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modularize it so that new transports can be created. Add a transport for SATA Add a periph+protocol layer for ATA Add a driver for AHCI-compliant hardware. Add a maxio field to CAM so that drivers can advertise their max I/O capability. Modify various drivers so that they are insulated from the value of MAXPHYS. The new ATA/SATA code supports AHCI-compliant hardware, and will override the classic ATA driver if it is loaded as a module at boot time or compiled into the kernel. The stack now support NCQ (tagged queueing) for increased performance on modern SATA drives. It also supports port multipliers. ATA drives are accessed via 'ada' device nodes. ATAPI drives are accessed via 'cd' device nodes. They can all be enumerated and manipulated via camcontrol, just like SCSI drives. SCSI commands are not translated to their ATA equivalents; ATA native commands are used throughout the entire stack, including camcontrol. See the camcontrol manpage for further details. Testing this code may require that you update your fstab, and possibly modify your BIOS to enable AHCI functionality, if available. This code is very experimental at the moment. The userland ABI/API has changed, so applications will need to be recompiled. It may change further in the near future. The 'ada' device name may also change as more infrastructure is completed in this project. The goal is to eventually put all CAM busses and devices until newbus, allowing for interesting topology and management options. Few functional changes will be seen with existing SCSI/SAS/FC drivers, though the userland ABI has still changed. In the future, transports specific modules for SAS and FC may appear in order to better support the topologies and capabilities of these technologies. The modularization of CAM and the addition of the ATA/SATA modules is meant to break CAM out of the mold of being specific to SCSI, letting it grow to be a framework for arbitrary transports and protocols. It also allows drivers to be written to support discrete hardware without jeopardizing the stability of non-related hardware. While only an AHCI driver is provided now, a Silicon Image driver is also in the works. Drivers for ICH1-4, ICH5-6, PIIX, classic IDE, and any other hardware is possible and encouraged. Help with new transports is also encouraged. Submitted by: scottl, mav Approved by: re |
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$FreeBSD$
Note: If you modify these files, please keep hier(7) updated!
These files are used to create empty file hierarchies for building the
system into. Some notes about working with them are placed here to try
and keep them in good working order.
a) The files use 4 space indentation, and other than in the header
comments, should not contain any tabs. An indentation of 4 is
preferable to the standard indentation of 8 because the indentation
of levels in these files can become quite deep causing the line to
overflow 80 characters.
This also matches with the files generated when using the
mtree -c option, which was implemented that way for the same reason.
b) Only directories should be listed here.
c) The listing should be kept in filename sorted order.
d) Sanity checking changes to these files can be done by following
this procedure (the sed -e is ugly, but fixing mtree -c to
not emit the trailing white space would be even uglier):
mkdir /tmp/MTREE
mtree -deU -f BSD.X.dist -p /tmp/MTREE
mtree -cdin -k uname,gname,mode -p /tmp/MTREE | \
sed -e 's/ *$//' >BSD.X.new
diff -u BSD.X.dist BSD.X.new
rm -r /tmp/MTREE
Note that you will get some differences about /set lines,
and uname= gname= on certain directory areas, mainly man page
sections. This is caused by mtree not having a look ahead
mechanism for making better selections for these as it
traverses the hierarchy.
The BSD.X.new file should NOT be commited, will be missing the
correct header, and important keywords like ``nochange''. Simply
use the diff for a sanity check to make sure things are in the
correct order and correctly indented.
e) Further sanity checking of the system builds with DESTDIR=/someplace
are more complicated, but can often catch missing entries in these
files. I tend to run this more complete sanity check shortly after
the target date for a new release is announced.
If you want details on it bug me about it via email to
rgrimes@FreeBSD.org.