NetGDB(4) is a component of a system using a panic-time network stack to
remotely debug crashed FreeBSD kernels over the network, instead of
traditional serial interfaces.
There are three pieces in the complete NetGDB system.
First, a dedicated proxy server must be running to accept connections from
both NetGDB and gdb(1), and pass bidirectional traffic between the two
protocols.
Second, the NetGDB client is activated much like ordinary 'gdb' and
similarly to 'netdump' in ddb(4) after a panic. Like other debugnet(4)
clients (netdump(4)), the network interface on the route to the proxy server
must be online and support debugnet(4).
Finally, the remote (k)gdb(1) uses 'target remote <proxy>:<port>' (like any
other TCP remote) to connect to the proxy server.
The NetGDB v1 protocol speaks the literal GDB remote serial protocol, and
uses a 1:1 relationship between GDB packets and sequences of debugnet
packets (fragmented by MTU). There is no encryption utilized to keep
debugging sessions private, so this is only appropriate for local
segments or trusted networks.
Submitted by: John Reimer <john.reimer AT emc.com> (earlier version)
Discussed some with: emaste, markj
Relnotes: sure
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21568
This adds basic documentation on what the superio driver is and how
other drivers can interact with it. I decided to also document
superio's ivar accessors.
Reviewed by: bcr, brueffer (both manual contents only)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21958
starting at the max. domain, and then work down. Then existing FreeBSD
drivers will attach. Interrupt routing from the VMD MSI-X to the NVME
drive is not well known, so any interrupt is sent to all children that
register.
VROC used Intel meta data so graid(8) works with it. However, graid(8)
supports RAID 0,1,10 for read and write. I have some early code to
support writes with RAID 5. Note that RAID 5 can have life issues
with SSDs since it can cause write amplification from updating the parity
data.
Hot plug support needs a change to skip the following check to work:
if (pcib_request_feature(dev, PCI_FEATURE_HP) != 0) {
in sys/dev/pci/pci_pci.c.
Looked at by: imp, rpokala, bcr
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21383
Follow-up on r322318 and r322319 and remove the deprecated modules.
Shift some now-unused kernel files into userspace utilities that incorporate
them. Remove references to removed GEOM classes in userspace utilities.
Reviewed by: imp (earlier version)
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21249
The driver was originally written with the name ads1115, but at the last
minute it got renamed to ads111x to reflect its support for many related
chips, but I forgot to update the manpage to match the renaming before
committing it all.
with Communication Device Class Ethernet Emulation Model (CDC EEM).
The driver supports both the device, and host side operation; there
is a new USB template (#11) for the former.
This enables communication with virtual USB NIC provided by iLO 5,
as found in new HPE Proliant servers.
Reviewed by: hselasky
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
We don't split the other man pages in their own package so do the same for runtime.
Reviewed by: bapt, gjb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20962
NANDFS has been broken for years. Remove it. The NAND drivers that
remain are for ancient parts that are no longer relevant. They are
polled, have terrible performance and just for ancient arm
hardware. NAND parts have evolved significantly from this early work
and little to none of it would be relevant should someone need to
update to support raw nand. This code has been off by default for
years and has violated the vnode protocol leading to panics since it
was committed.
Numerous posts to arch@ and other locations have found no actual users
for this software.
Relnotes: Yes
No Objection From: arch@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20745
This driver was marked as gone in 12. We're at 13 now. Remove it.
Data from nycbug's dmesg cache shows only one potential user,
suggesting it never was used much. However, even though this device
has been obsolete for 15 years at least, sys/joystick.h is included in
a number of graphics packages still, so that remains. A full exprun
is needed before that can be removed.
RelNotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17629
I held the mistaken belief this was completely unused. While the
driver is unused and likely not relevant for a long time,
sys/joystick.h lives on in maybe half a dozen ports, even though
hardware to use it hasn't been widely used in maybe 15 years.
This driver has been obsolete since the FreeBSD 4.x. It should have
been removed then since the sym(4) driver had subsumed it. The driver
was commented out of GENERIC in 2000.
RelNotes: Yes
stg(4) is marked as gone in 12. Remove it. There are no sightings of
it in the nycbug dmesg database. It was for an obscure SCSI card that
sold mostly in Japan, and was especially popilar among pc98 hackers in
the 4.x time frame. It was also only enabled on i386.
Relnote: Yes
nsp(4) is marked as gone in 12. Remove it. There are no sightings of
it in the nycbug dmesg database. It was for an obscure SCSI card that
sold mostly in Japan, and was especially popilar among pc98 hackers in
the 4.x time frame. It was also only enabled on i386.
Relnote: Yes
ncv(4) is marked as gone in 12. Remove it. There are no sightings of
it in the nycbug dmesg database. It was for an obscure SCSI card that
sold mostly in Japan, and was especially popilar among pc98 hackers in
the 4.x time frame..
Relnote: Yes
Remove the advanssy drivers (both adv and adw). They were tagged as
gone in 12 a while qgo. The nycbug dmesg database shows this was last
seen in 6 and there were only a few adv sightings then (none for adw).
Relnotes: yes
We tagged aha as gone in 12 a while ago. Proceed with its removal.
Data from nycbug's database shows the last sighting of this driver in
6, with the prior one in 4.x show its popularity had died prior to
4.x.
Relnotes: yes
This driver was marked as gone in 12. We're at 13 now. Remove it.
Data from nycbug's dmesg cache shows only one potential user,
suggesting it never was used much.
RelNotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17629
Since there have been major updates to both drivers in r339338,
refresh the man pages with new and updated information.
Reviewed by: sbruno@, 0mp@, jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com, manpages
Approved by: re (gjb@, kib@)
Sponsored by: Intel Corporation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15927
The new manpage documents the tunables and statistic sysctls exposed by
iflib.
Reviewed by: bcr
Approved by: re (gjb)
Sponsored by: Limelight Networks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16920
Document efidev(4), provider of userland access to EFI Runtime Services. A link is created to efirtc(4), which handles the time-of-day clock side.
efirt(9) is the kernel side of this.
Reviewed by: imp, kib (earlier version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16696
The jedec_ts(4) driver has been marked as deprecated in stable/11, and is
now being removed from -HEAD. Add a notice in UPDATING, and update the few
remaining references (regarding jedec_dimm(4)'s compatibility and history)
to reflect the fact that jedec_ts(4) is now deleted.
Reviewed by: avg
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16537
The dtrace provider for UDP-Lite is modeled after the UDP provider.
This fixes the bug that UDP-Lite packets were triggering the UDP
provider.
Thanks to dteske@ for providing the dwatch module.
Reviewed by: dteske@, markj@, rrs@
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16377
