Contains:
* Refactor the hardware RNG CPU instruction sources to feed into
the software mixer. This is unfinished. The actual harvesting needs
to be sorted out. Modified by me (see below).
* Remove 'frac' parameter from random_harvest(). This was never
used and adds extra code for no good reason.
* Remove device write entropy harvesting. This provided a weak
attack vector, was not very good at bootstrapping the device. To
follow will be a replacement explicit reseed knob.
* Separate out all the RANDOM_PURE sources into separate harvest
entities. This adds some secuity in the case where more than one
is present.
* Review all the code and fix anything obviously messy or inconsistent.
Address som review concerns while I'm here, like rename the pseudo-rng
to 'dummy'.
Submitted by: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com> (the first item)
stops updating the vertical retrace indicator. The text mouse
renderer in syscons is executing from the callout and spins waiting
for the start of next frame. As result, after the X server finishes,
since the VGA cannot be turned on, but syscons does not know about
this, the clock swi spins forever.
Hack around the problem by disabling wait for the retrace if KMS is
activated.
Diagnosed and tested by: Michiel Boland <boland37@xs4all.nl>
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Switch syscons from timeout() to callout_reset_flags() and specify that
precision is not important there -- anything from 20 to 30Hz will be fine.
- Reduce syscons "refresh" rate to 1-2Hz when console is in graphics mode
and there is nothing to do except some polling for keyboard. Text mode
refresh would also be nice to have adaptive, but this change at least
should help laptop users who running X.
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2012, iXsystems inc.
Tested by: flo, marius, ian, markj, Fabian Keil
using /dev/consolectl close. This fixes a problem where if
a USB mouse is detached while a button is pressed, that
button is never released.
MFC after: 1 week
on PowerPC support. This was clearly not something syscons was
designed to do (very specific assumptions about the nature of VGA
consoles on PCs), but fortunately others have long since blazed
the way on making it work regardless of that.
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
In the future we may want to perform the switch even if the console is
currently in the graphics mode by trying to reset the video adapter first
(e.g. by executing vesa/vga bios post). That would probably require
some sort of a one-way flag as returning the control of the console back
to the interrupted application most likely would result in a mess.
Reviewed by: emaste
MFC after: 2 months
- put underlying keyboard(s) into the polling mode for the whole
duration of the grab, instead of the previous behavior of going into
and out of the polling mode around each polling attempt
- ditto for setting K_XLATE mode and enabling a disabled keyboard
Inspired by: bde
MFC after: 2 months
At the moment grab and ungrab methods of all console drivers are no-ops.
Current intended meaning of the calls is that the kernel takes control of
console input. In the future the semantics may be extended to mean that
the calling thread takes full ownership of the console (e.g. console
output from other threads could be suspended).
Inspired by: bde
MFC after: 2 months
The SYSCTL_NODE macro defines a list that stores all child-elements of
that node. If there's no SYSCTL_DECL macro anywhere else, there's no
reason why it shouldn't be static.
(mostly with Catalan characters in mind, but it probably
benefits other languages).
The new mappings are as follows:
▮ -> █
ÀÈÍÏÓÒÚ -> AEIIOOU
ŀ / Ŀ -> l / L
Reviewed by: ed
Approved by: kib (mentor)
patch modifies makesyscalls.sh to prefix all of the non-compatibility
calls (e.g. not linux_, freebsd32_) with sys_ and updates the kernel
entry points and all places in the code that use them. It also
fixes an additional name space collision between the kernel function
psignal and the libc function of the same name by renaming the kernel
psignal kern_psignal(). By introducing this change now we will ease future
MFCs that change syscalls.
Reviewed by: rwatson
Approved by: re (bz)
keyboards allow console break sequences (such as ctrl-alt-esc) to be
entered, alternative break can prove useful under virtualisation and
remote console systems where entering control sequences can be
difficult or unreliable.
MFC after: 3 weeks
Approved by: re (bz)
accessible:
(1) Always compile in support for breaking into the debugger if options
KDB is present in the kernel.
(2) Disable both by default, but allow them to be enabled via tunables
and sysctls debug.kdb.break_to_debugger and
debug.kdb.alt_break_to_debugger.
(3) options BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER and options ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER continue
to behave as before -- only now instead of compiling in
break-to-debugger support, they change the default values of the
above sysctls to enable those features by default. Current kernel
configurations should, therefore, continue to behave as expected.
(4) Migrate alternative break-to-debugger state machine logic out of
individual device drivers into centralised KDB code. This has a
number of upsides, but also one downside: it's now tricky to release
sio spin locks when entering the debugger, so we don't. However,
similar logic does not exist in other device drivers, including uart.
(5) dcons requires some special handling; unlike other console types, it
allows overriding KDB's own debugger selection, so we need a new
interface to KDB to allow that to work.
GENERIC kernels in -CURRENT will now support break-to-debugger as long as
appropriate boot/run-time options are set, which should improve the
debuggability of BETA kernels significantly.
MFC after: 3 weeks
Reviewed by: kib, nwhitehorn
Approved by: re (bz)
Back in 2009 I changed the ABI of the GIO_KEYMAP and PIO_KEYMAP ioctls
to support wide characters. I created a patch to add ABI compatibility
for the old calls, but I didn't get any feedback to that.
It seems now people are upgrading from 8 to 9 they experience this
issue, so add it anyway.
particular edge case where X-axis resolution is not multiple of font width.
Now we just advance enough scan lines, then deduct a partial scan line.
It is more intuitive than the previous code. Apply the same wisdom to EGA
and VGA planar renderers for consistency.
Reported by: David DEMELIER (demelier dot david at gmail dot com)
- Add a separate palette data for 8-bit DAC mode when SC_PIXEL_MODE is set
and fill it up with default gray-scale palette data for text. Now we don't
have to set `hint.sc.0.vesa_mode' to get the default palette data.
- Add a new adapter flag, V_ADP_DAC8 to track whether the controller is
using 8-bit palette format and load correct palette when switching modes.
- Set 8-bit DAC mode only for non-VGA compatible graphics mode.
This replaces d_mmap() with the d_mmap2() implementation and also
changes the type of offset to vm_ooffset_t.
Purge d_mmap2().
All driver modules will need to be rebuilt since D_VERSION is also
bumped.
Reviewed by: jhb@
MFC after: Not in this lifetime...
Right now syscons(4) uses a cons25-style terminal emulator. The
disadvantages of that are:
- Little compatibility with embedded devices with serial interfaces.
- Bad bandwidth efficiency, mainly because of the lack of scrolling
regions.
- A very hard transition path to support for modern character sets like
UTF-8.
Our terminal emulation library, libteken, has been supporting
xterm-style terminal emulation for months, so flip the switch and make
everyone use an xterm-style console driver.
I still have to enable this on i386. Right now pc98 and i386 share the
same /etc/ttys file. I'm not going to switch pc98, because it uses its
own Kanji-capable cons25 emulator.
IMPORTANT: What to do if things go wrong (i.e. graphical artifacts):
- Run the application inside script(1), try to reduce the problem and
send me the log file.
- In the mean time, you can run `vidcontrol -T cons25' and `export
TERM=cons25' so you can run applications the same way you did before.
You can also build your kernel with `options TEKEN_CONS25' to make all
virtual terminals use the cons25 emulator by default.
Discussed on: current@
xterm and cons25 have some incompatibilities when it comes to escape
sequences for special keys, such as F1 to F12, home, end, etc. Add a new
te_fkeystr() that can be used to override the strings.
scterm-sck won't do anything with this, but scterm-teken will use
teken_get_sequences() to obtain the proper sequence.
