If the system was booted with ZFS, a new menu item (#7) appears
It contains an autogenerated list of ZFS Boot Environments
This allows the user to switch to an alternate root file system
Use Cases:
- Revert a failed upgrade
- Concurrently run different versions of FreeBSD with common home directory
- Easier integration with the sysadmin/beadm utility
Requested by: many
Reviewed by: dteske
MFC after: 10 days
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: ScaleEngine Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3167
a text file with a list of physical memory addresses to exclude, and have it
loaded at boot time via the provided example in loader.conf. The tunable
'vm.blacklist' remains, but using an external file means that there's no
practical limit to the size of the list. This change also improves the
scanning algorithm for processing the list, scanning the list only once
instead of scanning it for every page in the system. Both the sysctl and
the file can be unsorted and contain duplicates so long as each entry is
numeric (decimal or hex) and is separated by a space, comma, or newline
character. The sysctl 'vm.page_blacklist' is now provided to report what
memory locations were successfully excluded.
Reviewed by: imp, emax
Obtained from: Netflix, Inc.
MFC after: 3 days
A new loader.conf(5) option of geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES" will now
allow you to enter your geli(8) root-mount credentials prior to invoking
the kernel.
See check-password.4th(8) for details.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2105
Reviewed by: imp, kmoore
Discussed on: -current
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC-to: stable/10
Relnotes: yes
Summary:
Add "GELI Passphrase:" prompt to boot loader.
A new loader.conf(5) option of geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES" will now
allow you to enter your geli(8) root-mount credentials prior to invoking
the kernel.
See check-password.4th(8) for details.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2105
Reviewed by: (your name[s] here)
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC-to: stable/10
Relnotes: yes
Test Plan:
Drop a head copy of check-password.4th into /boot and then apply the patch
(only the patch to /boot/check-password.4th is required; no other changes are
required but you do have to have a HEAD copy of check-password.4th to
apply the patch).
NB: The rest of your /boot files can be up to 2 years old but no older.
NB: The test won't work unless your kernel has the following change
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=273489
Now, put into /boot/loader.conf:
geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"
and reboot.
You should be prompted for a GELI passphrase before the menu (if enabled),
just after loading loader.conf(5).
NB: It doesn't matter if you're using GELI or not. However if you are using
GELI and a sufficiently new enough release (has SVN r273489) and you entered
the proper passphrase to mount your GELI encrypted root device(s), you should
notice that the boot process did not stop (you went from loader all the way to login).
Reviewers: cperciva, allanjude, scottl, kmoore
Subscribers: jkh, imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2105
NB: Using NULL for default values in-case someone
or something uncomments it and reboots. See
check-password.4th(8) for additional details.
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC-to: stable/10 stable/9
output frequency of the "twiddle" IO progress indicator. The default
value is 1. For larger values N, the next stage of the animation is only
output on every Nth call to the output routine. A sufficiently large N
effectively disables the animation completely.
have chosen different (and more traditional) stateless/statuful
NAT64 as translation mechanism. Last non-trivial commits to both
faith(4) and faithd(8) happened more than 12 years ago, so I assume
it is time to drop RFC3142 in FreeBSD.
No objections from: net@
lindev(4) was only used to provide /dev/full which is now a standard feature of
FreeBSD. /dev/full was never linux-specific and provides a generally useful
feature.
Document this in UPDATING and bump __FreeBSD_version. This will be documented
in the PH shortly.
Reported by: jkim
menu. This is reported to save headaches on some PPC systems where unload
followed by load does not produce the desired results wherein if-given
the opportunicy to abort the initial loading sequence, you can customize
the first load.
Reviewed by: nwhitehorn, kan
Discussed on: -current
kernel selection menu to the beastie menu. List of kernels is taken from
`kernels' in loader.conf(5) as a space (or comma) separated list of names
to display (up to 9). If not set, default value is "kernel kernel.old".
Does not validate that kernels exist because the next enhancement will be
to allow selection of the root device.
Discussed on: -current
MFC after: 3 days
The ng_create_one() and ng_mkpeer() functions in network.subr are
now not used anywhere, but I left them, since they can be useful
in future in netgraph scripting.
Submitted by: pluknet
Looking pretty good; this mostly works now. New code includes:
* Read cached entropy at startup, both from files and from loader(8) preloaded entropy. Failures are soft, but announced. Untested.
* Use EVENTHANDLER to do above just before we go multiuser. Untested.
GIANT from VFS. This code is particulary broken and fragile and other
in-kernel implementations around, found in other operating systems,
don't really seem clean and solid enough to be imported at all.
If someone wants to reconsider in-kernel NTFS implementation for
inclusion again, a fair effort for completely fixing and cleaning it
up is expected.
In the while NTFS regular users can use FUSE interface and ntfs-3g
port to work with their NTFS partitions.
This is not targeted for MFC.
Winbond Super I/O chips.
With minor efforts it should be possible the extend the driver to support
further chips/revisions available from Winbond. In the simplest case
only new IDs need to be added, while different chipsets might require
their own function to enter extended function mode, etc.
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated ULC (in 2011)
Reviewed by: emaste, brueffer
MFC after: 2 weeks
default/loader.conf
This should help people installing ${OS} to USB devices, where there are
frequently cases where kernel tries to mount root before actual umass sensing
is finished.
Reviewed by: mav
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 1 week
The controller is commonly found on DM&P Vortex86 x86 SoC. The
driver supports all hardware features except flow control. The
flow control was intentionally disabled due to silicon bug.
DM&P Electronics, Inc. provided all necessary information including
sample board to write driver and answered many questions I had.
Many thanks for their support of FreeBSD.
H/W donated by: DM&P Electronics, Inc.
This driver was written by Alexander Pohoyda and greatly enhanced
by Nikolay Denev. I don't have these hardwares but this driver was
tested by Nikolay Denev and xclin.
Because SiS didn't release data sheet for this controller, programming
information came from Linux driver and OpenSolaris. Unlike other open
source driver for SiS190/191, sge(4) takes full advantage of TX/RX
checksum offloading and does not require additional copy operation in
RX handler.
The controller seems to have advanced offloading features like VLAN
hardware tag insertion/stripping, TCP segmentation offload(TSO) as
well as jumbo frame support but these features are not available
yet. Special thanks to xclin <xclin<> cs dot nctu dot edu dot tw>
who sent fix for receiving VLAN oversized frames.
