i386 platform boots, it is no longer ISA-centric, and is fully dynamic.
Most old drivers compile and run without modification via 'compatability
shims' to enable a smoother transition. eisa, isapnp and pccard* are
not yet using the new resource manager. Once fully converted, all drivers
will be loadable, including PCI and ISA.
(Some other changes appear to have snuck in, including a port of Soren's
ATA driver to the Alpha. Soren, back this out if you need to.)
This is a checkpoint of work-in-progress, but is quite functional.
The bulk of the work was done over the last few years by Doug Rabson and
Garrett Wollman.
Approved by: core
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.
if it is in 10Mbps mode and gets certain types of garbage prior to
the packet header. The work-around involves reprogramming the
multicast filter if nothing is received in some number of seconds
(currently set at 15). As a side effect, implemented complete support
for multicasting rather than the previous 'receive all multicasts'
hack, since we now have the ability to program the filter table.
Fixed a serious bug which crept in with the timeout() changes;
the cookie was only saved on the first timeout() call in fxp_init()
and wasn't updated in the most common place in fxp_stats_update()
when the timeout was rescheduled. This bug would have resulted in
an eventual panic if fxp_stop() was called (which happens when any
interface flags are changed, for example).
Fixed a bug in Alpha support that would have caused the TxCB
descriptor chain to span a page boundry, causing serious problems
if the pages didn't happen to be contiguous.
Removed some gratuitous bit masking that was left over from an
older implementation.
Fixed a bug where too much was copied from the configuration
template, spilling over into memory that followed it.
Fixed handling of if_timer...it was cleared too early in some cases.
