in 1999, and there are changes to the sysctl names compared to PR,
according to that discussion. The description is in sys/conf/NOTES.
Lines in the GENERIC files are added in commented-out form.
I'll attach the test script I've used to PR.
PR: kern/14584
Submitted by: babkin
an explicit comment that it's needed for the linuxolator. This is not the
case anymore. For all other architectures there was only a "KEEP THIS".
I'm (and other people too) running a COMPAT_43-less kernel since it's not
necessary anymore for the linuxolator. Roman is running such a kernel for a
for longer time. No problems so far. And I doubt other (newer than ia32
or alpha) architectures really depend on it.
This may result in a small performance increase for some workloads.
If the removal of COMPAT_43 results in a not working program, please
recompile it and all dependencies and try again before reporting a
problem.
The only place where COMPAT_43 is needed (as in: does not compile without
it) is in the (outdated/not usable since too old) svr4 code.
Note: this does not remove the COMPAT_43TTY option.
Nagging by: rdivacky
I picked it up again. The scheduler is forked from ULE, but the
algorithm to detect an interactive process is almost completely
different with ULE, it comes from Linux paper "Understanding the
Linux 2.6.8.1 CPU Scheduler", although I still use same word
"score" as a priority boost in ULE scheduler.
Briefly, the scheduler has following characteristic:
1. Timesharing process's nice value is seriously respected,
timeslice and interaction detecting algorithm are based
on nice value.
2. per-cpu scheduling queue and load balancing.
3. O(1) scheduling.
4. Some cpu affinity code in wakeup path.
5. Support POSIX SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR.
Unlike scheduler 4BSD and ULE which using fuzzy RQ_PPQ, the scheduler
uses 256 priority queues. Unlike ULE which using pull and push, the
scheduelr uses pull method, the main reason is to let relative idle
cpu do the work, but current the whole scheduler is protected by the
big sched_lock, so the benefit is not visible, it really can be worse
than nothing because all other cpu are locked out when we are doing
balancing work, which the 4BSD scheduelr does not have this problem.
The scheduler does not support hyperthreading very well, in fact,
the scheduler does not make the difference between physical CPU and
logical CPU, this should be improved in feature. The scheduler has
priority inversion problem on MP machine, it is not good for
realtime scheduling, it can cause realtime process starving.
As a result, it seems the MySQL super-smack runs better on my
Pentium-D machine when using libthr, despite on UP or SMP kernel.
for CBUS-PNP cards there) by default, as there are no amd64 and sparc64
machines with ISA slots and which therefore could make use of this code
known to exist. For sparc64 this additionally allows to get rid of the
compat shims for in{b,w,l}()/out{b,w,l}() etc and the associated hacks.
OK'ed by: imp, peter
the arm to compile without all the extras that don't appear, at least
not in the flavors of ARM I deal with. This helps us save about 100k.
If I've botched the available devices on a platform, please let me
know and I'll correct ASAP.
lnc(4) on PC98 and i386. The ISA front-end supports the same non-PNP
network cards as lnc(4) did and additionally a couple of PNP ones.
Like lnc(4), the C-bus front-end of le(4) only supports C-NET(98)S
and is untested due to lack of such hardware, but given that's it's
based on the respective lnc(4) and not too different from the ISA
front-end it should be highly likely to work.
- Remove the descriptions of le(4), which where converted from lnc(4),
from sys/i386/conf/NOTES and sys/pc98/conf/NOTES as there's a common
one in sys/conf/NOTES.
entry to the PCI NICs section so it's in the same spot in all GENERIC
config files.
- Add a note to the description of pcn(4) informing that is has precedence
over le(4).
o Properly use rman(9) to manage resources. This eliminates the
need to puc-specific hacks to rman. It also allows devinfo(8)
to be used to find out the specific assignment of resources to
serial/parallel ports.
o Compress the PCI device "database" by optimizing for the common
case and to use a procedural interface to handle the exceptions.
The procedural interface also generalizes the need to setup the
hardware (program chipsets, program clock frequencies).
o Eliminate the need for PUC_FASTINTR. Serdev devices are fast by
default and non-serdev devices are handled by the bus.
o Use the serdev I/F to collect interrupt status and to handle
interrupts across ports in priority order.
o Sync the PCI device configuration to include devices found in
NetBSD and not yet merged to FreeBSD.
o Add support for Quatech 2, 4 and 8 port UARTs.
o Add support for a couple dozen Timedia serial cards as found
in Linux.
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
The patch crudely forces the NIC out of operating mode before the nve(4)
driver can initialize it; this is required to properly initialize the NIC.
It is XBox-specific, as this condition can only occur on XBoxes (Most loaders
will simply leave the NIC running, forcing us to use a crude workaround like
this to get it in a workable condition). Due to the XBox-only aspect, this has
been solved in XBox-specific initialization code and not within nve(4).
Reviewed by: imp
Approved by: imp (mentor)
No objection: bz@, obrien@, q@ontheweb.com.au
to COMPAT_43TTY.
Add COMPAT_43TTY to NOTES and */conf/GENERIC
Compile tty_compat.c only under the new option.
Spit out
#warning "Old BSD tty API used, please upgrade."
if ioctl_compat.h gets #included from userland.
- S3 Savage driver ported.
- Added support for ATI_fragment_shader registers for r200.
- Improved r300 support, needed for latest r300 DRI driver.
- (possibly) r300 PCIE support, needs X.Org server from CVS.
- Added support for PCI Matrox cards.
- Software fallbacks fixed for Rage 128, which used to render badly or hang.
- Some issues reported by WITNESS are fixed.
- i915 module Makefile added, as the driver may now be working, but is untested.
- Added scripts for copying and preprocessing DRM CVS for inclusion in the
kernel. Thanks to Daniel Stone for getting me started on that.
via the DEFAULTS kernel configs. This allows folks to turn it that option
off in the kernel configs if desired without having to hack the source.
This is especially useful since PUC_FASTINTR hangs the kernel boot on my
ultra60 which has two uart(4) devices hung off of a puc(4) device.
I did not enable PUC_FASTINTR by default on powerpc since powerpc does not
currently allow sharing of INTR_FAST with non-INTR_FAST like the other
archs.
nearly identical to wintel/ia32, with a couple of tweaks. Since it is
so similar to ia32, it is optionally added to a i386 kernel. This
port is preliminary, but seems to work well. Further improvements
will improve the interaction with syscons(4), port Linux nforce driver
and future versions of the xbox.
This supports the 64MB and 128MB boxes. You'll need the most recent
CVS version of Cromwell (the Linux BIOS for the XBOX) to boot.
Rink will be maintaining this port, and is interested in feedback.
He's setup a website http://xbox-bsd.nl to report the latest
developments.
Any silly mistakes are my fault.
Submitted by: Rink P.W. Springer rink at stack dot nl and
Ed Schouten ed at fxq dot nl
This hasn't been true on i386 for at least a decade, probably longer, but
I'm too lazy to look up the exact year that PAE support was introduced.
Thus, this driver doesn't work on PAE.
X-MFC After: now
sio(4) will claim it. This change therefore only affects how ports
are handled when they are not claimed by sio(4), and in principle
will improve hardware support.
MFC after: 2 months
'device npx' (both of which aren't really optional right now) and
'device io' and 'device mem' (to preserve POLA for 4.x users upgrading
to 6.0) from GENERIC into DEFAULTS.
Requested by: scottl
Reviewed by: scottl
IPI_STOP IPIs.
- Change the i386 and amd64 MD IPI code to send an NMI if STOP_NMI is
enabled if an attempt is made to send an IPI_STOP IPI. If the kernel
option is enabled, there is also a sysctl to change the behavior at
runtime (debug.stop_cpus_with_nmi which defaults to enabled). This
includes removing stop_cpus_nmi() and making ipi_nmi_selected() a
private function for i386 and amd64.
- Fix ipi_all(), ipi_all_but_self(), and ipi_self() on i386 and amd64 to
properly handle bitmapped IPIs as well as IPI_STOP IPIs when STOP_NMI is
enabled.
- Fix ipi_nmi_handler() to execute the restart function on the first CPU
that is restarted making use of atomic_readandclear() rather than
assuming that the BSP is always included in the set of restarted CPUs.
Also, the NMI handler didn't clear the function pointer meaning that
subsequent stop and restarts could execute the function again.
- Define a new macro HAVE_STOPPEDPCBS on i386 and amd64 to control the use
of stoppedpcbs[] and always enable it for i386 and amd64 instead of
being dependent on KDB_STOP_NMI. It works fine in both the NMI and
non-NMI cases.
originally wrote it for 4.x and hasn't really had the time to fully update
it to 5.x and later. Also, the author doesn't use the hardware anymore as
well. If someone does need this driver they can always resurrect it from
the Attic.
Requested by: Frank Mayhar frank at exit dot com
This kernel config briefly describes some of the major MAC policies
available on FreeBSD. The hope is that this will raise the awareness
about MAC and get more people interested.
Discussed with: scottl
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
by Vladimir Dergachev for inclusion in DRM CVS, with minor modifications for
FreeBSD CVS and the appropriate license from Nicolai Haehnle on r300_reg.h.
Fixes hangs when using r300.sf.net userland, tested on a Radeon 9600 on amd64.
as they are already default for I686_CPU for almost 3 years, and
CPU_DISABLE_SSE always disables it. On the other hand, CPU_ENABLE_SSE
does not work for I486_CPU and I586_CPU.
This commit has:
- Removed the option from conf/options.*
- Removed the option and comments from MD NOTES files
- Simplified the CPU_ENABLE_SSE ifdef's so they don't
deal with CPU_ENABLE_SSE from kernel configuration. (*)
For most users, this commit should be largely no-op. If you used to
place CPU_ENABLE_SSE into your kernel configuration for some reason,
it is time to remove it.
(*) The ifdef's of CPU_ENABLE_SSE are not removed at this point, since
we need to change it to !defined(CPU_DISABLE_SSE) && defined(I686_CPU),
not just !defined(CPU_DISABLE_SSE), if we really want to do so.
Discussed on: -arch
Approved by: re (scottl)
exist on other architectures yet.
- While I'm here, fix the formatting of the options line. The keyword
"options" should be followed by a space and then a tab, not 2 tabs.
a regular IPI vector, but this vector is blocked when interrupts are disabled.
With "options KDB_STOP_NMI" and debug.kdb.stop_cpus_with_nmi set, KDB will
send an NMI to each CPU instead. The code also has a context-stuffing
feature which helps ddb extract the state of processes running on the
stopped CPUs.
KDB_STOP_NMI is only useful with SMP and complains if SMP is not defined.
This feature only applies to i386 and amd64 at the moment, but could be
used on other architectures with the appropriate MD bits.
Submitted by: ups
- Split core DRM routines back into their own module, rather than using the
nasty templated system like before.
- Development-class R300 support in radeon driver (requires userland pieces, of
course).
- Mach64 driver (haven't tested in a while -- my mach64s no longer fit in the
testbox). Covers Rage Pros, Rage Mobility P/M, Rage XL, and some others.
- i915 driver files, which just need to get drm_drv.c fixed to allow attachment
to the drmsub device. Covers i830 through i915 integrated graphics.
- savage driver files, which should require minimal changes to work. Covers the
Savage3D, Savage IX/MX, Savage 4, ProSavage.
- Support for color and texture tiling and HyperZ features of Radeon.
Thanks to: scottl (much p4 handholding)
Jung-uk Kim (helpful prodding)
PR: [1] kern/76879, [2] kern/72548
Submitted by: [1] Alex, lesha at intercaf dot ru
[2] Shaun Jurrens, shaun at shamz dot net
FreeBSD based on aue(4) it was picked by OpenBSD, then from OpenBSD ported
to NetBSD and finally NetBSD version merged with original one goes into
FreeBSD.
Obtained from: http://www.gank.org/freebsd/cdce/
NetBSD
OpenBSD
This is mentioned in the Handbook but it is not as obvious to new
users why bpf is needed compared to the other largely self-explanatory
items in GENERIC.
PR: conf/40855
MFC after: 1 week
where having this disabled was actually hurting us, since so many
BIOSes include legacy USB emulation that takes control of all usb
ports and only the ehci driver knows how to disable it.
and wd80x3 support. Make the obscure ISA cards optional, and add
those options to NOTES on i386 (note: the ifdef around the whole code
is for module building). Tweak pc98 ed support to include wd80x3 too.
Add goo for alpha too.
The affected cards are the 3Com 3C503, HP LAN+ and SIC (whatever that
is). I couldn't find any of these for sale on ebay, so they are
untested. If you have one of these cards, and send it to me, I'll
ensure that you have no future problems with it...
Minor cleanups as well by using functions rather than cut and paste
code for some probing operations (where the function call overhead is
lost in the noise).
Remove use of kvtop, since they aren't required anymore. This driver
needs to get its memory mapped act together, however, and use bus
space. It doesn't right now.
This reduces the size of if_ed.ko from about 51k to 33k on my laptop.
from 4.x kernel config files. User's wishing to upgrade from 4.x to 6
will need to go through 5.x, or grab this script from there. These
scripts will remain in RELENG_5...
other comments. Clarify that the next two things needed for SMP are
two lines.
- Expand mii abbreviation to miibus for clarity in the USB ethernet
comment.
VT6122 gigabit ethernet chip and integrated 10/100/1000 copper PHY.
The vge driver has been added to GENERIC for i386, pc98 and amd64,
but not to sparc or ia64 since I don't have the ability to test
it there. The vge(4) driver supports VLANs, checksum offload and
jumbo frames.
Also added the lge(4) and nge(4) drivers to GENERIC for i386 and
pc98 since I was in the neighborhood. There's no reason to leave them
out anymore.
It can be switched back once 5.3 is tested and released. Also turn on
PREEMPTION as many of the stability problems with it have been fixed.
MT5: 3 days.
remaining consumers to have the count passed as an option. This is
i4b, pc98/wdc, and coda.
Bump configvers.h from 500013 to 600000.
Remove heuristics that tried to parse "device ed5" as 5 units of the ed
device. This broke things like the snd_emu10k1 device, which required
quotes to make it parse right. The no-longer-needed quotes have been
removed from NOTES, GENERIC etc. eg, I've removed the quotes from:
device snd_maestro
device "snd_maestro3"
device snd_mss
I believe everything will still compile and work after this.
compile option. All FreeBSD packet filters now use the PFIL_HOOKS API and
thus it becomes a standard part of the network stack.
If no hooks are connected the entire packet filter hooks section and related
activities are jumped over. This removes any performance impact if no hooks
are active.
Both OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD have integrated PFIL_HOOKS permanently as well.
with VmWare 4.x. At least with VmWare version 4.5.2, i386 version of
atomic_cmpset_int() is about 30 times slower than non-i386 version. It
makes this delta a good 5.3 MFC candidate, since otherwise it will
mislead users who run FreeBSD under modern VmWare otherwise.
a standard configuration similar to [NO_]ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES. This
feature causes Giant to be included in the set of mutexes adaptively
spun on. It appears to have a positive effect on performance on SMP
across several workloads, including measurements of a 16% improvement
on buildworld, and 30%+ improvement for MySQL using the supersmack
benchmark with Giant over the network stack; a 6% improvement without
Giant on the network stack (as a result of less giant contention).
fix the obvious bugs, nastier ones reside below the surfac), and having
it commented out here just encourages people to try it.
# I'm not removing it from the base system, yet.
their own directory and module, leaving the MD parts in the MD
area (the MD parts _are_ part of the modules). /dev/mem and /dev/io
are now loadable modules, thus taking us one step further towards
a kernel created entirely out of modules. Of course, there is nothing
preventing the kernel from having these statically compiled.
been developed for use with FreeBSD, version 4.8 and later.
Submitted by: Hema Joyce
Reviewed by: Prafulla Deuskar
Approved by: Prafulla Deuskar
MFC after: 1 week
parameter).
Keep using it only in the i386 NOTES for now. It is fairly MI, but it
doesn't use bus-space and has a couple of i386 i/o instructions in pci
intitialization.
gadgets (hotkeys, lcd, ...) on Asus laptops. I aim to closely track the
acpi4asus project which implements these features in the Linux kernel.
If this breaks your laptop, please let me know how it does it :-)
Approved by: njl (mentor)
there are a lot of other dependencies that preclude the kernel from
working). Instead, have a more generic note that isa should not be
removed. This should be less confusing for users.
