FreeBSD/alpha. The most significant item is to change the command
argument to ioctl functions from int to u_long. This change brings us
inline with various other BSD versions. Driver writers may like to
use (__FreeBSD_version == 300003) to detect this change.
The prototype FreeBSD/alpha machdep will follow in a couple of days
time.
need to do it directly, since ttwwakeup() is always called just before
returning from rpstart(). The brokenness was waking up the wrong address
after clearing TS_SO_OLOWAT. It's not clear how processes waiting for
output to drain below low water ever got woken up.
Found by: when I fixed longstanding warts in output watermark
handling, this was the only driver that knew too much
(anything) about the watermarks
Distribute all but the most fundamental malloc types. This time I also
remembered the trick to making things static: Put "static" in front of
them.
A couple of finer points by: bde
