It improves on sio(4) in the following areas:
o Fully newbusified to allow for memory mapped I/O. This is a must
for ia64 and sparc64,
o Machine dependent code to take full advantage of machine and firm-
ware specific ways to define serial consoles and/or debug ports.
o Hardware abstraction layer to allow the driver to be used with
various UARTs, such as the well-known ns8250 family of UARTs, the
Siemens sab82532 or the Zilog Z8530. This is especially important
for pc98 and sparc64 where it's common to have different UARTs,
o The notion of system devices to unkludge low-level consoles and
remote gdb ports and provides the mechanics necessary to support
the keyboard on sparc64 (which is UART based).
o The notion of a kernel interface so that a UART can be tied to
something other than the well-known TTY interface. This is needed
on sparc64 to present the user with a device and ioctl handling
suitable for a keyboard, but also allows us to cleanly hide an
UART when used as a debug port.
Following is a list of features and bugs/flaws specific to the ns8250
family of UARTs as compared to their support in sio(4):
o The uart(4) driver determines the FIFO size and automaticly takes
advantages of larger FIFOs and/or additional features. Note that
since I don't have sufficient access to 16[679]5x UARTs, hardware
flow control has not been enabled. This is almost trivial to do,
provided one can test. The downside of this is that broken UARTs
are more likely to not work correctly with uart(4). The need for
tunables or knobs may be large enough to warrant their creation.
o The uart(4) driver does not share the same bumpy history as sio(4)
and will therefore not provide the necessary hooks, tweaks, quirks
or work-arounds to deal with once common hardware. To that extend,
uart(4) supports a subset of the UARTs that sio(4) supports. The
question before us is whether the subset is sufficient for current
hardware.
o There is no support for multiport UARTs in uart(4). The decision
behind this is that uart(4) deals with one EIA RS232-C interface.
Packaging of multiple interfaces in a single chip or on a single
expansion board is beyond the scope of uart(4) and is now mostly
left for puc(4) to deal with. Lack of hardware made it impossible
to actually implement such a dependency other than is present for
the dual channel SAB82532 and Z8350 SCCs.
The current list of missing features is:
o No configuration capabilities. A set of tunables and sysctls is
being worked out. There are likely not going to be any or much
compile-time knobs. Such configuration does not fit well with
current hardware.
o No support for the PPS API. This is partly dependent on the
ability to configure uart(4) and partly dependent on having
sufficient information to implement it properly.
As usual, the manpage is present but lacks the attention the
software has gotten.
out of cdregister() and daregister(), which are run from interrupt context.
The sysctl code does blocking mallocs (M_WAITOK), which causes problems
if malloc(9) actually needs to sleep.
The eventual fix for this issue will involve moving the CAM probe process
inside a kernel thread. For now, though, I have fixed the issue by moving
dynamic sysctl variable creation for these two drivers to a task queue
running in a kernel thread.
The existing task queues (taskqueue_swi and taskqueue_swi_giant) run in
software interrupt handlers, which wouldn't fix the problem at hand. So I
have created a new task queue, taskqueue_thread, that runs inside a kernel
thread. (It also runs outside of Giant -- clients must explicitly acquire
and release Giant in their taskqueue functions.)
scsi_cd.c: Remove sysctl variable creation code from cdregister(), and
move it to a new function, cdsysctlinit(). Queue
cdsysctlinit() to the taskqueue_thread taskqueue once we
have fully registered the cd(4) driver instance.
scsi_da.c: Remove sysctl variable creation code from daregister(), and
move it to move it to a new function, dasysctlinit().
Queue dasysctlinit() to the taskqueue_thread taskqueue once
we have fully registered the da(4) instance.
taskqueue.h: Declare the new taskqueue_thread taskqueue, update some
comments.
subr_taskqueue.c:
Create the new kernel thread taskqueue. This taskqueue
runs outside of Giant, so any functions queued to it would
need to explicitly acquire/release Giant if they need it.
cd.4: Update the cd(4) man page to talk about the minimum command
size sysctl/loader tunable. Also note that the changer
variables are available as loader tunables as well.
da.4: Update the da(4) man page to cover the retry_count,
default_timeout and minimum_cmd_size sysctl variables/loader
tunables. Remove references to /dev/r???, they aren't used
any longer.
cd.9: Update the cd(9) man page to describe the CD_Q_10_BYTE_ONLY
quirk.
taskqueue.9: Update the taskqueue(9) man page to describe the new thread
task queue, and the taskqueue_swi_giant queue.
MFC after: 3 days
are supported by the driver.
- Use a list to specify which cards are supported.
- Add the 3c592/3c597 EISA cards to the list of supported cards.
PR: docs/56086 (based on)
Submitted by: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>
Change the manual page title to use the device family name (Rhine),
since the list of supported device id's won't fit on one line anymore.
Submitted by: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> (based on) [1]
PR: docs/55639 (based on) [1]
Confirmed by: driver source code [1]
MFC after: 3 days
specific interfaces. This is required by aodvd, and may in future help us
in getting rid of the requirement for BPF from our import of isc-dhcp.
Suggested by: fenestro
Obtained from: BSD/OS
Reviewed by: mini, sam
Approved by: jake (mentor)
new ATMIOCOPENVCC/CLOSEVCC. This allows us to not only use UBR channels
for IP over ATM, but also CBR, VBR and ABR. Change the format of the
link layer address to specify the channel characteristics. The old
format is still supported and opens UBR channels.
- Move isa/ppc* to sys/dev/ppc (repo-copy)
- Add an attachment method to ppc for puc
- In puc we need to walk the chain of parents.
Still to do, is to make ppc(4) & puc(4) work on other platforms. Testers
wanted.
PR: 38372 (in spirit done differently)
Verified by: Make universe (if I messed up a platform please fix)
it attaches to all existing NATM network interfaces in the system
and creates a HARP physical interface for each of them. This allows
us to use the same set of ATM drivers for all ATM stuff. It is
possible to use the same interface for HARP, NATM and netgraph at the
same time.
- MN-110 10/100 USB ethernet (ADMtek Pegasus II, if_aue)
- MN-120 10/100 cardbus (ADMtek Centaur-C, if_dc)
- MN-130 10/100 PCI (ADMtek Centaur-P, if_dc)
Also update dc(4) man page to mention support for MN-120 and MN-130.
This commit has two pieces. One half is the watchdog kernel code which lives
primarily in hardclock() in sys/kern/kern_clock.c. The other half is a userland
daemon which, when run, will keep the watchdog from firing while the userland
is intact and functioning.
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
The matcd.4 man page has been upgraded to reflect current 5.1.x
functionality, and efforts were made to match the style and layout found
in similar-single purpose block drivers man pages found in the 5.1 tree
man4 area while not losing useful information. However, the documentation
folks should still take a look, since the man pages used as guides were
somewhat inconsistent on a variety of points.
Approved by: markm(mentor)
man page. This will be more scaleable as more driver man pages hit
the tree. Add also a description on how to do this configuration
in the rc.conf script.
toggle several media options (sonet/sdh, for example) with ifconfig and
to see the carrier state in ifconfig's output. It gives also read/write
access (given the right privilegs) to the S/Uni registers to user space
programs.
It currently supports the PMC Sierra Lite, Ultra and 622 chips and
the IDT 77105. The driver handles media options and state in a consistent
manner for ATM drivers. The next commit to the midway driver will make
it use utopia.
from NetBSD, and changed slightly to account for FreeBSD specifics.
- Hook them up to the build.
- Add them to the list of miibus-using drivers in miibus(4).
Repo-copy it from the i386 specific man4 section to the common one.
Remove the i386 keyword from the man page header.
Document the sysctl interface to the driver.
Fix a spelling error (ALL -> AAL).
- update ``struct usb_device_info''
- add information about new fields in about struct
- document USB_EVENT_IS_ATTACH() and USB_EVENT_IS_DETACH()
- update URL of the USB.ORG developer documentation
PR: docs/41580 (original patch)
Reviewed by: n_hibma
Approved by: des (mentor), re (bmah)
on and fix if neceeary).
o Note that acpi is available on i386-ia32, ia64 and amd64, not just 'intel'
platforms. Intel has had nothing to do with amd64.
Approved by: re (scottl@)
kharma it will be to disable some or all of acpi on ia64 or amd64 (are
there other non-i386 platforms that FreeBSD supports with ACPI?).
Submitted by: Ryan Losh
Approved by: re@ (rwatson)
- prefix(8) and gifconfig(8) are deprecated
- dtcpc, dtcps were never imported (also removed from KAME CVS)
- pim6dd, pim6sd and racoon are ports
- inet6d does not exist on FreeBSD
PR: docs/51295
Submitted by: Simon L. Nielsen <simon@nitro.dk>
Content reviewed by: itojun
Approved by: des (mentor), re (bmah)
was obtained from [1], with heavy editing, and ammending text for some of
the ioctls.
All ioctls (in sys/agpio.h) are now documented.
PR: docs/50503
Original patch by: Alex Semenyaka <alexs@snark.ratmir.ru> [1]
Content approved by:
- Eric Anholt <anholt@FreeBSD.ORG>
- Matthew N. Dodd <mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG> (cursory review)
Approved and Reviewed by: des (mentor), re (scottl)
and this manpage is somewhat machine independent.
- Don't redundantly say that SMP support is present for all supported
architectures. Instead, say that it is present for all Tier-1
architectures.
- Note that an SMP kernel not booting on a UP machine is an i386-only
exception.
- Add a paragraph about hyperthreading support including some docco on the
machdep.hlt_logical_cpus sysctl ps@ recently added.
- Note that SMP support for alpha, ia64, and sparc64 debuted in 5.0.
ethernet controller. The driver has been tested with the LinkSys
USB200M adapter. I know for a fact that there are other devices out
there with this chip but don't have all the USB vendor/device IDs.
Note: I'm not sure if this will force the driver to end up in the
install kernel image or not. Special magic needs to be done to exclude
it to keep the boot floppies from bloating again, someone please
advise.
example of utilizing multiple slots on a multi-slot card reader.
PR: docs/49036
Submitted by: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org>
MFC after: 3 days
(See: ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt)
This fulfills the host requirements for userland support by
way of the setsockopt() IP_EVIL_INTENT message.
There are three sysctl tunables provided to govern system behavior.
net.inet.ip.rfc3514:
Enables support for rfc3514. As this is an
Informational RFC and support is not yet widespread
this option is disabled by default.
net.inet.ip.hear_no_evil
If set the host will discard all received evil packets.
net.inet.ip.speak_no_evil
If set the host will discard all transmitted evil packets.
The IP statistics counter 'ips_evil' (available via 'netstat') provides
information on the number of 'evil' packets recieved.
For reference, the '-E' option to 'ping' has been provided to demonstrate
and test the implementation.
pointed this out a while ago, and I'm just now getting back to it. It
obsoletes one of ru's changes, but since oldcard.4 is so much better,
that doesn't matter.
Submitted by: ru
