Sgtty is a programming interface that has been replaced by termios over
the years. In June we already removed <sgtty.h>, which exposes the
ioctl()'s that are implemented by this interface. The importance of this
flag is overrated right now.
module; the ath module now brings in the hal support. Kernel
config files are almost backwards compatible; supplying
device ath_hal
gives you the same chip support that the binary hal did but you
must also include
options AH_SUPPORT_AR5416
to enable the extended format descriptors used by 11n parts.
It is now possible to control the chip support included in a
build by specifying exactly which chips are to be supported
in the config file; consult ath_hal(4) for information.
controllers and it seems to work just fine with at least an
add-on SAS3080X. While at it, remove the commented out ncr(4)
as it doesn't even use bus_dma(9), which isn't worth fixing
though as sym(4) already supports a superset of the controllers
driven by ncr(4).
on the presence of fhc(4) instead; we by far don't support all of
the functionality provide by the clock board but in general it's
an integral part of FireHose-based systems which shouldn't be
possible to omit.
ukbd(4) does and that emulation was enabled by default, all three of
them work together with kbdmux(4) out of the box just fine.
- Fix some whitespace bugs.
MFC after: 3 days
The last half year I've been working on a replacement TTY layer for the
FreeBSD kernel. The new TTY layer was designed to improve the following:
- Improved driver model:
The old TTY layer has a driver model that is not abstract enough to
make it friendly to use. A good example is the output path, where the
device drivers directly access the output buffers. This means that an
in-kernel PPP implementation must always convert network buffers into
TTY buffers.
If a PPP implementation would be built on top of the new TTY layer
(still needs a hooks layer, though), it would allow the PPP
implementation to directly hand the data to the TTY driver.
- Improved hotplugging:
With the old TTY layer, it isn't entirely safe to destroy TTY's from
the system. This implementation has a two-step destructing design,
where the driver first abandons the TTY. After all threads have left
the TTY, the TTY layer calls a routine in the driver, which can be
used to free resources (unit numbers, etc).
The pts(4) driver also implements this feature, which means
posix_openpt() will now return PTY's that are created on the fly.
- Improved performance:
One of the major improvements is the per-TTY mutex, which is expected
to improve scalability when compared to the old Giant locking.
Another change is the unbuffered copying to userspace, which is both
used on TTY device nodes and PTY masters.
Upgrading should be quite straightforward. Unlike previous versions,
existing kernel configuration files do not need to be changed, except
when they reference device drivers that are listed in UPDATING.
Obtained from: //depot/projects/mpsafetty/...
Approved by: philip (ex-mentor)
Discussed: on the lists, at BSDCan, at the DevSummit
Sponsored by: Snow B.V., the Netherlands
dcons(4) fixed by: kan
As clearly mentioned on the mailing lists, there is a list of drivers
that have not been ported to the MPSAFE TTY layer yet. Remove them from
the kernel configuration files. This means people can now still use
these drivers if they explicitly put them in their kernel configuration
file, which is good.
People should keep in mind that after August 10, these drivers will not
work anymore. Even though owners of the hardware are capable of getting
these drivers working again, I will see if I can at least get them to a
compilable state (if time permits).
Note this includes changes to all drivers and moves some device firmware
loading to use firmware(9) and a separate module (e.g. ral). Also there
no longer are separate wlan_scan* modules; this functionality is now
bundled into the wlan module.
Supported by: Hobnob and Marvell
Reviewed by: many
Obtained from: Atheros (some bits)
to detect (or load) kernel NLM support in rpc.lockd. Remove the '-k'
option to rpc.lockd and make kernel NLM the default. A user can still
force the use of the old user NLM by building a kernel without NFSLOCKD
and/or removing the nfslockd.ko module.
While the KSE project was quite successful in bringing threading to
FreeBSD, the M:N approach taken by the kse library was never developed
to its full potential. Backwards compatibility will be provided via
libmap.conf for dynamically linked binaries and static binaries will
be broken.
- Introduce per-architecture stack_machdep.c to hold stack_save(9).
- Introduce per-architecture machine/stack.h to capture any common
definitions required between db_trace.c and stack_machdep.c.
- Add new kernel option "options STACK"; we will build in stack(9) if it is
defined, or also if "options DDB" is defined to provide compatibility
with existing users of stack(9).
Add new stack_save_td(9) function, which allows the capture of a stacktrace
of another thread rather than the current thread, which the existing
stack_save(9) was limited to. It requires that the thread be neither
swapped out nor running, which is the responsibility of the consumer to
enforce.
Update stack(9) man page.
Build tested: amd64, arm, i386, ia64, powerpc, sparc64, sun4v
Runtime tested: amd64 (rwatson), arm (cognet), i386 (rwatson)
Currently, Giant is not too much contented so that it is ok to treact it
like any other mutexes.
Please don't forget to update your own custom config kernel files.
Approved by: cognet, marcel (maintainers of arches where option is
not enabled at the moment)
This has the following benefits:
- allows to use the AT keyboard maps in share/syscons/keymaps with
sunkbd(4),
- allows to use kbdmux(4) with sunkbd(4),
- allows Sun RS232 keyboards to be configured and used the same
way as Sun USB keyboards driven by ukbd(4) (which also does AT
keyboard emulation) with X.Org, putting an end to the problem
of native support for the former in X.Org being broken over and
over again.
MFC after: 3 days
more exposure. The current state of SCTP implementation is
considered to be ready for 32-bit platforms, but still need some
work/testing on 64-bit platforms.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Discussed with: rrs
making the relevant files standard. This avoids duplication and
makes it easier to override/disable unwanted schemes. Since ARM
doesn't have a DEFAULTS configuration file, leave the source
files for the BSD and MBR partitioning schemes in files.arm for
now.
Note on dcons:
To enable dcons in kernel, put the following lines in /boot/loader.conf.
You may also want to enable dcons in /etc/ttys.
boot_multicons="YES"
#Force dcons to be the high-level console if a firewire bus presents.
#hw.firewire.dcons_crom.force_console=1
FireWire/dcons support in loader will come shortly.
(i386/amd64 only)
partitioning class that supports multiple schemes. Current
schemes supported are APM (Apple Partition Map) and GPT.
Change all GEOM_APPLE anf GEOM_GPT options into GEOM_PART_APM
and GEOM_PART_GPT (resp).
The ctlreq interface supports verbs to create and destroy
partitioning schemes on a disk; to add, delete and modify
partitions; and to commit or undo changes made.
it as a default.
For the record, the KDTRACE option caused _no_ additional source files
to be compiled in; certainly no CDDL source files. All it did was to
allow existing BSD licensed kernel files to include one or more CDDL
header files.
By removing this from DEFAULTS, the onus is on a kernel builder to add
the option to the kernel config, possibly by including GENERIC and
customising from there. It means that DTrace won't be a feature
available in FreeBSD by default, which is the way I intended it to be.
Without this option, you can't load the dtrace module (which contains
the dtrace device and the DTrace framework). This is equivalent to
requiring an option in a kernel config before you can load the linux
emulation module, for example.
I think it is a mistake to have DTrace ported to FreeBSD, but not
to have it available to everyone, all the time. The only exception
to this is the companies which distribute systems with FreeBSD embedded.
Those companies will customise their systems anyway. The KDTRACE
option was intended for them, and only them.
adds the hooks that DTrace modules register with, and adds a few functions
which have the dtrace_ prefix to allow the DTrace FBT (function boundary
trace) provider to avoid tracing because they are called from the DTtrace
probe context.
Unlike other forms of tracing and debug, DTrace support in the kernel
incurs negligible run-time cost.
I think the only reason why anyone wouldn't want to have kernel support
enabled for DTrace would be due to the license (CDDL) under which DTrace
is released.
as we have no use for that info. Instead let this function return the
keyboard ID and verify at its invocation in sunkbd_configure() that we're
talking to a Sun type 4/5/6 keyboard, i.e. a keyboard supported by this
driver.
- Add an option SUNKBD_EMULATE_ATKBD whose code is based on the respective
code in ukbd(4) and like UKBD_EMULATE_ATSCANCODE causes this driver to
emit AT keyboard/KB_101 compatible scan codes in K_RAW mode as assumed by
kbdmux(4). Unlike UKBD_EMULATE_ATSCANCODE, SUNKBD_EMULATE_ATKBD also
triggers the use of AT keyboard maps and thus allows to use the map files
in share/syscons/keymaps with this driver at the cost of an additional
translation (in ukbd(4) this just is the way of operation).
- Implement an option SUNKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP, which like the equivalent options
of the other keyboard drivers allows to specify the default in-kernel
keyboard map. For obvious reasons this made to only work when also using
SUNKBD_EMULATE_ATKBD.
- Implement sunkbd_check(), sunkbd_check_char() and sunkbd_clear_state(),
which are also required for interoperability with kbdmux(4).
- Implement K_CODE mode and FreeBSD keypad compose.
- As a minor hack define KBD_DFLT_KEYMAP also in the !SUNKBD_EMULATE_ATKBD
case so we can obtain fkey_tab from <dev/kbd/kbdtables.h> rather than
having to duplicate it and #ifdef some more code.
- Don't use the TX-buffer for writing the two command bytes for setting the
keyboard LEDs as this consequently requires a hardware FIFO that is at
least two bytes in depth, which the NMOS-variant of the Zilog SCCs doesn't
have. Thus use an inlined version of uart_putc() to consecutively write
the command bytes (a cleaner approach would be to do this via the soft
interrupt handler but that variant wouldn't work while in ddb(4)). [1]
- Fix some minor style(9) bugs.
PR: 90316 [1]
Reviewed by: marcel [1]
The 'nooption' kernel config entry has to be used to turn KSE off now.
This isn't my preferred way of dealing with this, but I'll defer to
scottl's experience with the io/mem kernel option change and the grief
experienced over that.
Submitted by: scottl@
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@
: # Options for atkbd:
: options ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP # specify the built-in keymap
: makeoptions ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=jp.106
[...]
: nooption ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP
: nomakeoption ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP
(Previously the option was inherited from MI NOTES.) So my tool in
rev. 1.26 reduced this to removing all "ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP" lines,
leaving the option effectively disabled as it was before, but since
it's actually supported on sparc64, turn it on now.
unsuspecting users.
- Add a comment in NOTES about experimental status of SCHED_ULE.
- Make warning about experimental status in sched_ule(4) a bit
stronger.
Suggested and reviewed by: dougb
Discussed on: developers
MFC after: 3 days
and pc98 MD files. Remove nodevice and nooption lines specific
to sio(4) from ia64, powerpc and sparc64 NOTES. There were no
such lines for arm yet.
sio(4) is usable on less than half the platforms, not counting
a future mips platform. Its presence in MI files is therefore
increasingly becoming a burden.
