of multiple PCI IDE controllers(Dyson), and some updates and cleanups from
John Hood, who originally made our IDE DMA stuff work :-).
I have run tests with 7 IDE drives connected to my system, all in DMA
mode, with no errors. Modulo any bugs, this stuff makes IDE look
really good (within it's limitations.)
Submitted by: John Hood <cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us>
internal modems. Currently detects a USR modem, and a couple Supra
modems... vendor id's for sio capabile cards welcomed...
document new option EXTRA_SIO that will increase sio's internal data
structures to support X more serial ports... these are used by the
PnP part of sio for attaching... If you don't have it specified, it
will default to 2... This is defaulted to 0 if you don't have PnP
compiled into your kernel...
also document that if you set the PnP flags (pnp x flags y) to 0x1 that
the modem will be refused to be recognized by the sio driver... this
is for people that want the traditional isa driver to probe and attach
the modem... (for keeping legacy sio numbering)
Hide the bogus FDC ``chip type'' display behind a (mostly) undocumented
option, since people started to trust the bogus claim. Once we're going
to handle 2.88 MB controllers, we have to redo the chip detection, by
now just leave it hidden.
files.i386.
We aren't sure if this new code and the old sound code will co-exist in a
kernel, so the device pcm0 line is left commented out in LINT.
Submitted-by: Luigi Rizzo
you don't want this (and the documentation explains why), but if you
use ipfw as an as-needed casual filter as needed which normally runs as
'allow all' then having the kernel and /sbin/ipfw get out of sync is a
*MAJOR* pain in the behind.
PR: 4141
Submitted by: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@mail.clinet.fi>
* lots of fixes to error handling-- mostly works now
* improve DMA timing config for Triton chipsets-- PIIX4 and UDMA drive
still untested
* generally improve DMA config in many ways-- mostly cleanup
* clean up boot-time messages
* rewrite PRD generation algorithm
* first wd timeout is now longer, to handle drive spinup
Submitted by: John Hood <cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us>
- We now have enough per-cpu idle context, the real idle loop has been
revived (cpu's halt now with nothing to do).
- Some preliminary support for running some operations outside the
global lock (eg: zeroing "free but not yet zeroed pages") is present
but appears to cause problems. Off by default.
- the smp_active sysctl now behaves differently. It's merely a 'true/false'
option. Setting smp_active to zero causes the AP's to halt in the idle
loop and stop scheduling processes.
- bootstrap is a lot safer. Instead of sharing a statically compiled in
stack a number of times (which has caused lots of problems) and then
abandoning it, we use the idle context to boot the AP's directly. This
should help >2 cpu support since the bootlock stuff was in doubt.
- print physical apic id in traps.. helps identify private pages getting
out of sync. (You don't want to know how much hair I tore out with this!)
More cleanup to follow, this is more of a checkpoint than a
'finished' thing.
2.3.0 -> 2.3.1 changes, but I seem to recall that there are certain
"issues" with 2.3.1 (I'm not sure if it's just pppd or the whole lot, I
am not quite that far). The present pppd seems to work with it just fine
for the time being.
Among the changes are that zlib (aka LZ77 aka deflate aka gzip) compression
is implemented as well as the original compress(1) LZW style.
