filesystem is discovered. Preference is given to using the kernel
environment variable vfs.root.mountfrom, which is set by the loader
according to the contents of /etc/fstab. Changes in the MD code
provide fallback mechanisms for systems not using the loader.
A more robust fallback path is also provided, with the last recourse
being to prompt on the console for a root device.
These changes drastically simplify the machine-dependant parts of
the root configuration process. In addition, support for CDROM root
devices has been removed; it was a nasty hack and didn't work.
Mike says the whole idea of a current device was a bad idea in first place,
and will be doing away with currdev.
Anyway, people are not supposed to even notice this. :-)
be ignored by default by the df(1) program. This is used mostly to
avoid stat()-ing entries that do not represent "real" disk mount
points (such as those made by an automounter such as amd.) It is
also useful not to have to stat() these entries because it takes
longer to report them that for other file systems, being that these
mount points are served by a user-level file server and resulting in
several context switches. Worse, if the automounter is down
unexpectedly, a causal df(1) will hang in an interruptible way.
PR: kern/9764
Submitted by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.columbia.edu>
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").
camcontrol was setup to use the old scheme of going through the xpt(4)
device, which never worked properly (and has been disabled for a while).
camcontrol now sends BDRs through the pass(4) device, and XPT_RESET_DEV
CCBs are put on the device queue in the transport layer, as they should be.
Submitted by: luoqi
Reviewed by: ken
If the ipl is lowered here, a machine can rapidly run out of stack
space when it is under heavy interrupt load. Without this fix,
my test machine would fall over within a few seconds when forwarding
14,000 packets/sec. With the patch, it has been up for over 24 hours
and has built the world at the same time.
submitted by: dfr@freebsd.org
the countdown register.
this should not be necessary but there are broken laptops that
do not restore the countdown register on resume.
when it happnes, it messes up the hardclock interval and system clock,
which leads to the infamous "calcru: negative time" problem.
Submitted by: kjc, iwasaki
Reviewed by: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steveo@eircom.net> and committers.
Obtained from: PAO3
