It exposes I/O resources to user space, so that programs can peek
and poke at the hardware. It does not itself have knowledge about
the hardware device it attaches to.
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
NetFPGA-10G Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.
The current version operates on a simple PIO based interface connected
to a NetFPGA-10G port.
To avoid confusion: this driver operates on a CPU running on the FPGA,
e.g. BERI/mips, and is not suited for the PCI host interface.
MFC after: 1 week
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: DARPA/AFRL
binmisc code to be build on amd64/i386 for the kernel.
Update NOTES with some indication of what this code is used for.
Pointed out by jhb@ ... thanks!
Submitted by: jhb@
execution to a emumation program via parsing of ELF header information.
With this kernel module and userland tool, poudriere is able to build
ports packages via the QEMU userland tools (or another emulator program)
in a different architecture chroot, e.g. TARGET=mips TARGET_ARCH=mips
I'm not connecting this to GENERIC for obvious reasons, but this should
allow the kernel module to be built by default and enable the building
of the userland tool (which automatically loads the kernel module).
Submitted by: sson@
Reviewed by: jhb@
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.
- Add 'hyperv' module into build;
- Allow building Hyper-V support as part of the kernel;
- Hook Hyper-V build into NOTES.
This is intended for MFC if re@ permits.
MFC after: 3 days
Update the OFED Infiniband core to the version supplied in Linux
version 3.7.
The update to OFED is nearly all additional defines and functions
with the exception of the addition of additional parameters to
ib_register_device() and the reg_user_mr callback.
In addition the ibcore (Infiniband core) and ipoib (IP over Infiniband)
have both been made into completely loadable modules to facilitate
testing of the OFED stack in FreeBSD.
Finally the Mellanox Infiniband drivers are now updated to the
latest version shipping with Linux 3.7.
Submitted by: Mellanox FreeBSD driver team:
Oded Shanoon (odeds mellanox.com),
Meny Yossefi (menyy mellanox.com),
Orit Moskovich (oritm mellanox.com)
Approved by: re
(sys/dev/iscsi_initiator/ instead of sys/dev/iscsi/initiator/), to make
room for the new one. This is also more logical location (kernel module
being named iscsi_initiator.ko, for example). There is no ongoing work
on this I know of, so it shouldn't make life harder for anyone.
There are no functional changes, apart from "svn mv" and adjusting paths.
- change the SI_SUB_RUN_SCHEDULER sysinits in hv_utilc and
hv_netvsc_drv_freebsd.c to SI_SUB_KTHREAD_IDLE, since the
former is no longer in FreeBSD.
The use of these SYSINITs can probably be removed.
* Make Yarrow an optional kernel component -- enabled by "YARROW_RNG" option.
The files sha2.c, hash.c, randomdev_soft.c and yarrow.c comprise yarrow.
* random(4) device doesn't really depend on rijndael-*. Yarrow, however, does.
* Add random_adaptors.[ch] which is basically a store of random_adaptor's.
random_adaptor is basically an adapter that plugs in to random(4).
random_adaptor can only be plugged in to random(4) very early in bootup.
Unplugging random_adaptor from random(4) is not supported, and is probably a
bad idea anyway, due to potential loss of entropy pools.
We currently have 3 random_adaptors:
+ yarrow
+ rdrand (ivy.c)
+ nehemeiah
* Remove platform dependent logic from probe.c, and move it into
corresponding registration routines of each random_adaptor provider.
probe.c doesn't do anything other than picking a specific random_adaptor
from a list of registered ones.
* If the kernel doesn't have any random_adaptor adapters present then the
creation of /dev/random is postponed until next random_adaptor is kldload'ed.
* Fix randomdev_soft.c to refer to its own random_adaptor, instead of a
system wide one.
Submitted by: arthurmesh@gmail.com, obrien
Obtained from: Juniper Networks
Reviewed by: obrien
- Reconnect with some minor modifications, in particular now selsocket()
internals are adapted to use sbintime units after recent'ish calloutng
switch.
QLogic 8300 Series Adapters
Submitted by: David C Somayajulu (davidcs@freebsd.org) QLogic Corporation
Approved by: George Neville-Neil (gnn@freebsd.org)
The NTB allows you to connect two systems with this device using a PCI-e
link. The driver is made of two modules:
- ntb_hw which is a basic hardware abstraction layer for the device.
- if_ntb which implements the ntb network device and the communication
protocol.
The driver is limited at the moment to CPU memcpy instead of using DMA, and
only Back-to-Back mode is supported. Also the network device isn't full
featured yet. These changes will be coming soon. The DMA change will also
bring in the ioat driver from the project branch it is on now.
This is an initial port of the GPL/BSD Linux driver contributed by Jon Mason
from Intel. Any bugs are my contributions.
Sponsored by: Intel
Reviewed by: jimharris, joel (man page only)
Approved by: jimharris (mentor)
The "blackhole" driver was used in conjunction with bhyve to sequester
pci devices intended for passthru until vmm.ko was loaded. This was
useful at one point because vmm.ko could not be loaded at boot time.
The same functionality can now be achieved by loading vmm.ko via the
loader along with the kernel.
Discussed with: grehan
Obtained from: NetApp
There is one known issue: Some probes will display an error message along the
lines of: "Invalid address (0)"
I tested this with both a simple dtrace probe and dtruss on a few different
binaries on 32-bit. I only compiled 64-bit, did not run it, but I don't expect
problems without the modules loaded. Volunteers are welcome.
MFC after: 1 month
GIANT from VFS. In addition, disconnect also netsmb, which is a base
requirement for SMBFS.
In the while SMBFS regular users can use FUSE interface and smbnetfs
port to work with their SMBFS partitions.
Also, there are ongoing efforts by vendor to support in-kernel smbfs,
so there are good chances that it will get relinked once properly locked.
This is not targeted for MFC.
GIANT from VFS. This code is particulary broken and fragile and other
in-kernel implementations around, found in other operating systems,
don't really seem clean and solid enough to be imported at all.
If someone wants to reconsider in-kernel NTFS implementation for
inclusion again, a fair effort for completely fixing and cleaning it
up is expected.
In the while NTFS regular users can use FUSE interface and ntfs-3g
port to work with their NTFS partitions.
This is not targeted for MFC.
GIANT from VFS. In addition, disconnect also netncp, which is a base
requirement for NWFS.
In the possibility of a future maintenance of the code and later
readd to the FreeBSD base, maybe we should think about a better location
for netncp. I'm not entirely sure the / top location is actually right,
however I will let network people to comment on that more specifically.
This is not targeted for MFC.
sdchi encapsulates a generic SD Host Controller logic that relies on
actual hardware driver for register access.
sdhci_pci implements driver for PCI SDHC controllers using new SDHCI
interface
No kernel config modifications are required, but if you load sdhc
as a module you must switch to sdhci_pci instead.
This has been developed during 2 summer of code mandates and being revived
by gnn recently.
The functionality in this commit mirrors entirely content of fusefs-kmod
port, which doesn't need to be installed anymore for -CURRENT setups.
In order to get some sparse technical notes, please refer to:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2012-March/013876.html
or to the project branch:
svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/fuse/
which also contains granular history of changes happened during port
refinements. This commit does not came from the branch reintegration
itself because it seems svn is not behaving properly for this functionaly
at the moment.
Partly Sponsored by: Google, Summer of Code program 2005, 2011
Originally submitted by: ilya, Csaba Henk <csaba-ml AT creo DOT hu >
In collabouration with: pho
Tested by: flo, gnn, Gustau Perez,
Kevin Oberman <rkoberman AT gmail DOT com>
MFC after: 2 months
