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Author SHA1 Message Date
Warner Losh
22c0046f53 Make NEWCARD the default pccard/cardbus system. 2002-07-07 19:00:00 +00:00
Robert Watson
006f19e4f2 Remove ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER. This was inconsistent (both in form
and function) with existing configuration choices.  Arguably if
ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER was present, so should have been
BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER.  Regardless, it broke the option sort order in
these kernel configuration files.

Requested by:	bde
2002-06-30 04:12:21 +00:00
Juli Mallett
e0cf55e42a Use rm -f in the clean target, as seems to be common practice, and also avoids
errors if no LINT exists.

Submitted by:	dwcjr
2002-06-22 18:16:24 +00:00
Justin T. Gibbs
cdd49e97b4 Hook up the ahd driver. 2002-06-06 16:35:58 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
69d18565e0 Do not refer to the Intel PRO/1000 by its internal name.
Requested by:	pdeuskar
2002-05-29 18:42:26 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
540e5c2eaf Restore us back to the rev 1.324 level of having an Intel gigE driver. 2002-05-22 19:00:48 +00:00
Robert Watson
ddbbc9628d Permit alternative break sequence to break to debugger in GENERIC. Breakage
of serial break on -CURRENT seems rampant for some reason, and I like
being able to get into ddb.

Reviewed by:	peter
2002-05-21 23:35:51 +00:00
Juli Mallett
ea0b7a7699 Typo fix: detects -> detect.
Reviewed by:	phk
2002-05-03 17:59:25 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
cff135d87c Join the pissing contest: generate LINT with a single sed(1) command.
Smaller script, smaller (though equivalent) output.
2002-05-02 16:34:47 +00:00
Jun Kuriyama
23dc40e1dd Use shell script version (using awk and sed) of makeLINT.pl. 2002-05-02 06:10:09 +00:00
Scott Long
fe3cb0e1ec Add a CAM interface to the aac driver. This is useful in case you should
ever connect a SCSI Cdrom/Tape/Jukebox/Scanner/Printer/kitty-litter-scooper
to your high-end RAID controller.  The interface to the arrays is still
via the block interface; this merely provides a way to circumvent the
RAID functionality and access the SCSI buses directly.  Note that for
somewhat obvious reasons, hard drives are not exposed to the da driver
through this interface, though you can still talk to them via the pass
driver.  Be the first on your block to low-level format unsuspecting
drives that are part of an array!

To enable this, add the 'aacp' device to your kernel config.

MFC after:	3 days
2002-04-27 01:31:17 +00:00
Robert Watson
91e007dc70 Since WITNESS doesn't just do mutexes, remove "mutex" from the WITNESS
comment in GENERIC config files of appropriate platforms.  For whatever
reason, powerpc didn't use WITNESS in GENERIC.
2002-04-18 03:44:44 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
2ce7d7a033 GC various bits and pieces of USERCONFIG from all over the place. 2002-04-09 11:18:46 +00:00
John Baldwin
dd267672cd First round at trying to split up NOTES into MI and MD portions.
Unfortunately, this level doesn't really provide enough granularity.  We
probably need several MI NOTES type files for things that are shared by
several architectures but not by all.  For example, the PCI options could
live in a NOTES.pci.

This also updates the Makefile for i386 to generate LINT.  The only changes
in the generated LINT are the order of various options.

Suggestions for improvement welcome.
2002-04-03 18:09:17 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
12c79eb288 Dike out a highly insecure UCONSOLE option.
TIOCCONS must be able to VOP_ACCESS() /dev/console to succeed.

Obtained from:	OpenBSD
2002-04-03 10:56:59 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
2d5c9da3d9 s/options\t\t/options \t/ 2002-03-17 23:48:24 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
5d8e635779 Re-enable WITNESS for GENERIC. Since the 5.x branch is mostly about
SMP we'd like as much feedback as possible from users about possible
locking problems as early as possible.

To negate most of the performance impact I've also enabled
WITNESS_SKIPSPIN.  I've done this as we've been running WITNESS
over the spinlock code for a while without incident and it goes a
long way to making the performance problems of WITNESS much more
bearable.

Users who should be running current should know about turning WITNESS
off for performance reasons.

That said and done, WITNESS could/should be made into a tuneable,
but we'll leave that as an excersize to those that want to disable
it without a kernel recompile.
2002-02-13 18:47:50 +00:00
Robert Watson
92b98fdabe Remove WITNESS from GENERIC by default: as we grow more locks, this gets
slower, and may be impeding adoption of -CURRENT by developers.  We
recommend turning on WITNESS by default on crash boxes, and when doing
locking development.  It will probably get turned on by default for a week
or two following any major locking commits, also.

Approved by:	all and sundry (jhb, phk, ...)
2002-02-13 07:44:59 +00:00
Mike Smith
a245737c51 Add the 'iir' driver, for the Intel Integrated RAID controllers and
prior ICP Vortex models.  This driver was developed by Achim Leubner
of Intel (previously with ICP Vortex) and Boji Kannanthanam of Intel.

Submitted by:	"Kannanthanam, Boji T" <boji.t.kannanthanam@intel.com>
MFC after:	2 weeks
2002-01-20 08:51:08 +00:00
Ian Dowse
1cb4661d56 Enable UFS_DIRHASH in the GENERIC kernel.
Suggested by:	silby
Reviewed by:	dillon
MFC after:	5 days
2001-12-14 16:27:11 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
66a11b9fb1 Allow maxusers to be specified as 0 in the kernel config, which will
cause the system to auto-size to between 32 and 512 depending on the
amount of memory.

MFC after:	1 week
2001-12-09 01:57:09 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
40f0fe3883 PROCFS requires PSEUDOFS. I forgot that GENERIC didn't have PSEUDOFS yet. 2001-12-04 11:12:20 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
7e46cddb17 Fix tab damage in rev 1.326. 2001-11-06 16:15:47 +00:00
Robert Watson
0ef2717b32 Spell deivces as devices. 2001-10-31 20:15:18 +00:00
Warner Losh
8f3a0dd489 Move device lnc to isa section, since it no longer uses the compat shims.
Add comment about lnc.
Remove probe order comment from isa_compat.c.  That appears to no longer
be the case.
2001-10-30 06:08:56 +00:00
Jonathan Lemon
ae4da68827 Add PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES option, for BIOSen that neglect this.
Submitted by: Andrew R. Reiter arr@watson.org
2001-10-25 04:44:50 +00:00
Matt Jacob
8c7c272c5a Remove wx. 2001-10-20 18:50:31 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
c932615213 Drop support for x87 emulation. Any CPU one would dare to run 5-CURRENT
on would have built-in FP support.
2001-10-20 01:15:54 +00:00
Matt Jacob
aaeac4f6c3 Make SCSI changer and SES devices standard in generic kernels.
Reviewed by:	ken@kdm.org
2001-10-16 22:22:58 +00:00
Brooks Davis
2f65332817 The faith(4) device is no longer a count device so don't specify a count. 2001-09-25 18:56:40 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
090905a55c + Fix misplacement of `txp'
+ Document our -CURRENT debugging bits
2001-09-24 03:23:48 +00:00
Chris D. Faulhaber
22374865a2 Update NFS_ROOT comments to reflect the NFSCLIENT option
instead of the depricated NFS option.

Reviewed by:	peter
2001-09-22 19:02:18 +00:00
Peter Wemm
eb25edbda3 Cleanup and split of nfs client and server code.
This builds on the top of several repo-copies.
2001-09-18 23:32:09 +00:00
Peter Wemm
359ebc389c Argh! Revert accidental commit. 2001-08-25 07:42:27 +00:00
Peter Wemm
268bdb43f9 Optionize UPAGES for the i386. As part of this I split some of the low
level implementation stuff out of machine/globaldata.h to avoid exposing
UPAGES to lots more places.  The end result is that we can double
the kernel stack size with 'options UPAGES=4' etc.

This is mainly being done for the benefit of a MFC to RELENG_4 at some
point.  -current doesn't really need this so much since each interrupt
runs on its own kstack.
2001-08-25 02:20:02 +00:00
Nate Williams
3633ea98d7 - Removed comment about ThinkPad keyboards from the PCVT line. Any ThinkPad
that needs this probably won't run -current, as it's at least 5 years old.
2001-08-05 21:56:11 +00:00
Bill Paul
362c5c1e02 You were knocked senseless by the Boomerang, spun around by the Cyclone,
blown over by the Hurricane and had a house dropped on you by the Tornado.
Now it's time to have your parade rained on by... the Typhoon!

This commit adds driver support for 3Com 3cR990 10/100 ethernet
adapters based on the Typhoon I and Typhoon II chipsets. This is actually
a port of the OpenBSD driver with many hacks by me.

No Virginia, there isn't any support for the hardware crypto yet. However
there is support for TCP/IP checksum offload and VLANs.

Special thanks go to Jason Wright, Aaron Campbell and Theo de Raadt for
squeezing enough info out of 3Com to get this written, and for doing
most of the hard work.

Manual page is included. Compiled as a module and included in GENERIC.
2001-07-23 20:44:54 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
2e1b1231fc `pcn' supports AMD Am79C97x cards, not Am79C79x cards.
PR:		28946
Submitted by:	Ryuichiro Imura <imura@ryu16.org>
2001-07-13 13:34:08 +00:00
Brooks Davis
53dab5fe7b gif(4) and stf(4) modernization:
- Remove gif dependencies from stf.
 - Make gif and stf into modules
 - Make gif cloneable.

PR:		kern/27983
Reviewed by:	ru, ume
Obtained from:	NetBSD
MFC after:	1 week
2001-07-02 21:02:09 +00:00
Peter Wemm
2398f0cd1d Hints overhaul:
- Replace some very poorly thought out API hacks that should have been
  fixed a long while ago.
- Provide some much more flexible search functions (resource_find_*())
- Use strings for storage instead of an outgrowth of the rather
  inconvenient temporary ioconf table from config().  We already had a
  fallback to using strings before malloc/vm was running anyway.
2001-06-12 09:40:04 +00:00
Matt Jacob
ecf33dd4c4 move wx to be part of miibus requiring chipsets 2001-05-30 03:20:52 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
888a8e3567 Remove MFS options from all example kernel configs. 2001-05-29 18:49:06 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
caff01c276 Remove pcm hints here now that it's gone from GENERIC.
Reminded-by:	bde
2001-05-26 08:04:34 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
62d1937cec Take pcm (audio) back out of GENERIC; there appears to be some
concensus, most notably among the maintainers, that it's better
loaded as a module.

Finally-pushed-over-the-edge-by-the-anguished-cries-of:	rwatson
2001-05-25 17:55:39 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
ab9f3b292e Convert DEVFS from an "opt-in" to an "opt-out" option.
If for some reason DEVFS is undesired, the "NODEVFS" option is
needed now.

Pending any significant issues, DEVFS will be made mandatory in
-current on july 1st so that we can start reaping the full
benefits of having it.
2001-05-13 20:52:40 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
c5e70d92ce Turn on kernel debugging support (DDB, INVARIANTS, INVARIANT_SUPPORT, WITNESS)
by default while SMPng is still being developed.

Submitted by:	jhb
2001-04-15 19:37:28 +00:00
Søren Schmidt
48c1424385 Remove the now defunct ATA_ENABLE* options
Spotted by: phk
2001-03-16 11:52:25 +00:00
Jonathan Lemon
4664a8d5eb Move the fxp driver so it is under the miibus section. 2001-03-12 21:51:07 +00:00
Gregory Sutter
ff5fb8ad24 Spelling and capitalization fixes.
Reviewed by:	gshapiro, jake, jhb, rwatson (all within 30 seconds)
2001-03-07 04:58:38 +00:00
Warner Losh
f2fdbb57ca Add support for Dlink DL10022 to the ed driver. This is a mii part
bolted to a ne-2000 chip.  This is necessary for the NetGear FA-410TX
and other cards.

This also requires you add mii to your kernel if you have an ed driver
configured.

This code will result in a couple of timeout messages for ed on the
impacted cards.  Additional work will be needed, but this does work
right now, and many people need these cards.

Submitted by: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
2001-03-03 08:31:37 +00:00
Peter Wemm
b9e3a5d31f Drop the 'count' from the aha device specs 2001-02-25 05:52:38 +00:00
Peter Wemm
bcf77694d1 Clean up some leftovers from the root mount cleanup that was done some
time ago.  FFS_ROOT and CD9660_ROOT are obsolete.
2001-02-04 15:35:10 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
b0254d109c Turn DEVFS on by default.
You may need to turn this off if you you vinum.  Apart from that I know of
no reason not to run with DEVFS.
2001-01-27 08:18:36 +00:00
Peter Wemm
d008d67eff At great personal risk to my sanity, turn off COMPAT_OLDISA and the
two drivers that depend on it - ie and le.  The compat code has not been
disabled.
2001-01-19 13:06:37 +00:00
Mark Murray
b79ad7e642 Remove NOBLOCKRANDOM as a compile-time option. Instead, provide
exactly the same functionality via a sysctl, making this feature
a run-time option.

The default is 1(ON), which means that /dev/random device will
NOT block at startup.

setting kern.random.sys.seeded to 0(OFF) will cause /dev/random
to block until the next reseed, at which stage the sysctl
will be changed back to 1(ON).

While I'm here, clean up the sysctls, and make them dynamic.
Reviewed by:		des
Tested on Alpha by:	obrien
2001-01-14 17:50:15 +00:00
John Baldwin
4408a4e8ff Argh, remove a local customization that snuck in here.
Noticed by:	jasone
2001-01-14 10:19:42 +00:00
John Baldwin
decc707afc Remove I386_CPU from GENERIC. Support for the 386 seriously pessimizes
performance on other x86 processors.  Custom kernels can still be built
that will run on the 386.
2001-01-14 10:11:10 +00:00
Paul Richards
3164c5878a Re-enable the lnc driver in GENERIC. 2000-12-20 11:24:47 +00:00
Mike Smith
e8d5a72218 Remove the COMPAT_OLDPCI option, it's going away.
Turn 'lnc' off in GENERIC for the moment, pending its update to newbus.
2000-12-13 01:11:34 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
9b67714311 Remove DDB, it leaked in here with another commit.
Submitted by:	bde
2000-12-11 14:02:00 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
959b7375ed Staticize some malloc M_ instances. 2000-12-08 20:09:00 +00:00
Mitsuru IWASAKI
b52617dc0e Create a pmtimer device instance for GENERIC and NEWCARD kernels by default.
Submitted by:	Masayuki FUKUI <fukui@sonic.nm.fujitsu.co.jp>
2000-12-07 14:27:02 +00:00
Warner Losh
e655ea71de Add pmtimer device, necessary for proper time keeping when apm or
other power management devices are enabled.
2000-11-15 18:36:24 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
4dc665b8bf Proper capitalization of PCMCIA (and avoid matching pcm) 2000-11-14 01:13:57 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
68ce54fbde In the year 2000, I think it's perfectly reasonable to include audio
support by default in GENERIC.
2000-11-14 01:11:13 +00:00
Warner Losh
30cb2a0dfb Make the ISA nic section look like the other device sections with
comments on the same line like so:
	device		foo		# FooInc Brand NetEther cards

Also, move the wireless NIC cards to their own section.

Add commented out wl driver in wireless section.

Remove obsolete or redundant comments about some of the wireless cards
that used to apply but don't since we've removed 'at foobus'.

There should be no functional changes in this change.
2000-11-07 21:20:52 +00:00
Warner Losh
5350155530 Minor ordering changes to make more sections strictly alphabetical. 2000-11-07 21:06:57 +00:00
Semen Ustimenko
600ae3dd25 Synced tx(4) driver descriptions + ``device tx'' line moved to the
list of drivers using miibus.

PR:		kern/22556
2000-11-07 20:22:19 +00:00
Bill Paul
f425f328cd The vx driver no longer needs the PCI compat shims. Also should now
work on the alpha (at least the PCI part should).
2000-11-07 00:58:35 +00:00
Nik Clayton
f94a808c35 Add a brief comment telling people to retain 'device miibus' as necessary.
PR:		docs/21981
Submitted by:	Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
2000-10-28 22:32:17 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
54b1161b73 Revert two experimental changes which escaped from my devel machine. 2000-10-28 06:55:12 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
46aa3347cb Convert all users of fldoff() to offsetof(). fldoff() is bad
because it only takes a struct tag which makes it impossible to
use unions, typedefs etc.

Define __offsetof() in <machine/ansi.h>

Define offsetof() in terms of __offsetof() in <stddef.h> and <sys/types.h>

Remove myriad of local offsetof() definitions.

Remove includes of <stddef.h> in kernel code.

NB: Kernelcode should *never* include from /usr/include !

Make <sys/queue.h> include <machine/ansi.h> to avoid polluting the API.

Deprecate <struct.h> with a warning.  The warning turns into an error on
01-12-2000 and the file gets removed entirely on 01-01-2001.

Paritials reviews by:   various.
Significant brucifications by:  bde
2000-10-27 11:45:49 +00:00
Mark Murray
5f3431b5ad As the blocking model has seems to be troublesome for many, disable
it for now with an option.

This option is already deprecated, and will be removed when the
entropy-harvesting code is fast enough to warrant it.
2000-10-27 06:06:04 +00:00
Nick Hibma
2fd84f56d5 The USB scanner driver. To be used together with SANE. 2000-10-25 10:34:38 +00:00
Noriaki Mitsunaga
ae94720d12 Add PC-Card/ISA SCSI host adpater drivers from NetBSD/pc98
(a NetBSD port for NEC PC-98x1 machines). They are ncv for NCR 53C500,
nsp for Workbit Ninja SCSI-3, and stg for TMC 18C30 and 18C50.

I thank NetBSD/pc98 and bsd-nomads people.

Obtained from:	NetBSD/pc98
2000-10-23 12:55:51 +00:00
Mike Smith
5f3dac9c03 Bring the 'twe' driver back now that we think it should work. 2000-10-12 01:46:43 +00:00
Paul Saab
7321545f26 Remove the NCPU, NAPIC, NBUS, NINTR config options. Make NAPIC,
NBUS, NINTR dynamic and set NCPU to a maximum of 16 under SMP.

Reviewed by:	peter
2000-09-22 23:40:10 +00:00
Bill Paul
73334a4329 Add a new driver for the AMD PCnet/FAST, FAST+ and Home PCI adapters.
Previously, these cards were supported by the lnc driver (and they
still are, but the pcn driver will claim them first), which is fine
except the lnc driver runs them in 16-bit LANCE compatibility mode.
The pcn driver runs these chips in 32-bit mode and uses the RX alignment
feature to achieve zero-copy receive. (Which puts it in the same
class as the xl, fxp and tl chipsets.) This driver is also MI, so it
will work on the x86 and alpha platforms. (The lnc driver is still
needed to support non-PCI cards. At some point, I'll need to newbusify
it so that it too will me MI.)

The Am79c978 HomePNA adapter is also supported.
2000-09-20 17:30:22 +00:00
Yoshihiro Takahashi
5d7e2cbea6 Moved the fe driver from the compat section to the correct section.
Submitted by:	sanpei
2000-09-15 02:25:41 +00:00
Mike Smith
358637397e A new driver for PCI:SCSI RAID controllers based on the Adaptec FSA
design.  This includes integrated Dell RAID controllers, the Dell
PERC 2/QC and the HP NetRAID-4M.
2000-09-13 03:20:35 +00:00
Mark Murray
ac519db05b Turn the /dev/random device into a (pseudo-)device, not an option.
(I didn't realise that it was this easy!)
Submitted by:	jhb
2000-09-12 13:21:40 +00:00
Bill Fumerola
eaeac22d2c Move tx to the list of drivers that now require miibus. 2000-09-11 21:20:39 +00:00
Mike Smith
ef137fd32f Add the 'asr' driver, supplied by Mark Salyzyn of Adaptec (nee DPT).
This provides support for the Adaptec SCSI RAID controller family,
as well as the DPT SmartRAID V and VI families.

The driver will be maintained by Mark and Adaptec, and any changes
should be referred to the MAINTAINER.
2000-09-01 07:51:25 +00:00
Peter Wemm
2422dd7973 Comment out the static wiring of hints for GENERIC - the release process
now installs the hints file into /boot.
2000-08-24 18:56:54 +00:00
Mike Smith
153cbcc323 Add entries for the 'mly' driver. Re-group 'mly' and 'dpt' into a new
classification for RAID controllers that have CAM interfaces.
2000-08-23 03:29:49 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
3f54a085a6 Remove all traces of Julians DEVFS (incl from kern/subr_diskslice.c)
Remove old DEVFS support fields from dev_t.

  Make uid, gid & mode members of dev_t and set them in make_dev().

  Use correct uid, gid & mode in make_dev in disk minilayer.

  Add support for registering alias names for a dev_t using the
  new function make_dev_alias().  These will show up as symlinks
  in DEVFS.

  Use makedev() rather than make_dev() for MFSs magic devices to prevent
  DEVFS from noticing this abuse.

  Add a field for DEVFS inode number in dev_t.

  Add new DEVFS in fs/devfs.

  Add devfs cloning to:
        disk minilayer (ie: ad(4), sd(4), cd(4) etc etc)
        md(4), tun(4), bpf(4), fd(4)

  If DEVFS add -d flag to /sbin/inits args to make it mount devfs.

  Add commented out DEVFS to GENERIC
2000-08-20 21:34:39 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
ff6804717c Revert previous commit. Not all RAID controllers are SCSI. 2000-07-29 02:12:44 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
c79ef5d331 Move the RAID controllers next to the SCSI controllers. 2000-07-29 02:00:28 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
cf10fa4fcd Comment out ncr' as sym' handles all that `ncr' does.
(only commented out to make it easy for people to find it that really
 wants it.)

Asked for by:	Peter
2000-07-29 01:31:09 +00:00
Bill Fumerola
78a40870e5 s%LINT%NOTES%g 2000-07-25 08:25:48 +00:00
Warner Losh
b16ba28faf Default the pcic to polling. Some laptops need to have polling mode
due to a paucity of IRQs.  I have some reservations about this, so I'm
not going to MFC this just yet.  I'm doing this to see how many
problems it causes so we can do this in 4.2.  I've been seeing hangs
on my laptop from time to time, but sometimes it was not in polling
mode, other tmies it was.  Don't know if this is one problem or more
than one.

Requested by: Sean O Connell
2000-07-19 16:32:38 +00:00
Matt Jacob
08a7e04845 Removing commented out devices I added. 2000-07-10 15:18:20 +00:00
Matt Jacob
62d132e3ab Oops- remove the '0' appended to targbh. 2000-07-08 07:05:40 +00:00
Matt Jacob
94ad21f31a Add in the commented out SCSI device entries of
#device         ses             # SCSI Environmental Services (and SAF-TE)
#device         targ            # SCSI Target Mode Code
#device         targbh0         # SCSI Target Mode Blackhole Device
#define         pt              # SCSI Processor Target Device

so that people know that they are there.
2000-07-08 07:02:58 +00:00
Mark Murray
15bbdecf2e Get the build bits right for the new Architecture Independant null- and
entropy drivers.
Reviewed by:	dfr(mostly)
2000-06-25 09:18:13 +00:00
Peter Wemm
bc26591656 Add SOFTUPDATES to GENERIC (BOOTMFS has this filtered out) 2000-06-22 06:01:02 +00:00
Peter Wemm
1c3b2e3b7d s/iomem/maddr/ - these were generated from an older verion of the
gethints script. :-(
2000-06-14 10:01:39 +00:00
Peter Wemm
f71c01cc52 Borrow phk's axe and apply the next stage of config(8)'s evolution.
Use Warner Losh's "hint" driver to decode ascii strings to fill the
resource table at boot time.

config(8) no longer generates an ioconf.c table - ie: the configuration
no longer has to be compiled into the kernel.  You can reconfigure your
isa devices with the likes of this at loader(8) time:
  set hint.ed.0.port=0x320

userconfig will be rewritten to use this style interface one day and will
move to /boot/userconfig.4th or something like that.

It is still possible to statically compile in a set of hints into a kernel
if you do not wish to use loader(8).  See the "hints" directive in GENERIC
as an example.

All device wiring has been moved out of config(8).  There is a set of
helper scripts (see i386/conf/gethints.pl, and the same for alpha and pc98)
that extract the 'at isa? port foo irq bar' from the old files and produces
a hints file.  If you install this file as /boot/device.hints (and update
/boot/defaults/loader.conf - You can do a build/install in sys/boot) then
loader will load it automatically for you.  You can also compile in the
hints directly with:  hints "device.hints"  as well.

There are a few things that I'm not too happy with yet.  Under this scheme,
things like LINT would no longer be useful as "documentation" of settings.
I have renamed this file to 'NOTES' and stored the example hints strings
in it.  However... this is not something that config(8) understands, so
there is a script that extracts the build-specific data from the
documentation file (NOTES) to produce a LINT that can be config'ed and
built.  A stack of man4 pages will need updating. :-/

Also, since there is no longer a difference between 'device' and
'pseudo-device' I collapsed the two together, and the resulting 'device'
takes a 'number of units' for devices that still have it statically
allocated.  eg:  'device fe 4' will compile the fe driver with NFE set
to 4.  You can then set hints for 4 units (0 - 3).  Also note that
'device fe0' will be interpreted as "zero units of 'fe'" which would be
bad, so there is a config warning for this.  This is only needed for
old drivers that still have static limits on numbers of units.
All the statically limited drivers that I could find were marked.

Please exercise EXTREME CAUTION when transitioning!

Moral support by: phk, msmith, dfr, asmodai, imp, and others
2000-06-13 22:28:50 +00:00
Mike Smith
11ca1e30c7 Bump the default NBUS value to 8. 2000-05-31 19:01:45 +00:00
Brian Feldman
c0c5a953c0 Change sl(4) configuration lines to reflect its new dynamic nature. 2000-05-30 23:01:37 +00:00