It been awhile since the last major update, as a benefit there
are some cool things in this one (and new bugs probably :) )...
The ATA driver has grown "real" timeout support for all devices.
This means that it should be possible to get in contact with
(especially) lost ATAPI devices. It also means that the ATA
driver is now usable on notebooks as it will DTRT on resume.
An experimental hack at utilizing the Promise66's at UDMA66 is
in there, but I cant test it. If someone feels like sending
me one, give me a ping.
The ATAPI DMA enableling scheme has been changed, also better DMA
support for the Aladdin chipset has been implemented for ATAPI
devices. Note that the Aladdin apparently only can do DMA reads
on ATAPI devices, and the Promise cant do ATAPI DMA at all.
I have seen problems on some ATAPI devices that should be able
to run in DMA mode, so if you encounter problems with hanging
atapi devices during the probe, or during access, disable DMA
in atapi-all.c, and let me know. It might be nessesary to do this
via a "white list" for known good devices...
The ATAPI CDROM driver can now use eject/close without hanging and
the bug that caused reading beyond the end of a CD has been fixed.
Media change is also handled proberly. DVD drives are identified
and are usable as CDROM devices at least, I dont have the HW to
test this further, see above :).
The ATAPI tape driver has gotten some support for using the DSC
method for not blocking the IDE channel during read/write when
the device has full buffers. It knows about the OnStream DI-30
device, support is not completed yet, but it can function as a
primitive backup medium, without filemarks, and without bad media
handeling. This is because the OnStream device doesn't handle this
(like everybody else) in HW. It also now supports getting/setting
the record position on devices that supports it.
Some rather major cleanups and rearrangements as well (cvs -b diff
is your freind). I'm closing in on declaring this for beta code,
most of the infrastruture is in place by now.
As usual USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!, this is still alpha level code.
This driver can hose your disk real bad if anything goes wrong, but
now you have been warned :)
But please tell me how it works for you!
Enjoy!
-Søren
This whole idea isn't going to work until somebody makes the bus/kld
code smarter. The idea here is to change the module's internal name
from "foo" to "if_foo" so that ifconfig can tell a network driver from
a non-network one. However doing this doesn't work correctly no matter
how you slice it. For everything to work, you have to change the name
in both the driver_t struct and the DRIVER_MODULE() declaration. The
problems are:
- If you change the name in both places, then the kernel thinks that
the device's name is now "if_foo", so you get things like:
if_foo0: <FOO ethernet> irq foo at device foo on pcifoo
if_foo0: Ethernet address: foo:foo:foo:foo:foo:foo
This is bogus. Now the device name doesn't agree with the logical
interface name. There's no reason for this, and it violates the
principle of least astonishment.
- If you leave the name in the driver_t struct as "foo" and only
change the names in the DRIVER_MODULE() declaration to "if_foo" then
attaching drivers to child devices doesn't work because the names don't
agree. This breaks miibus: drivers that need to have miibuses and PHY
drivers attached never get them.
In other words: damned if you do, damned if you don't.
This needs to be thought through some more. Since the drivers that
use miibus are broken, I have to change these all back in order to
make them work again. Yes this will stop ifconfig from being able
to demand load driver modules. On the whole, I'd rather have that
than having the drivers not work at all.
usually cleared by a successful selection, but there is no guarantee
that a future successful selection will ever occur (e.g. empty bus).
The driver never looks at SELINGO, but the busy LED does, so this
change has the cosmetic effect of fixing the rare instance where the
busy LED was left on, confusing the user.
aic7xxx parts. This problem could result in data corruption
during periods of my PCI bus load by busmasters other than the
aic7xxx.
Many thanks to Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> for characterizing
the symptoms of this problem and testing this fix.
adjust the bp->b_bcount the same way for unlabeled VN access as dscheck
does for labeled access.
We also increase the block size to at least 8K for efficiency.
Reviewed by: Tor.Egge@fast.no
- Remove sc_get_scr_stat(). It's not necessary anymore.
- Call ttymalloc() to allocate the struct tty for each vty, rather than
statically declaring an array of struct tty. We still need a statically
allocated struct tty for the first vty which is used for the kernel
console I/O, though.
- Likewise, call ttymalloc() for /dev/sysmouse and /dev/consolectl.
- Delete unnecessary test on the pointer struct tty *tp in some functions.
- Delete unused code in scmouse.c.
WARNING: this change requires you to recompile screen savers!
1) Reworked the probe routine
2) Addition of the 574B's product ID.
3) Added useful info when booting verbosely.
Submitted by: Jason Young <doogie@anet-stl.com>
Bug fix: xmradio nolonger experiences a 6Mhz offset after running FXTV
New feature: Automatic Tuner selection for AVerMedia cards with
configuration EEPROMs on (ie the Bt878 based cards)
length for mini receive ring. The max length was MHLEN, however the mbufs
are actually shortened to MHLEN - ETHER_ALIGN to force payload alignment.
PR: 13793
size != 512 that are configured without a label. The bug should only
have effected swap-backed VN mounts without a label.
Add several major features to VN. In the kernel we add a swap
pre-reservation capability, which can be used to guarentee seek
consistency for swap-backed VN nodes. This also incidently allows
a swap-backed VN filesystem to be recovered after a crash in some
cases (if the same swap blocks happen to be reserved).
We also add a number of new options to vnconfig which do the work
of pre-zeroing or creating/truncating/extending a file which greatly
simplifies using VN in a file-backed configuration.
Add FreeBSD CVS label to sys/sys/vnioctl.h, as well as a new ioctl
flag for the swap pre-reservation feature.
Reviewed by: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>, David Greenman <dg@root.com>
warnings caused by the arg having the wrong type (not const enough).
The arg was also wrong (a full name instead of a short one) for calls
from from subr_diskmbr.c and pc98/diskslice_machdep.c.
rewrite the pccard attachment case. This is a work in progress, but
doesn't break the isa case.
I left the #if 0...#endif around the pccard stuff, at Peter's request,
so that normal users don't shoot themselves in the foot.
While I was here:
o Indent a comment to the right location
o Spell Unknown with a final 'n'.
Reviewed by: peter
I have an 82559 card with the same id as the other 8255[78] chips, but
that was made with a date code of 0699 (June 99). The submitter shows
this working with the probe etc, but doesn't actually say it works as
on the ethernet. :-) Assuming it does, this is a RELENG_3 merge candidate.
Submitted by: Steven E Lumos <slumos@sam.ISRI.UNLV.EDU>
this PHY and the Davicom DM9101 have exactly the same register definitions.
One of them is probably a clone of the other. I'm not sure which.
This is needed for the Davicom DM9102 10/100 PCI ethernet driver which
will be committed shortly.
