The hardware is compliant with WDRT specification, so I originally
considered including generic WDRT watchdog support, but decided
against it, because I couldn't find anyone to the code for me.
WDRT seems to be not very popular.
Besides, generic WDRT porbably requires a slightly different driver
approach.
Reviewed by: des, gavin, rpaulo
MFC after: 3 weeks
devices that we also support, just not by default (thus only LINT or
module builds by default).
While currently there is only "/dev/full" [2], we are planning to see more
in the future. We may decide to change the module/dependency logic in the
future should the list grow too long.
This is not part of linux.ko as also non-linux binaries like kFreeBSD
userland or ports can make use of this as well.
Suggested by: rwatson [1] (name)
Submitted by: ed [2]
Discussed with: markm, ed, rwatson, kib (weeks ago)
Reviewed by: rwatson, brueffer (prev. version)
PR: kern/68961
MFC after: 6 weeks
- Add vesa kernel options for amd64.
- Connect libvgl library and splash kernel modules to amd64 build.
- Connect manual page dpms(4) to amd64 build.
- Remove old vesa/dpms files.
Submitted by: paradox <ddkprog yahoo com> [1], swell k at gmail.com
(with some minor tweaks)
has proven to have a good effect when entering KDB by using a NMI,
but it completely violates all the good rules about interrupts
disabled while holding a spinlock in other occasions. This can be the
cause of deadlocks on events where a normal IPI_STOP is expected.
* Adds an new IPI called IPI_STOP_HARD on all the supported architectures.
This IPI is responsible for sending a stop message among CPUs using a
privileged channel when disponible. In other cases it just does match a
normal IPI_STOP.
Right now the IPI_STOP_HARD functionality uses a NMI on ia32 and amd64
architectures, while on the other has a normal IPI_STOP effect. It is
responsibility of maintainers to eventually implement an hard stop
when necessary and possible.
* Use the new IPI facility in order to implement a new userend SMP kernel
function called stop_cpus_hard(). That is specular to stop_cpu() but
it does use the privileged channel for the stopping facility.
* Let KDB use the newly introduced function stop_cpus_hard() and leave
stop_cpus() for all the other cases
* Disable interrupts on CPU0 when starting the process of APs suspension.
* Style cleanup and comments adding
This patch should fix the reboot/shutdown deadlocks many users are
constantly reporting on mailing lists.
Please don't forget to update your config file with the STOP_NMI
option removal
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: pho, bz, rink
Approved by: re (kib)
net80211 wireless stack. This work is based on the March 2009 D3.0 draft
standard. This standard is expected to become final next year.
This includes two main net80211 modules, ieee80211_mesh.c
which deals with peer link management, link metric calculation,
routing table control and mesh configuration and ieee80211_hwmp.c
which deals with the actually routing process on the mesh network.
HWMP is the mandatory routing protocol on by the mesh standard, but
others, such as RA-OLSR, can be implemented.
Authentication and encryption are not implemented.
There are several scripts under tools/tools/net80211/scripts that can be
used to test different mesh network topologies and they also teach you
how to setup a mesh vap (for the impatient: ifconfig wlan0 create
wlandev ... wlanmode mesh).
A new build option is available: IEEE80211_SUPPORT_MESH and it's enabled
by default on GENERIC kernels for i386, amd64, sparc64 and pc98.
Drivers that support mesh networks right now are: ath, ral and mwl.
More information at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WifiMesh
Please note that this work is experimental. Also, please note that
bridging a mesh vap with another network interface is not yet supported.
Many thanks to the FreeBSD Foundation for sponsoring this project and to
Sam Leffler for his support.
Also, I would like to thank Gateworks Corporation for sending me a
Cambria board which was used during the development of this project.
Reviewed by: sam
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Obtained from: projects/mesh11s
More applications (including Firefox) seem to depend on this nowadays,
so not having this enabled by default is a bad idea.
Proposed by: miwi
Patch by: Florian Smeets <flo kasimir com>
Approved by: re (kib)
warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set accurately
Provide hints to atrtc on amd64 since it's not being described in
ACPI on some systems.
Reviewed by: jhb
In the past there have been some reports of PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE not
functioning correctly. Instead of having garbled console messages, we
should just see whether the issues are still there and analyze them.
Approved by: re
controller. These controllers are also known as L1C(AR8131) and
L2C(AR8132) respectively. These controllers resembles the first
generation controller L1 but usage of different descriptor format
and new register mappings over L1 register space requires a new
driver. There are a couple of registers I still don't understand
but the driver seems to have no critical issues for performance and
stability. Currently alc(4) supports the following hardware
features.
o MSI
o TCP Segmentation offload
o Hardware VLAN tag insertion/stripping
o Tx/Rx interrupt moderation
o Hardware statistics counters(dev.alc.%d.stats)
o Jumbo frame
o WOL
AR8131/AR8132 also supports Tx checksum offloading but I disabled
it due to stability issues. I'm not sure this comes from broken
sample boards or hardware bugs. If you know your controller works
without problems you can still enable it. The controller has a
silicon bug for Rx checksum offloading, so the feature was not
implemented.
I'd like to say big thanks to Atheros. Atheros kindly sent sample
boards to me and answered several questions I had.
HW donated by: Atheros Communications, Inc.
goal of shipping 8.0 with MAC support in the default kernel. No policies
will be compiled in or enabled by default, but it will now be possible to
load them at boot or runtime without a kernel recompile.
While the framework is not believed to impose measurable overhead when no
policies are loaded (a result of optimization over the past few months in
HEAD), we'll continue to benchmark and optimize as the release approaches.
Please keep an eye out for performance or functionality regressions that
could be a result of this change.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
- Remove vga0 and the disabled uart2/uart3 hints from both platforms.
- Remove hints for ISA adv0, bt0, aha0, aic0, ed0, cs0, sn0, ie0, fe0, and
le0 from i386. All these hints were marked 'disabled' and thus already
did not work "out of the box".
Discussed with: imp
as well as providing stateful load balancing when used with RADIX_MPATH.
- Currently compiled in to i386 and amd64 but disabled by default, it can be enabled at
runtime with 'sysctl net.inet.flowtable.enable=1'.
- Embedded users can remove it entirely from the kernel by adding 'nooption FLOWTABLE' to
their kernel config files.
- A minimal hookup will be added to ip_output in a subsequent commit. I would like to see
more review before bringing in changes that require more churn.
Supported by: Bitgravity Inc.
naming of the partitions (GEOM_PART_EBR_COMPAT). When
compatibility is enabled, changes to the partitioning are
disallowed.
Remove the device name aliasing added previously to provide
backward compatibility, but which in practice doesn't give
us anything.
Enable compatibility on amd64 and i386.
driver in Linux 2.6. uscanner was just a simple wrapper around a fifo and
contained no logic, the default interface is now libusb (supported by sane).
Reviewed by: HPS
- remove misleading nve/nfe comments, which make it hard to
distinguish those two at a first glance
- bring pbio documentation to the block comment together with
other drivers
I also brought commented out line responsible for si(4), since it
seems to compile and already has respective comment in this file.
need to explicitly list it here once again. This removes:
WARNING: duplicate option `DEV_URAL' encountered.
WARNING: duplicate device `ural' encountered.
Warnings when compiling LINT on amd64.
- correct format strings
- fill opt_agp.h if AGP_DEBUG is defined
- bring AGP_DEBUG to LINT by mentioning it in NOTES
This should hopefully fix a warning that was...
Found by: Coverity Prevent(tm)
CID: 3676
Tested on: amd64, i386
- add a reference to the config(5) manpage;
- hopefully clarify the format of the 'env FILENAME' directive.
I am putting these notes in sys/${arch}/conf/GENERIC and not
in sys/conf/NOTES because:
1. i386/GENERIC already had reference to a similar option (hints..)
and to documentation (handbook)
2. GENERIC is what most users look at when they have to modify or
create a new kernel config, so having the suggestion there is
more effective.
I am only touching i386 and amd64 because the other GENERIC files
are already out of sync, and I am not sure what is the overall plan.
MFC after: 3 days
to GENERIC configuration files. This brings what's in 8.x in sync
with what is in 7.x, but does not change any current defaults.
Possibly they should now be enabled in head by default?
Sgtty is a programming interface that has been replaced by termios over
the years. In June we already removed <sgtty.h>, which exposes the
ioctl()'s that are implemented by this interface. The importance of this
flag is overrated right now.
