- Give ndiscvt(8) the ability to process a .SYS file directly into
a .o file so that we don't have to emit big messy char arrays into
the ndis_driver_data.h file. This behavior is currently optional, but
may become the default some day.
- Give ndiscvt(8) the ability to turn arbitrary files into .ko files
so that they can be pre-loaded or kldloaded. (Both this and the
previous change involve using objcopy(1)).
- Give NdisOpenFile() the ability to 'read' files out of kernel memory
that have been kldloaded or pre-loaded, and disallow the use of
the normal vn_open() file opening method during bootstrap (when no
filesystems have been mounted yet). Some people have reported that
kldloading if_ndis.ko works fine when the system is running multiuser
but causes a panic when the modile is pre-loaded by /boot/loader. This
happens with drivers that need to use NdisOpenFile() to access
external files (i.e. firmware images). NdisOpenFile() won't work
during kernel bootstrapping because no filesystems have been mounted.
To get around this, you can now do the following:
o Say you have a firmware file called firmware.img
o Do: ndiscvt -f firmware.img -- this creates firmware.img.ko
o Put the firmware.img.ko in /boot/kernel
o add firmware.img_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf
o add if_ndis_load="YES" and ndis_load="YES" as well
Now the loader will suck the additional file into memory as a .ko. The
phony .ko has two symbols in it: filename_start and filename_end, which
are generated by objcopy(1). ndis_open_file() will traverse each module
in the module list looking for these symbols and, if it finds them, it'll
use them to generate the file mapping address and length values that
the caller of NdisOpenFile() wants.
As a bonus, this will even work if the file has been statically linked
into the kernel itself, since the "kernel" module is searched too.
(ndiscvt(8) will generate both filename.o and filename.ko for you).
- Modify the mechanism used to provide make-pretend FASTCALL support.
Rather than using inline assembly to yank the first two arguments
out of %ecx and %edx, we now use the __regparm__(3) attribute (and
the __stdcall__ attribute) and use some macro magic to re-order
the arguments and provide dummy arguments as needed so that the
arguments passed in registers end up in the right place. Change
taken from DragonflyBSD version of the NDISulator.
It does survive « make release ».
Uses an upcoming patch from the vendor branch (ntp-stable) of ntp-keygen.
Submitted by: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
you've specified a directory. It is intended to be used in building
custom releases over NFS where locking may be unreliable at best and
there is no contention that the locking is designed to arbitrate.
Other uses of this flag are discouraged. Document same in usage and
man page (including the warning about unwise).
Sponsored by: Timing Solutions
(1) use strlcpy instead of strncpy since the use here of the latter
was incorrect.
(2) Move 'N' case into proper sorted order (sorted the same way that
ls sorts its args).
This bring us several things:
- updated drivers
- IPv6 support at last
- ntp-genkeys is replaced by ntp-keygen
- ntptrace is now a script (courtesy of John Hay)
- lots of renamed files from .htm to .html (while I prefer .html, I
find the change a bit gratuitous)
- still no manpages :(
Please test and report.
Commit very much helped by: GNU arch (http://gnuarch.org/)
information being sent to the RADIUS server.
Logging of RADIUS accounting information moves to a ``set log [+-]radius''
level, along with the RADIUS alive info, and the version number is bumped
to 3.2 to reflect this.
Mostly submitted by: alx@sm.ukrtel.net (back in January)
MFC after: 3 weeks
apply the patch of bin/61718 (which should include/elimatate kern/61122 also).
It seems to fix a few annoying bugs.
PR: bin/61718, kern/61122
Submitted by: bg@sics.seohartman@mail.physik.uni-mainz.de
but conveniently, because ncpaddr.ncpaddr_family != AF_INET, the call to
ncpaddr_getip4addr() became a no-op leaving the local address as it was
(defaulting to whatever my hostname resolves to).
PR: 62050
Submitted by: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
MFC after: 3 days
FFLAG_NEEDSYNC and fsync the file when select() next returns zero. This
dramatically speeds up the process of logging large amounts of data, while
leaving the essential semantics (that data can be expected to be on disk
if we crash) unchanged.
In my tests, this speeds up the rc phase of booting by 18-20%. [1]
YES PLEASE! by: phk [1]
