Yes, it's what you think it is. Yes, you should run away now.
This is a special compatibility module for allowing Windows NDIS
miniport network drivers to be used with FreeBSD/x86. This provides
_binary_ NDIS compatibility (not source): you can run NDIS driver
code, but you can't build it. There are three main parts:
sys/compat/ndis: the NDIS compat API, which provides binary
compatibility functions for many routines in NDIS.SYS, HAL.dll
and ntoskrnl.exe in Windows (these are the three modules that
most NDIS miniport drivers use). The compat module also contains
a small PE relocator/dynalinker which relocates the Windows .SYS
image and then patches in our native routines.
sys/dev/if_ndis: the if_ndis driver wrapper. This module makes
use of the ndis compat API and can be compiled with a specially
prepared binary image file (ndis_driver_data.h) containing the
Windows .SYS image and registry key information parsed out of the
accompanying .INF file. Once if_ndis.ko is built, it can be loaded
and unloaded just like a native FreeBSD kenrel module.
usr.sbin/ndiscvt: a special utility that converts foo.sys and foo.inf
into an ndis_driver_data.h file that can be compiled into if_ndis.o.
Contains an .inf file parser graciously provided by Matt Dodd (and
mercilessly hacked upon by me) that strips out device ID info and
registry key info from a .INF file and packages it up with a binary
image array. The ndiscvt(8) utility also does some manipulation of
the segments within the .sys file to make life easier for the kernel
loader. (Doing the manipulation here saves the kernel code from having
to move things around later, which would waste memory.)
ndiscvt is only built for the i386 arch. Only files.i386 has been
updated, and none of this is turned on in GENERIC. It should probably
work on pc98. I have no idea about amd64 or ia64 at this point.
This is still a work in progress. I estimate it's about %85 done, but
I want it under CVS control so I can track subsequent changes. It has
been tested with exactly three drivers: the LinkSys LNE100TX v4 driver
(Lne100v4.sys), the sample Intel 82559 driver from the Windows DDK
(e100bex.sys) and the Broadcom BCM43xx wireless driver (bcmwl5.sys). It
still needs to have a net80211 stuff added to it. To use it, you would
do something like this:
# cd /sys/modules/ndis
# make; make load
# cd /sys/modules/if_ndis
# ndiscvt -i /path/to/foo.inf -s /path/to/foo.sys -o ndis_driver_data.h
# make; make load
# sysctl -a | grep ndis
All registry keys are mapped to sysctl nodes. Sometimes drivers refer
to registry keys that aren't mentioned in foo.inf. If this happens,
the NDIS API module creates sysctl nodes for these keys on the fly so
you can tweak them.
An example usage of the Broadcom wireless driver would be:
# sysctl hw.ndis0.EnableAutoConnect=1
# sysctl hw.ndis0.SSID="MY_SSID"
# sysctl hw.ndis0.NetworkType=0 (0 for bss, 1 for adhoc)
# ifconfig ndis0 <my ipaddr> netmask 0xffffff00 up
Things to be done:
- get rid of debug messages
- add in ndis80211 support
- defer transmissions until after a status update with
NDIS_STATUS_CONNECTED occurs
- Create smarter lookaside list support
- Split off if_ndis_pci.c and if_ndis_pccard.c attachments
- Make sure PCMCIA support works
- Fix ndiscvt to properly parse PCMCIA device IDs from INF files
- write ndisapi.9 man page
with the sendsig code in the MD area. It is not safe to assume that all
the register conventions will be the same. Also, the way of producing
32 bit code (.code32 directives) in this file is amd64 specific.
The split-up code is derived from the ia64 code originally.
Note that I have only compile-tested this, not actually run-tested it.
The ia64 side of the force is missing some significant chunks of signal
delivery code.
lots of old interfaces, and digi now supports all cards that dgb
supported. The author of the driver says that this is no longer
necessary.
Approved by: babkin@
a long time: lmc The LAN Media Corp PCI WAN driver based on tulip.
This driver hasn't compiled for 3 years since the PCI compat shims
were removed, and Lan Media appears to have gone out of business.
These cards appear to be rare (a recent search of ebay had no hits).
Should someone wish to revive this driver, submitting patches to make
it compile plus a testing report will bring it back.
or whose drivers haven't even compiled for years.
The loran hardware was very unique, and only a few copies of it ever
existed. It used the old COMPAT_ISA_DRIVER and when the author was
contacted, he indicated that he had no intention of ever updating this
driver and it was no longer relevant to the FreeBSD world and can be
removed without impact to anybody.
Approved by: phk
Update notes to reflect that cx is no longer a counted device
Update options for new cx option
# commented out ELAN_PPS and ELAN_XTAL since they produced errors
Submitted by: rik@cronyx.ru
Approved by: re@ <scottl>
aid other kernel code, especially code which can be in a module such as
the acpi_cpu(4) driver, to work properly with both SMP and UP kernels.
The exported symbols include mp_ncpus, all_cpus, mp_maxid, smp_started, and
the smp_rendezvous() function. This also means that CPU_ABSENT() is now
always implemented the same on all kernels.
Approved by: re (scottl)
uncovering some interesting problems. Be conservative and effecitvely
disable this by default. Interested parties may still define
KERNBUILDDIR by hand to achive the same effect.
I plan on referting this change after 5.2 is released, or sooner if
the issues with building releases are resolved and re@ approves.
Approved by: re@ (scottl, marcel)
the routing table. Move all usage and references in the tcp stack
from the routing table metrics to the tcp hostcache.
It caches measured parameters of past tcp sessions to provide better
initial start values for following connections from or to the same
source or destination. Depending on the network parameters to/from
the remote host this can lead to significant speedups for new tcp
connections after the first one because they inherit and shortcut
the learning curve.
tcp_hostcache is designed for multiple concurrent access in SMP
environments with high contention and is hash indexed by remote
ip address.
It removes significant locking requirements from the tcp stack with
regard to the routing table.
Reviewed by: sam (mentor), bms
Reviewed by: -net, -current, core@kame.net (IPv6 parts)
Approved by: re (scottl)
regocnized as such at the time. Now that the other bogons in the
tree have been fixed, we can remove this ugly kludge.
o Remove stale/bogus opt_foo.h files. These are left over from
by-gone resources. And they point to the need, yet again, to
improve the build system so meta information is only in one place.
Submitted by: ru
Reviewed by: bde
Approved by: re@ (jhb)
- This is heavily derived from John Baldwin's apic/pci cleanup on i386.
- I have completely rewritten or drastically cleaned up some other parts.
(in particular, bootstrap)
- This is still a WIP. It seems that there are some highly bogus bioses
on nVidia nForce3-150 boards. I can't stress how broken these boards
are. I have a workaround in mind, but right now the Asus SK8N is broken.
The Gigabyte K8NPro (nVidia based) is also mind-numbingly hosed.
- Most of my testing has been with SCHED_ULE. SCHED_4BSD works.
- the apic and acpi components are 'standard'.
- If you have an nVidia nForce3-150 board, you are stuck with 'device
atpic' in addition, because they somehow managed to forget to connect the
8254 timer to the apic, even though its in the same silicon! ARGH!
This directly violates the ACPI spec.
I'm having bad luck with different parts of the sys tree being checked
out at slightly different times. Back it out, noting it doesn't cause
harm in any case. Tinderbox also makes these things more fun.
opt_ddb.h. These changes expand green's work of including
opt_global.h to prefer opt files in the kernel directory. Further
refinement might be needed, but I think this is good.
Note: While this is a step on the path to moving the meta information
about modules into the config files, it doesn't actually do that. It
just pulls in the opt files in a way that allows one to build
'generic' modules outside the tree.
* Use the cpu_idle_hook() to do idling for C1-C3.
* Use both _CST and the FADT to detect Cx states.
* Use both _PTC and P_CNT for controlling throttling.
* Add a notify handler to detect changes in _CST and _PSS
* Call the _INI function for each processor if present. This will be
done by ACPI-CA in the future.
* Fix a bug on SMP systems where CPUs will attach multiple times if the
bus is rescan.
* Document new sysctls for controlling idling.
Short description of ip_fastforward:
o adds full direct process-to-completion IPv4 forwarding code
o handles ip fragmentation incl. hw support (ip_flow did not)
o sends icmp needfrag to source if DF is set (ip_flow did not)
o supports ipfw and ipfilter (ip_flow did not)
o supports divert, ipfw fwd and ipfilter nat (ip_flow did not)
o returns anything it can't handle back to normal ip_input
Enable with sysctl -w net.inet.ip.fastforwarding=1
Reviewed by: sam (mentor)
kernel build. This makes it possible for me not to get pissed off that
random.ko crashes the system trying to rdtsc() when the i386/cpu.h
support code decides it's okay to call that op when neither I386_CPU or
I486_CPU is defined. I guess it also makes WITNESS/INVARIANTS defines
get picked up by the modules.
in various kernel objects to represent security data, we embed a
(struct label *) pointer, which now references labels allocated using
a UMA zone (mac_label.c). This allows the size and shape of struct
label to be varied without changing the size and shape of these kernel
objects, which become part of the frozen ABI with 5-STABLE. This opens
the door for boot-time selection of the number of label slots, and hence
changes to the bound on the number of simultaneous labeled policies
at boot-time instead of compile-time. This also makes it easier to
embed label references in new objects as required for locking/caching
with fine-grained network stack locking, such as inpcb structures.
This change also moves us further in the direction of hiding the
structure of kernel objects from MAC policy modules, not to mention
dramatically reducing the number of '&' symbols appearing in both the
MAC Framework and MAC policy modules, and improving readability.
While this results in minimal performance change with MAC enabled, it
will observably shrink the size of a number of critical kernel data
structures for the !MAC case, and should have a small (but measurable)
performance benefit (i.e., struct vnode, struct socket) do to memory
conservation and reduced cost of zeroing memory.
NOTE: Users of MAC must recompile their kernel and all MAC modules as a
result of this change. Because this is an API change, third party
MAC modules will also need to be updated to make less use of the '&'
symbol.
Suggestions from: bmilekic
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
turnstiles to implement blocking isntead of implementing a thread queue
directly. These turnstiles are somewhat similar to those used in Solaris 7
as described in Solaris Internals but are also different.
Turnstiles do not come out of a fixed-sized pool. Rather, each thread is
assigned a turnstile when it is created that it frees when it is destroyed.
When a thread blocks on a lock, it donates its turnstile to that lock to
serve as queue of blocked threads. The queue associated with a given lock
is found by a lookup in a simple hash table. The turnstile itself is
protected by a lock associated with its entry in the hash table. This
means that sched_lock is no longer needed to contest on a mutex. Instead,
sched_lock is only used when manipulating run queues or thread priorities.
Turnstiles also implement priority propagation inherently.
Currently turnstiles only support mutexes. Eventually, however, turnstiles
may grow two queue's to support a non-sleepable reader/writer lock
implementation. For more details, see the comments in sys/turnstile.h and
kern/subr_turnstile.c.
The two primary advantages from the turnstile code include: 1) the size
of struct mutex shrinks by four pointers as it no longer stores the
thread queue linkages directly, and 2) less contention on sched_lock in
SMP systems including the ability for multiple CPUs to contend on different
locks simultaneously (not that this last detail is necessarily that much of
a big win). Note that 1) means that this commit is a kernel ABI breaker,
so don't mix old modules with a new kernel and vice versa.
Tested on: i386 SMP, sparc64 SMP, alpha SMP
