This kernel config briefly describes some of the major MAC policies
available on FreeBSD. The hope is that this will raise the awareness
about MAC and get more people interested.
Discussed with: scottl
archs and enable splash(4) by default (the non-working screen savers
either don't compile or just have no effect when loaded, i.e. don't
cause harm).
MFC after: 1 week
psm(4), ukbd(4), ums(4) and usb(4) on by default. Modulo some nits with
the most annoying one probably being USB keyboards no longer working at
the OFW boot prompt after halting FreeBSD these drivers work fine on
sparc64 including X and there's nothing left that I'd consider a show-
stopper. I.e. graphical consoles on sun4u machines should either work
out of the box or by plugging in a card that is supported by either
creator(4) or machfb(4). The exception obviously are SBus-only machines
without UPA slots like some Ultra 1 (but which also still lack support
in other areas) and certain Exx0 (but which probably are mainly used
with serial consoles anyway). I'll try to add a cgsix(4) for these later
as Sun CG6 cards are probably the most common SBus framebuffer cards in
sun4u machines. I however don't see much sense in adding drivers for the
dozen of SBus framebuffers that were destined for sparc v8 machines.
The rest of the USB drivers aren't enabled as I'm only aware of ukbd(4)
and ums(4) as well as ohci(4) working with the on-board ALI M5237 and
Sun PCIO-2 controllers. Aue(4) definitely doesn't work on sparc64, yet.
Thanks to:
- Jake for the initial work on syscons(4) on sparc64 and creator(4).
- Marcel for uart(4) and especially for its support for the SCCs which
are only used on sparc64 so far. In various regards it wouldn't have
been possible to enable syscons(4) by default on sparc64, yet, without
uart(4).
- All that tested patches.
Ok'ed by: scottl (RE hat), tmm
by default, yet.
- Replace "graphics cards" with "framebuffers" in the description
of creator(4) in order to make it uniform with the description of
machfb(4) and the latter occur both on-board and as add-on cards.
FreeBSD based on aue(4) it was picked by OpenBSD, then from OpenBSD ported
to NetBSD and finally NetBSD version merged with original one goes into
FreeBSD.
Obtained from: http://www.gank.org/freebsd/cdce/
NetBSD
OpenBSD
inevitable component in Sun Exx00 machines and provides serial ports,
NVRAM and TOD amongst others which are handled by uart(4) and eeprom(4)
respectively). This driver currently only prints out information about
the chassis on attach and allows to blink the 'Cycling' LED (which is
duplicated on the front panel) of the clock board just like fhc(4) does
for the other boards. The device name for the LED is /dev/led/clockboard.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
Tested by: joerg
This is mentioned in the Handbook but it is not as obvious to new
users why bpf is needed compared to the other largely self-explanatory
items in GENERIC.
PR: conf/40855
MFC after: 1 week
aid for ABI breakages caused by system call changes. These changes were
done way before sparc64 switched to a 64-bit time_t so all binaries are
expected to have been recompiled by now.
o Disable ofw_console(4), sab(4) and zs(4).
sab(4) and zs(4) are disabled because the hardware controlled by
them is handled by uart(4)+puc(4) and the latter combination is
functionally complete and up to date.
ofw_console(4) is disabled because it doesn't claim the device it
controls (through OFW) and thus interferes with puc(4)+uart(4),
which has sufficient knowledge to extract the necessary information
from OFW to setup the console. Put differently, ofw_console(4) is
not a proper device driver and can only do harm. Its functionality
is completely handled by uart(4).
This commit makes uart(4) the default driver for serial ports.
MFC after: 2 weeks
clock found on the ISA bus (some USIIe, USIIi and USIIIi models) and
EBus (USIII models) instead of a MK48Txx clock.
Testet by: Matthew T. Lager" <freebsd@trinetworks.com> on Sun Fire V100,
Xavier Beaudouin <kiwi@oav.net> on Netra X1 (initial version)
on UltraSPARC workstations. The driver is based on OpenBSD's SBus
cs4231 driver and heavily modified to incorporate into sound(4)
infrastructure. Due to the lack of APCDMA documentation, the DMA
code of SBus cs4231 came from OpenBSD's driver.
The driver runs without Giant lock and supports both SBus and EBus
based CS4231 audio controller. Special thanks to marius for providing
feedbacks during the driver writing. His feedback made it possible
to write hiccup free playback code under high system loads.
Approved by: jake (mentor)
Reviewed by: marius (initial version)
Tested by: marius, kwm, Julian C. Dunn(jdunn AT opentrend DOT net)
be used to announce various system activity.
The auxio device provides auxiliary I/O functions and is found on various
SBus/EBus UltraSPARC models. At present, only front panel LED is
controlled by this driver.
Approved by: jake (mentor)
Reviewed by: joerg
Tested by: joerg
It can be switched back once 5.3 is tested and released. Also turn on
PREEMPTION as many of the stability problems with it have been fixed.
MT5: 3 days.
compile option. All FreeBSD packet filters now use the PFIL_HOOKS API and
thus it becomes a standard part of the network stack.
If no hooks are connected the entire packet filter hooks section and related
activities are jumped over. This removes any performance impact if no hooks
are active.
Both OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD have integrated PFIL_HOOKS permanently as well.
- Add some commented out NICs from i386 GENERIC. Most of them look like they
would work but I'm not sure if they are endian-clean and can't test. There
was a report that sk(4) works on sparc64 but it doesn't look like it would
because it doesn't use busdma.
- Improve some of the descriptions of sparc64 specific devices.
There's no functional change, i.e. no added or deleted uncommented devices or
options, in this commit.
- Chase the split of pcm(4). This unbreaks LINT compiles.
- sc(4) basically works and a lot of its options should be supported.
- Add the creator and ofw_console drivers.
- vinum(4) should work, at least its module was turned on for sparc64 a while
ago.
- Don't build sio(4). Its EBus front-end was removed a while ago and the ISA
one hardly works. Use uart(4) instead, it's not perfect yet but works much
better.
their own directory and module, leaving the MD parts in the MD
area (the MD parts _are_ part of the modules). /dev/mem and /dev/io
are now loadable modules, thus taking us one step further towards
a kernel created entirely out of modules. Of course, there is nothing
preventing the kernel from having these statically compiled.
Ultra2 users may want to set OFWCONS_POLL_HZ to a value of '20'.
I have left default value at '4' as higher values can consume a more
than is acceptable amount of CPU, and we don't have a consensus yet
what is an optimal value.
Submitted by: Pyun YongHyeon <yongari@kt-is.co.kr>
"options OFW_NEWPCI").
This is a bit overdue, the new sparc64 OFW PCI code which is
meant to replace the old one is in place for 10 months and
enabled by default in GENERIC for 8 months. FreeBSD 5.2 and
5.2.1 also shipped with the new code enabled by default.
- Some minor clean-up, e.g. remove functions that encapsulated
the #ifdefs for OFW_NEWPCI, remove unused resp. no longer
required includes, etc.
Approved by: tmm, no objections on freebsd-sparc64
rl(4) driver and put it in a new re(4) driver. The re(4) driver shares
the if_rlreg.h file with rl(4) but is a separate module. (Ultimately
I may change this. For now, it's convenient.)
rl(4) has been modified so that it will never attach to an 8139C+
chip, leaving it to re(4) instead. Only re(4) has the PCI IDs to
match the 8169/8169S/8110S gigE chips. if_re.c contains the same
basic code that was originally bolted onto if_rl.c, with the
following updates:
- Added support for jumbo frames. Currently, there seems to be
a limit of approximately 6200 bytes for jumbo frames on transmit.
(This was determined via experimentation.) The 8169S/8110S chips
apparently are limited to 7.5K frames on transmit. This may require
some more work, though the framework to handle jumbo frames on RX
is in place: the re_rxeof() routine will gather up frames than span
multiple 2K clusters into a single mbuf list.
- Fixed bug in re_txeof(): if we reap some of the TX buffers,
but there are still some pending, re-arm the timer before exiting
re_txeof() so that another timeout interrupt will be generated, just
in case re_start() doesn't do it for us.
- Handle the 'link state changed' interrupt
- Fix a detach bug. If re(4) is loaded as a module, and you do
tcpdump -i re0, then you do 'kldunload if_re,' the system will
panic after a few seconds. This happens because ether_ifdetach()
ends up calling the BPF detach code, which notices the interface
is in promiscuous mode and tries to switch promisc mode off while
detaching the BPF listner. This ultimately results in a call
to re_ioctl() (due to SIOCSIFFLAGS), which in turn calls re_init()
to handle the IFF_PROMISC flag change. Unfortunately, calling re_init()
here turns the chip back on and restarts the 1-second timeout loop
that drives re_tick(). By the time the timeout fires, if_re.ko
has been unloaded, which results in a call to invalid code and
blows up the system.
To fix this, I cleared the IFF_UP flag before calling ether_ifdetach(),
which stops the ioctl routine from trying to reset the chip.
- Modified comments in re_rxeof() relating to the difference in
RX descriptor status bit layout between the 8139C+ and the gigE
chips. The layout is different because the frame length field
was expanded from 12 bits to 13, and they got rid of one of the
status bits to make room.
- Add diagnostic code (re_diag()) to test for the case where a user
has installed a broken 32-bit 8169 PCI NIC in a 64-bit slot. Some
NICs have the REQ64# and ACK64# lines connected even though the
board is 32-bit only (in this case, they should be pulled high).
This fools the chip into doing 64-bit DMA transfers even though
there is no 64-bit data path. To detect this, re_diag() puts the
chip into digital loopback mode and sets the receiver to promiscuous
mode, then initiates a single 64-byte packet transmission. The
frame is echoed back to the host, and if the frame contents are
intact, we know DMA is working correctly, otherwise we complain
loudly on the console and abort the device attach. (At the moment,
I don't know of any way to work around the problem other than
physically modifying the board, so until/unless I can think of a
software workaround, this will have do to.)
- Created re(4) man page
- Modified rlphy.c to allow re(4) to attach as well as rl(4).
Note that this code works for the sample 8169/Marvell 88E1000 NIC
that I have, but probably won't work for the 8169S/8110S chips.
RealTek has sent me some sample NICs, but they haven't arrived yet.
I will probably need to add an rlgphy driver to handle the on-board
PHY in the 8169S/8110S (it needs special DSP initialization).
that caused a 3-4 times slow down in performance.
(the primary Sparc64 developers are all using OFW_NEWPCI already, so it is
the best code path for users)
with a comment describing it's advantages and the implication of
changing it. While being there, fix a typo in NOTES.
The option is not enabled in NOTES for now since large portions of code
are conditional on it being disabled, too.
