${GEN_CFLAGS} and -U_KERNEL became negative when all all the
genassym.c's were converted to be cross-built.
Makefile.*:
- Cleanups associated with the old genassym.
- Fixed deprecated spelling of ${.IMPSRC} as "$<".
ethernet adapters that are supported by the aue and kue drivers.
There are actually a couple more out there from Accton, Asante and
EXP Computer, however I was not able to find any Windows device
drivers for these on their servers, and hence could not harvest
their vendor/device ID info. If somebody has one of these things
and can look in the .inf file that comes with the Windows driver,
I'd appreciate knowing what it says for 'VID' and 'PID.'
Additional adapters include: the D-Link DSB-650 and DSB-650TX, the
SMC 2102USB, 2104USB and 2202USB, the ATen UC10T, and the Netgear EA101.
These are all mentioned in the man pages, relnotes and LINT.
Also correct the date in the kue(4) man page. I wrote this thing
on Jan, 4 2000, not 1999.
Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB101B chip, including the LinkSys USB10T, the
Entrega NET-USB-E45, the Peracom USB Ethernet Adapter, the 3Com
3c19250 and the ADS Technologies USB-10BT. This device is 10mbs
half-duplex only, so there's miibus or ifmedia support. This device
also requires firmware to be loaded into it, however KLSI allows
redistribution of the firmware images (I specifically asked about
this; they said it was ok).
Special thanks to Annelise Anderson for getting me in touch with
KLSI (eventually) and thanks to KLSI for providing the necessary
programming info.
Highlights:
- Add driver files to /sys/dev/usb
- update usbdevs and regenerate attendate files
- update usb_quirks.c
- Update HARDWARE.TXT and RELNOTES.TXT for i386 and alpha
- Update LINT, GENERIC and others for i386, alpha and pc98
- Add man page
- Add module
- Update sysinstall and userconfig.c
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot). This is consistant with the other
BSD's who made this change quite some time ago. More commits to come.
USB ethernet chip. Adapters that use this chip include the LinkSys
USB100TX. There are a few others, but I'm not certain of their
availability in the U.S. I used an ADMtek eval board for development.
Note that while the ADMtek chip is a 100Mbps device, you can't really
get 100Mbps speeds over USB. Regardless, this driver uses miibus to
allow speed and duplex mode selection as well as autonegotiation.
Building and kldloading the driver as a module is also supported.
Note that in order to make this driver work, I had to make what some
may consider an ugly hack to sys/dev/usb/usbdi.c. The usbd_transfer()
function will use tsleep() for synchronous transfers that don't complete
right away. This is a problem since there are times when we need to
do sync transfers from an interrupt context (i.e. when reading registers
from the MAC via the control endpoint), where tsleep() us a no-no.
My hack allows the driver to have the code poll for transfer completion
subject to the xfer->timeout timeout rather that calling tsleep().
This hack is controlled by a quirk entry and is only enabled for the
ADMtek device.
Now, I'm sure there are a few of you out there ready to jump on me
and suggest some other approach that doesn't involve a busy wait. The
only solution that might work is to handle the interrupts in a kernel
thread, where you may have something resembling a process context that
makes it okay to tsleep(). This is lovely, except we don't have any
mechanism like that now, and I'm not about to implement such a thing
myself since it's beyond the scope of driver development. (Translation:
I'll be damned if I know how to do it.) If FreeBSD ever aquires such
a mechanism, I'll be glad to revisit the driver to take advantage of
it. In the meantime, I settled for what I perceived to be the solution
that involved the least amount of code changes. In general, the hit
is pretty light.
Also note that my only USB test box has a UHCI controller: I haven't
I don't have a machine with an OHCI controller available.
Highlights:
- Updated usb_quirks.* to add UQ_NO_TSLEEP quirk for ADMtek part.
- Updated usbdevs and regenerated generated files
- Updated HARDWARE.TXT and RELNOTES.TXT files
- Updated sysinstall/device.c and userconfig.c
- Updated kernel configs -- device aue0 is commented out by default
- Updated /sys/conf/files
- Added new kld module directory
Fixed some style bugs (always use precisely 1 space after `:' in
dependency specifications).
Removed bogus dependency of ${FULLKERNEL} on ${BEFORE_DEPEND}.
pr_input() routines prototype is also changed to support IPSEC and IPV6
chained protocol headers.
Reviewed by: freebsd-arch, cvs-committers
Obtained from: KAME project
now. On one machine with <825a> and <875> controllers, `sym' correctly
attached. On another one with only a <ncr 53c810 fast10 scsi>, the `ncr'
driver correctly attached.
3.3R and then to -current. The pccard support has been left in the
driver, but is presently non-functional because we are using the
isa_compat layer for the moment.
Obtained From: PAO
Sponsored by: Timing Solutions
kernel builds so as not to confuse with perl4 when bootstrapping from old
systems. I don't know if this is still applicable but it shouldn't hurt
to be consistant at least.
Also copy vnode_if.sh to vnode_if.pl. Doing a 'sh vnode_if.sh' when it
was a perl script was kinda silly.
the kernel while the vnode_if.h header is a bunch of inlines to call the
code that is in the kernel. Generating the .h file on the fly is kinda
bogus because it has to match the one compiled into the kernel.
IMHO we should have kern/vnode_if.c and sys/vnode_if.h committed in the
tree but that's another battle.
These drivers were cloned from the ed and ep drivers back in 1994
when PCMCIA cards were a very new thing and we had no other support
for such devices. They treated the PCIC (the chip which controls the
PCCARD slot) as part of their device and generally hacked their way
to success. They have significantly bit-rotted relative to their
ancestor drivers (ed & ep) and they were a dead-end on the evolution
path to proper PCCARD support in FreeBSD.
They have been terminally broken since August 18 where mdodd forgot
them and nobody seems to have missed them enough to fix them since.
I found no outstanding PRs against these drivers.
packet divert at kernel for IPv6/IPv4 translater daemon
This includes queue related patch submitted by jburkhol@home.com.
Submitted by: queue related patch from jburkhol@home.com
Reviewed by: freebsd-arch, cvs-committers
Obtained from: KAME project
which it replaces. The new driver supports all of the chips supported
by the ones it replaces, as well as many DEC/Intel 21143 10/100 cards.
This also completes my quest to convert things to miibus and add
Alpha support.
mention of the various devices that are supported.
Add some text and entry to LINT for 'controller mca0'.
I'd like to turn this option on in GENERIC as well as it
isn't impacting and has a small footprint.
* Bring source file references in line with the style used in
GENERIC (i.e. src/sys/...).
* Update outdated source file references.
* Use proper URL syntax for URLs.
* Update outdated URLs.
PR: 15194
Submitted by: jedgar@fxp.org (Chris D. Faulhaber)
(kern.randompid), which is currently defaulted off. Use ARC4 (RC4) for our
random number generation, which will not get me executed for violating
crypto laws; a Good Thing(tm).
Reviewed and Approved by: bde, imp
Add MD_ROOT and MD_ROOT_SIZE options to the md driver.
Make the md driver handle MFS_ROOT and MFS_ROOT_SIZE options for compatibility.
Add md driver to GENERIC, PCCARD and LINT.
This is a cleanup which removes the need for some of the worse hacks in
MFS: We really want to have a rootvnode but MFS on a preloaded image
doesn't really have one. md is a true device, so it is less trouble.
This has been tested with make release, and if people remember to add
the "md" pseudo-device to their kernels, PicoBSD should be just fine
as well. If people have no other use for MFS, it can be removed from
the kernel.
- Convert to new bus attachment scheme. Thanks to Blaz Zupan for doing
the initial work here. One thing I changed was to have the attach
and detach routines work like the PCI drivers, which means that in
theory you should be able to load and unload the driver like the PCI
NIC drivers, however the pccard support for this hasn't settled down
yet so it doesn't quite work. Once the pccard work is done, I'll have
to revisit this.
- Add device wi0 to PCCARD. If we're lucky, people should be able to
install via their WaveLAN cards now.
- Add support for signal strength caching. The wicontrol utility has
also been updated to allow zeroing and displaying the signal strength
cache.
- Add a /sys/modules/wi directory and fix a Makefile to builf if_wi.ko.
Currently this module is only built for the i386 platform, though once
the pccard stuff is done it should be able to work on the alpha too.
(Theoretically you should be able to plug one of the WaveLAN/IEEE ISA
cards into an alpha with an ISA slot, but we'll see how that turns out.
- Update LINT to use only device wi0. There is no true ISA version of
the WaveLAN/IEEE so we'll never use an ISA attachment.
- Update files.i386 so that if_wi is dependent on card.
Semiconductor CS461x/428x.
- Add support for GUS and CS461x/428x pcm.
- Move newpcm drivers for ISA cards to files.i386. The drivers for
PC98 would be something quite different from those for PC/AT.
Moving requested by: nyan
for IPv6 yet)
With this patch, you can assigne IPv6 addr automatically, and can reply to
IPv6 ping.
Reviewed by: freebsd-arch, cvs-committers
Obtained from: KAME project
o Delete pcic1 from NEWCARD
o Add explicit resource hints to pcic0
o Get attach working with newbus, kinda (it does all the newbus stuff,
but doesn't try to attach the pccard yet, too many panics).
o Disable ie0 and le0 in NEWCARD config. There appears to be a bug in
the isa_compat code wrt memory conflicts with newbus drivers for
reasons unknown.
o Minor cleanups.
that breaks if you try and compile a kernel before building world, as
is presently required to get past the signal changes. I don't
particularly like doing this, but at least it will mean that a 'make world'
will activate the gcc 2.95.2-specific option in bsd.kern.mk.
Document the options available for the ata driver.
Disconnect the atapi devices from the old wd driver to avoid conflicts
(they will go away at some point anyways)
* GC unused options
* Move options that exist on all architectures to conf/options
* Add missing options to LINT
* Sort undocumented options list in LINT
Reviewed by: green
only two conflicts, cdev #98 and cdev #99. These should be fixed.
MAKEDEV should probably be merged as well.
Static majors are (hopefully) going away one day soon.
This file is informational and not machine parsed by anything any more.
to config(8) for static device tables that have not existed for quite
some time. They have been aliases for 'device' for a while, and "tape"
went away entirely as it wasn't used anywhere (except in an example
in LINT.. "fixed").
(yet) compile and link. Renamed pcic back to pcic from pcicx, but
conditionalize its inclusion on pccard being included also. card is
the old and pccard is the new, which is a handy way to have both in
the tree at the same time.
Obtained from: newconfig project
More to follow...
o Gut the compatibility interface, you now must attach with newbus.
o Unit numbers from pccardd are now ignored. This may change the units
assigned to a card. It now uses the first available unit.
o kill old skeleton code that is now obsolete.
o Use newbus attachment code.
o cleanup interfile dependencies some.
o kill list of devices per slot. we use the device tree for what we need.
o Remove now obsolete code.
o The ep driver (and maybe ed) may need some config file tweaks to
allow it to attach. See config files that were committed for examples
on how to do this.
Drivers to be commited shortly.
This is an interrum fix until the new pccard. ed, ep and sio will be
supported by me with this release, although others are welcome to try
to support other devices before new pccard is working.
I plan on doing minimal further work on this code base. Be careful
when upgrading, since this code is known to work on my laptop and
those of a couple others as well, but your milage may vary.
BUGS TO BE FIXED:
o system memory isn't allocated yet, it will be soon.
o No devices actually have a pccard newbus attach in the tree.
BUGS THAT MIGHT BE FIXED:
o card removal, including suspend, usually hangs the system.
Many thanks to Peter Wemm and Doug Rabson for helping me to fill in
the missing bits of New Bus understanding at FreeBSD Con '99.
revision 1.21
date: 1999/10/15 17:29:20; author: imp; state: Exp; lines: +3 -3
Reorganize the attachement point for pcic (it was unattached and
floating before). Attach pccard devices to pcic, one per slot
(although this may change to one per pcic). pcic is now attached to
isa (to act as a bridge) and pccard is attached to pcic, cbb and
pc98ic (the last two are card bus bridge and the pc98ic version of
pcic, neither of which are in the tree yet). Move pccard compat code
into pccard/pccard_compat.c.
THIS REQUIRES A CONFIG FILE CHANGE. You must change your pcic/card
entries to be:
# PCCARD (PCMCIA) support
controller pcic0 at isa?
controller pcic1 at isa?
controller card0
The old system was upside down and this corrects that problem. It
will make it easier to add support for YENTA pccard/card bus bridges.
Much more cleanup needs to happen before newbus devices can have
pccard attachments. My previous commit's comments were premature.
Forgotten by: imp
Been in production for 3 years now. Gives Instant Frame relay to if_sr
and if_ar drivers, and PPPOE support soon. See:
ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/archie/netgraph/index.html
for on-line manual pages.
Reviewed by: Doug Rabson (dfr@freebsd.org)
Obtained from: Whistle CVS tree
In order to make this work, I created a pseudo-PHY driver to deal with
Macronix chips that use the built-in NWAY support and symbol mode port.
This is actually all of them, with the exception of the original MX98713
which presents its NWAY support via the MII serial interface.
The mxphy driver actually manipulates the controller registers directly
rather than using the miibus_readreg()/miibus_writereg() bus interface
since there are no MII registers to read. The mx driver itself pretends
that the NWAY interface is a PHY locayed at MII address 31 for the sole
purpose of allowing the mxphy_probe() routine to know when it needs to
attach to a host controller.
floating before). Attach pccard devices to pcic, one per slot
(although this may change to one per pcic). pcic is now attached to
isa (to act as a bridge) and pccard is attached to pcic, cbb and
pc98ic (the last two are card bus bridge and the pc98ic version of
pcic, neither of which are in the tree yet). Move pccard compat code
into pccard/pccard_compat.c.
THIS REQUIRES A CONFIG FILE CHANGE. You must change your pcic/card
entries to be:
# PCCARD (PCMCIA) support
controller pcic0 at isa?
controller pcic1 at isa?
controller card0
The old system was upside down and this corrects that problem. It
will make it easier to add support for YENTA pccard/card bus bridges.
Much more cleanup needs to happen before newbus devices can have
pccard attachments. My previous commit's comments were premature.
now lives in the respective bus front end files.
- Add various function prototypes to if_edvar.h
- Clean up some debugging code that snuck into if_ed_isa.c
- Turn on the right bits in files.i386
kernel, but gcc provides a pessimal builtin for it.
Makefile.i386:
Added a variable (CONF_CFLAGS) for configuration-specific compiler flags.
LINT:
Use CONF_CFLAGS to inhibit use of gcc builtins.
Turn on the 'new' if_ep driver which supports:
ISA 3c509
MCA 3c529
EISA 3c579
PCCARD 3c589
I think all we're missing is support for the VME bus and S-100 bus
Etherlink III cards.
The new code has been tested by a number of people and all the important
bits work. I've not been able to test the EISA code but will do so once
my hardware arrives. Since I've changed nothing in the EISA code I suspect
it will perform the same manner as before.
Future changes involve whacking the ISA and PCCARD front ends to use
newbus and to convert the driver to bus_space and make it use ifmedia.
This is the first working network driver that supports MCA bus devices btw.
Enjoy.
be set by a kernel conf option due to the struct buf structural
dependancy (sizing of b_pages[]) creating a conflict with modules
(which are not compiled with kernel config options overrides).
We'll be able to sysctl these two later on when the buffer subsystem
is revamped.
for the AN985 "Centaur" chip, which is apparently the next genetation
of the "Comet." The AN985 is also a tulip clone and is similar to the
AL981 except that it uses a 99C66 EEPROM and a serial MII interface
(instead of direct access to the PHY registers).
Also updated various documentation to mention the AN985 and created
a loadable module.
I don't think there are any cards that use this chip on the market yet:
the datasheet I got from ADMtek has boxes with big X's in them where the
diagrams should be, and the sample boards I got have chips without any
artwork on them.
It is about 2.5 microseconds or roughly 3 times faster to use this
"PIIX" timecounter than the "i8254" timecounter. Resolution is
also 3 times better.
The code cheats and don't register the PCI device, because other pieces
of code want to use it too.
Originally spotted by: msmith
the Davicom DM9100 and DM9102 chipsets, including the Jaton Corporation
XPressNet. Datasheet is available from www.davicom8.com.
The DM910x chips are still more tulip clones. The API is reproduced
pretty faithfully, unfortunately the performance is pretty bad. The
transmitter seems to have a lot of problems DMAing multi-fragment
packets. The only way to make it work reliably is to coalesce transmitted
packets into a single contiguous buffer. The Linux driver (written by
Davicom) actually does something similar to this. I can't recomment this
NIC as anything more than a "connectivity solution."
This driver uses newbus and miibus and is supported on both i386
and alpha platforms.
SiS 900 and SiS 7016 PCI fast ethernet chipsets. Full manuals for the
SiS chips can be found at www.sis.com.tw.
This is a fairly simple chipset. The receiver uses a 128-bit multicast
hash table and single perfect entry for the station address. Transmit and
receive DMA and FIFO thresholds are easily tuneable. Documentation is
pretty decent and performance is not bad, even on my crufty 486. This
driver uses newbus and miibus and is supported on both the i386 and
alpha architectures.
a quick think and discussion among various people some form of some of
these changes will probably be recommitted.
The reversion requested was requested by dg while discussions proceed.
PHK has indicated that he can live with this, and it has been agreed
that some form of some of these changes may return shortly after further
discussion.
new system is integrated with the ISA bus code more cleanly and allows
the future addition of more enumerators such as PnPBIOS and ACPI.
This commit also enables the new pcm driver since it is somewhat tied to
the new PnP code.
the highly non-recommended option ALLOW_BDEV_ACCESS is used.
(bdev access is evil because you don't get write errors reported.)
Kill si_bsize_best before it kills Matt :-)
Use the specfs routines rather having cloned copies in devfs.
UMAPFS_DIAGNOSTIC and UNION_DIAGNOSTIC. Uncommented NULLFS_DIAGNOSTIC.
It is as bogus as the above three but since it is already a new-style
option it is easier to use it than to fix it.
discussed on current.
The following variables are defined (for now):
osname (defaults to "Linux")
Allow users to change the name of the OS as returned by uname(2),
specially added for all those Linux Netscape users and statistics
maniacs :-) We now have what we all wanted!
osrelease (defaults to "2.2.5")
Allow users to change the version of the OS as returned by uname(2).
Since -current supports glibc2.1 now, change the default to 2.2.5
(was 2.0.36).
oss_version (defaults to 198144 [0x030600])
This one will be used by the OSS_GETVERSION ioctl (PR 12917) which I
can commit now that we have the MIB. The default version number is the
lowest version possible with the current 'encoding'.
A note about imprisoned processes (see jail(2)):
These variables are copy-on-write (as suggested by phk). This means that
imprisoned processes will use the system wide value unless it is written/set
by the process. From that moment on, a copy local to the prison will be
used.
A note about the implementation:
I choose to add a single pointer to struct prison, because I didn't like the
idea of changing struct prison every time I come up with a new variable. As
a side effect, the extra storage is only needed when a variable is set from
within the prison. This also minimizes kernel bloat when the Linuxulator is
not used; both compiled in or as a module.
Reviewed by: bde (first version only) and phk
PCI fast ethernet controller. Currently, the only card I know that uses
this chip is the D-Link DFE-550TX. (Don't ask me where to buy these: the
only cards I have are samples sent to me by D-Link.)
This driver is the first to make use of the miibus code once I'm sure
it all works together nicely, I'll start converting the other drivers.
The Sundance chip is a clone of the 3Com 3c90x Etherlink XL design
only with its own register layout. Support is provided for ifmedia,
hardware multicast filtering, bridging and promiscuous mode.
MII-compliant PHY drivers. Many 10/100 ethernet NICs available today
either use an MII transceiver or have built-in transceivers that can
be programmed using an MII interface. It makes sense then to separate
this support out into common code instead of duplicating it in all
of the NIC drivers. The mii code also handles all of the media
detection, selection and reporting via the ifmedia interface.
This is basically the same code from NetBSD's /sys/dev/mii, except
it's been adapted to FreeBSD's bus architecture. The advantage to this
is that it automatically allows everything to be turned into a
loadable module. There are some common functions for use in drivers
once an miibus has been attached (mii_mediachg(), mii_pollstat(),
mii_tick()) as well as individual PHY drivers. There is also a
generic driver for all PHYs that aren't handled by a specific driver.
It's possible to do this because all 10/100 PHYs implement the same
general register set in addition to their vendor-specific register
sets, so for the most part you can use one driver for pretty much
any PHY. There are a couple of oddball exceptions though, hence
the need to have specific drivers.
There are two layers: the generic "miibus" layer and the PHY driver
layer. The drivers are child devices of "miibus" and the "miibus" is
a child of a given NIC driver. The "miibus" code and the PHY drivers
can actually be compiled and kldoaded as completely separate modules
or compiled together into one module. For the moment I'm using the
latter approach since the code is relatively small.
Currently there are only three PHY drivers here: the generic driver,
the built-in 3Com XL driver and the NS DP83840 driver. I'll be adding
others later as I convert various NIC drivers to use this code.
I realize that I'm cvs adding this stuff instead of importing it
onto a separate vendor branch, but in my opinion the import approach
doesn't really offer any significant advantage: I'm going to be
maintaining this stuff and writing my own PHY drivers one way or
the other.
- increase the default timeout from 10 seconds to 60 seconds
- add a new kernel option, SCSI_PT_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT, that lets users specify
the default timeout for the pt driver to use
- add two new ioctls, one to get the timeout for a given pt device, the
other to set the timeout for a given pt device. The idea is that
userland applications using the device can set the timeout to suit their
purposes. The ioctls are defined in a new header file, sys/ptio.h
PR: 10266
Reviewed by: gibbs, joerg
that goes to opt_dontuse.h is so an opt_*.h file doesn't get created even
though an option may be used for bringing stuff in via files[.*].
Pointed out by: bde
that are linked into the kernel. The KLD compilation options are
changed to call these functions, rather than in-lining the
atomic operations.
This approach makes atomic operations from KLDs significantly
faster on UP systems (though somewhat slower on SMP systems).
PR: i386/13111
Submitted by: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au
we create the pty on the fly when it is first opened.
If you run out of ptys now, just MAKEDEV some more.
This also demonstrate the use of dev_t->si_tty_tty and dev_t->si_drv1
in a device driver.
of 2 weeks ago that this be done, and anyone who wishes to make bpf more
selective according to securelevel or compile-time options is more
than free to do so.
- Add support for calling 32-bit code in other segments
- Add support for calling 16-bit protected mode code
Update APM to use this facility.
Submitted by: jlemon
macros) to the signal handler, for old-style BSD signal handlers as
the second (int) argument, for SA_SIGINFO signal handlers as
siginfo_t->si_code. This is source-compatible with Solaris, except
that we have no <siginfo.h> (which isn't even mentioned in POSIX
1003.1b).
An rather complete example program is at
http://www3.cons.org/cracauer/freebsd-signal.c
This will be added to the regression tests in src/.
This commit also adds code to disable the (hardware) FPU from
userconfig, so that you can use a software FP emulator on a machine
that has hardware floating point. See LINT.
ethernet controllers based on the AIC-6915 "Starfire" controller chip.
There are single port, dual port and quad port cards, plus one 100baseFX
card. All are 64-bit PCI devices, except one single port model.
The Starfire would be a very nice chip were it not for the fact that
receive buffers have to be longword aligned. This requires buffer
copying in order to achieve proper payload alignment on the alpha.
Payload alignment is enforced on both the alpha and x86 platforms.
The Starfire has several different DMA descriptor formats and transfer
mechanisms. This driver uses frame descriptors for transmission which
can address up to 14 packet fragments, and a single fragment descriptor
for receive. It also uses the producer/consumer model and completion
queues for both transmit and receive. The transmit ring has 128
descriptors and the receive ring has 256.
This driver supports both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha, and uses newbus
so that it can be compiled as a loadable kernel module. Support for BPF
and hardware multicast filtering is included.
gigabit ethernet adapters. This includes two single port cards
(single mode and multimode fiber) and two dual port cards (also single
mode and multimode fiber). SysKonnect is currently the only
vendor with a dual port gigabit ethernet NIC.
The ports on dual port adapters are treated as separate network
interfaces. Thus, if you have an SK-9844 dual port SX card, you
should have both sk0 and sk1 interfaces attached. Dual port cards
are implemented using two XMAC II chips connected to a single
SysKonnect GEnesis controller. Hence, dual port cards are really
one PCI device, as opposed to two separate PCI devices connected
through a PCI to PCI bridge. Note that SysKonnect's drivers use
the two ports for failover purposes rather that as two separate
interfaces, plus they don't support jumbo frames. This applies to
their Linux driver too. :)
Support is provided for hardware multicast filtering, BPF and
jumbo frames. The SysKonnect cards support TCP checksum offload
however this feature is not currently enabled (hopefully it will
be once we get checksum offload support).
There are still a few things that need to be implemeted, like
the ability to communicate with the on-board LM80 voltage/temperature
monitor, but I wanted to get the driver under CVS control and into
-current so people could bang on it.
A big thanks for SysKonnect for making all their programming info
for these cards (and for their FDDI and token ring cards) available
without NDA (see www.syskonnect.com).
On the VAX, it used to be used for special compilation to avoid the
optimizer which would mess with memory mapped devices etc. These days
we use 'volatile'.
