Setup decent transfer mode defaults as some BIOS's seem to put in
things that it *knows* doesn't work.
(Note to BIOS writers: stop doing that nonsense, we will get things
working with your crappy HW anyways, and then recommend users to buy
someone else's products that "just works", thankyou.. )
Limit the device transfer mode to ATA100/UDMA5 on generic SATA.
Since we dont know if the user is using a pure SATA device or an
old PATA drive with a SATA converter dongle, we need to limit the
speed used here to cover up the problems with Marvell ATA-SATA bridges
used in lots of SATA products.
This workaround is enabled for all detectable SATA controllers as they
seem to have semilar problems here. One notable exception is all the
Promise pdc2037x chips which just always work (cudos to Promise!).
as these ioctl's aren't MD. This also means they are installed in
/usr/include/dev/bktr now. Also provide compatability wrappers for
where these headers lived in 4.x.
o nintr and inamlen must by of type size_t, not int,
o Remove now unnecessary casts,
o Handle the aflag differently, because the intr. names have a
fixed width and almost always have trailing spaces.
as these ioctl's aren't MD. This also means they are installed in
/usr/include/dev/bktr now. Also provide compatability wrappers for
where these headers lived in 4.x.
Last commit moved info about the aha-1640 card. It also added notes
about the fact that the A card is busted (and likely will never be
fixed) and the B card doesn't work well on heavy load.
man4.i386. It documents that meteor no longer works, but keeps the
extensive documentation on the meteor interface, which the bktr driver
implements also. This should be merged into tha man page, but such a
merging seems to be planned by others.
# we really need something like video4bsd to define these sorts of
# things for all video capture drivers.
Requested by: rwatson and obrien
note that says that this man page is sub-optimal. Bruce Mah should be
happier about this, but someone that groks the cards supported by the
digi driver is encouraged to make this man page suck less.
Instead, allow the mapping to persist, but add the sf_buf to a free list.
If a later sendfile(2) or zero-copy send resends the same physical page,
perhaps with the same or different contents, then the mapping overhead is
avoided and the sf_buf is simply removed from the free list.
In other words, the i386 sf_buf implementation now behaves as a cache of
virtual-to-physical translations using an LRU replacement policy on
inactive sf_bufs. This is similar in concept to a part of
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~yruan/debox/ patch, but much simpler in
implementation. Note: none of this is required on alpha, amd64, or ia64.
They now use their direct virtual-to-physical mapping to avoid any
emphemeral mapping overheads in their sf_buf implementations.
an int constant to a long constant. This change improves consistency
in the following two ways:
1. The first 8 arguments are always passed in registers on ia64, which
by virtue of the generated code implicitly widens ints to longs and
allows the use of an 32-bit integral type for 64-bit arguments.
Subsequent arguments are passed onto the memory stack, which does
not exhibit the same behaviour and consequently do not allow this.
In practice this means that variadic functions taking pointers
and given NULL (without cast) work as long as the NULL is passed
in one of the first 8 arguments. A SIGSEGV is more likely the
result if such would be done for stack-based arguments. This is
due to the fact that the upper 4 bytes remain undefined.
2. All 64-bit platforms that FreeBSD supports, with the obvious
exception of ia64, allow 32-bit integral types (specifically NULL)
when 64-bit pointers are expected in variadic functions by way of
how the compiler generates code. As such, code that works correctly
(whether rightfully so or not) on any platform other than ia64, may
fail on ia64.
To more easily allow tweaking of the definition of NULL, this commit
removes the 12 definitions in the various headers and puts it in a
new header that can be included whenever NULL is to be made visible.
This commit fixes GNOME, emacs, xemacs and a whole bunch of ports
that I don't particularly care about at this time...
flags. We now create asynchronous contexts or syscall contexts only.
Syscall contexts differ from the minimal ABI dictated contexts by
having the scratch registers saved and restored because that's where
we keep the syscall arguments and syscall return values.
Since this change affects KSE, have it use kse_switchin(2) for the
"new" syscall context.
functions less noisy: We printf if a new function took longer than
the previous record holder, or of the previous record holder took
more than twice as long as the current record.
to have the kernel switch to a new thread, instead of doing it in
userland. It is in fact needed on ia64 where syscall restarts do not
return to userland first. It's completely handled inside the kernel.
As such, any context created by the kernel as part of an upcall and
caused by some syscall needs to be restored by the kernel.
The use of libkvm for post-mortem analysis is still supported (though it
could use more testing). We can now remove vmstat's setgid bit.
While I'm here, hack the interrupt listing code to not display interrupts
that haven't occurred unless the -a option was given on the command line,
and document this change.
