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.
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Extend the loader to parse the root file system mount options in /etc/fstab,
and set a new loader variable vfs.root.mountfrom.options with these options.
The root mount options must be a comma-delimited string, as specified in
/etc/fstab.
Only set the vfs.root.mountfrom.options variable if it has not been
set in the environment.
sys/kern/vfs_mount.c
====================
When mounting the root file system, pass the mount options
specified in vfs.root.mountfrom.options, but filter out "rw" and "noro",
since the initial mount of the root file system must be done as "ro".
While we are here, try to add a few hints to the mountroot prompt
to give users and idea what might of gone wrong during mounting
of the root file system.
Reviewed by: jhb (an earlier patch)
uses the generic struct dirent, which happens to look identical to UFS's
struct direct. If BSD ever changes dirent then this will be a problem.
Submitted by: matthew dot fleming at isilon dot com
- Do not iterate int 15h, function e820h twice. Instead, we use STAILQ to
store each return buffer and copy all at once.
- Export optional extended attributes defined in ACPI 3.0 as separate
metadata. Currently, there are only two bits defined in the specification.
For example, if the descriptor has extended attributes and it is not
enabled, it has to be ignored by OS. We may implement it in the kernel
later if it is necessary and proven correct in reality.
- Check return buffer size strictly as suggested in ACPI 3.0.
Reviewed by: jhb
open partition. This fixes access to partitions whose starting offset
is >= 2 TB.
Submitted by: "James R. Van Artsdalen" james jrv.org
MFC after: 3 days
- First three fields of system UUID may be little-endian as described in
SMBIOS Specification v2.6. For now, we keep the network byte order for
backward compatibility (and consistency with popular dmidecode tool)
if SMBIOS table revision is less than 2.6. However, little-endian format
can be forced by defining BOOT_LITTLE_ENDIAN_UUID from make.conf(5) if it
is necessary.
- Replace overly ambitious optimizations with more readable code.
- Update comments to SMBIOS Specification v2.6 and clean up style(9) bugs.
as 'real memory' instead of Maxmem if the value is available.
Note amd64 displayed physmem as 'usable memory' since machdep.c r1.640
to unconfuse users. Now it is consistent across amd64 and i386 again.
While I am here, clean up smbios.c a bit and update copyright date.
Reviewed by: jhb
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
booting because the CD driver did not use bounce buffers to ensure
request buffers sent to the BIOS were always in the first 1MB. Copy over
the bounce buffer logic from the BIOS disk driver (minus the 64k boundary
code for floppies) to fix this.
Reported by: kensmith
in make.conf or src.conf.
- When GPT is enabled (which it is by default), use memory above 1 MB and
leave the memory from the end of the bss to the end of the 640k window
purely for the stack. The loader has grown and now it is much more
common for the heap and stack to grow into each other when both are
located in the 640k window.
PR: kern/129526
MFC after: 1 week
the disklabel in the 2nd sector for boot code. Even with both UFS1
and UFS2 supported, there's enough bytes left that we don't have to
nibble from the disklabel.
Thus, the entire 2nd sector is now reserved for the disklabel, which
makes the bootcode compatible again with disklabels that have more
than 8 partitions -- such as those created and supported by gpart.
i386: 135 bytes available
amd64: 151 bytes available
Ok'd by: jhb
The old BTX passed the general purpose registers from the 32-bit client to
the routines called via virtual 86 mode. The new BTX did the same thing.
However, it turns out that some instructions behave differently in virtual 86
mode and real mode (even though this is under-documented). For example, the
LEAVE instruction will cause an exception in real mode if any of the upper
16-bits of %ebp are non-zero after it executes. In virtual 8086 mode the
upper 16-bits are simply ignored. This could cause faults in hardware
interrupt handlers that inherited an %ebp larger than 0xffff from the 32-bit
client (loader, boot2, etc.) while running in real mode.
To fix, when executing hardware interrupt handlers provide an explicit clean
state where all the general purpose and segment registers are zero upon
entry to the interrupt handler. While here, I attempted to simplify the
control flow in the 'intusr' code that sets up the various stack frames
and exits protected mode to invoke the requested routine via real mode.
A huge thanks to Tor Egge (tegge@) for debugging this issue.
Submitted by: tegge
Reviewed by: tegge
Tested by: bz
MFC after: 1 week
kernel one as the non-faulting flush address in the loader so
we can can change KERNBASE and VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS if we
ever want to without needing to worry about using a compatible
loader.
- Correctly check for LOADER_DEBUG.
- Add a missing const for page_sizes[].
functions used in the bootloader. The goal is to make the code more
readable and smaller (especially because we have size issues
in the loader's environment).
High level description of the changes:
+ define some string manipulation functions to improve readability;
+ create functions to manipulate module descriptors, removing some
duplicated code;
+ rename the error codes to ESOMETHING;
+ consistently use set_environment_variable (which evaluates
$variables) when interpreting variable=value assignments;
I have tested the code, but there might be code paths that I have
not traversed so please let me know of any issues.
Details of this change:
--- loader.4th ---
+ add some module operators, to remove duplicated code while parsing
module-related commands:
set-module-flag
enable-module
disable-module
toggle-module
show-module
--- pnp.4th ---
+ move here the definition related to the pnp devices list, e.g.
STAILQ_* , pnpident, pnpinfo
--- support.4th ---
+ rename error codes to capital e.g. ENOMEM EFREE ... and do obvious
changes related to the renaming;
+ remove unused structures (those relevant to pnp are moved to pnp.4th)
+ various string functions
- strlen removed (it is an internal function)
- strchr, defined as the C function
- strtype -- type a string to output
- strref -- assign a reference to the string on the stack
- unquote -- remove quotes from a string
+ remove reset_line_buffer
+ move up the 'set_environment_variable' function (which now
uses the interpreter, so $variables are evaluated).
Use the function in various places
+ add a 'test_file function' for debugging purposes
MFC after: 4 weeks
and re-enable it as default.
In particular:
+ re-enable the 'update' flag in the Makefile (of course!);
+ commit Warner's patch "orb $NOUPDATE,_FLAGS(%bp)"
to avoid writing to disk in case of a timeout/default choice;
+ fix an off-by-one count in the partition scan code that would
print the wrong name for unknown partitions;
+ unconditionally change the boot prompt to 'Boot:' instead of 'Default:'
to make room for the extra code/checks/messages. Some of the changes
listed below are also made to save space;
+ rearrange and fix comments for known partition types. Right now we
explicitly recognise *BSD, Linux, FAT16 (type 6, used on many USB keys),
NTFS (type 7), FAT32 (type 11).
Depending on other options we also recognise Extended (type 5),
FAT12 (type 1) and FAT16 < 32MB (type 4).
+ Add an entry "F6 PXE" when the code is built with -DPXE (which is
a default now). Technically, F6 boots through INT18, so the prompt 'PXE'
is a bit misleading. Unfortunately the name INT18
is too long and does not fit in - we could use ROM perhaps.
The reason I picked 'PXE' is that on many (I believe) new systems
INT18 calls PXE.
Apart from the choice of the name for PXE/ROM/INT18, this should close
pending issues on the 1-sector boot0 code and we should be able to
move the code to RELENG_7 when it reopens.
No boot0cfg changes are necessary.
MFC after: 3 weeks
