have bad grounding characteristics which allow small static discharges
(or sunspots, we're not 100% sure which) to reach the bridge chip.
This causes the bridge chip to wedge/reset itself. There's no known
cure short of rebooting.
The bug manifests itself by the STAT_CHG return 0xff when read. This
is impossible because the upper bits are reserved (and therefore
zero). In addition, some of the lower bits are one only for memory
cards, which OLDCARD doesn't support, so if they are set, something
seriously foobar'd is going on.
So far we've seen this in exactly one brand of pcmcia <-> isa bridge
which plug and play identifies only as "VIA PCMCIA CARD". This card
just has buffers on the isa card and the actual bridge chip on the
remote slot, which is connected by long ribbon cables. We think this
long cable run, coupled with the lack of coupling capacitors is a
major reason why it is so static sensitive while its bretheren aren't.
Work Supported by: Timing Solutions, Inc.
MFC After: 3 days
. FD_CLRERR clears the error counter, thus re-enables kernel error
printf()s,
. FD_GSTAT obtains the last FDC operation state, if any,
. FDOPT_NOERRLOG (temporarily) turns off kernel printf() floppy
error logging,
. FDOPT_NOERROR makes the kernel ignore an FDC error, thus can
enable the transfer of an erroneous sector to the user application
All options are being cleared on (last) close.
Prime consumer of the last features will be fdread(1), to be committed
shortly.
(FD_CLRERR should be wired into fdcontrol(8), but then fdcontrol(8)
needs a major rewrite anyway.)
When people access /dev/tty, locate their controlling tty and return
the dev_t of it to them. This basically makes /dev/tty act like
a variant symlink sort of thing which is much simpler than all the
mucking about with vnodes.
For memory for the pccard attribute/common memory mapping allocate on
the pccard. For other allocations, use whatever is the parent of this
device. There's no doubt other issues lurking, but this should make
things closer to being independent.
- Since polling should not involve sleeping, keep holding a
process lock upon scanning file descriptors.
- Hold a reference to every file descriptor prior to entering
polling loop in order to avoid lock order reversal between
lockmgr and p_mtx upon calling fdrop() in fo_poll().
(NOTE: this work has not been done for netncp and netsmb
yet because a socket itself has no reference counts.)
Reviewed by: jhb
the resource activation if we're dealing with our grandchild.
Otherwise, we run into two problems. One, if the pccard layer wanted
to allocate and activate something, we'd wind up trying to do the
wrong thing twice: the ivars are wrong and we don't want the bridge to
map the resource to the slot. If we're more than a grandchild, then
who knows what kind of ivar is present. In either of these cases, we
just pass it up the food chain.
comes in for it, the file is really gone, so return ESTALE.
The problem arises when the last reference to an FFS file is
released because soft-updates may delay the actual freeing of the
inode for some time. Since there are no filesystem links or open
file descriptors referencing the inode, from the point of view of
the system, the file is inaccessible. However, if the filesystem
is NFS exported, then the remote client can still access the inode
via ufs_fhtovp() until the inode really goes away. To prevent this
anomoly, it is necessary to begin returning ESTALE at the same time
that the file ceases to be accessible to the local filesystem.
Obtained from: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
If for some reason DEVFS is undesired, the "NODEVFS" option is
needed now.
Pending any significant issues, DEVFS will be made mandatory in
-current on july 1st so that we can start reaping the full
benefits of having it.
pcb for fork(). It was possible for the state to be saved twice when an
interrupt handler saved it concurrently. This corrupted (reset) the state
because fnsave has the (in)convenient side effect of doing an implicit
fninit. Mundane null pointer bugs were not possible, because we save to
an "arbitrary" process's pcb and not to the "right" place (npxproc).
Push the parent's %gs to the pcb for fork(). Changes to %gs before
fork() were not preserved in the child unless an accidental context
switch did the pushing. Updated the list of pcb contents which is
supposed to inhibit bugs like this. pcb_dr*, pcb_gs and pcb_ext were
missing. Copying is correct for pcb_dr*, and pcb_ext is already
handled specially (although XXX'ly).
Reducing the savectx() call to an npxsave() call in rev.1.80 was a
mistake. The above bugs are duplicated in many places, including in
savectx() itself.
The arbitraryness of the parent process pointer for the fork()
subroutines, the pcb pointer for savectx(), and the save87 pointer
for npxsave(), is illusory. These functions don't work "right" unless
the pointers are precisely curproc, curpcb, and the address of npxproc's
save87 area, respectively, although the special context in which they
are called allows savectx(&dumppcb) to sort of work and npxsave(&dummy)
to work. cpu_fork() just doesn't work unless the parent process
pointer is curproc, or the caller has pushed %gs to the pcb, or %gs
happens to already be in the pcb.
when PC98 is defined. This is in perparation for a mecia driver
separate from pcic, assuming that all goes well with that effort.
MECIA_SUPPORT won't be removed until after that support is working.
of the pcic class of devices. Go ahead and move it to the "usual"
place. I say "usual" in quotes since it isn't exactly right (not in
dev/blah), but it is closer than before.
softc.
o Store pointers to softc in dev_t in si_drv1.
o Change 'kludge version' to 'classic version' since things are getting less
kludgy.
o Minor code shuffling so that we probe and attach the pccard slots.
o Minor style(9) changes.
follow Linux' convention and use %gs. This adds back the setting of
%fs to a sane value in sendsig(). The value of %gs remains preserved
to whatever it was in user context.
handler in Linux emulation. According to bde, this is what Linux
does.
Recent versions of linuxthreads use %gs for thread-specific data,
while FreeBSD uses %fs (mostly because WINE uses %gs).
Tested by: drew
KASSERT when vp->v_usecount is zero or negative. In this case, the
"v*: negative ref cnt" panic that follows is much more appropriate.
Reviewed by: mckusick
fail due to witness exhausting its internal resources and shutting down.
Reported by: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>
Tested by: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
much more often that expected and negatively impact performance when
running at 100mbps. I need to figure out if there's a better way to
handle this, but for now this shouldn't hurt anything.
and DP83821 gigabit ethernet MAC chips and the NatSemi DP83861 10/100/1000
copper PHY. There are a whole bunch of very low cost cards available with
this chipset selling for $150USD or less. This includes the SMC9462TX,
D-Link DGE-500T, Asante GigaNIX 1000TA and 1000TPC, and a couple cards
from Addtron.
This chip supports TCP/IP checksum offload, VLAN tagging/insertion.
2048-bit multicast filter, jumbograms and has 8K TX and 32K RX FIFOs.
I have not done serious performance testing with this driver. I know
it works, and I want it under CVS control so I can keep tabs on it.
Note that there's no serious mutex stuff in here yet either: I need
to talk more with jhb to figure out the right way to do this. That
said, I don't think there will be any problems.
This driver should also work on the alpha. It's not turned on in
GENERIC.
