IPv4 stack.
Diffs are minimized against p4.
PCS has been used for some protocol verification, more widespread
testing of recorded sources in Group-and-Source queries is needed.
sizeof(struct igmpstat) has changed.
__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 800070.
vfsopt and the vfs_buildopts function public, and add some new fields
to struct vfsopt (pos and seen), and new functions vfs_getopt_pos and
vfs_opterror.
Further extend the interface to allow reading options from the kernel
in addition to sending them to the kernel, with vfs_setopt and related
functions.
While this allows the "name=value" option interface to be used for more
than just FS mounts (planned use is for jails), it retains the current
"vfsopt" name and <sys/mount.h> requirement.
Approved by: bz (mentor)
the example script of the manpage feeds awk(1) with values larger
than UINT32_MAX. Then awk prints a negative value, and this
messes up $BPFPROG. Trying to load the resulting bpf byte codes
with ngctl then fails.
For example, the output for PATTERN="udp and dst net 255.255.0.0/16"
should be (all in one line):
bpf_prog_len=10
bpf_prog=[
{ code=40 jt=0 jf=0 k=12 }
{ code=21 jt=7 jf=0 k=34525 }
{ code=21 jt=0 jf=6 k=2048 }
{ code=48 jt=0 jf=0 k=23 }
{ code=21 jt=0 jf=4 k=17 }
{ code=32 jt=0 jf=0 k=30 }
{ code=84 jt=0 jf=0 k=4294901760 }
{ code=21 jt=0 jf=1 k=4294901760 }
{ code=6 jt=0 jf=0 k=8192 }
{ code=6 jt=0 jf=0 k=0 }
]
The two k=4294901760 values are displayed as k=-2147483648 by awk.
Replace the awk script of the manpage example with a slower but
safer version, that doesn't really attempt to convert the byte
code printed by tcpdump from string to number and back.
PR: docs/123255
Submitted by: Eugenio Maffione, eugenio.maffione at telecomitalia.it
MFC after: 3 days
but the man page describes conceptual information about the process of
adding a user, thus it should belong to section 7.
- Remove HISTORY and BUGS sections because of the aforementioned reason.
PR: docs/130151
Submitted by: Marian Cerny <jojo@matfyz.cz>
MFC after: 3 days
the -g and -q options. They do a slightly different thing and
both are necessary when the time difference is large.
Noticed by: danger, in the forums
Approved by: roberto
MFC after: 1 week
Remove invalid return values.
Remove reference to non-existent manual pages.
Remove reference to rfork (it does not discuss RFSTOPPED).
Add sys/unistd.h to the list of includes (required for RFSTOPPED).
PR: 126227
Submitted by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> (based on, original version)
Reviewed by: jhb, Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de>
Note: this is only really necessary because of the ifconfig
logic to add/remove the jail IPs upon start/stop.
Consensus among simon and I is that the logic should
really be factored out from the startup script and put
into a proper management solution.
- We now support starting of no-IP jails.
- Remove the global jail_<jname>_netmask option as it is only
helpful to set netmasks/prefixes for the right address
family and per address.
- Implement jail_<jname>_ip options to support both
address familes with regard to ifconfig logic.
- Implement _multi<n> support suffix to the jail_<jname>_ip
option to configure additional addresses to avoid overlong,
unreadbale jail_<jname>_ip lines with lots of addresses.
Submitted by: initial work from Ruben van Staveren
Discussed on: freebsd-jail in Nov 2008.
Reviewed by: simon, ru (partial, older version)
MFC after: 1 week
it's also supported with BCM5702 (matched by BGE_ASICREV_BCM5703) but
bge(4) currently doesn't with neither BCM5714 nor BCM5780.
Prodded by: scf
MFC after: 3 days
Now the NDISulator supports NDIS USB drivers that it've tested with
devices as follows:
- Anygate XM-142 (Conexant)
- Netgear WG111v2 (Realtek)
- U-Khan UW-2054u (Marvell)
- Shuttle XPC Accessory PN20 (Realtek)
- ipTIME G054U2 (Ralink)
- UNiCORN WL-54G (ZyDAS)
- ZyXEL G-200v2 (ZyDAS)
All of them succeeded to attach and worked though there are still some
problems that it's expected to be solved.
To use NDIS USB support, you should rebuild and install ndiscvt(8) and
if you encounter a problem to attach please set `hw.ndisusb.halt' to
0 then retry.
I expect no changes of the NDIS code for PCI, PCMCIA devices.
Obtained from: //depot/projects/ndisusb/...
Note that there is no working backend (or at least
that is mentioned in the PR ticket) but the device
is now supported on our end.
PR: 117205
Submitted by: Artem Naluzhnyy <tut at nhamon dot com dot ua>
MFC after: 1 week
anything other than 0. Make it so. This fixes
"panic: VOP_STRATEGY failed bp=0xc320dd90 vp=0xc3b9f648",
encountered when writing to an orphaned filesystem. Reason
for the panic was the following assert:
KASSERT(i == 0, ("VOP_STRATEGY failed bp=%p vp=%p", bp, bp->b_vp));
at vfs_bio:bufstrategy().
Reviewed by: scottl, phk
Approved by: rwatson (mentor)
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
1. separating L2 tables (ARP, NDP) from the L3 routing tables
2. removing as much locking dependencies among these layers as
possible to allow for some parallelism in the search operations
3. simplify the logic in the routing code,
The most notable end result is the obsolescent of the route
cloning (RTF_CLONING) concept, which translated into code reduction
in both IPv4 ARP and IPv6 NDP related modules, and size reduction in
struct rtentry{}. The change in design obsoletes the semantics of
RTF_CLONING, RTF_WASCLONE and RTF_LLINFO routing flags. The userland
applications such as "arp" and "ndp" have been modified to reflect
those changes. The output from "netstat -r" shows only the routing
entries.
Quite a few developers have contributed to this project in the
past: Glebius Smirnoff, Luigi Rizzo, Alessandro Cerri, and
Andre Oppermann. And most recently:
- Kip Macy revised the locking code completely, thus completing
the last piece of the puzzle, Kip has also been conducting
active functional testing
- Sam Leffler has helped me improving/refactoring the code, and
provided valuable reviews
- Julian Elischer setup the perforce tree for me and has helped
me maintaining that branch before the svn conversion
laptops. This includes battery presence detection, charging status, current
and voltage readouts, and charge level indication. The sysctl interface
is somewhat ACPI-like.
module; the ath module now brings in the hal support. Kernel
config files are almost backwards compatible; supplying
device ath_hal
gives you the same chip support that the binary hal did but you
must also include
options AH_SUPPORT_AR5416
to enable the extended format descriptors used by 11n parts.
It is now possible to control the chip support included in a
build by specifying exactly which chips are to be supported
in the config file; consult ath_hal(4) for information.
Bring in updated jail support from bz_jail branch.
This enhances the current jail implementation to permit multiple
addresses per jail. In addtion to IPv4, IPv6 is supported as well.
Due to updated checks it is even possible to have jails without
an IP address at all, which basically gives one a chroot with
restricted process view, no networking,..
SCTP support was updated and supports IPv6 in jails as well.
Cpuset support permits jails to be bound to specific processor
sets after creation.
Jails can have an unrestricted (no duplicate protection, etc.) name
in addition to the hostname. The jail name cannot be changed from
within a jail and is considered to be used for management purposes
or as audit-token in the future.
DDB 'show jails' command was added to aid debugging.
Proper compat support permits 32bit jail binaries to be used on 64bit
systems to manage jails. Also backward compatibility was preserved where
possible: for jail v1 syscalls, as well as with user space management
utilities.
Both jail as well as prison version were updated for the new features.
A gap was intentionally left as the intermediate versions had been
used by various patches floating around the last years.
Bump __FreeBSD_version for the afore mentioned and in kernel changes.
Special thanks to:
- Pawel Jakub Dawidek (pjd) for his multi-IPv4 patches
and Olivier Houchard (cognet) for initial single-IPv6 patches.
- Jeff Roberson (jeff) and Randall Stewart (rrs) for their
help, ideas and review on cpuset and SCTP support.
- Robert Watson (rwatson) for lots and lots of help, discussions,
suggestions and review of most of the patch at various stages.
- John Baldwin (jhb) for his help.
- Simon L. Nielsen (simon) as early adopter testing changes
on cluster machines as well as all the testers and people
who provided feedback the last months on freebsd-jail and
other channels.
- My employer, CK Software GmbH, for the support so I could work on this.
Reviewed by: (see above)
MFC after: 3 months (this is just so that I get the mail)
X-MFC Before: 7.2-RELEASE if possible
in /etc/fstab. We do support passing special options on a per
filesystem type basis, like `-u UID -g GID' for mount_msdosfs, but
the syntax of these options in fstab is non-obvious and a lot of
users have asked about it.
PR: docs/128816
Submitted by: Roland Smith, rsmith at xs4all dot nl
MFC after: 2 days
src/sys/dev/usb2/core/usbdevs
src/sys/dev/usb2/include/urio2_ioctl.h
src/sys/dev/usb2/storage/ustorage2_fs.h
These files are not used any more.
src/usr.sbin/Makefile
src/etc/mtree/BSD.include.dist
src/include/Makefile
src/lib/Makefile
src/share/man/man7/hier.7
src/share/mk/bsd.libnames.mk
src/etc/mtree/BSD.include.dist
Make "usbconfig" and "libusb20" a part of the default build.
src/sys/dev/usb/rio500_usb.h
src/sys/dev/usb2/storage/urio2.c
Use common include file.
src/sys/dev/usb2/bluetooth/ng_ubt2.c
Make USB bluetooth depend on "ng_hci" module.
src/sys/dev/usb2/controller/ehci2.c
src/sys/dev/usb2/controller/ehci2.h
Patches for Marvell EHCI.
src/sys/dev/usb2/core/usb2_busdma.c
Bugfix for 64-bit platforms. Need to unload the previously loaded DMA
map and some cleanup regarding some corner cases.
src/sys/dev/usb2/core/usb2_core.h
src/sys/dev/usb2/core/usb2_dev.c
src/sys/dev/usb2/core/usb2_dev.h
Bugfix for libusb filesystem interface.
New feature: Add support for filtering device data at the expense of the
userland process.
Add some more comments.
Some minor code styling.
Remove unused function, usb2_fifo_get_data_next().
Fix an issue about "fifo_index" being used instead of "ep_index".
src/sys/dev/usb2/core/usb2_device.c
src/sys/dev/usb2/core/usb2_generic.c
Bugfix for Linux USB compat layer. Do not free non-generic FIFOs when
doing an alternate setting.
Cleanup USB IOCTL and USB reference handling.
Fix a corner case where USB-FS was left initialised after
setting a new configuration or alternate setting.
src/sys/dev/usb2/core/usb2_hub.c
Improvement: Check all USB HUB ports by default at least one time.
src/sys/dev/usb2/core/usb2_request.c
Bugfix: Make sure destination ASCII string is properly zero terminated
in all cases.
Improvement: Skip invalid characters instead of replacing with a dot.
src/sys/dev/usb2/core/usb2_util.c
src/sys/dev/usb2/image/uscanner2.c
Spelling.
src/sys/dev/usb2/include/Makefile
Share "usbdevs" with the old USB stack.
src/sys/dev/usb2/include/usb2_devid.h
src/sys/dev/usb2/include/usb2_devtable.h
Regenerate files.
Alfred: Please fix the RCS tag at the top.
src/sys/dev/usb2/include/usb2_ioctl.h
Fix compilation of "kdump".
src/sys/dev/usb2/serial/ubsa2.c
src/sys/dev/usb2/serial/ugensa2.c
Remove device ID's which will end up in a new 3G driver.
src/sys/dev/usb2/sound/uaudio2.c
Correct a debug printout.
src/sys/dev/usb2/storage/umass2.c
Sync with old USB stack.
src/lib/libusb20/libusb20.3
Add more documentation.
src/lib/libusb20/libusb20.c
Various bugfixes and improvements.
src/usr.sbin/usbconfig/dump.c
src/usr.sbin/usbconfig/usbconfig.c
New commands for dumping strings and doing custom USB requests from
the command line.
Remove keyword requirements from generated files:
"head/sys/dev/usb2/include/usb2_devid.h"
"head/sys/dev/usb2/include/usb2_devtable.h"
This bring huge amount of changes, I'll enumerate only user-visible changes:
- Delegated Administration
Allows regular users to perform ZFS operations, like file system
creation, snapshot creation, etc.
- L2ARC
Level 2 cache for ZFS - allows to use additional disks for cache.
Huge performance improvements mostly for random read of mostly
static content.
- slog
Allow to use additional disks for ZFS Intent Log to speed up
operations like fsync(2).
- vfs.zfs.super_owner
Allows regular users to perform privileged operations on files stored
on ZFS file systems owned by him. Very careful with this one.
- chflags(2)
Not all the flags are supported. This still needs work.
- ZFSBoot
Support to boot off of ZFS pool. Not finished, AFAIK.
Submitted by: dfr
- Snapshot properties
- New failure modes
Before if write requested failed, system paniced. Now one
can select from one of three failure modes:
- panic - panic on write error
- wait - wait for disk to reappear
- continue - serve read requests if possible, block write requests
- Refquota, refreservation properties
Just quota and reservation properties, but don't count space consumed
by children file systems, clones and snapshots.
- Sparse volumes
ZVOLs that don't reserve space in the pool.
- External attributes
Compatible with extattr(2).
- NFSv4-ACLs
Not sure about the status, might not be complete yet.
Submitted by: trasz
- Creation-time properties
- Regression tests for zpool(8) command.
Obtained from: OpenSolaris
with bus_dmamap_create() and not only bus_dmamem_alloc() so move
the description of this flag up accordingly in order to document
this fact. While at, it refine this description with an application
example.
- Reword the description of BUS_DMA_NOCACHE as this flag is also
implemented on sparc64.
MFC after: 1 week
Because the TTY hooks interface was not finished when I imported the
MPSAFE TTY layer, I had to disconnect the snp(4) driver. This snp(4)
implementation has been sitting in my P4 branch for some time now.
Unfortunately it still doesn't use the same error handling as snp(4)
(returning codes through FIONREAD), but it should already be usable.
I'm committing this to SVN, hoping someone else could polish off its
rough edges. It's always better than having a broken driver sitting in
the tree.
that includes significant features and SMP safety.
This commit includes a more or less complete rewrite of the *BSD USB
stack, including Host Controller and Device Controller drivers and
updating all existing USB drivers to use the new USB API:
1) A brief feature list:
- A new and mutex enabled USB API.
- Many USB drivers are now running Giant free.
- Linux USB kernel compatibility layer.
- New UGEN backend and libusb library, finally solves the "driver
unloading" problem. The new BSD licensed libusb20 library is fully
compatible with libusb-0.1.12 from sourceforge.
- New "usbconfig" utility, for easy configuration of USB.
- Full support for Split transactions, which means you can use your
full speed USB audio device on a high speed USB HUB.
- Full support for HS ISOC transactions, which makes writing drivers
for various HS webcams possible, for example.
- Full support for USB on embedded platforms, mostly cache flushing
and buffer invalidating stuff.
- Safer parsing of USB descriptors.
- Autodetect of annoying USB install disks.
- Support for USB device side mode, also called USB gadget mode,
using the same API like the USB host side. In other words the new
USB stack is symmetric with regard to host and device side.
- Support for USB transfers like I/O vectors, means more throughput
and less interrupts.
- ... see the FreeBSD quarterly status reports under "USB project"
2) To enable the driver in the default kernel build:
2.a) Remove all existing USB device options from your kernel config
file.
2.b) Add the following USB device options to your kernel configuration
file:
# USB core support
device usb2_core
# USB controller support
device usb2_controller
device usb2_controller_ehci
device usb2_controller_ohci
device usb2_controller_uhci
# USB mass storage support
device usb2_storage
device usb2_storage_mass
# USB ethernet support, requires miibus
device usb2_ethernet
device usb2_ethernet_aue
device usb2_ethernet_axe
device usb2_ethernet_cdce
device usb2_ethernet_cue
device usb2_ethernet_kue
device usb2_ethernet_rue
device usb2_ethernet_dav
# USB wireless LAN support
device usb2_wlan
device usb2_wlan_rum
device usb2_wlan_ral
device usb2_wlan_zyd
# USB serial device support
device usb2_serial
device usb2_serial_ark
device usb2_serial_bsa
device usb2_serial_bser
device usb2_serial_chcom
device usb2_serial_cycom
device usb2_serial_foma
device usb2_serial_ftdi
device usb2_serial_gensa
device usb2_serial_ipaq
device usb2_serial_lpt
device usb2_serial_mct
device usb2_serial_modem
device usb2_serial_moscom
device usb2_serial_plcom
device usb2_serial_visor
device usb2_serial_vscom
# USB bluetooth support
device usb2_bluetooth
device usb2_bluetooth_ng
# USB input device support
device usb2_input
device usb2_input_hid
device usb2_input_kbd
device usb2_input_ms
# USB sound and MIDI device support
device usb2_sound
2) To enable the driver at runtime:
2.a) Unload all existing USB modules. If USB is compiled into the
kernel then you might have to build a new kernel.
2.b) Load the "usb2_xxx.ko" modules under /boot/kernel having the same
base name like the kernel device option.
Submitted by: Hans Petter Selasky hselasky at c2i dot net
Reviewed by: imp, alfred
to add more V* constants, and the variables changed by this patch were often
being assigned to mode_t variables, which is 16 bit.
Approved by: rwatson (mentor)
Note: This entry is added as this is there was no mention of any phones
in the list. This entry might have people try the driver against their
device.
The Sony Ericsson phone provides an OBEX stack on further CDC
interfaces. Umodem wrongfully assumes that it is the driver for this
interface. This is due to a bogus implementation in the umodem driver
when searching for the data interface. This should be read from the CDC
descriptors. Also, more of this should happen in the probe instead of
attach.
MFC after: 4 weeks
- Change the ddb(4) commands to be more useful (by thompsa@):
- `show ttys' is now called `show all ttys'. This command will now
also display the address where the TTY data structure resides.
- Add `show tty <addr>', which dumps the TTY in a readable form.
- Place an upper bound on the TTY buffer sizes. Some drivers do not want
to care about baud rates. Protect these drivers by preventing the TTY
buffers from getting enormous. Right now we'll just clamp it to 64K,
which is pretty high, taking into account that these buffers are only
used by the built-in discipline.
- Only call ttydev_leave() when needed. Back in April/May the TTY
reference counting mechanism was a little different, which required us
to call ttydev_leave() each time we finished a cdev operation.
Nowadays we only need to call ttydev_leave() when we really mark it as
being closed.
- Improve return codes of read() and write() on TTY device nodes.
- Make sure we really wake up all blocked threads when the driver calls
tty_rel_gone(). There were some possible code paths where we didn't
properly wake up any readers/writers.
- Add extra assertions to prevent sleeping on a TTY that has been
abandoned by the driver.
- Use ttydev_cdevsw as a more reliable method to figure out whether a
device node is a real TTY device node.
Obtained from: //depot/projects/mpsafetty/...
Reviewed by: thompsa
This was located in the ubsa driver, but should be moved into a separate
driver:
- 3G modems provide multiple serial ports to allow AT commands while the PPP
connection is up.
- 3G modems do not provide baud rate or other serial port settings.
- Huawei cards need specific initialisation.
- ubsa is for Belkin adapters, an Linuxy choice for another device like 3G.
Speeds achieved here with a weak signal at best is ~40kb/s (UMTS). No spooky
STALLED messages as well.
Next: Move over all entries for Sierra and Novatel cards once I have found
testers, and implemented serial port enumeration for Sierra (or rather have
Andrea Guzzo do it). They list all endpoints in 1 iface instead of 4 ifaces.
Submitted by: aguzzo@anywi.com
MFC after: 3 weeks
This changes from a line discipline to the tty_hooks mechanism. Data will come
in directly via rint_bypass and sent to the peer node in a single mbuf.
As line disciplines are no longer used a new netgraph command called
NGM_TTY_SET_TTY is used to attach the tty. This takes a pointer to to the open
file descriptor of the tty and registers the tty hooks. When the tty disappears
the node will shutdown.
Thanks to: ed
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc
- Document the minor(3), major(3) and makedev(3) macro's. They also
apply to umajor() and uminor() in the kernel, but hopefully we'll sort
that out one day.
- Briefly dev2unit() inside the make_dev(9) manual page, since this is
now the preferred macro to obtain character device unit numbers inside
the kernel.
- Remove the device_ids(9) manual page. It contains highly inaccurate
information, such as a description of the nonexistent major().
To prevent any further confusion about device minor and unit numbers,
we'd better just refer to device unit numbers. Many people still think
the numbers we show inside devfs have any relation to the numbers passed
to make_dev(9), which is not the case.
Discussed with: kib
years by the priv_check(9) interface and just very few places are left.
Note that compatibility stub with older FreeBSD version
(all above the 8 limit though) are left in order to reduce diffs against
old versions. It is responsibility of the maintainers for any module, if
they think it is the case, to axe out such cases.
This patch breaks KPI so __FreeBSD_version will be bumped into a later
commit.
This patch needs to be credited 50-50 with rwatson@ as he found time to
explain me how the priv_check() works in detail and to review patches.
Tested by: Giovanni Trematerra <giovanni dot trematerra at gmail dot com>
Reviewed by: rwatson
Show the b_dep value for the buffer in the show buffer command.
Add a comand to dump the dirty/clean buffer list for vnode.
Reviewed by: tegge
Tested and used by: pho
MFC after: 1 month
As reported by several users on the mailing lists, applications like
screen(1) fail to properly handle ^S and ^Q characters. This was because
MPSAFE TTY didn't implement packet mode (TIOCPKT) yet. Add basic packet
mode support to make these applications work again.
Obtained from: //depot/projects/mpsafetty/...
o List all devices FreeBSD supports (more on the way)
o Sort the list of supported devices
o Note this was introduced with FreeBSD 7.0
o Include the FreeBSD configuration synopsis
o Bump the man page date
o Put $FreeBSD$ where all the other usb man pages have it.
And add to build.
too, so, instead of descending to the i386 directory, we add some magic to
the parent Makefile.
These man pages refer to drivers that I'm aware that work on amd64. Most
likely there are more, but I'll deal with them later.
Approved by: brueffer, philip, takawata
The last half year I've been working on a replacement TTY layer for the
FreeBSD kernel. The new TTY layer was designed to improve the following:
- Improved driver model:
The old TTY layer has a driver model that is not abstract enough to
make it friendly to use. A good example is the output path, where the
device drivers directly access the output buffers. This means that an
in-kernel PPP implementation must always convert network buffers into
TTY buffers.
If a PPP implementation would be built on top of the new TTY layer
(still needs a hooks layer, though), it would allow the PPP
implementation to directly hand the data to the TTY driver.
- Improved hotplugging:
With the old TTY layer, it isn't entirely safe to destroy TTY's from
the system. This implementation has a two-step destructing design,
where the driver first abandons the TTY. After all threads have left
the TTY, the TTY layer calls a routine in the driver, which can be
used to free resources (unit numbers, etc).
The pts(4) driver also implements this feature, which means
posix_openpt() will now return PTY's that are created on the fly.
- Improved performance:
One of the major improvements is the per-TTY mutex, which is expected
to improve scalability when compared to the old Giant locking.
Another change is the unbuffered copying to userspace, which is both
used on TTY device nodes and PTY masters.
Upgrading should be quite straightforward. Unlike previous versions,
existing kernel configuration files do not need to be changed, except
when they reference device drivers that are listed in UPDATING.
Obtained from: //depot/projects/mpsafetty/...
Approved by: philip (ex-mentor)
Discussed: on the lists, at BSDCan, at the DevSummit
Sponsored by: Snow B.V., the Netherlands
dcons(4) fixed by: kan
Now we have a single /dev/snp device node, which can be opened by
watch(8) multiple times. Even though snp(4) will be dead as of next
week, it's nice having this in SVN, because:
- We may want to MFC it to RELENG_7.
- By the time we fix snp(4) again, it's already there, existing watch(8)
binaries should already work.
Just like bpf(4), I'm adding a symlink from snp0 to snp to remain binary
compatible.
bpf(4) now uses cdevpriv to distinguish multiple file descriptors, where
it used to be implemented using device cloning. Ports like libpcap
properly detect the change in their configure scripts, but it doesn't
hurt to increase __FreeBSD_version.
While there, change the bpf(4) manual page to refer to /dev/bpf instead
of /dev/bpfN.
Requested by: mlaier
This driver supports GW3887 based chipsets and works on
x86/powerpc/sparc64. You need upgtfw kernel module before loading
upgt(4). Please see the manpage.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
features of CPUs like reading/writing machine-specific registers,
retrieving cpuid data, and updating microcode.
- Add cpucontrol(8) utility, that provides userland access to
the features of cpuctl(4).
- Add subsequent manpages.
The cpuctl(4) device operates as follows. The pseudo-device node cpuctlX
is created for each cpu present in the systems. The pseudo-device minor
number corresponds to the cpu number in the system. The cpuctl(4) pseudo-
device allows a number of ioctl to be preformed, namely RDMSR/WRMSR/CPUID
and UPDATE. The first pair alows the caller to read/write machine-specific
registers from the correspondent CPU. cpuid data could be retrieved using
the CPUID call, and microcode updates are applied via UPDATE.
The permissions are inforced based on the pseudo-device file permissions.
RDMSR/CPUID will be allowed when the caller has read access to the device
node, while WRMSR/UPDATE will be granted only when the node is opened
for writing. There're also a number of priv(9) checks.
The cpucontrol(8) utility is intened to provide userland access to
the cpuctl(4) device features. The utility also allows one to apply
cpu microcode updates.
Currently only Intel and AMD cpus are supported and were tested.
Approved by: kib
Reviewed by: rpaulo, cokane, Peter Jeremy
MFC after: 1 month
msleep/mtx_sleep or the various cv_*wait*() routines. Currently, the
"unlock" behavior of PDROP and cv_wait_unlock() with Giant is not
permitted as it is will be confusing since Giant is fully unrecursed and
unlocked during a thread sleep.
This is handy for subsystems which wish to allow unlocked drivers to
continue to use Giant such as CAM, the new TTY layer, and the new USB
stack. CAM currently uses a hack that I told Scott to use because I
really didn't want to permit this behavior, and the TTY and USB patches
both have various patches to permit this.
MFC after: 2 weeks
yank it's description; likewise for the FIRMWARE_WAIT flag to firmware_put.
For the record, the last commit was to cleanup various mistakes and correct
the example of embedding to reflect the npe firmware now being distributed
with the system.
describes the minimum versions of each feature and each chipset type
supported by this driver. Basically, unless you have a very modern
version of firmware on a Prism card, you won't be able to use these
cards for much on modern networks that have any kind of protection
enabled, except for the few WEP-only stranglers that appear at some
conferences...