allows the user to request administrative changes to individual devices
such as attach or detaching drivers or disabling and re-enabling devices.
- Add a new /dev/devctl2 character device which uses ioctls for device
requests. The ioctls use a common 'struct devreq' which is somewhat
similar to 'struct ifreq'.
- The ioctls identify the device to operate on via a string. This
string can either by the device's name, or it can be a bus-specific
address. (For unattached devices, a bus address is the only way to
locate a device.) Bus drivers register an eventhandler to claim
unrecognized device names that the driver recognizes as a valid address.
Two buses currently support addresses: ACPI recognizes any device
in the ACPI namespace via its full path starting with "\" and
the PCI bus driver recognizes an address specification of
'pci[<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>:<func>' (identical to the PCI selector
strings supported by pciconf).
- To make it easier to cut and paste, change the PnP location string
in the PCI bus driver to output a full PCI selector string rather
than 'slot=<slot> function=<func>'.
- Add a devctl(3) interface in libdevctl which provides a wrapper around
the ioctls and is the preferred interface for other userland code.
- Add a devctl(8) program which is a simple wrapper around the requests
supported by devctl(3).
- Add a device_is_suspended() function to check DF_SUSPENDED.
- Add a resource_unset_value() function that can be used to remove a
hint from the kernel environment. This is used to clear a
hint.<driver>.<unit>.disabled hint when re-enabling a boot-time
disabled device.
Reviewed by: imp (parts)
Requested by: imp (changing PCI location string)
Relnotes: yes
- Compatiblity with existing manpages has been improved
- Now support ".so" directive with compressed manpages (which fixes a regression
we have since we have new man(1))
This is a thin wrapper around the kernel interface which should make
it easier to write GPIO applications. gpioctl(8) will be converted to
use this library in a separate commit.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1183
Reviewed by: adrian, loos
Discussed on: arm@, embedded@
Relnotes: yes
IPX was a network transport protocol in Novell's NetWare network operating
system from late 80s and then 90s. The NetWare itself switched to TCP/IP
as default transport in 1998. Later, in this century the Novell Open
Enterprise Server became successor of Novell NetWare. The last release
that claimed to still support IPX was OES 2 in 2007. Routing equipment
vendors (e.g. Cisco) discontinued support for IPX in 2011.
Thus, IPX won't be supported in FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE.
giving access to functionality that is not available in capability mode
sandbox. The functionality can be precisely restricted.
Start with the following services:
- system.dns - provides API compatible to:
- gethostbyname(3),
- gethostbyname2(3),
- gethostbyaddr(3),
- getaddrinfo(3),
- getnameinfo(3),
- system.grp - provides getgrent(3)-compatible API,
- system.pwd - provides getpwent(3)-compatible API,
- system.random - allows to obtain entropy from /dev/random,
- system.sysctl - provides sysctlbyname(3-compatible API.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
