introduce a modified allocation mechanism for mbufs and mbuf clusters; one
which can scale under SMP and which offers the possibility of resource
reclamation to be implemented in the future. Notable advantages:
o Reduce contention for SMP by offering per-CPU pools and locks.
o Better use of data cache due to per-CPU pools.
o Much less code cache pollution due to excessively large allocation macros.
o Framework for `grouping' objects from same page together so as to be able
to possibly free wired-down pages back to the system if they are no longer
needed by the network stacks.
Additional things changed with this addition:
- Moved some mbuf specific declarations and initializations from
sys/conf/param.c into mbuf-specific code where they belong.
- m_getclr() has been renamed to m_get_clrd() because the old name is really
confusing. m_getclr() HAS been preserved though and is defined to the new
name. No tree sweep has been done "to change the interface," as the old
name will continue to be supported and is not depracated. The change was
merely done because m_getclr() sounds too much like "m_get a cluster."
- TEMPORARILY disabled mbtypes statistics displaying in netstat(1) and
systat(1) (see TODO below).
- Fixed systat(1) to display number of "free mbufs" based on new per-CPU
stat structures.
- Fixed netstat(1) to display new per-CPU stats based on sysctl-exported
per-CPU stat structures. All infos are fetched via sysctl.
TODO (in order of priority):
- Re-enable mbtypes statistics in both netstat(1) and systat(1) after
introducing an SMP friendly way to collect the mbtypes stats under the
already introduced per-CPU locks (i.e. hopefully don't use atomic() - it
seems too costly for a mere stat update, especially when other locks are
already present).
- Optionally have systat(1) display not only "total free mbufs" but also
"total free mbufs per CPU pool."
- Fix minor length-fetching issues in netstat(1) related to recently
re-enabled option to read mbuf stats from a core file.
- Move reference counters at least for mbuf clusters into an unused portion
of the cluster itself, to save space and need to allocate a counter.
- Look into introducing resource freeing possibly from a kproc.
Reviewed by (in parts): jlemon, jake, silby, terry
Tested by: jlemon (Intel & Alpha), mjacob (Intel & Alpha)
Preliminary performance measurements: jlemon (and me, obviously)
URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~bmilekic/mb_alloc/
Replace the a.out emulation of 'struct linker_set' with something
a little more flexible. <sys/linker_set.h> now provides macros for
accessing elements and completely hides the implementation.
The linker_set.h macros have been on the back burner in various
forms since 1998 and has ideas and code from Mike Smith (SET_FOREACH()),
John Polstra (ELF clue) and myself (cleaned up API and the conversion
of the rest of the kernel to use it).
The macros declare a strongly typed set. They return elements with the
type that you declare the set with, rather than a generic void *.
For ELF, we use the magic ld symbols (__start_<setname> and
__stop_<setname>). Thanks to Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> for the
trick about how to force ld to provide them for kld's.
For a.out, we use the old linker_set struct.
NOTE: the item lists are no longer null terminated. This is why
the code impact is high in certain areas.
The runtime linker has a new method to find the linker set
boundaries depending on which backend format is in use.
linker sets are still module/kld unfriendly and should never be used
for anything that may be modular one day.
Reviewed by: eivind
- 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.
This work was based on kame-20010528-freebsd43-snap.tgz and some
critical problem after the snap was out were fixed.
There are many many changes since last KAME merge.
TODO:
- The definitions of SADB_* in sys/net/pfkeyv2.h are still different
from RFC2407/IANA assignment because of binary compatibility
issue. It should be fixed under 5-CURRENT.
- ip6po_m member of struct ip6_pktopts is no longer used. But, it
is still there because of binary compatibility issue. It should
be removed under 5-CURRENT.
Reviewed by: itojun
Obtained from: KAME
MFC after: 3 weeks
is usually (always?) used in expressions like (KTR_COMPILE & KTR_FOO).
Defining it as KTR_INTR|KTR_PROC gave the wrong value in approximately
8497 places according to error output for compiling LINT.
memory I/O space. Otherwise, our resource allocation system might
mistakenly assign pccard, plug and play devices or other things
addresses that conflict with ROMs.
I cleaned up his code a little from the submited driver: style(9)
issues, commentary on why something that looks incorrect really is
correct. Also noted that while a checksum field is defined for the
ROMs, enough common hardware neglects it to make it not worthwhile
checking.
Submitted by: Nikolai Saoukh <nms@otdel-1.org>
PR: 22078
This closes a minor information leak which allows a remote observer to
determine the rate at which the machine is generating packets, since the
default behaviour is to increment a counter for each packet sent.
Reviewed by: -net
Obtained from: OpenBSD
gigabit ethernet controller chip. This device is used on some
fiber optic gigE cards from SMC, D-Link and Addtron. Jumbograms and
TCP/IP checksum offload on receive are supported. Hardware VLAN
filtering is not, because it doesn't play well with our existing
VLAN code. Also add manual page.
There is a 4.x version of this driver available at
http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Level1/4.x if anyone feels adventurous
and wants to test it. I still need to do performance testing and
tuning with this device.
(For my next trick, I will make the 3Com 3cR990 sit up and beg.)
Add a CAPI (hardware independent) driver i4bcapi(4) and hardware driver
iavc (4) to support active CAPI-based BRI and PRI cards (currently AVM
B1 and T1 cards) to isdn4bsd.
systems were repo-copied from sys/miscfs to sys/fs.
- Renamed the following file systems and their modules:
fdesc -> fdescfs, portal -> portalfs, union -> unionfs.
- Renamed corresponding kernel options:
FDESC -> FDESCFS, PORTAL -> PORTALFS, UNION -> UNIONFS.
- Install header files for the above file systems.
- Removed bogus -I${.CURDIR}/../../sys CFLAGS from userland
Makefiles.
soon attach directly to pcic rather than the kludge pci-pcic device we
have now.
In some ways, this is similar to the work PAO3 did to try to support
cardbus bridges. In some ways different. This and future commits
will be taking from the spirit of many of those changes. pcicvar.h is
completely different from the pcicvar.h that appeared in PAO3, but
similar in concept.
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.
of the pcic class of devices. Go ahead and move it to the "usual"
place. I say "usual" in quotes since it isn't exactly right (not in
dev/blah), but it is closer than before.
and DP83821 gigabit ethernet MAC chips and the NatSemi DP83861 10/100/1000
copper PHY. There are a whole bunch of very low cost cards available with
this chipset selling for $150USD or less. This includes the SMC9462TX,
D-Link DGE-500T, Asante GigaNIX 1000TA and 1000TPC, and a couple cards
from Addtron.
This chip supports TCP/IP checksum offload, VLAN tagging/insertion.
2048-bit multicast filter, jumbograms and has 8K TX and 32K RX FIFOs.
I have not done serious performance testing with this driver. I know
it works, and I want it under CVS control so I can keep tabs on it.
Note that there's no serious mutex stuff in here yet either: I need
to talk more with jhb to figure out the right way to do this. That
said, I don't think there will be any problems.
This driver should also work on the alpha. It's not turned on in
GENERIC.
This driver supports PCI Xr-based and ISA Xem Digiboard cards.
dgm will go away soon if there are no problems reported. For now,
configuring dgm into your kernel warns that you should be using
digi. This driver is probably close to supporting Xi, Xe and Xeve
cards, but I wouldn't expect them to work properly (hardware
donations welcome).
The digi_* pseudo-drivers are not drivers themselves but contain
the BIOS and FEP/OS binaries for various digiboard cards and are
auto-loaded and auto-unloaded by the digi driver at initialisation
time. They *may* be configured into the kernel, but waste a lot
of space if they are. They're intended to be left as modules.
The digictl program is (mainly) used to re-initialise cards that
have external port modules attached such as the PC/Xem.
been made machine independent and various other adjustments have been made
to support Alpha SMP.
- It splits the per-process portions of hardclock() and statclock() off
into hardclock_process() and statclock_process() respectively. hardclock()
and statclock() call the *_process() functions for the current process so
that UP systems will run as before. For SMP systems, it is simply necessary
to ensure that all other processors execute the *_process() functions when the
main clock functions are triggered on one CPU by an interrupt. For the alpha
4100, clock interrupts are delievered in a staggered broadcast fashion, so
we simply call hardclock/statclock on the boot CPU and call the *_process()
functions on the secondaries. For x86, we call statclock and hardclock as
usual and then call forward_hardclock/statclock in the MD code to send an IPI
to cause the AP's to execute forwared_hardclock/statclock which then call the
*_process() functions.
- forward_signal() and forward_roundrobin() have been reworked to be MI and to
involve less hackery. Now the cpu doing the forward sets any flags, etc. and
sends a very simple IPI_AST to the other cpu(s). AST IPIs now just basically
return so that they can execute ast() and don't bother with setting the
astpending or needresched flags themselves. This also removes the loop in
forward_signal() as sched_lock closes the race condition that the loop worked
around.
- need_resched(), resched_wanted() and clear_resched() have been changed to take
a process to act on rather than assuming curproc so that they can be used to
implement forward_roundrobin() as described above.
- Various other SMP variables have been moved to a MI subr_smp.c and a new
header sys/smp.h declares MI SMP variables and API's. The IPI API's from
machine/ipl.h have moved to machine/smp.h which is included by sys/smp.h.
- The globaldata_register() and globaldata_find() functions as well as the
SLIST of globaldata structures has become MI and moved into subr_smp.c.
Also, the globaldata list is only available if SMP support is compiled in.
Reviewed by: jake, peter
Looked over by: eivind
We are way too inconsistent with our setting of the "schg" flag, and in
our default install, it doesn't really offer any additional security.
Reviewed by: arch@
interfaces and functionality intended for use during correctness and
regression testing. Features enabled by "options REGRESSION" may
in and of themselves introduce security or correctness problems if
used improperly, and so are not intended for use in production
systems, only in testing environments.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Parag Patel did all of the grunt work, so he gets the credit.
Register definitions and actions inferred from a Linux driver,
so Intel also gets some 'credit'.
the main benefit this gives for now is that via686 audio devices on
motherboards with ac97 codecs that do not support vra will be able to use
sample rates other than 48khz.
Add simple "xlat" converter which performs 8to8 table based conversion.
Unicode converter will be added in the near future.
Reviewed by: silence on arch@
Files placement reviewed by: bde
Obtained from: smbfs
- Introduce lock classes and lock objects. Each lock class specifies a
name and set of flags (or properties) shared by all locks of a given
type. Currently there are three lock classes: spin mutexes, sleep
mutexes, and sx locks. A lock object specifies properties of an
additional lock along with a lock name and all of the extra stuff needed
to make witness work with a given lock. This abstract lock stuff is
defined in sys/lock.h. The lockmgr constants, types, and prototypes have
been moved to sys/lockmgr.h. For temporary backwards compatability,
sys/lock.h includes sys/lockmgr.h.
- Replace proc->p_spinlocks with a per-CPU list, PCPU(spinlocks), of spin
locks held. By making this per-cpu, we do not have to jump through
magic hoops to deal with sched_lock changing ownership during context
switches.
- Replace proc->p_heldmtx, formerly a list of held sleep mutexes, with
proc->p_sleeplocks, which is a list of held sleep locks including sleep
mutexes and sx locks.
- Add helper macros for logging lock events via the KTR_LOCK KTR logging
level so that the log messages are consistent.
- Add some new flags that can be passed to mtx_init():
- MTX_NOWITNESS - specifies that this lock should be ignored by witness.
This is used for the mutex that blocks a sx lock for example.
- MTX_QUIET - this is not new, but you can pass this to mtx_init() now
and no events will be logged for this lock, so that one doesn't have
to change all the individual mtx_lock/unlock() operations.
- All lock objects maintain an initialized flag. Use this flag to export
a mtx_initialized() macro that can be safely called from drivers. Also,
we on longer walk the all_mtx list if MUTEX_DEBUG is defined as witness
performs the corresponding checks using the initialized flag.
- The lock order reversal messages have been improved to output slightly
more accurate file and line numbers.
Some of the major changes include:
- The SCSI error handling portion of cam_periph_error() has
been broken out into a number of subfunctions to better
modularize the code that handles the hierarchy of SCSI errors.
As a result, the code is now much easier to read.
- String handling and error printing has been significantly
revamped. We now use sbufs to do string formatting instead
of using printfs (for the kernel) and snprintf/strncat (for
userland) as before.
There is a new catchall error printing routine,
cam_error_print() and its string-based counterpart,
cam_error_string() that allow the kernel and userland
applications to pass in a CCB and have errors printed out
properly, whether or not they're SCSI errors. Among other
things, this helped eliminate a fair amount of duplicate code
in camcontrol.
We now print out more information than before, including
the CAM status and SCSI status and the error recovery action
taken to remedy the problem.
- sbufs are now available in userland, via libsbuf. This
change was necessary since most of the error printing code
is shared between libcam and the kernel.
- A new transfer settings interface is included in this checkin.
This code is #ifdef'ed out, and is primarily intended to aid
discussion with HBA driver authors on the final form the
interface should take. There is example code in the ahc(4)
driver that implements the HBA driver side of the new
interface. The new transfer settings code won't be enabled
until we're ready to switch all HBA drivers over to the new
interface.
src/Makefile.inc1,
lib/Makefile: Add libsbuf. It must be built before libcam,
since libcam uses sbuf routines.
libcam/Makefile: libcam now depends on libsbuf.
libsbuf/Makefile: Add a makefile for libsbuf. This pulls in the
sbuf sources from sys/kern.
bsd.libnames.mk: Add LIBSBUF.
camcontrol/Makefile: Add -lsbuf. Since camcontrol is statically
linked, we can't depend on the dynamic linker
to pull in libsbuf.
camcontrol.c: Use cam_error_print() instead of checking for
CAM_SCSI_STATUS_ERROR on every failed CCB.
sbuf.9: Change the prototypes for sbuf_cat() and
sbuf_cpy() so that the source string is now a
const char *. This is more in line wth the
standard system string functions, and helps
eliminate warnings when dealing with a const
source buffer.
Fix a typo.
cam.c: Add description strings for the various CAM
error status values, as well as routines to
look up those strings.
Add new cam_error_string() and
cam_error_print() routines for userland and
the kernel.
cam.h: Add a new CAM flag, CAM_RETRY_SELTO.
Add enumerated types for the various options
available with cam_error_print() and
cam_error_string().
cam_ccb.h: Add new transfer negotiation structures/types.
Change inq_len in the ccb_getdev structure to
be "reserved". This field has never been
filled in, and will be removed when we next
bump the CAM version.
cam_debug.h: Fix typo.
cam_periph.c: Modularize cam_periph_error(). The SCSI error
handling part of cam_periph_error() is now
in camperiphscsistatuserror() and
camperiphscsisenseerror().
In cam_periph_lock(), increase the reference
count on the periph while we wait for our lock
attempt to succeed so that the periph won't go
away while we're sleeping.
cam_xpt.c: Add new transfer negotiation code. (ifdefed
out)
Add a new function, xpt_path_string(). This
is a string/sbuf analog to xpt_print_path().
scsi_all.c: Revamp string handing and error printing code.
We now use sbufs for much of the string
formatting code. More of that code is shared
between userland the kernel.
scsi_all.h: Get rid of SS_TURSTART, it wasn't terribly
useful in the first place.
Add a new error action, SS_REQSENSE. (Send a
request sense and then retry the command.)
This is useful when the controller hasn't
performed autosense for some reason.
Change the default actions around a bit.
scsi_cd.c,
scsi_da.c,
scsi_pt.c,
scsi_ses.c: SF_RETRY_SELTO -> CAM_RETRY_SELTO. Selection
timeouts shouldn't be covered by a sense flag.
scsi_pass.[ch]: SF_RETRY_SELTO -> CAM_RETRY_SELTO.
Get rid of the last vestiges of a read/write
interface.
libkern/bsearch.c,
sys/libkern.h,
conf/files: Add bsearch.c, which is needed for some of the
new table lookup routines.
aic7xxx_freebsd.c: Define AHC_NEW_TRAN_SETTINGS if
CAM_NEW_TRAN_CODE is defined.
sbuf.h,
subr_sbuf.c: Add the appropriate #ifdefs so sbufs can
compile and run in userland.
Change sbuf_printf() to use vsnprintf()
instead of kvprintf(), which is only available
in the kernel.
Change the source string for sbuf_cpy() and
sbuf_cat() to be a const char *.
Add __BEGIN_DECLS and __END_DECLS around
function prototypes since they're now exported
to userland.
kdump/mkioctls: Include stdio.h before cam.h since cam.h now
includes a function with a FILE * argument.
Submitted by: gibbs (mostly)
Reviewed by: jdp, marcel (libsbuf makefile changes)
Reviewed by: des (sbuf changes)
Reviewed by: ken
implementation is still experimental, and while fairly broadly tested,
is not yet intended for production use. Support for POSIX.1e ACLs on
UFS will not be MFC'd to RELENG_4.
This implementation works by providing implementations of VOP_[GS]ETACL()
for FFS, as well as modifying the appropriate access control and file
creation routines. In this implementation, ACLs are backed into extended
attributes; the base ACL (owner, group, other) permissions remain in the
inode for performance and compatibility reasons, so only the extended and
default ACLs are placed in extended attributes. The logic for ACL
evaluation is provided by the fs-independent kern/kern_acl.c.
o Introduce UFS_ACL, a compile-time configuration option that enables
support for ACLs on FFS (and potentially other UFS-based file systems).
o Introduce ufs_getacl(), ufs_setacl(), ufs_aclcheck(), which
respectively get, set, and check the ACLs on the passed vnode.
o Introduce ufs_sync_acl_from_inode(), ufs_sync_inode_from_acl() to
maintain access control information between inode permissions and
extended attribute data.
o Modify ufs_access() to load a file access ACL and invoke
vaccess_acl_posix1e() if ACLs are available on the file system
o Modify ufs_mkdir() and ufs_makeinode() to associate ACLs with newly
created directories and files, inheriting from the parent directory's
default ACL.
o Enable these new vnode operations and conditionally compiled code
paths if UFS_ACL is defined.
A few notes:
o This implementation is fairly widely tested, but still should be
considered experimental.
o Currently, ACLs are not exported via NFS, instead, the summarizing
file mode/etc from the inode is. This results in conservative
protection behavior, similar to the behavior of ACL-nonaware programs
acting locally.
o It is possible that underlying binary data formats associated with
this implementation may change. Consumers of the implementation
should expect to find their local configuration obsoleted in the
next few months, resulting in possible loss of ACL data during an
upgrade.
o The extended attributes interface and implementation is still
undergoing modification to address portable interface concerns, as
well as performance.
o Many applications do not yet correctly handle ACLs. In general,
due to the POSIX.1e ACL model, behavior of ACL-unaware applications
will be conservative with respects to file protection; some caution
is recommended.
o Instructions for configuring and maintaining ACLs on UFS will be
committed in the near future; in the mean time it is possible to
reference the README included in the last UFS ACL distribution
placed in the TrustedBSD web site:
http://www.TrustedBSD.org/downloads/
Substantial debugging, hardware, travel, or connectivity support for this
project was provided by: BSDi, Safeport Network Services, and NAI Labs.
Significant coding contributions were made by Chris Faulhaber. Additional
support was provided by Brian Feldman, Thomas Moestl, and Ilmar Habibulin.
Reviewed by: jedgar, keichii, mckusick, trustedbsd-discuss, freebsd-fs
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
that I removed in my last commit dealing with `make depend' bogons.
This commit has some races, but hopefully they are too short to matter.
Unfortuneatly, neither .newdep nor .olddep is removed by `make clean'.
Submitted by: bde
very specific scenarios, and now that we have had net.inet.tcp.blackhole for
quite some time there is really no reason to use it any more.
(first of three commits)
options UFS_EXTATTR and UFS_EXTATTR_AUTOSTART respectively. This change
reflects the fact that our EA support is implemented entirely at the
UFS layer (modulo FFS start/stop/autostart hooks for mount and unmount
events). This also better reflects the fact that [shortly] MFS will also
support EAs, as well as possibly IFS.
o Consumers of the EA support in FFS are reminded that as a result, they
must change kernel config files to reflect the new option names.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
"options FFS_EXTATTR". When extended attribute auto-starting
is enabled, FFS will scan the .attribute directory off of the
root of each file system, as it is mounted. If .attribute
exists, EA support will be started for the file system. If
there are files in the directory, FFS will attempt to start
them as attribute backing files for attributes baring the same
name. All attributes are started before access to the file
system is permitted, so this permits race-free enabling of
attributes. For attributes backing support for security
features, such as ACLs, MAC, Capabilities, this is vital, as
it prevents the file system attributes from getting out of
sync as a result of file system operations between mount-time
and the enabling of the extended attribute. The userland
extattrctl tool will still function exactly as previously.
Files must be placed directly in .attribute, which must be
directly off of the file system root: symbolic links are
not permitted. FFS_EXTATTR will continue to be able
to function without FFS_EXTATTR_AUTOSTART for sites that do not
want/require auto-starting. If you're using the UFS_ACL code
available from www.TrustedBSD.org, using FFS_EXTATTR_AUTOSTART
is recommended.
o This support is implemented by adding an invocation of
ufs_extattr_autostart() to ffs_mountfs(). In addition,
several new supporting calls are introduced in
ufs_extattr.c:
ufs_extattr_autostart(): start EAs on the specified mount
ufs_extattr_lookup(): given a directory and filename,
return the vnode for the file.
ufs_extattr_enable_with_open(): invoke ufs_extattr_enable()
after doing the equililent of vn_open()
on the passed file.
ufs_extattr_iterate_directory(): iterate over a directory,
invoking ufs_extattr_lookup() and
ufs_extattr_enable_with_open() on each
entry.
o This feature is not widely tested, and therefore may contain
bugs, caution is advised. Several changes are in the pipeline
for this feature, including breaking out of EA namespaces into
subdirectories of .attribute (this is waiting on the updated
EA API), as well as a per-filesystem flag indicating whether
or not EAs should be auto-started. This is required because
administrators may not want .attribute auto-started on all
file systems, especially if non-administrators have write access
to the root of a file system.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
rather than in silly places like "VFS Cluster debugging". People
should really be using COMPAT_LINUX instead of the linux module on
dynamic systems like -current.
Incredibally useful for debugging kernels using vmware.
Vmware com1 is diverted to one side, and gdb listens to the other side.
viola.. instant debugging sandbox on one system.
by the compiler. ie: char foo[0] comes out as 4 bytes on a.out, and
we depended on it coming out as 0 for the script version. :-(
Make double sure that genassym.o is built and nm'ed in elf mode.
(ia64 skipped since it is stuck on the linux toolchain and doesn't
understand the -elf switches)
depend on this. The linux ABI emulator tries to use it for some linux
binaries too. VM86 had a bigger cost than this and it was made default
a while ago.
Reviewed by: jhb, imp
except for setting it. Also remove count from aha and replace it with
optional.
Also add commented out pccard lines for all the old card drivers.
They have to be commented out until they are converted because it
causes problems in NEWCARD.
to 1GB. A box of mine is running with MAXDSIZ and DFLDSIZ increased
up to 1.5GB.
Wishlist: It would be nice to warn if MAXTSIZ + MAXDSIZ + MAXSSIZ
exceeds VM_MAXUSER_ADDRESS - VM_MINUSER_ADDRESS.
valid) if BPF is missing.
The netgraph_bpf node forced bpf to be present, reflect that in the
options.
Stop doing a 'count bpf' - we provide stubs.
Since a handful of drivers still refer to "bpf.h", provide a more accurate
indication that the API is present always. (eg: netinet6)
o Use objdump instead of gensetdefs(1) to build the linker sets.
o Allow overriding of nm and objdump in resp. genassym.sh and
gensetdefs.pl for non-native toolchains.
Reviewed by: arch
Perl improvements: Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com>, benno
parts: isa and pccard. The isa one is known to work with an IBM
EtherJet ISA card. The pccard one isn't known to work because the
EtherJet pccard I purchased recently arrived DOA :-(. I'll commit the
pccard.conf entry when the replacement card arrives.
I plan on MFC this in a week or two.
{kernel,modules}-reinstall.debug rather than {kernel,modules}-reinstall.
Otherwise, the '.debug' portion of the target is lost, and you end up
reinstalling the non debug version instead of the debug version.
slow enough as it is, without having to constantly check that it really
is an i386 still. It was possible to compile out the conditionals for
faster cpus by leaving out 'I386_CPU', but it was not possible to
unconditionally compile for the i386. You got the runtime checking whether
you wanted it or not. This makes I386_CPU mutually exclusive with the
other cpu types, and tidies things up a little in the process.
Reviewed by: alfred, markm, phk, benno, jlemon, jhb, jake, grog, msmith,
jasone, dcs, des (and a bunch more people who encouraged it)
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
__FreeBSD_version 500015 can be used to detect their disappearance.
- Move the symbols for SMP_prvspace and lapic from globals.s to
locore.s.
- Remove globals.s with extreme prejudice.
compiled under newcard yet. ep works just fine under newcard with the
missing ID matching code added (not committed yet):
ep0: <3Com 3c589 10Mbps Ethernet> at port 0x300-0x30f irq 9 function 0
config 1 on pccard1
ep0: Ethernet address 00:10:4b:df:48:57
To use it, some dll is needed. And currently, the dll is only for NetBSD.
So one more kernel module is needed.
For more infomation,
http://chiharu.haun.org/peace/ .
Reviewed by: bp
this gives us several benefits, including:
* easier extensibility- new optional methods can be added to
ac97/mixer/channel classes without having to fixup every driver.
* forward compatibility for drivers, provided no new mandatory methods are
added.
This is a driver for the LanMedia/SBE LMC150x E1/T1 family of cards.
The driver currently support unframed E1 (2048kbit/s) and framed
E1 (nx64).
These cards will provision E1/T1 lines for about 1/4 the cost of
a cisco router...
- Break out the /dev/pci driver into a separate file.
- Kill the COMPAT_OLDPCI support.
- Make the EISA bridge attach a bit more like the old code; explicitly
check for the existence of eisa0/isa0 and only attach if they don't
already exist. Only make one bus_generic_attach() pass over the
bridge, once both busses are attached. Note that the stupid Intel
bridge's class is entirely unpredictable.
- Add prototypes and re-layout the core PCI modules in line with
current coding standards (not a major whitespace change, just moving
the module data to the top of the file).
- Remove redundant type-2 bridge support from the core PCI code; the
PCI-CardBus code does this itself internally. Remove the now
entirely redundant header-class-specific support, as well as the
secondary and subordinate bus number fields. These are bridge
attributes now.
- Add support for PCI Extended Capabilities.
- Add support for PCI Power Management. The interface currently
allows a driver to query and set the power state of a device.
- Add helper functions to allow drivers to enable/disable busmastering
and the decoding of I/O and memory ranges.
- Use PCI_SLOTMAX and PCI_FUNCMAX rather than magic numbers in some
places.
- Make the PCI-PCI bridge code a little more paranoid about valid
I/O and memory decodes.
- Add some more PCI register definitions for the command and status
registers. Correct another bogus definition for type-1 bridges.
but serves to work around some uncleanliness whereby the ISA bus is not
found on Alpha systems with PCI:EISA bridges due to the lack of EISA code
for the Alpha.
held and panic if so (conditional on witness).
- Change witness_list to return the number of locks held so this is easier.
- Add kern/syscalls.c to the kernel build if witness is defined so that the
panic message can contain the name of the offending system call.
- Add assertions that Giant and sched_lock are not held when returning from
a system call, which were missing for alpha and ia64.
.PATH to ${.CURDIR}/[...]/kern , the "exists" expression will fail for the
form exists(${.CURDIR}/[...]/kern/). This appears to be happening because
make is searching for the argument to "exists" by using .PATH rather than a
relative search, because .PATH and the argument match at the beginning.
Additionally, make appears to consider a path that starts with ${.CURDIR}
as relative, even though it expands to an absolute path.
The reason that most people aren't seeing this problem is that the absolute
paths of /usr/src/sys and /sys are also searched, so as long as the kernel
source can be found in at least one of those places, no problems surface.
This problem was inadvertently introduced on 1 December 2000, with the
addition of the sysvipc modules.
- Make pccbb/cardbus kld loadable and unloadable.
- Make pccbb/cardbus use the power interface from pccard instead of inventing its own.
- some other minor fixes
using a cardbus based system with pccbb providing the pcic interface).
Something isn't quite right.. when the driver allocates and activates
its resources, the IO space that was requested reads as all zeros (versus
the original 0xff's as it normally is when there is no device responding).
Also, deactivate the resources before releasing them. OLDCARD doesn't
seem to care but NEWCARD/CARDBUS get rather unhappy if you release
a resource that hasn't been deactivated yet.
Make pcic_p.c only compile with oldcard kernels.
This code has help us comprehence ACPI spec .
Contributors of this code is as follows(except for FreeBSD commiter):
Yasuo Yokoyama,
Munehiro Matsuda,
and ALL acpi-jp@jp.freebsd.org people.
Thanks.
R.I.P.
function declared in kern_ktr.c. The only inline checks left are the
checks that compare KTR_COMPILE with the supplied mask and thus should
be optimized away into either nothing or a direct call to ktr_tracepoint().
- Move several KTR-related options to opt_ktr.h now that they are only
needed by kern_ktr.c and not by ktr.h.
- Add in the ktr_verbose functionality if KTR_EXTEND is turned on. If the
global variable 'ktr_verbose' is non-zero, then KTR messages will be
dumped to the console. This variable can be set by either kernel code
or via the 'debug.ktr_verbose' sysctl. It defaults to off unless the
KTR_VERBOSE kernel option is specified in which case it defaults to on.
This can be useful when the machine locks up spinning in a loop with
interrupts disabled as you might be able to see what it is doing when it
locks up.
Requested by: phk
- Layout reorganisation to enhance portability. The driver now has
a relatively MI 'core' and a FreeBSD-specific layer over the top.
Since the NetBSD people have already done their own port, this is
largely just to help me with the BSD/OS port.
- Request ID allocation changed to improve performance (I'd been
considering switching to this approach after having failed to come
up with a better way to dynamically allocate request IDs, and seeing
Andy Doran use it in the NetBSD port of the driver convinced me
that I was wasting my time doing it any other way). Now we just
allocate all the requests up front.
- Maximum request count bumped back to 255 after characterisation
of a firmware issue (off-by-one causing it to crash with 256
outstanding commands).
- Control interface implemented. This allows 3ware's '3dm' utility to
talk to the controller. 3dm will be available from 3ware shortly.
- Controller soft-reset feature added; if the controller signals a
firmware or protocol error, the controller will be reset and all
outstanding commands will be retried.
(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
reducues the maintenance load for the mutex code. The only MD portions
of the mutex code are in machine/mutex.h now, which include the assembly
macros for handling mutexes as well as optionally overriding the mutex
micro-operations. For example, we use optimized micro-ops on the x86
platform #ifndef I386_CPU.
- Change the behavior of the SMP_DEBUG kernel option. In the new code,
mtx_assert() only depends on INVARIANTS, allowing other kernel developers
to have working mutex assertiions without having to include all of the
mutex debugging code. The SMP_DEBUG kernel option has been renamed to
MUTEX_DEBUG and now just controls extra mutex debugging code.
- Abolish the ugly mtx_f hack. Instead, we dynamically allocate
seperate mtx_debug structures on the fly in mtx_init, except for mutexes
that are initiated very early in the boot process. These mutexes
are declared using a special MUTEX_DECLARE() macro, and use a new
flag MTX_COLD when calling mtx_init. This is still somewhat hackish,
but it is less evil than the mtx_f filler struct, and the mtx struct is
now the same size with and without mutex debugging code.
- Add some micro-micro-operation macros for doing the actual atomic
operations on the mutex mtx_lock field to make it easier for other archs
to override/optimize mutex ops if needed. These new tiny ops also clean
up the code in some places by replacing long atomic operation function
calls that spanned 2-3 lines with a short 1-line macro call.
- Don't call mi_switch() from mtx_enter_hard() when we block while trying
to obtain a sleep mutex. Calling mi_switch() would bogusly release
Giant before switching to the next process. Instead, inline most of the
code from mi_switch() in the mtx_enter_hard() function. Note that when
we finally kill Giant we can back this out and go back to calling
mi_switch().
This commit adds support for Xircom X3201 based cardbus cards.
Support for the TDK 78Q2120 MII is also added.
IBM Etherjet, Intel and Xircom cards uses these chips.
Note that as a result of this commit, some Intel/DEC 21143 based cardbus
cards will also attach, but not get link. That is being looked at.
Files:
dev/cardbus/cardbus.c
dev/cardbus/cardbusreg.h
dev/cardbus/cardbusvar.h
dev/cardbus/cardbus_cis.c
dev/cardbus/cardbus_cis.h
dev/pccbb/pccbb.c
dev/pccbb/pccbbreg.h
dev/pccbb/pccbbvar.h
dev/pccbb/pccbb_if.m
This should support:
- cardbus controllers:
* TI 113X
* TI 12XX
* TI 14XX
* Ricoh 47X
* Ricoh 46X
* ToPIC 95
* ToPIC 97
* ToPIC 100
* Cirrus Logic CLPD683x
- cardbus cards
* 3c575BT
* 3c575CT
* Xircom X3201 (includes IBM, Xircom and, Intel cards)
[ 3com support already in kernel, Xircom will be committed real soon now]
This doesn't work with 16bit pccards under NEWCARD.
Enable in your config by having "device pccbb" and "device cardbus".
(A "device pccard" will attach a pccard bus, but it means you system have
a high chance of panicing when a 16bit card is inserted)
It should be fairly simple to make a driver attach to cardbus under
NEWCARD -- simply add an entry for attaching to cardbus on a new
DRIVER_MODULE and add new device IDs as necessary. You should also make
sure the card can be detached nicely without the interrupt routine doing
something weird, like going into an infinite loop. Usually that should
entail adding an additional check when a pci register or the bus space is
read to check if it equals 0xffffffff.
Any problems, please let me know.
Reviewed by: imp
now in dirs called sys/*/random/ instead of sys/*/randomdev/*.
Introduce blocking, but only at startup; the random device will
block until the first reseed happens to prevent clients from
using untrustworthy output.
Provide a read_random() call for the rest of the kernel so that
the entropy device does not need to be present. This means that
things like IPX no longer need to have "device random" hardcoded
into thir kernel config. The downside is that read_random() will
provide very poor output until the entropy device is loaded and
reseeded. It is recommended that developers do NOT use the
read_random() call; instead, they should use arc4random() which
internally uses read_random().
Clean up the mutex and locking code a bit; this makes it possible
to unload the module again.
description:
How it works:
--
Basically ifs is a copy of ffs, overriding some vfs/vnops. (Yes, hack.)
I didn't see the need in duplicating all of sys/ufs/ffs to get this
off the ground.
File creation is done through a special file - 'newfile' . When newfile
is called, the system allocates and returns an inode. Note that newfile
is done in a cloning fashion:
fd = open("newfile", O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0644);
fstat(fd, &st);
printf("new file is %d\n", (int)st.st_ino);
Once you have created a file, you can open() and unlink() it by its returned
inode number retrieved from the stat call, ie:
fd = open("5", O_RDWR);
The creation permissions depend entirely if you have write access to the
root directory of the filesystem.
To get the list of currently allocated inodes, VOP_READDIR has been added
which returns a directory listing of those currently allocated.
--
What this entails:
* patching conf/files and conf/options to include IFS as a new compile
option (and since ifs depends upon FFS, include the FFS routines)
* An entry in i386/conf/NOTES indicating IFS exists and where to go for
an explanation
* Unstaticize a couple of routines in src/sys/ufs/ffs/ which the IFS
routines require (ffs_mount() and ffs_reload())
* a new bunch of routines in src/sys/ufs/ifs/ which implement the IFS
routines. IFS replaces some of the vfsops, and a handful of vnops -
most notably are VFS_VGET(), VOP_LOOKUP(), VOP_UNLINK() and VOP_READDIR().
Any other directory operation is marked as invalid.
What this results in:
* an IFS partition's create permissions are controlled by the perm/ownership of
the root mount point, just like a normal directory
* Each inode has perm and ownership too
* IFS does *NOT* mean an FFS partition can be opened per inode. This is a
completely seperate filesystem here
* Softupdates doesn't work with IFS, and really I don't think it needs it.
Besides, fsck's are FAST. (Try it :-)
* Inodes 0 and 1 aren't allocatable because they are special (dump/swap IIRC).
Inode 2 isn't allocatable since UFS/FFS locks all inodes in the system against
this particular inode, and unravelling THAT code isn't trivial. Therefore,
useful inodes start at 3.
Enjoy, and feedback is definitely appreciated!
and initialized during boot. This avoids bloating sizeof(struct lock).
As a side effect, it is no longer necessary to enforce the assumtion that
lockinit()/lockdestroy() calls are paired, so the LK_VALID flag has been
removed.
Idea taken from: BSD/OS.
disk drivers along with a load of fixes to context switching, fork
handling and a load of other stuff I can't remember now. This takes us as
far as start_init() before it dies. I guess now I will have to finish off
the VM system and syscall handling :-).
platforms.
While here, work around a strange quirk in config(8) that I do not yet
understand. Rearrange which atapi* files have 'optional' vs. 'count'
so that you can have atapifd without atapicd. The only difference should
be that this works instead of having a link error because atapi-all.o got
left out of the kernel.
support which use National Semiconductor DP8393X (SONIC) as ethernet
controller. Currently, this driver is used on only PC-98.
Submitted by: Motomichi Matsuzaki <mzaki@e-mail.ne.jp>
Obtained from: NetBSD/pc98
drivers (again). These drivers have not compiled for 5-6 months.
Now that the new sound code supports MIDI, the major reason we had for
reviving it is gone. It is a far better investment polishing the new
midi code than trying to keep this on life support. Come 5.0-REL, if
there are major shortcomings in the pcm sound driver then maybe we can
rethink this, but until then we should focus on pcm.
Remember, these have not been compilable since ~April-May this year.
that it's enabled in acpireg.h only if DIAGNOSTIC option is specified.
ACPICA OSD functions will be compiled in machine/acpi_machdep.c again
tentatively (if DIAGNOSTIC option is specified).
# Should we have acpica_osd.c ?
- Move all register I/O into acpi_io.c
- Move event handling into acpi_event.c
- Reorganise headers into acpivar/acpireg/acpiio
- Move find-RSDT and find-ACPI-owned-memory into acpi_machdep
- Allocate all resources (except those detailed only by AML)
as real resources. Add infrastructure that will make adding
resource support to AML code easy.
- Remove all ACPI #ifdefs in non-ACPI code
- Removed unnecessary includes
- Minor style and commenting fixes
Reviewed by: iwasaki
not work on any real hardware (or fully work on any simulator). Much more
needs to happen before this is actually functional but its nice to see
the FreeBSD copyright message appear in the ia64 simulator.
sequencer files. Different platforms place the included files in different
locations and it is easier to modify the include path passed as arguments
to the assembler than adding #ifdef support to the assembler.
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.
The code for suspend/resume is derived from APM device driver.
Some people suggested the original code is somewhat buggy, but I'd
like to just move it from apm.c without any major changes for the
initial version. This code should be refined later.
To use pmtimer to adjust time at resume time, add
device pmtimer
in your kernel config file, and add
hint.pmtimer.0.at="isa"
in your device.hints
Reviewed by: -current, bde
from many folk.
o The reseed process is now a kthread. With SMPng, kthreads are
pre-emptive, so the annoying jerkiness of the mouse is gone.
o The data structures are protected by mutexes now, not splfoo()/splx().
o The cryptographic routines are broken out into their own subroutines.
this facilitates review, and possible replacement if that is ever
found necessary.
Thanks to: kris, green, peter, jasone, grog, jhb
Forgotten to thank: You know who you are; no offense intended.
include:
* Mutual exclusion is used instead of spl*(). See mutex(9). (Note: The
alpha port is still in transition and currently uses both.)
* Per-CPU idle processes.
* Interrupts are run in their own separate kernel threads and can be
preempted (i386 only).
Partially contributed by: BSDi (BSD/OS)
Submissions by (at least): cp, dfr, dillon, grog, jake, jhb, sheldonh
to recycle inodes after a destroy_dev() but not until all mounts
have picked up the change.
Add support for an overflow table for DEVFS inodes. The static
table defaults to 1024 inodes, if that fills, an overflow table
of 32k inodes is allocated. Both numbers can be changed at
compile time, the size of the overflow table also with the
sysctl vfs.devfs.noverflow.
Use atomic instructions to barrier between make_dev()/destroy_dev()
and the mounts.
Add lockmgr() locking of directories for operations accessing or
modifying the directory TAILQs.
Various nitpicking here and there.
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.
the drivers.
* Remove legacy inx/outx support from chipset and replace with macros
which call busspace.
* Rework pci config accesses to route through the pcib device instead of
calling a MD function directly.
With these changes it is possible to cleanly support machines which have
more than one independantly numbered PCI busses. As a bonus, the new
busspace implementation should be measurably faster than the old one.
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
doesn't exist. This could bite you by allowing you merrily install your
modules one on top of the other as the regular file ${DESTDIR}/modules
and think it completed properly...
The tap driver is used to present a virtual Ethernet interface to the
system. Packets presented by the network stack to the interface are
made available to a character device in /dev. With tap and the bridge
code, you can make remote bridge configurations where both sides of
the bridge are separated by userland daemons.
This driver also has a special naming hack to allow it to serve a similar
purpose to the vmware port.
Submitted by: myevmenkin@att.com, vsilyaev@mindspring.com
associated patch to XFree86 allows the X server to work with this chipset
on FreeBSD. Additional work will include porting the Linux 3D driver.
Submitted by: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
the gating of system calls that cause modifications to the underlying
filesystem. The gating can be enabled by any filesystem that needs
to consistently suspend operations by adding the vop_stdgetwritemount
to their set of vnops. Once gating is enabled, the function
vfs_write_suspend stops all new write operations to a filesystem,
allows any filesystem modifying system calls already in progress
to complete, then sync's the filesystem to disk and returns. The
function vfs_write_resume allows the suspended write operations to
begin again. Gating is not added by default for all filesystems as
for SMP systems it adds two extra locks to such critical kernel
paths as the write system call. Thus, gating should only be added
as needed.
Details on the use and current status of snapshots in FFS can be
found in /sys/ufs/ffs/README.snapshot so for brevity and timelyness
is not included here. Unless and until you create a snapshot file,
these changes should have no effect on your system (famous last words).
(I had been busy for my own research activity until the last weekend)
Supported devices:
SB Midi Port (sbc + midi)
SB OPL3 (sbc + midi)
16550 UART (midi, needs a trick in your hint)
CS461x Midi Port (csa + midi)
OSS-compatible sequencer (seq)
Supported playing software:
playmidi (We definitely need more)
Notes:
/dev/midistat now reports installed midi drivers. /dev/sndstat reports
only pcm drivers. We need the new name(pcmstat?).
EMU8000(SB AWE) does not sound yet but does get probed so that the OPL3
synth on an AWE card works.
TODO:
MSS/PCI bridge drivers
Midi-tty interface to support general serial devices
Modules
Currently, many drivers support more than one bus of ISA, EISA, MCA,
PCI.
Before this commit, we had, for example, some SCSI devices listed more
than once, iirc, some up to three times (ISA/EISA, MCA, PCI).
Since now the "device" line is common for all of them and they only
differ for the hints stuff, I did the following:
First, list Busses: (E)ISA, MCA, PCI and explain, that only ISA
needs the hints stuff.
Move NIC/SCSI stuff, which were the only split sections, behind these
stuff. Describe all drivers only one time and list all supported
chips.
List all device (+ hints for ISA, if possible).
I've also added few additional supported chips to some drivers, xl for
example and some SCSI drivers.
Also, softupdates is no longer disabled by default, so the comment should
not say, it's not enabled by default due to license issues.
Approved by: asmodai
To come: include PAO devices (imp volunteered for help)
FreeBSD.org e-mail.
o Notice also that it's listed as "aud" not "audit" which will
probably change in the near future with updates to the auditing
implementation.
set equal to the number of kilobytes in your cache. The old options are
still supported for backwards compatibility.
Submitted by: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net>
This means 'options NETGRAPH' is no longer necessary in order to get
netgraph-enabled Ethernet interfaces. This supports loading/unloading
the ng_ether.ko and attaching/detaching the Ethernet interface in any
order.
Add two new hooks 'upper' and 'lower' to allow access to the protocol
demux engine and the raw device, respectively. This enables bridging
to be defined as a netgraph node, if so desired.
Reviewed by: freebsd-net@freebsd.org
rest of the kernel. Added new option TDFX_LINUX for optional
LINUX_EMULATION, so that perhaps some people don't have to use linux emu to
run the driver if they don't want to.
accept filters are now loadable as well as able to be compiled into
the kernel.
two accept filters are provided, one that returns sockets when data
arrives the other when an http request is completed (doesn't work
with 0.9 requests)
Reviewed by: jmg
world as was our old way, rather than when building a kernel.
Some people do not like the new way, and the release building still assumes
modules are built with the world.
implying that they aren't used for the rest of the system.
Fix the lies:
253 is used by mfs (bad MFS for not registering it).
254 is a magic cookie inside of the dev code in at least one place.
255 is -1 which is magic in a different way in the dev code.
So, that means that 200-252 are reserved for local users. A grep for
252 didn't turn anything up, so I'm assuming it and lower are safe.
And I thought I was being smart by allocating our local major numbers
from 254 on down. This caused very very odd problems that were hard
to track down: close not being called, sync failing at reboot, etc.
Implement the Solaris way to break into DDB over a serial console
instead of sending a break. Sending the character sequence
CR ~ ^b will break the kernel into DDB (if DDB is enabled).
Reviewed by: peter
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
