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Author SHA1 Message Date
John Polstra
067c6db2a7 Note the second coming of MSI support in the bge driver. 2006-12-22 03:03:31 +00:00
John Polstra
cca510b1be Note that MSI support has been disabled already in the bge driver. 2006-12-15 00:30:37 +00:00
John Polstra
3ebdb4eeaf Add an entry noting that MSI support has been put into the bge
driver.
2006-12-14 23:10:59 +00:00
Julian Elischer
fc19e4c40d Note the mashing of the proc structure.. recommend recompiling
kernel modules.
2006-12-06 06:39:47 +00:00
Ariff Abdullah
a580b31a54 Welcome to Once-a-year Sound Mega-Commit. Enjoy numerous updates and fixes
in every sense.

General
-------

- Multichannel safe, endian safe, format safe
   * Large part of critical pcm filters such as vchan.c, feeder_rate.c,
     feeder_volume.c, feeder_fmt.c and feeder.c has been rewritten so that
     using them does not cause the pcm data to be converted to 16bit little
     endian.
   * Macrosses for accessing pcm data safely are defined within sound.h in
     the form of PCM_READ_* / PCM_WRITE_*
   * Currently, most of them are probably limited for mono/stereo handling,
     but the future addition of true multichannel will be much easier.

- Low latency operation
  * Well, this require lot more works to do not just within sound driver,
    but we're heading towards right direction. Buffer/block sizing within
    channel.c is rewritten to calculate precise allocation for various
    combination of sample/data/rate size. As a result, applying correct
    SNDCTL_DSP_POLICY value will achive expected latency behaviour simmilar
    to what commercial 4front driver do.
  * Signal handling fix. ctrl+c of "cat /dev/zero > /dev/dsp" does not
    result long delay.
  * Eliminate sound truncation if the sound data is too small.
    DIY:
      1) Download / extract
         http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/lowlatency/shortfiles.tar.gz
      2) Do a comparison between "cat state*.au > /dev/dsp" and
         "for x in state*.au ; do cat $x > /dev/dsp ; done"
         - there should be no "perceivable" differences.
    Double close for PR kern/31445.

  CAVEAT: Low latency come with (unbearable) price especially for poorly
          written applications. Applications that trying to act smarter
	  by requesting (wrong) blocksize/blockcount will suffer the most.
	  Fixup samples/patches can be found at:
	  http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/ports/

- Switch minimum/maximum sampling rate limit to "1" and "2016000" (48k * 42)
  due to closer compatibility with 4front driver.
  Discussed with: marcus@ (long time ago?)

- All driver specific sysctls in the form of "hw.snd.pcm%d.*" have been
  moved to their own dev sysctl nodes, notably:
  hw.snd.pcm%d.vchans -> dev.pcm.%d.vchans
  Bump __FreeBSD_version.

Driver specific
---------------

- Ditto for sysctls.

- snd_atiixp, snd_es137x, snd_via8233, snd_hda
  * Numerous cleanups and fixes.
  * _EXPERIMENTAL_ polling mode support using simple callout_* mechanisme.
   This was intended for pure debugging and latency measurement, but proven
   good enough in few unexpected and rare cases (such as problematic shared
   IRQ with GIANT devices - USB). Polling can be enabled/disabled through
   dev.pcm.0.polling. Disabled by default.

- snd_ich
  * Fix possible overflow during speed calibration. Delay final
    initialization (pcm_setstatus) after calibration finished.
    PR: kern/100169
    Tested by: Kevin Overman <oberman@es.net>
  * Inverted EAPD for few Nec VersaPro.
    PR: kern/104715
    Submitted by: KAWATA Masahiko <kawata@mta.biglobe.ne.jp>

Thanks to various people, notably Joel Dahl, Yuriy Tsibizov, Kevin Oberman,
those at #freebsd-azalia @ freenode and others for testing.

Joel Dahl will do the manpage update.
2006-11-26 12:24:06 +00:00
Craig Rodrigues
a484c95a8d Mention that the following binaries have been detached
from the build: mount_devfs, mount_ext2fs,
mount_fdescfs, mount_procfs, mount_linprocfs, and mount_std.
2006-11-22 23:01:40 +00:00
John Baldwin
1d7e99caf1 Add a note about the MSI support with details on how to turn MSI off if
things break.
2006-11-15 20:02:20 +00:00
Kip Macy
7c0435b933 MUTEX_PROFILING has been generalized to LOCK_PROFILING. We now profile
wait (time waited to acquire) and hold times for *all* kernel locks. If
the architecture has a system synchronized TSC, the profiling code will
use that - thereby minimizing profiling overhead. Large chunks of profiling
code have been moved out of line, the overhead measured on the T1 for when
it is compiled in but not enabled is < 1%.

Approved by: scottl (standing in for mentor rwatson)
Reviewed by: des and jhb
2006-11-11 03:18:07 +00:00
John Birrell
013d6d8cb4 Add 'options KSE' to the kernel config DEFAULTS on all arches/machines
except sun4v.

This change makes the transition from a default to an option more
transparent and is an attempt to head off all the compliants that are
likely from people who don't read UPDATING, based on experience with
the io/mem change.

Submitted by:	scottl@
2006-10-26 22:05:25 +00:00
John Birrell
8460a577a4 Make KSE a kernel option, turned on by default in all GENERIC
kernel configs except sun4v (which doesn't process signals properly
with KSE).

Reviewed by:	davidxu@
2006-10-26 21:42:22 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
014a1a844d The ioctl(2) API has changed, and some ioctl command codes too.
Hint users to add "options COMPAT_FREEBSD6" to their kernel config
files, so that X.Org and friends still work without recompiling.
2006-09-30 20:01:15 +00:00
Bruce M Simpson
13b3ebf134 Remove mrouted and its utilities from the base system.
They may now be obtained from ports.

Discussed with:	fenner, net@
2006-09-29 10:39:23 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
60206ede14 Belatedly document the size change of "struct x?tcpcb". 2006-09-29 10:14:37 +00:00
Bruce M Simpson
481544f3ae Note the removal of tcpslice 2006-09-28 13:00:50 +00:00
Maxim Konovalov
5f738ae643 o s/IP_FIREWALL_FORWARD/IPFIREWALL_FORWARD/.
PR:		docs/103251
Submitted by:	vd
MFC after:	3 days
2006-09-18 11:24:25 +00:00
Sam Leffler
50bdd72083 bump version for libpcap+tcpdump imports 2006-09-04 21:49:31 +00:00
Marius Strobl
647ef1a927 Add a belated entry regarding the removal of lnc(4). 2006-09-02 22:17:15 +00:00
Julian Elischer
3b4109aa4e Note IPFIREWALL_FOWARD_EXTENDED is now gone.
MFC after:	1 week
2006-08-17 00:41:05 +00:00
Jung-uk Kim
c8450a541c Add an entry for enigma(1)/crypt(1) change on 64-bit architectures. 2006-07-26 16:31:10 +00:00
Thomas Wintergerst
5d0c7501b6 Extend i4b to support CAPI manager based ISDN controllers (CAPI manager is part of
c4b, CAPI for BSD). This is a preparation to add CAPI for BSD to the source tree.

Approved by:	hm (mentor)
MFC after:	2 weeks
2006-07-09 21:16:06 +00:00
Rink Springer
44a8277bc6 Updated the XBOX kernel to use the new nfe(4) driver obtained from
OpenBSD. This driver seems to give a small performance increase, and
should lead to better maintainability in the future.

The nForce Ethernet-specific hack in sys/i386/xbox/xbox.c is still
required, judging from dev/nfe/if_nfe.c. The condition it hacks will
almost certainly only occur on XBOX-es anyway, so it is best left there.

Approved by:	imp (mentor)
2006-06-27 20:22:32 +00:00
Giorgos Keramidas
9f8d2f6c8d Note that an old adjkerntz is not really usable after the recent
sysctlbyname() changes, so the new adjkerntz binary should be
used while in single-user mode.

Reviewed by:	ceri, maxim
2006-05-15 15:47:45 +00:00
Christian Brueffer
4919094ec7 Fix typo. 2006-05-14 20:54:45 +00:00
Max Laier
a0a9755e09 Update UPDATING and bump __FreeBSD_version for the ip6fw removal. 2006-05-13 06:08:25 +00:00
Marcel Moolenaar
ff6a2d00f9 Belatedly add 2 entries relating to the introduction of scc(4) and
the overhaul of puc(4). On sparc64 people may end up without serial
console if they upgrade without adding scc(4) to their kernel
configuration file.
2006-05-04 03:48:06 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
2d5cde043f Fix the "make distribution" example; it should be run from src/. 2006-04-07 11:36:25 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
c60fab8c03 Document new world older for world/kernel build options. 2006-03-21 10:10:05 +00:00
Warner Losh
19dc34626a Add note about 'audit' group.
Add note about the '_dhcp' user.

While one is expected to run mergemaster -p before installworld, make
a note of the points where this will actively fail due to the addition of
users/groups.
2006-03-10 18:40:31 +00:00
Yaroslav Tykhiy
05ab391fde Revise the names of modules in the recent note on tdfx_linux. 2006-03-09 17:50:01 +00:00
Yaroslav Tykhiy
8d96e45531 Retire NETSMBCRYPTO as a kernel option and make its functionality
enabled by default in NETSMB and smbfs.ko.

With the most of modern SMB providers requiring encryption by
default, there is little sense left in keeping the crypto part
of NETSMB optional at the build time.

This will also return smbfs.ko to its former properties users
are rather accustomed to.

Discussed with:		freebsd-stable, re (scottl)
Not objected by:	bp, tjr (silence)
MFC after:		5 days
2006-03-05 22:52:17 +00:00
Yaroslav Tykhiy
375ce6798f Take the functionality contained in the former "options TDFX_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
2006-03-03 21:37:38 +00:00
Yaroslav Tykhiy
fc18f73daf Add a quite late 20051014 entry for the changes in module Makefiles,
mainly to stick to the conventional MFC procedure.

Requested by:	Thomas E. Zander <riggs at rrr dot de>
MFC after:	3 days
2006-02-19 01:05:57 +00:00
Yaroslav Tykhiy
dc422d87fb Record the change in vnone_create_vobject() argument size,
which broke kernel ABI to filesystem modules on i386, where
sizeof(size_t) != sizeof(off_t).
2006-02-01 13:04:52 +00:00
John Baldwin
90482daf5f Retroactively add a note about the device names in /dev for si(4) changing. 2006-01-31 20:29:04 +00:00
Pav Lucistnik
6aa6311f40 - Fix typo
Reported by:	neologism/#freenode
2006-01-18 20:36:58 +00:00
Julian Elischer
347daa0f17 Note that the size of /boot has blown oout to 140 MBytes unless the
right options are used. Tell how to avoid this.
2006-01-18 19:54:51 +00:00
Jason Evans
cc61a0b12d Note that libc's malloc implementation has been replaced.
Approved by:	markm (mentor)
2006-01-13 22:37:48 +00:00
Gleb Smirnoff
7f4faad8ce Yesterday netgraph ABI has been changed. 2006-01-13 17:32:22 +00:00
John Baldwin
6bed9d9e73 Note shrinkage of lock_object and the subsequent widespread kernel ABI
breakage.
2006-01-06 19:04:39 +00:00
Alexander Leidinger
52a16db3b8 Say some words about the removed PQ_* kernel options. 2005-12-31 14:44:49 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
d6b4b3b398 Note the device filename changes due to sys/dev/rp/rp.c rev 1.70. 2005-12-19 03:15:49 +00:00
Sam Leffler
6dba929a4e note shuffle of commonly used programs in tools/tools/ath 2005-12-11 23:18:58 +00:00
Doug Barton
081ff8ace3 Add a paragraph to the COMMON ITEMS section that describes why
upgrading to the latest code in one branch before trying a major
version upgrade is a good idea.

Fleshing out of my thoughts provided by: kris
2005-12-07 20:49:42 +00:00
Gleb Smirnoff
65f1be68a1 - Mention also the COMPAT_FREEBSD5 option along with COMPAT_FREEBSD4.
- Notice that 20050227 entry is also applicable to packages, not only
  to world.

In collaboration with:	osa, phk
2005-12-06 10:39:14 +00:00
Doug Barton
a0cdeaec14 Add an entry explaining the changes which add local scripts
to the base rcorder.
2005-12-03 07:51:07 +00:00
Craig Rodrigues
a358ddbb54 Document removal of nodev mount option.
Requested by:	gleb
2005-11-29 19:13:28 +00:00
Gleb Smirnoff
b090e4ce1f Garbage-collect now unused struct _ipfw_insn_pipe and flush_pipe_ptrs(),
thus removing a few XXXes.
  Document the ABI breakage in UPDATING.
2005-11-29 08:59:41 +00:00
Yaroslav Tykhiy
a52364d522 Record renaming rc.d/ppp-user to rc.d/ppp. 2005-10-29 05:27:32 +00:00
Gleb Smirnoff
114d09d8b8 Note that kern.polling.enable is deprecated. 2005-10-01 20:53:51 +00:00
Max Laier
b6de9e91bd Remove bridge(4) from the tree. if_bridge(4) is a full functional
replacement and has additional features which make it superior.

Discussed on:	-arch
Reviewed by:	thompsa
X-MFC-after:	never (RELENG_6 as transition period)
2005-09-27 18:10:43 +00:00