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@
systems need fine-grained control over what's in and what's out.
That's ideal. For now, separate GPT labels from the rest and allow
g_label to be built with just GPT labels.
Obtained from: Juniper Networks, Inc.
As a prerequisite for multiple queues, the guest must have MSIX enabled.
Unfortunately, to work around device passthrough bugs, FreeBSD disables
MSIX when running as a VMWare guest due to the hw.pci.honor_msi_blacklist
tunable; this tunable must be disabled for multiple queues.
Also included is various minor changes from the projects/vmxnet branch.
MFC after: 1 month
AppleTalk was a network transport protocol for Apple Macintosh devices
in 80s and then 90s. Starting with Mac OS X in 2000 the AppleTalk was
a legacy protocol and primary networking protocol is TCP/IP. The last
Mac OS X release to support AppleTalk happened in 2009. The same year
routing equipment vendors (namely Cisco) end their support.
Thus, AppleTalk won't be supported in FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE.
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.
New ioctls VM_ISA_ASSERT_IRQ, VM_ISA_DEASSERT_IRQ and VM_ISA_PULSE_IRQ
can be used to manipulate the pic, and optionally the ioapic, pin state.
Reviewed by: jhb, neel
Approved by: neel (co-mentor)
relative to .CURDIR if not already defined. This makes the makefiles
more readable but also more re-usable and adaptable.
Obtained from: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- netmap pipes, providing bidirectional blocking I/O while moving
100+ Mpps between processes using shared memory channels
(no mistake: over one hundred million. But mind you, i said
*moving* not *processing*);
- kqueue support (BHyVe needs it);
- improved user library. Just the interface name lets you select a NIC,
host port, VALE switch port, netmap pipe, and individual queues.
The upcoming netmap-enabled libpcap will use this feature.
- optional extra buffers associated to netmap ports, for applications
that need to buffer data yet don't want to make copies.
- segmentation offloading for the VALE switch, useful between VMs.
and a number of bug fixes and performance improvements.
My colleagues Giuseppe Lettieri and Vincenzo Maffione did a substantial
amount of work on these features so we owe them a big thanks.
There are some external repositories that can be of interest:
https://code.google.com/p/netmap
our public repository for netmap/VALE code, including
linux versions and other stuff that does not belong here,
such as python bindings.
https://code.google.com/p/netmap-libpcap
a clone of the libpcap repository with netmap support.
With this any libpcap client has access to most netmap
feature with no recompilation. E.g. tcpdump can filter
packets at 10-15 Mpps.
https://code.google.com/p/netmap-ipfw
a userspace version of ipfw+dummynet which uses netmap
to send/receive packets. Speed is up in the 7-10 Mpps
range per core for simple rulesets.
Both netmap-libpcap and netmap-ipfw will be merged upstream at some
point, but while this happens it is useful to have access to them.
And yes, this code will be merged soon. It is infinitely better
than the version currently in 10 and 9.
MFC after: 3 days
Useful for so-called USB tethering.
- Imported code from OpenBSD
- Adapted code to FreeBSD
- Removed some unused functions
- Fixed some buffer encoding and decoding issues
- Optimised data transport path a bit, by sending multiple packets at a time
- Increased receive buffer to 16K
Obtained from: OpenBSD
Requested by: eadler @
MFC after: 2 weeks
Fix geom_uncompress(4) module loading. Don't link zlib.c (which is a module
itself) directly.
The built module was verified and used to read a few mkulzma(8) images on
amd64 to validate some of the informations on the manual page.
While here, don't overwrite CFLAGS.
Reviewed by: ray
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
drivers and their firmware were under active development, but those days
have passed. The firmware now exists in pre-compiled form, no longer
dependent on it's sources or on aicasm. If you wish to rebuild the
firmware from source, the glue still exists under the 'make firmware'
target in sys/modules/aic7xxx.
This also fixes the problem introduced with r257777 et al with building
kernels the old fashioned way in sys/$arch/compile/$CONFIG when the
ahc/ahd drivers were included.
modules which require this flag to compile. Use a GCC_MS_EXTENSIONS
variable, defined in kern.pre.mk, which can be used to easily supply the
flag (or not), depending on the compiler type.
MFC after: 3 days
is only to stop gcc complaining about anonymous unions, which clang does
not do. For clang 3.4 however, -fms-extensions enables the Microsoft
__wchar_t type, which clashes with our own types.h.
MFC after: 3 days
