implying that they aren't used for the rest of the system.
Fix the lies:
253 is used by mfs (bad MFS for not registering it).
254 is a magic cookie inside of the dev code in at least one place.
255 is -1 which is magic in a different way in the dev code.
So, that means that 200-252 are reserved for local users. A grep for
252 didn't turn anything up, so I'm assuming it and lower are safe.
And I thought I was being smart by allocating our local major numbers
from 254 on down. This caused very very odd problems that were hard
to track down: close not being called, sync failing at reboot, etc.
Implement the Solaris way to break into DDB over a serial console
instead of sending a break. Sending the character sequence
CR ~ ^b will break the kernel into DDB (if DDB is enabled).
Reviewed by: peter
Use Warner Losh's "hint" driver to decode ascii strings to fill the
resource table at boot time.
config(8) no longer generates an ioconf.c table - ie: the configuration
no longer has to be compiled into the kernel. You can reconfigure your
isa devices with the likes of this at loader(8) time:
set hint.ed.0.port=0x320
userconfig will be rewritten to use this style interface one day and will
move to /boot/userconfig.4th or something like that.
It is still possible to statically compile in a set of hints into a kernel
if you do not wish to use loader(8). See the "hints" directive in GENERIC
as an example.
All device wiring has been moved out of config(8). There is a set of
helper scripts (see i386/conf/gethints.pl, and the same for alpha and pc98)
that extract the 'at isa? port foo irq bar' from the old files and produces
a hints file. If you install this file as /boot/device.hints (and update
/boot/defaults/loader.conf - You can do a build/install in sys/boot) then
loader will load it automatically for you. You can also compile in the
hints directly with: hints "device.hints" as well.
There are a few things that I'm not too happy with yet. Under this scheme,
things like LINT would no longer be useful as "documentation" of settings.
I have renamed this file to 'NOTES' and stored the example hints strings
in it. However... this is not something that config(8) understands, so
there is a script that extracts the build-specific data from the
documentation file (NOTES) to produce a LINT that can be config'ed and
built. A stack of man4 pages will need updating. :-/
Also, since there is no longer a difference between 'device' and
'pseudo-device' I collapsed the two together, and the resulting 'device'
takes a 'number of units' for devices that still have it statically
allocated. eg: 'device fe 4' will compile the fe driver with NFE set
to 4. You can then set hints for 4 units (0 - 3). Also note that
'device fe0' will be interpreted as "zero units of 'fe'" which would be
bad, so there is a config warning for this. This is only needed for
old drivers that still have static limits on numbers of units.
All the statically limited drivers that I could find were marked.
Please exercise EXTREME CAUTION when transitioning!
Moral support by: phk, msmith, dfr, asmodai, imp, and others
Socket 8 to 370 converters. When (1) CPU_PPRO2CELERON option is
defined, (2) Intel CPU is found and (3) CPU ID is 0x66?, L2 cache is
enabled through MSR 0x11e. The L2 cache latency value can be
specified by CPU_L2_LATENCY option. Default value of L2 cache latency
is 5.
These options are useful if you use Socket 8 to Socket 370 converter
(e.g. Power Leap's PL-Pro/II.) Most PentiumPro BIOSs don't enable L2
cache of Mendocino Celeron CPUs because they don't know Celeron CPUs.
These options are needles if you use a Coppermine (FCPGA) Celeron or
PentiumIII, becuase the L2 cache enable bit is hard wired and L2 cache
is always enabled.
2. Newbusify the driver.
3. Build as a module.
4. Use correct minor numbers when creating device files.
5. Correctly lock control characters.
6. Return ENXIO when device not configured.
Submitted by: Tor Egge <Tor.Egge@fast.no>
7. Fix the baud_table.
Submitted by: Elliot Dierksen <ebd@oau.org>
Note:
- the old driver still lives in src/sys/i386/isa, so that you can
revert to it if something goes wrong.
- The module does not detach very well. Attaching works fine.
config(8). This commit allows control of the creation of the
#include "foo.h" files. We now only create them explicitly when needed.
BTW; these are mostly bad because they usually imply static limits on
numbers of units for devices. eg: struct mysoftc sc[NFOO];
These static limits have Got To Go.
Symbol values are now represented using array sizes (4 arrays per symbol
so that 16-bit machines can represent 64-bit values) instead of being raw
binary values.
Reviewed by: marcel
"options COMPAT_OLDPCI". This option already existed, but now also tidies
up the declarations in #include <pci/pci*.h>. It is amazing how much stuff
was using the old pre-FreeBSD 3.x names and going silently undetected.
for a seperate pc98 version of this stuff. Applying the same changes
from the i386 version yields identical files so remove these and use the
common ones.
Only PCI and on-board ISA peripherials are supported at this time.
This support has been only lightly tested due to a lack of response to my
call for testers on the freebsd-alpha mailing list. It works quite well
on the one AS2100 on which it has been tested, but it may not work on
an AS2100A and should therefore be regarded as experimental.
have pv_entries. This is intended for very special circumstances,
eg: a certain database that has a 1GB shm segment mapped into 300
processes. That would consume 2GB of kvm just to hold the pv_entries
alone. This would not be used on systems unless the physical ram was
available, as it's not pageable.
This is a work-in-progress, but is a useful and functional checkpoint.
Matt has got some more fixes for it that will be committed soon.
Reviewed by: dillon
Submitted by: jhb
1. ${.CURDIR}/modules was a confusing way to spell ${.OBJDIR}/modules
2. ${.CURDIR}/../../modules is a verbose, wrong path to the module sources.
The correct path is $S/modules, since ${.CURDIR} for the kernel may be
in the obj tree but the sources are in the src tree.
3. The `obj' and `all' steps may be combined, as can `obj' and `depend'.
Submitted by: bde
Backup ${DESTDIR}/modules to ${DESTDIR}/modules.old to match the same action
done to the kernel.
