dont want to unload atadisk when you have mounted filesystems.
o The device identify part of the probe has been rewritten to fix
the problems with odd devices the old had, and to try to remove
so of the long delays some HW could provoke. Also probing is done
without the need for interrupts, making earlier probing possible.
o SATA devices can be hot inserted/removed and devices will be created/
removed in /dev accordingly.
NOTE: only supported on controllers that has this feature:
Promise and Silicon Image for now.
On other controllers the usual atacontrol detach/attach dance is
still needed.
o Support for "atomic" composite ATA requests used for RAID.
o ATA RAID support has been rewritten and and now supports these
metadata formats:
"Adaptec HostRAID"
"Highpoint V2 RocketRAID"
"Highpoint V3 RocketRAID"
"Intel MatrixRAID"
"Integrated Technology Express"
"LSILogic V2 MegaRAID"
"LSILogic V3 MegaRAID"
"Promise FastTrak"
"Silicon Image Medley"
"FreeBSD PseudoRAID"
o Update the ioctl API to match new RAID levels etc.
o Update atacontrol to know about the new RAID levels etc
NOTE: you need to recompile atacontrol with the new sys/ata.h,
make world will take care of that.
NOTE2: that rebuild is done differently from the old system as
the rebuild is now done piggybacked on read requests to the
array, so atacontrol simply starts a background "dd" to rebuild
the array.
o The reinit code has been worked over to be much more robust.
o The timeout code has been overhauled for races.
o Support of new chipsets.
o Lots of fixes for bugs found while doing the modulerization and
reviewing the old code.
Missing or changed features from current ATA:
o atapi-cd no longer has support for ATAPI changers. Todays its
much cheaper and alot faster to copy those CD images to disk
and serve them from there. Besides they dont seem to be made
anymore, maybe for that exact reason.
o ATA RAID can only read metadata from all the above metadata formats,
not write all of them (Promise and Highpoint V2 so far). This means
that arrays can be picked up from the BIOS, but they cannot be
created from FreeBSD. There is more to it than just the missing
write metadata support, those formats are not unique to a given
controller like Promise and Highpoint formats, instead they exist
for several types, and even worse, some controllers can have
different formats and its impossible to tell which one.
The outcome is that we cannot reliably create the metadata of those
formats and be sure the controller BIOS will understand it.
However write support is needed to update/fail/rebuild the arrays
properly so it sits fairly high on the TODO list.
o So far atapicam is not supported with these changes. When/if this
will change is up to the maintainer of atapi-cam so go there for
questions.
HW donated by: Webveveriet AS
HW donated by: Frode Nordahl
HW donated by: Yahoo!
HW donated by: Sentex
Patience by: Vife and my boys (and even the cats)
