The last half year I've been working on a replacement TTY layer for the
FreeBSD kernel. The new TTY layer was designed to improve the following:
- Improved driver model:
The old TTY layer has a driver model that is not abstract enough to
make it friendly to use. A good example is the output path, where the
device drivers directly access the output buffers. This means that an
in-kernel PPP implementation must always convert network buffers into
TTY buffers.
If a PPP implementation would be built on top of the new TTY layer
(still needs a hooks layer, though), it would allow the PPP
implementation to directly hand the data to the TTY driver.
- Improved hotplugging:
With the old TTY layer, it isn't entirely safe to destroy TTY's from
the system. This implementation has a two-step destructing design,
where the driver first abandons the TTY. After all threads have left
the TTY, the TTY layer calls a routine in the driver, which can be
used to free resources (unit numbers, etc).
The pts(4) driver also implements this feature, which means
posix_openpt() will now return PTY's that are created on the fly.
- Improved performance:
One of the major improvements is the per-TTY mutex, which is expected
to improve scalability when compared to the old Giant locking.
Another change is the unbuffered copying to userspace, which is both
used on TTY device nodes and PTY masters.
Upgrading should be quite straightforward. Unlike previous versions,
existing kernel configuration files do not need to be changed, except
when they reference device drivers that are listed in UPDATING.
Obtained from: //depot/projects/mpsafetty/...
Approved by: philip (ex-mentor)
Discussed: on the lists, at BSDCan, at the DevSummit
Sponsored by: Snow B.V., the Netherlands
dcons(4) fixed by: kan
"workstation" firewall types to be set from rc.conf so that rc.firewall
no longer needs local patching to be usable for those types. For now
I've set the variables in /etc/defaults/rc.conf to the previous defaults
in /etc/rc.firewall.
PR: bin/65258
Submitted by: Valentin Nechayev netch of netch.kiev.ua
Silence from: net
MFC after: 2 weeks
documents away from being public accessible. Replace link to
the Bluetooth specification document with the document name.
Pointed out by: SoftLover < slserg at uic dot tula dot ru >
MFC after: 3 days
parts relied on the now removed NET_NEEDS_GIANT.
Most of I4B has been disconnected from the build
since July 2007 in HEAD/RELENG_7.
This is what was removed:
- configuration in /etc/isdn
- examples
- man pages
- kernel configuration
- sys/i4b (drivers, layers, include files)
- user space tools
- i4b support from ppp
- further documentation
Discussed with: rwatson, re
To preserve the existing behavior of etc/rc.d/netif, add code to wait
up to if_up_delay seconds (30 seconds by default) for a default route to
be configured if there are any dhcp interfaces. This should be extended
to test that the interface is actually up.
X-MFC after:
and config file
o change default logging options from -q to -s (log to syslog); this
is currently broken for boot-time startup as syslogd is started too
late but that'll be dealt with separately
MFC after: 2 weeks
specific one. Instruct it to listen on all interfaces so that enabling
it in rc.conf(5) works "out of the box."
PR: conf/121406
Submited by: trasz
MFC after: 1 week
scripts at boot. This is currently disabled by default. /etc/ddb.conf
contains some potentially reasonable default scripts.
PR: conf/119995
Submitted by: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail dot com> (Earlier version)
X-MFC after: textdumps
- Allow IP in firewall_nat_interface, just like natd_interface
- Allow additional configuration parameters passed to ipfw via
firewall_nat_flags
- Document firewall_nat_* in defaults/rc.conf
Tested by: Albert B. Wang <abwang at gmail.com>
MFC after: 1 month
included in the kernel by default. Remove reference to this option
from defaults/rc.conf and rc.conf(5).
PR: conf/119098
Submitted by: Beat Gaetzi
MFC after: 1 week
the rejected mail reports to tally the rejects per blacklist without
providing details about individual sender hosts. The default configuration
keeps the reports in their original form.
MFC after: 1 week
.ICE-unix, .font-unix, .XIM-unix) when purging files from /tmp via the
daily 100.clean-tmps job. If you are logged into an X session longer
than the timeout period (default of 3 days), then this job can delete
the X11 sockets out from under the session without this fix.
MFC after: 3 days
This commit includes the following core components:
* sample configuration file for sensorsd
* rc(8) script and glue code for sensorsd(8)
* sysctl(3) doc fixes for CTL_HW tree
* sysctl(3) documentation for hardware sensors
* sysctl(8) documentation for hardware sensors
* support for the sensor structure for sysctl(8)
* rc.conf(5) documentation for starting sensorsd(8)
* sensor_attach(9) et al documentation
* /sys/kern/kern_sensors.c
o sensor_attach(9) API for drivers to register ksensors
o sensor_task_register(9) API for the update task
o sysctl(3) glue code
o hw.sensors shadow tree for sysctl(8) internal magic
* <sys/sensors.h>
* HW_SENSORS definition for <sys/sysctl.h>
* sensors display for systat(1), including documentation
* sensorsd(8) and all applicable documentation
The userland part of the framework is entirely source-code
compatible with OpenBSD 4.1, 4.2 and -current as of today.
All sensor readings can be viewed with `sysctl hw.sensors`,
monitored in semi-realtime with `systat -sensors` and also
logged with `sensorsd`.
Submitted by: Constantine A. Murenin <cnst@FreeBSD.org>
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2007 (GSoC2007/cnst-sensors)
Mentored by: syrinx
Tested by: many
OKed by: kensmith
Obtained from: OpenBSD (parts)
ppp_profile variable can now contain multiple profiles.
Overrides for ppp mode and nat can go into ppp_$profile_mode
and ppp_$profile_nat variables respectively. If those are
not specified, defaults from ppp_mode and ppp_nat are used.
Submitted by: Yuri Kurenkov < y dot kurenkov at init dot ru >
Reviewed by: mtm
MFC after: 1 week
/etc/rc.d/sendmail whether or not to run newaliases if the database
is missing or the aliases text file is newer than aliases.db.
In my opinion, the aliases file should never be automatically rebuilt.
The current text form could represent a work in progress. Therefore,
in FreeBSD 7.0, this new option will default to "NO". When this rc.d
change is MFC'ed, it will need to remain "YES" to maintain backward
compatibility.
PR: conf/86252
Approved by: re (kensmith)
MFC after: 3 days
stop looking there for things like rc.d and periodic. This avoids
duplicating effort when /usr/X11R6 is a symlink to /usr/local,
which it is by default now.
It is not anticipated at this time that we will MFC this change, since
we'd like to avoid breaking legacy systems. However, there is a fix for
/etc/rc.subr in the works to avoid running any rc.d scripts twice which
we should be able to MFC.
which can be used to turn off multicast pfsync support, and enable
the transmission of directed PFSYNC (IP protocol: 240) packets to
a specific "sync peer" host.
PR: conf/111225
Submitted by: Bas van Beek <bas@tobin.nl>
Approved by: mtm, mlaier
MFC after: 2 weeks
UUID and stores it in /etc/hostid ($hostid_file) as well as sets kern.hostuuid
and kern.hostid sysctls on every boot.
Hostid can be reset using '/etc/rc.d/hostid reset' command.
Hostid generation and setting can be turned off by setting variable
hostid_enable to "NO" in /etc/rc.conf.
Reviewed by: mlaier, rink, brooks, rwatson
and takes over mountcritlocal's role as the early / late divider. This
makes it far easier to add rc scripts which need to run early, such as a
startup script for zfs, which is right around the corner.
This change should be a no-op; I have verified that the only change in
rcorder's output is the insertion of FILESYSTEMS immediately after
mountcritlocal.
MFC after: 3 weeks
for /tmp and /var. This makes the memory discs swap-backed instead
of malloc-backed. A swap-backed memory disc should not be worse
than a malloc-backed one in any scenario because it will start
touching swap only when needed. OTOH, a malloc-backed disc can
starve limited kernel resources and evenually crash the system.
Reflect the change in the rc.conf(5) manpage. Also stop telling
lies there about softupdates: it does not waste disc space, it
just can delay its freeing.
Suggested by: many
PR: kern/87255
MFC after: 1 week
Note: This also deprecates "NO" as a way to specify an empty list of
interfaces for gif_interfaces.
PR: conf/104884
Submitted by: nork
Harassed by: brd
Discussed with: brooks, dougb
