The menu item is now made completely independent with the ACPI item - most
modern systems seem to require ACPI and become even more "unsafe"
without it.
Safe Mode no longer disables APIC for the same reason.
kbdmux is not disabled as this feature has proven itself stable.
New actions:
- SMP is disabled in the Safe Mode now
- eventtimers are forced to periodic mode (some real and virtual systems
seem to have problems otherwise)
- geom extra vigorous integrity checking is disabled, this is to
facilitate migration from previous versions
Possible short term to do:
- make SMP switch a separate menu item
- restore APIC switch as a separate menu item
Longer term to do:
- turn various tweaks into separate menu items in a Safe Mode sub-menu
Please consider adding a safety tweak to Safe Mode when introducing
new major features or changes that may cause instabilities.
Discussed with: jhb, scottl, Devin Teske
MFC after: 3 weeks (stable/9 only)
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
- Enter instead of ENTER
- Remove colons
- Line up option values
- Use dots to provide a line to visually connect the menu
selections with their values
- Replace Enabled/Disabled with off/On
(bigger inital cap for "On" is a visual indicator)
- Remove confusing "Boot" from selections that don't boot.
- With loader_color=1 in /boot/loader.conf, use reverse video to
highlight enabled options
PR: misc/160818
Submitted by: Warren Block <wblock wonkity com>
Reviewed by: Devin Teske <devin dot teske fisglobal com>, current@
MFC after: 1 week
from the interactive loader(8) prompt and beastie_disable="YES" is set
in loader.conf(5). In this case menu.rc is not evaluated and consequently
menu-unset does not have a body yet. This results in the ficl warning
"menu-unset not found" when try-menu-unset invokes menu-unset.
Check for beastie_disable="YES" explicitly, so that the try-menu-unset
word will not attempt to invoke menu-unset because the menu will have
never been configured. [1]
Use the sfind primitive as a last resort as an additional safer approach
conjuring a foreign word safely. [2]
PR: kern/163938
Submitted by: Devin Teske [1]
Reviewed by: Devin Teske [2]
Reported and tested by: dim
MFC after: 1 week
X-MFC with: r228985
before invoking the kernel.
Quoting submitter:
The issue is with the new boot loader menu. It adds many loader variables
including ones that contain ANSI color escapes.
Obviously, these ANSI codes don't play well with serial consoles when
kenv(1) is executed without arguments (reports vary as to what happens,
but it's never pretty).
The net-effect is that kenv(1) no longer reports menu-related variables.
In essence, kenv(1) output should now appear the same as on RELENG_8
(which lacks the new boot loader and didn't use any such variables).
Thus, restoring serial console glory.
Submitted by: Devin Teske <devin dott teske fisglobal.com>
MFC after: 2 weeks
pre-r222417 state. The behavior was essentially reversed in r222417
which can cause confusion.
PR: 159775
Submitted by: Devin Teske
Approved by: re (kib)
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
containing a kernel under /boot and that it's default value is "kernel"
not "/boot/kernel/kernel".
PR: docs/158992
Reported by: Wayne Mitchell wayne.mitchell.iz at gmail
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 1 week
Discussed on hackers and recommended for inclusion into 9.0 at the devsummit.
All support email to devin dteske at vicor dot ignoreme dot com .
Submitted by: dteske at vicor dot ignoreme dot com
Reviewed by: me and many others
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.
BIOS does not support ACPI. The other options in the menu retain their
existing numbers, option 2 is simply blanked out (and '2' is ignored).
MFC after: 1 month
bottom of the manpages and order them consistently.
GNU groff doesn't care about the ordering, and doesn't even mention
CAVEATS and SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS as common sections and where to put
them.
Found by: mdocml lint run
Reviewed by: ru
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.
Note that due to e.g. write throttling ('wdrain'), it can stall all the disk
I/O instead of just the device it's configured for. Using it for removable
media is therefore not a good idea.
Reviewed by: pjd (earlier version)
kern.ngroups+1. kern.ngroups can range from NGROUPS_MAX=1023 to
INT_MAX-1. Given that the Windows group limit is 1024, this range
should be sufficient for most applications.
MFC after: 1 month
video console which doesn't take any input from keyboard and hides
all output replacing it with ``spinning'' character (useful for
embedded products and custom installations).
Sponsored by: Sippy Software, Inc.
devices that we also support, just not by default (thus only LINT or
module builds by default).
While currently there is only "/dev/full" [2], we are planning to see more
in the future. We may decide to change the module/dependency logic in the
future should the list grow too long.
This is not part of linux.ko as also non-linux binaries like kFreeBSD
userland or ports can make use of this as well.
Suggested by: rwatson [1] (name)
Submitted by: ed [2]
Discussed with: markm, ed, rwatson, kib (weeks ago)
Reviewed by: rwatson, brueffer (prev. version)
PR: kern/68961
MFC after: 6 weeks
things a bit:
- use dpcpu data to track the ifps with packets queued up,
- per-cpu locking and driver flags
- along with .nh_drainedcpu and NETISR_POLICY_CPU.
- Put the mbufs in flight reference count, preventing interfaces
from going away, under INVARIANTS as this is a general problem
of the stack and should be solved in if.c/netisr but still good
to verify the internal queuing logic.
- Permit changing the MTU to virtually everythinkg like we do for loopback.
Hook epair(4) up to the build.
Approved by: re (kib)
DP83065 Saturn Gigabit Ethernet controllers. These are the successors
of the Sun GEM controllers and still have a similar but extended transmit
logic. As such this driver is based on gem(4).
Thanks to marcel@ for providing a Sun Quad GigaSwift Ethernet UTP (QGE)
card which was vital for getting this driver to work on architectures
not using Open Firmware.
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 2 weeks
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.
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
