There's something that's been bugging me for a while, so I decided to fix it.
FreeBSD now will DTRT WRT DDB and DDB_UNATTENDED (!debugger_on_panic), at least
in my opinion. The behavior change is such that:
1. Nothing changes when debugger_on_panic != 0.
2. When DDB_UNATTENDED (!debugger_on_panic), if a panic occurs, the
machine will reboot. Also, if a trap occurs, the machine will
panic and reboot, unlike how it broke to DDB before. HOWEVER,
a trap inside DDB will not cause a panic, allowing full use
of DDB without having to worry about the machine being stuck
at a DDB prompt if something goes wrong during the day.
Patches for this behavior follow my signature, and it would
be a boon to anyone (like me) who uses DDB_UNATTENDED, but
actually wants the machine to panic on a trap (otherwise,
what's the use, if the machine causes a fatal trap rather than
a true panic, of debugger_on_panic?). The changes cause no
adverse behavior, but do involve two symbols becoming global
Submitted by: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
CPU_WT_ALLOC does not work correctly for K6-2s of model 8+ and
probably K6-3s (when they appear on the market soon). In addition,
print_AMD_info() incorrectly printfs write allocation's size. I've
fixed them, so they now Do The Right Thing, and added a
"NO_MEMORY_HOLE" option to easily allow 15-16mb range handling for us
K6 and K6-2 users.
Submitted by: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
ISDN4BSD is the work of our brand-new comitter: Hellmuth Michaelis,
who has done a tremendous amount of work to bring us this far.
There are still some outstanding issues and files to bring into
the tree, and for now it will be needed to pick up all the extra
docs from the isdn4bsd release.
It is probably also a very good idea to subscribe to the isdn@freebsd.org
mailing list before you try this out.
These files correspond to release "beta Version 0.70.00 / December
1998" from Hellmuth.
"I've been having a problem running the patches [committed to current]
installed with the COMPAT_LINUX_THREADS option along
with the VM_STACK patches I did. I'm not sure what
the problem is, since it seemed to work before.
In any event, the attached patch fixes the problem for
me. While I've had no report of problems from anyone
else, possibly it would be wise to commit the patch
until the problem is found.
Also, there was some left-over junk in the linux_misc.c
file from some earlier work I did. The attached patch
cleans that up too."
Submitted by: "Richard Seaman, Jr." <dick@tar.com>
in cyopen() were done in a different order than in sioopen(), partly
to (ab)use a side effect of comparam() and partly because I didn't
understand what the reset was doing (it flushes the fifos). This
turned out to be more than a cosmetic problem. Flushing the fifos
quite late is good for discarding input that arrived while the line
state was being initialized, and in the cy driver it also seems to
reduce a problem with input that arrived long ago during the previous
close (the UART loses sync too easily and for too long).
change the original code but add an extra option "ALI_V" to check the
precise IDE port.(especially, secondary) Use the same option "ALI_V" on
the kernel config file to prevent generic DMA check causes wrong result.
(It seems buggy even on PIIX4 chipset, and I don't know when this bug start)
Should I add the option "ALI_V" into /sys/i386/conf/LINT ?
performed all sorts of sanity checks. The FreeBSD linux emulator returns
EINVAL in such a case.
Allowing signal 0 to be passed to kill will result in compatible behaviour.
PR: 9082
Submitted by: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
ethernet driver.
The BUGS section is still impressive, but the driver seems to work for
me now. Disclaimer: i haven't been able to test this under -current
so far (but it compiles, and the notebook it's intended for can now be
updated to -current more easy than before). Don't be afraid of the
many #ifdefs on __FreeBSD_version in the imported file; i want them in
the repository on the vendor-branch so other people can also manually
integrate it into older systems. I'll clean it up on the -current
branch in a followup commit. The vendor-banch version right now
supports systems back to 2.2R.
This driver should be layered upon ppc(4), but i currently have no
idea how to do this.
Eventually i'll further develop the driver to also support the more
modern RTL 8012 success, which seems to be present in a number of
cheap pocket ethernet adapters these days. Right now, i doubt it will
run with the 8012 without any changes.
Finally a big Thanks! to RealTek for promptly providing me with
documentation and with the source code for the 8012 pocket driver upon
request. I wish all vendors were that cooperative!.
linker sets don't work and thus neither does the kernel.
This should stop being a problem with an improved linker set mechanism in
the pipeline (see the bootloader) but for now this has to stay like this.
The optimisation of only waiting before issuing new commands is
obviously invalid in general and it caused many errors in NIST-PCTS.
I think the errors were mostly for characters sent with the wrong
parity, etc., after a half complete tcsetattr().
Use microtime() instead of a magic loop count to limit the wait.
The wait is a busy-wait :-( and normally takes about 500 usec.
Submitted by: "Richard Seaman, Jr." <lists@tar.com>
Obtained from: linux :-)
Code to allow Linux Threads to run under FreeBSD.
By default not enabled
This code is dependent on the conditional
COMPAT_LINUX_THREADS (suggested by Garret)
This is not yet a 'real' option but will be within some number of hours.
- created internal names for fixed-size integral types, like __int32_t. They
will be used to make several headers self-sufficient.
- <stdlib.h> don't include <machine/types.h> anymore.
- created <sys/inttypes.h>, which can be used as <inttypes.h>.
- declaration of uoff_t and ufs_daddr_t moved to <sys/types.h>.
Reviewed by: bde
almost works properly. Unfortunately, there is no way to flush
the rx fifo without resetting the channel, which also flushes the
tx fifo. We avoid resetting even when both fifos need to be flushed,
since resetting seems to cause the rx to lose sync if it is done
while data is arriving.
Reminded by: NIST-PCTS
hardware is interrupt-driven to a fault and sending a BREAK requires
mode switching. Always running in the BREAK-capable mode as in PR 8318
would double the overhead for sending \0's.
Reminded by: PR 8318
Not tested on the if_sr, if_cx and if_ar drivers, but
expected to work just the same as it used to.
Any users of these drivers (or even better: donors
of hardware for them) please contact phk@freebsd.org
so we can test the next batch of changes to if_sppp.
adjusted related casts to match (only in the kernel in this commit).
The pointer was only wanted in one place in kern_exec.c. Applications
should use the kern.ps_strings sysctl instead of PS_STRINGS, so they
shouldn't notice this change.
