The code was originaly contributed by Kelly Yancey
<kbyanc@freedomnet.com> in PR i386/6269 and revised by Akio Morita
<amorita@meadow.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp> and me. Test was performed by
Akio Morita and Toshiomi Moriki <moriki@db.is.kyushu-u.ac.jp>.
- Fix stylistic bug in identcpu.c.
- Update copyright in initcpu.c
- Fix typo in LINT.
PR: 6269 and 6270
print out a one line description/dump of every SCSI CDB sent to a
particular debugging target or targets.
This is a good bit more useful than the other debugging modes, I think.
Change some things in LINT to note the availability of this new option.
Fix an erroneous argument to scsi_cdb_string() in scsi_all.c
Reviewed by: gibbs
timeouts in the SA driver (timeouts for space, rewind and erase). Folks
can lengthen the timeouts if their hardware is especially slow, or shorten
them if they want to be notified of errors a little sooner.
Also, get rid of two OD driver options. The od driver has been made
obsolete by the da driver.
Reviewed by: ken, gibbs
Submitted by: Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.ORG>
the in-kernel linker to access the _DYNAMIC data for doing loadable elf
modules. The alpha kernel is already done this way, I've borrowed some of
the hacks from there.
This is primarily aimed at the 3-stage boot process which is intended to
be able to do pre-loading of kernel modules.
Note that the entry point isn't 0xf0100000 any more, it'll be a little
further on - but this value is stored in the headers. I don't think this
will be a problem, but I'm sure somebody will tell me if it is. :-)
I'm not sure if btxboot is going to like this, it doesn't do proper ELF
header checking and assumes that there are exactly two program header
entries and that they are both PT_LOAD entries - a bad assumption.
The last consumer of this code (the old SCSI system) has left us and
the CAM code does it's own bouncing. The isa dma system has been
doing it's own bouncing for a while too.
Reviewed by: core
Now supposedly less harmful way of accessing VGA sequencer registers
is default. An alternative, often troublesome, I/O access is optional.
Discussed with: sos, jkh
on opt_global.h. This actually matters for genassym.o (it depends
on at least SMP).
Don't undefine KERNEL for compiling genassym.c. genassym.o really
depends on KERNEL, and the prototype mismatches that required
undefining KERNEL in rev.1.49 no longer exist.
Compile gensetdefs* with the same flags as genassym*. External
`gen' programs such linux_genassym should also use these flags
(${GEN_CFLAGS}).
Fixed missing dependency generation for gensetdefs.o. C sources
for external `gen' programs should be added to GEN_CFILES to get
their dependencies generated.
Cleaned up flags definitions and use. All of ${CFLAGS} is now
passed to mkdep and the assembler (both are actually variants of
${CC} and will ignore the irrelevant flags).
annoying #!CAM# indicators are used to be clear, in the expectation
that the places they show will be either fixed or diked out reasonably
quickly.
Reviewed by: ken
CAM options section.
Document that SCSI_DELAY is in milliseconds, not seconds.
Tell users that SCSI_CAM is only needed if you've got the QLogic driver in
your kernel.
Reviewed by: gibbs
Kazu writes:
The VESA support code requires vm86 support. Make sure your kernel
configuration file has the following line.
options "VM86"
If you want to statically link the VESA support code to the kernel,
add the following option to the kernel configuration file.
options "VESA"
The vidcontrol command now accepts the following video mode names:
VESA_132x25, VESA_132x43, VESA_132x50, VESA_132x60, VESA_800x600
The VESA_800x600 mode is a raster display mode. The 80x25 text will
be displayed on the 800x600 screen. Useful for some laptop computers.
vidcontrol accepts the new `-i <info>' option, where <info> must be
either `adapter' or `mode'. When the `-i adapter' option is given,
vidcontrol will print basic information (not much) on the video
adapter. When the `-i mode' option is specified, vidcontrol will
list video modes which are actually supported by the video adapter.
Submitted by: Kazutaka YOKOTA yokota@FreeBSD.ORG
===================================
HARP | Host ATM Research Platform
===================================
HARP 3
What is this stuff?
-------------------
The Advanced Networking Group (ANG) at the Minnesota Supercomputer Center,
Inc. (MSCI), as part of its work on the MAGIC Gigabit Testbed, developed
the Host ATM Research Platform (HARP) software, which allows IP hosts to
communicate over ATM networks using standard protocols. It is intended to
be a high-quality platform for IP/ATM research.
HARP provides a way for IP hosts to connect to ATM networks. It supports
standard methods of communication using IP over ATM. A host's standard IP
software sends and receives datagrams via a HARP ATM interface. HARP provides
functionality similar to (and typically replaces) vendor-provided ATM device
driver software.
HARP includes full source code, making it possible for researchers to
experiment with different approaches to running IP over ATM. HARP is
self-contained; it requires no other licenses or commercial software packages.
HARP implements support for the IETF Classical IP model for using IP over ATM
networks, including:
o IETF ATMARP address resolution client
o IETF ATMARP address resolution server
o IETF SCSP/ATMARP server
o UNI 3.1 and 3.0 signalling protocols
o Fore Systems's SPANS signalling protocol
What's supported
----------------
The following are supported by HARP 3:
o ATM Host Interfaces
- FORE Systems, Inc. SBA-200 and SBA-200E ATM SBus Adapters
- FORE Systems, Inc. PCA-200E ATM PCI Adapters
- Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM PCI Adapters
o ATM Signalling Protocols
- The ATM Forum UNI 3.1 signalling protocol
- The ATM Forum UNI 3.0 signalling protocol
- The ATM Forum ILMI address registration
- FORE Systems's proprietary SPANS signalling protocol
- Permanent Virtual Channels (PVCs)
o IETF "Classical IP and ARP over ATM" model
- RFC 1483, "Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5"
- RFC 1577, "Classical IP and ARP over ATM"
- RFC 1626, "Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5"
- RFC 1755, "ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM"
- RFC 2225, "Classical IP and ARP over ATM"
- RFC 2334, "Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP)"
- Internet Draft draft-ietf-ion-scsp-atmarp-00.txt,
"A Distributed ATMARP Service Using SCSP"
o ATM Sockets interface
- The file atm-sockets.txt contains further information
What's not supported
--------------------
The following major features of the above list are not currently supported:
o UNI point-to-multipoint support
o Driver support for Traffic Control/Quality of Service
o SPANS multicast and MPP support
o SPANS signalling using Efficient adapters
This software was developed under the sponsorship of the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Reviewed (lightly) by: phk
Submitted by: Network Computing Services, Inc.
arguments as appropriate. This is necessary because setting OBJFORMAT=aout
in the makefile doesn't get exported to the environment. I wish our
make could do that!
a kernel be built and installed at just the right time. If the system
were to be rebooted after installing the 3.0 binaries without the
new kernel, the system is hosed.
The addition of this config file reserves the name of the config file
that the upgrade procedure uses. If an upgrade is to be performed on
a 2.2.5/6/7 system system for which a GENERIC kernel is inadequate,
this config file must be replace with a suitable one before performing
the upgrade.
On systems which report 'uname -r' as 3.0-CURRENT, the kernel build
is not performed and this file is ignored.
stability now. ALso modify /sys/conf/files, /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
and /sys/i386/conf/LINT to add entries for the XL driver. Deactivate
support for the XL adapters in the vortex driver. LAstly, add a man
page.
(Also added an MLINKS entry for the ThunderLAN man page which I forgot
previously.)
- ppbus now supports PLIP via the if_plip driver
- ieee1284 infrastructure added, including parallel-port PnP
- port microsequencer added, for scripting the sort of port I/O
that is common with parallel devices without endless calls up and down
through the driver structure.
- improved bus ownership behaviour among the ppbus-using drivers.
- improved I/O chipset feature detection
The vpo driver is now implemented using the microsequencer, leading to
some performance improvements as well as providing an extensive example
of its use.
Reviewed by: msmith
Submitted by: Nicolas Souchu <Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr>
mostly for objects that have the fewest dependencies on `Makefile'
(since they were mostly for utilities and objects generated from *.s
and these don't depend on profiling flags).
Give an explicit rule for building vnode_if.o. This fixes building
it without ${PROF}.
Use .ORDER instead of a stamp file to avoid building vnode_if.[ch]
concurrently.
Removed explicit dependencies that will be generated by `make' (.c.o)
or will be generated by mkdep.
Added missing dependencies of special objects on opt_global.h.
Use ${NORMAL_C} instead of special rules for special objects where
possible.
FIxed dependencies of vers.o.
NFS_MINATTRTIMO VREG attrib cache timeout in sec
NFS_MAXATTRTIMO
NFS_MINDIRATTRTIMO VDIR attrib cache timeout in sec
NFS_MAXDIRATTRTIMO
NFS_GATHERDELAY Default write gather delay (msec)
NFS_UIDHASHSIZ Tune the size of nfssvc_sock with this
NFS_WDELAYHASHSIZ and with this
NFS_MUIDHASHSIZ Tune the size of nfsmount with this
NFS_NOSERVER (already documented in LINT)
NFS_DEBUG turn on NFS debugging
also, because NFS_ROOT is used by very different files, it has been
renamed to opt_nfsroot.h instead of the old opt_nfs.h....
end of the main options section.
Turned on documented option OVERRIDE_TUNER. LINT is primarily
for turning on options, not for documenting them.
Don't list IPFILTER twice (once as broken).
Don't generate declarations for isa interrupt handlers at all.
Isa interrupt handlers are now declared in <i386/isa/isa_device.h>
but should be converted take a `void *' arg and staticized as
soon as possible.
Updated CONFIGVERS. New configs are very incompatible with
previous versions.
so that the new behaviour is now default.
Solves the "infinite loop in diversion" problem when more than one diversion
is active.
Man page changes follow.
The new code is in -stable as the NON default option.
This code will be turned on with the TWO options
DEVFS and SLICE. (see LINT)
Two labels PRE_DEVFS_SLICE and POST_DEVFS_SLICE will deliniate these changes.
/dev will be automatically mounted by init (thanks phk)
on bootup. See /sys/dev/slice/slice.4 for more info.
All code should act the same without these options enabled.
Mike Smith, Poul Henning Kamp, Soeren, and a few dozen others
This code does not support the following:
bad144 handling.
Persistance. (My head is still hurting from the last time we discussed this)
ATAPI flopies are not handled by the SLICE code yet.
When this code is running, all major numbers are arbitrary and COULD
be dynamically assigned. (this is not done, for POLA only)
Minor numbers for disk slices ARE arbitray and dynamically assigned.
Submitted by: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>
Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> :
Revised autodetection code to correctly handle both
old and new VideoLogic Captivator PCI cards.
Added tsleep of 2 seconds to initialistion code for PAL users.
Corrected clock selection code on format change.
--- Amancio
_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING options to work. Changes:
Change all "posix4" to "p1003_1b". Misnamed files are left
as "posix4" until I'm told if I can simply delete them and add
new ones;
Add _POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING system calls for FreeBSD and Linux;
Add man pages for _POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING system calls;
Add options to LINT;
Minor fixes to P1003_1B code during testing.
Highlights:
* Simple model for underlying hardware.
* Hardware basis for timekeeping can be changed on the fly.
* Only one hardware clock responsible for TOD keeping.
* Provides a real nanotime() function.
* Time granularity: .232E-18 seconds.
* Frequency granularity: .238E-12 s/s
* Frequency adjustment is continuous in time.
* Less overhead for frequency adjustment.
* Improves xntpd performance.
Reviewed by: bde, bde, bde
Uncommented css0. It compiles OK.
Moved trix0 so that it compiles OK when uncommented. Uncommented
it. Drivers with the same interrupt handler must be together in
config files so that config(8)'s simple avoidance of redundant
declarations of interrupt handlers works (config emits a declaration
unless it would duplicate the previous one).
Commented out NO_LKM. Negative options should not be configured
in LINT. There should be no negative options for subsystems.
LKMs should never have been standard or the default.
If you want to play with it, you can find the final version of the
code in the repository the tag LFS_RETIREMENT.
If somebody makes LFS work again, adding it back is certainly
desireable, but as it is now nobody seems to care much about it,
and it has suffered considerable bitrot since its somewhat haphazard
integration.
R.I.P
This introduce an xxxFS_BOOT for each of the rootable filesystems.
(Presently not required, but encouraged to allow a smooth move of option *FS
to opt_dontuse.h later.)
LFS is temporarily disabled, and will be re-enabled tomorrow.
This is Junichi's v1.0 driver.
NOTE: Major device numbers have been changed to avoid conflict with other
FreeBSD 3.0 devices. The new numbers should be considered "official."
This driver is still considered "beta" quality, although we have been
playing with it. Please submit bugs to junichi and myself.
Submitted by: junichi@astec.co.jp
original BSD code. The association between the vnode and the vm_object
no longer includes reference counts. The major difference is that
vm_object's are no longer freed gratuitiously from the vnode, and so
once an object is created for the vnode, it will last as long as the
vnode does.
When a vnode object reference count is incremented, then the underlying
vnode reference count is incremented also. The two "objects" are now
more intimately related, and so the interactions are now much less
complex.
When vnodes are now normally placed onto the free queue with an object still
attached. The rundown of the object happens at vnode rundown time, and
happens with exactly the same filesystem semantics of the original VFS
code. There is absolutely no need for vnode_pager_uncache and other
travesties like that anymore.
A side-effect of these changes is that SMP locking should be much simpler,
the I/O copyin/copyout optimizations work, NFS should be more ponderable,
and further work on layered filesystems should be less frustrating, because
of the totally coherent management of the vnode objects and vnodes.
Please be careful with your system while running this code, but I would
greatly appreciate feedback as soon a reasonably possible.
(mutant) Crystal CSS4236 chip on the Intel PR440FX SMP motherboard.
XXX this uses some rather ugly PnP bootstrap code that is *NOT* compatable
with 'controller pnp0' or *ANY* other PnP devices. If you use some other
PnP devices, enabling css0 will burn your house down. :-] The
"simplified" PnP init sequence directly blats your config(8) settings onto
the chip. I'm pretty sure 'css0' will conflict with 'mss0', this whole
area desperately needs a cleanup.
I have been using the following with some success on the PR440FX:
controller snd0
device css0 at isa? port 0x534 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x08 vector adintr
device opl0 at isa? port 0x388
device mpu0 at isa? port 0x330 irq 10 vector mpuintr
Here are the remanding changes required to support the Ensoniq
Soundscape using FreeBSD 3.0-current.
Notes:
1) ad1848_init already has code to detect if DMA_DUPLEX should
be set so it is not necessary (and is in fact a mistake) to
hard code setting it. Not all soundcards (i.e. the current
sscape driver) are capable of using DMA_DUPLEX.
2) The other changes are hopefully self explanatory. Feel free
to let me know if you need additional information.
Submitted by: john@feith.com (John Wehle)
follow.
* Rename/reorder all of the pccard structures, change many of the member
names to be descriptive, and follow more closely other 'bus' drivers
naming schemes.
* Rename a bunch of parameter and local variable names to be more
consistant in the code.
* Renamed the PCCARD 'crd' device to be the 'card' device
* KNF and make the code consistant where it was obvious.
* ifdef'd out some unused code
i was at it, do no longer insist on `PCVT_FREEBSD' being declared in
the config file, but default it to a reasonable value.
More cleanup to follow, but this part is safe for RELENG_2_2, too.
has a PS/2 port, this is a good thing. Note, older 386/486 boxes may
lockup the keyboard controller with this enabled, but most of these kinds
of machines don't run -current, so the benefits outweigh the downsides.
Discussed with: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
- CPU_CYRIX_NO_LOCK enables weak locking. If this option is not set and
FAILESAFE is defined, NO_LOCK bit of CCR1 is cleared.
- CPU_WT_ALLOC enables write-through allocation.
of multiple PCI IDE controllers(Dyson), and some updates and cleanups from
John Hood, who originally made our IDE DMA stuff work :-).
I have run tests with 7 IDE drives connected to my system, all in DMA
mode, with no errors. Modulo any bugs, this stuff makes IDE look
really good (within it's limitations.)
Submitted by: John Hood <cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us>
internal modems. Currently detects a USR modem, and a couple Supra
modems... vendor id's for sio capabile cards welcomed...
document new option EXTRA_SIO that will increase sio's internal data
structures to support X more serial ports... these are used by the
PnP part of sio for attaching... If you don't have it specified, it
will default to 2... This is defaulted to 0 if you don't have PnP
compiled into your kernel...
also document that if you set the PnP flags (pnp x flags y) to 0x1 that
the modem will be refused to be recognized by the sio driver... this
is for people that want the traditional isa driver to probe and attach
the modem... (for keeping legacy sio numbering)
Hide the bogus FDC ``chip type'' display behind a (mostly) undocumented
option, since people started to trust the bogus claim. Once we're going
to handle 2.88 MB controllers, we have to redo the chip detection, by
now just leave it hidden.
files.i386.
We aren't sure if this new code and the old sound code will co-exist in a
kernel, so the device pcm0 line is left commented out in LINT.
Submitted-by: Luigi Rizzo
you don't want this (and the documentation explains why), but if you
use ipfw as an as-needed casual filter as needed which normally runs as
'allow all' then having the kernel and /sbin/ipfw get out of sync is a
*MAJOR* pain in the behind.
PR: 4141
Submitted by: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@mail.clinet.fi>
* lots of fixes to error handling-- mostly works now
* improve DMA timing config for Triton chipsets-- PIIX4 and UDMA drive
still untested
* generally improve DMA config in many ways-- mostly cleanup
* clean up boot-time messages
* rewrite PRD generation algorithm
* first wd timeout is now longer, to handle drive spinup
Submitted by: John Hood <cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us>
I changed a few bits here and there, mainly renaming wd82371.c
to ide_pci.c now that it's supposed to handle different chipsets.
It runs on my P6 natoma board with two Maxtor drives, and also
on a Fujitsu machine I have at work with an Opti chipset and
a Quantum drive.
Submitted by:cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us <John Hood>
Original readme:
*** WARNING ***
This code has so far been tested on exactly one motherboard with two
identical drives known for their good DMA support.
This code, in the right circumstances, could corrupt data subtly,
silently, and invisibly, in much the same way that older PCI IDE
controllers do. It's ALPHA-quality code; there's one or two major
gaps in my understanding of PCI IDE still. Don't use this code on any
system with data that you care about; it's only good for hack boxes.
Expect that any data may be silently and randomly corrupted at any
moment. It's a disk driver. It has bugs. Disk drivers with bugs
munch data. It's a fact of life.
I also *STRONGLY* recommend getting a copy of your chipset's manual
and the ATA-2 or ATA-3 spec and making sure that timing modes on your
disk drives and IDE controller are being setup correctly by the BIOS--
because the driver makes only the lamest of attempts to do this just
now.
*** END WARNING ***
that said, i happen to think the code is working pretty well...
WHAT IT DOES:
this code adds support to the wd driver for bus mastering PCI IDE
controllers that follow the SFF-8038 standard. (all the bus mastering
PCI IDE controllers i've seen so far do follow this standard.) it
should provide busmastering on nearly any current P5 or P6 chipset,
specifically including any Intel chipset using one of the PIIX south
bridges-- this includes the '430FX, '430VX, '430HX, '430TX, '440LX,
and (i think) the Orion '450GX chipsets. specific support is also
included for the VIA Apollo VP-1 chipset, as it appears in the
relabeled "HXPro" incarnation seen on cheap US$70 taiwanese
motherboards (that's what's in my development machine). it works out
of the box on controllers that do DMA mode2; if my understanding is
correct, it'll probably work on Ultra-DMA33 controllers as well.
it'll probably work on busmastering IDE controllers in PCI slots, too,
but this is an area i am less sure about.
it cuts CPU usage considerably and improves drive performance
slightly. usable numbers are difficult to come by with existing
benchmark tools, but experimentation on my K5-P90 system, with VIA
VP-1 chipset and Quantum Fireball 1080 drives, shows that disk i/o on
raw partitions imposes perhaps 5% cpu load. cpu load during
filesystem i/o drops a lot, from near 100% to anywhere between 30% and
70%. (the improvement may not be as large on an Intel chipset; from
what i can tell, the VIA VP-1 may not be very efficient with PCI I/O.)
disk performance improves by 5% or 10% with these drives.
real, visible, end-user performance improvement on a single user
machine is about nil. :) a kernel compile was sped up by a whole three
seconds. it *does* feel a bit better-behaved when the system is
swapping heavily, but a better disk driver is not the fix for *that*
problem.
THE CODE:
this code is a patch to wd.c and wd82371.c, and associated header
files. it should be considered alpha code; more work needs to be
done.
wd.c has fairly clean patches to add calls to busmaster code, as
implemented in wd82371.c and potentially elsewhere (one could imagine,
say, a Mac having a different DMA controller).
wd82371.c has been considerably reworked: the wddma interface that it
presents has been changed (expect more changes), many bugs have been
fixed, a new internal interface has been added for supporting
different chipsets, and the PCI probe has been considerably extended.
the interface between wd82371.c and wd.c is still fairly clean, but
i'm not sure it's in the right place. there's a mess of issues around
ATA/ATAPI that need to be sorted out, including ATAPI support, CD-ROM
support, tape support, LS-120/Zip support, SFF-8038i DMA, UltraDMA,
PCI IDE controllers, bus probes, buggy controllers, controller timing
setup, drive timing setup, world peace and kitchen sinks. whatever
happens with all this and however it gets partitioned, it is fairly
clear that wd.c needs some significant rework-- probably a complete
rewrite.
timing setup on disk controllers is something i've entirely punted on.
on my development machine, it appears that the BIOS does at least some
of the necessary timing setup. i chose to restrict operation to
drives that are already configured for Mode4 PIO and Mode2 multiword
DMA, since the timing is essentially the same and many if not most
chipsets use the same control registers for DMA and PIO timing.
does anybody *know* whether BIOSes are required to do timing setup for
DMA modes on drives under their care?
error recovery is probably weak. early on in development, i was
getting drive errors induced by bugs in the driver; i used these to
flush out the worst of the bugs in the driver's error handling, but
problems may remain. i haven't got a drive with bad sectors i can
watch the driver flail on.
complaints about how wd82371.c has been reindented will be ignored
until the FreeBSD project has a real style policy, there is a
mechanism for individual authors to match it (indent flags or an emacs
c-mode or whatever), and it is enforced. if i'm going to use a source
style i don't like, it would help if i could figure out what it *is*
(style(9) is about half of a policy), and a way to reasonably
duplicate it. i ended up wasting a while trying to figure out what
the right thing to do was before deciding reformatting the whole thing
was the worst possible thing to do, except for all the other
possibilities.
i have maintained wd.c's indentation; that was not too hard,
fortunately.
TO INSTALL:
my dev box is freebsd 2.2.2 release. fortunately, wd.c is a living
fossil, and has diverged very little recently. included in this
tarball is a patch file, 'otherdiffs', for all files except wd82371.c,
my edited wd82371.c, a patch file, 'wd82371.c-diff-exact', against the
2.2.2 dist of 82371.c, and another patch file,
'wd82371.c-diff-whitespace', generated with diff -b (ignore
whitespace). most of you not using 2.2.2 will probably have to use
this last patchfile with 'patch --ignore-whitespace'. apply from the
kernel source tree root. as far as i can tell, this should apply
cleanly on anything from -current back to 2.2.2 and probably back to
2.2.0. you, the kernel hacker, can figure out what to do from here.
if you need more specific directions, you probably should not be
experimenting with this code yet.
to enable DMA support, set flag 0x2000 for that drive in your config
file or in userconfig, as you would the 32-bit-PIO flag. the driver
will then turn on DMA support if your drive and controller pass its
tests. it's a bit picky, probably. on discovering DMA mode failures
or disk errors or transfers that the DMA controller can't deal with,
the driver will fall back to PIO, so it is wise to setup the flags as
if PIO were still important.
'controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 flags 0xa0ffa0ff
vector wdintr' should work with nearly any PCI IDE controller.
i would *strongly* suggest booting single-user at first, and thrashing
the drive a bit while it's still mounted read-only. this should be
fairly safe, even if the driver goes completely out to lunch. it
might save you a reinstall.
one way to tell whether the driver is really using DMA is to check the
interrupt count during disk i/o with vmstat; DMA mode will add an
extremely low number of interrupts, as compared to even multi-sector
PIO.
boot -v will give you a copious register dump of timing-related info
on Intel and VIAtech chipsets, as well as PIO/DMA mode information on
all hard drives. refer to your ATA and chipset documentation to
interpret these.
WHAT I'D LIKE FROM YOU and THINGS TO TEST:
reports. success reports, failure reports, any kind of reports. :)
send them to cgull+ide@smoke.marlboro.vt.us.
i'd also like to see the kernel messages from various BIOSes (boot -v;
dmesg), along with info on the motherboard and BIOS on that machine.
i'm especially interested in reports on how this code works on the
various Intel chipsets, and whether the register dump works
correctly. i'm also interested in hearing about other chipsets.
i'm especially interested in hearing success/failure reports for PCI
IDE controllers on cards, such as CMD's or Promise's new busmastering
IDE controllers.
UltraDMA-33 reports.
interoperation with ATAPI peripherals-- FreeBSD doesn't work with my
old Hitachi IDE CDROM, so i can't tell if I've broken anything. :)
i'd especially like to hear how the drive copes in DMA operation on
drives with bad sectors. i haven't been able to find any such yet.
success/failure reports on older IDE drives with early support for DMA
modes-- those introduced between 1.5 and 3 years ago, typically
ranging from perhaps 400MB to 1.6GB.
failure reports on operation with more than one drive would be
appreciated. the driver was developed with two drives on one
controller, the worst-case situation, and has been tested with one
drive on each controller, but you never know...
any reports of messages from the driver during normal operation,
especially "reverting to PIO mode", or "dmaverify odd vaddr or length"
(the DMA controller is strongly halfword oriented, and i'm curious to
know if any FreeBSD usage actually needs misaligned transfers).
performance reports. beware that bonnie's CPU usage reporting is
useless for IDE drives; the best test i've found has been to run a
program that runs a spin loop at an idle priority and reports how many
iterations it manages, and even that sometimes produces numbers i
don't believe. performance reports of multi-drive operation are
especially interesting; my system cannot sustain full throughput on
two drives on separate controllers, but that may just be a lame
motherboard.
THINGS I'M STILL MISSING CLUE ON:
* who's responsible for configuring DMA timing modes on IDE drives?
the BIOS or the driver?
* is there a spec for dealing with Ultra-DMA extensions?
* are there any chipsets or with bugs relating to DMA transfer that
should be blacklisted?
* are there any ATA interfaces that use some other kind of DMA
controller in conjunction with standard ATA protocol?
FINAL NOTE:
after having looked at the ATA-3 spec, all i can say is, "it's ugly".
*especially* electrically. the IDE bus is best modeled as an
unterminated transmission line, these days.
for maximum reliability, keep your IDE cables as short as possible and
as few as possible. from what i can tell, most current chipsets have
both IDE ports wired into a single buss, to a greater or lesser
degree. using two cables means you double the length of this bus.
SCSI may have its warts, but at least the basic analog design of the
bus is still somewhat reasonable. IDE passed beyond the veil two
years ago.
--John Hood, cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us
