npx is no more mandatory than sc. Its mandatoryness went away in
rev.1.226 of i386/machdep.c 9 months before it was made mandatory in
rev.1.24 of config/mkmakefile.c.
This change is mainly to test building of minimal kernel configurations.
npx should really be even more standard than clk. It was optional mainly
so that the usual device driver configuration info could be specified in
the usual way in config files, but this hasn't been necessary for a few
years.
Non-SMP, i386-only, no polling in the idle loop at the moment.
To use this code you must compile a kernel with
options DEVICE_POLLING
and at runtime enable polling with
sysctl kern.polling.enable=1
The percentage of CPU reserved to userland can be set with
sysctl kern.polling.user_frac=NN (default is 50)
while the remainder is used by polling device drivers and netisr's.
These are the only two variables that you should need to touch. There
are a few more parameters in kern.polling but the default values
are adequate for all purposes. See the code in kern_poll.c for
more details on them.
Polling in the idle loop will be implemented shortly by introducing
a kernel thread which does the job. Until then, the amount of CPU
dedicated to polling will never exceed (100-user_frac).
The equivalent (actually, better) code for -stable is at
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/polling/
and also supports polling in the idle loop.
NOTE to Alpha developers:
There is really nothing in this code that is i386-specific.
If you move the 2 lines supporting the new option from
sys/conf/{files,options}.i386 to sys/conf/{files,options} I am
pretty sure that this should work on the Alpha as well, just that
I do not have a suitable test box to try it. If someone feels like
trying it, I would appreciate it.
NOTE to other developers:
sure some things could be done better, and as always I am open to
constructive criticism, which a few of you have already given and
I greatly appreciated.
However, before proposing radical architectural changes, please
take some time to possibly try out this code, or at the very least
read the comments in kern_poll.c, especially re. the reason why I
am using a soft netisr and cannot (I believe) replace it with a
simple timeout.
Quick description of files touched by this commit:
sys/conf/files.i386
new file kern/kern_poll.c
sys/conf/options.i386
new option
sys/i386/i386/trap.c
poll in trap (disabled by default)
sys/kern/kern_clock.c
initialization and hardclock hooks.
sys/kern/kern_intr.c
minor swi_net changes
sys/kern/kern_poll.c
the bulk of the code.
sys/net/if.h
new flag
sys/net/if_var.h
declaration for functions used in device drivers.
sys/net/netisr.h
NETISR_POLL
sys/dev/fxp/if_fxp.c
sys/dev/fxp/if_fxpvar.h
sys/pci/if_dc.c
sys/pci/if_dcreg.h
sys/pci/if_sis.c
sys/pci/if_sisreg.h
device driver modifications
NEWCARD. Other patches may be reqiured to sio to prevent a hang on
eject. Also add commented out entries for sio_pccard.c in files.pc98
to match other architectures.
Submitted by: yamamoto shigeru-san
This emulates APM device node interface APIs (mainly ioctl) and
provides APM services for the applications. The goal is to support
most of APM applications without any changes.
Implemented ioctls in this commit are:
- APMIO_SUSPEND (mapped ACPI S3 as default but changable by sysctl)
- APMIO_STANDBY (mapped ACPI S1 as default but changable by sysctl)
- APMIO_GETINFO and APMIO_GETINFO_OLD
- APMIO_GETPWSTATUS
With above, many APM applications which get batteries, ac-line
info. and transition the system into suspend/standby mode (such as
wmapm, xbatt) should work with ACPI enabled kernel (if ACPI works well :-)
Reviewed by: arch@, audit@ and some guys
sio_pccard_detach to use new siodetach. Add an extra arg to sioprobe
to tell driver to probe/not probe the device for IRQs.
This incorporates most of Bruce's review material. I'm at a good
checkpoint, but there will be more to come based on bde's further
reviews.
Reviewed by: bde
Move sio from isa/sio.c to dev/sio/sio.c. The next step is to break
out the front end attachments, improve support for these parts on
different busses, and maybe, if we're lucky, merging in pc98 support.
It will also be MI and live in conf/files rather than files.*.
Approved by: bde
Tested with: i386, pc98
the cwd is looked up inside the kernel. The native getcwd() in libc
handles this in userland if __getcwd() fails.
Obtained from: NetBSD via OpenBSD
Tested by: Chris Casey <chriss@phys.ksu.edu>, Markus Holmberg <markush@acc.umu.se>
Reviewed by: Darrell Anderson <anderson@cs.duke.edu>
PR: kern/24315
- Move the lance_probe function to if_lnc.c.
- Support C-NET(98)S again.
Submitted by: chi@bd.mbn.or.jp (Chiharu Shibata) and nyan
No response from: Paul Richards
removed and a minimal number of changes to make it compile in the new
location.
# I have a fully converted on a disk that may be crashed. If it is
# crashed, I'll redo the work.
- 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.
__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.
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
