irongate chipset (used in the UP1000) which does not support scatter/gather
DMA. We'll still use scatter gather if the core logic chipset supports it.
Reviewed by: dfr
fields, not lex/yacc grammar so it is not an exact match but should be
close enough for most cases.
Deal with 'port?', 'irq?' style specifications. These are parsed as
seperate values in lex/yacc in config(8) but tripped up this helper tool.
deal with filename arguments. It is amazing how much you forget over time.
Thanks to the people that reminded me this. I knew there was an easy way
that didn't involve messing with $argv, filehandles, etc, but just could
not remember - all of my books are on the opposite side of the planet..
Use Warner Losh's "hint" driver to decode ascii strings to fill the
resource table at boot time.
config(8) no longer generates an ioconf.c table - ie: the configuration
no longer has to be compiled into the kernel. You can reconfigure your
isa devices with the likes of this at loader(8) time:
set hint.ed.0.port=0x320
userconfig will be rewritten to use this style interface one day and will
move to /boot/userconfig.4th or something like that.
It is still possible to statically compile in a set of hints into a kernel
if you do not wish to use loader(8). See the "hints" directive in GENERIC
as an example.
All device wiring has been moved out of config(8). There is a set of
helper scripts (see i386/conf/gethints.pl, and the same for alpha and pc98)
that extract the 'at isa? port foo irq bar' from the old files and produces
a hints file. If you install this file as /boot/device.hints (and update
/boot/defaults/loader.conf - You can do a build/install in sys/boot) then
loader will load it automatically for you. You can also compile in the
hints directly with: hints "device.hints" as well.
There are a few things that I'm not too happy with yet. Under this scheme,
things like LINT would no longer be useful as "documentation" of settings.
I have renamed this file to 'NOTES' and stored the example hints strings
in it. However... this is not something that config(8) understands, so
there is a script that extracts the build-specific data from the
documentation file (NOTES) to produce a LINT that can be config'ed and
built. A stack of man4 pages will need updating. :-/
Also, since there is no longer a difference between 'device' and
'pseudo-device' I collapsed the two together, and the resulting 'device'
takes a 'number of units' for devices that still have it statically
allocated. eg: 'device fe 4' will compile the fe driver with NFE set
to 4. You can then set hints for 4 units (0 - 3). Also note that
'device fe0' will be interpreted as "zero units of 'fe'" which would be
bad, so there is a config warning for this. This is only needed for
old drivers that still have static limits on numbers of units.
All the statically limited drivers that I could find were marked.
Please exercise EXTREME CAUTION when transitioning!
Moral support by: phk, msmith, dfr, asmodai, imp, and others
loader for alpha (Yay!) we still need to explicitly look for boot_verbose-
I assume because the boothowto flags aren't passed to us at boot like x86.
Do some minor cosmetics as well.
Only PCI and on-board ISA peripherials are supported at this time.
This support has been only lightly tested due to a lack of response to my
call for testers on the freebsd-alpha mailing list. It works quite well
on the one AS2100 on which it has been tested, but it may not work on
an AS2100A and should therefore be regarded as experimental.
to various pmap_*() functions instead of looking up the physical address
and passing that. In many cases, the first thing the pmap code was doing
was going to a lot of trouble to get back the original vm_page_t, or
it's shadow pv_table entry.
Inspired by: John Dyson's 1998 patches.
Also:
Eliminate pv_table as a seperate thing and build it into a machine
dependent part of vm_page_t. This eliminates having a seperate set of
structions that shadow each other in a 1:1 fashion that we often went to
a lot of trouble to translate from one to the other. (see above)
This happens to save 4 bytes of physical memory for each page in the
system. (8 bytes on the Alpha).
Eliminate the use of the phys_avail[] array to determine if a page is
managed (ie: it has pv_entries etc). Store this information in a flag.
Things like device_pager set it because they create vm_page_t's on the
fly that do not have pv_entries. This makes it easier to "unmanage" a
page of physical memory (this will be taken advantage of in subsequent
commits).
Add a function to add a new page to the freelist. This could be used
for reclaiming the previously wasted pages left over from preloaded
loader(8) files.
Reviewed by: dillon
of the individual drivers and into the common routine ether_input().
Also, remove the (incomplete) hack for matching ethernet headers
in the ip_fw code.
The good news: net result of 1016 lines removed, and this should make
bridging now work with *all* Ethernet drivers.
The bad news: it's nearly impossible to test every driver, especially
for bridging, and I was unable to get much testing help on the mailing
lists.
Reviewed by: freebsd-net
/dev/?random devices. This appears to have been missed when the code
was brought across from the i386. (This should fix the "world build
hangs with everything waiting on 'temp' problem.)
Also add some iovec fixup code in the error path which seems to have
been similarly fixed.
There are a number of other differences between the i386 and alpha
version which have not been examined. This code should still be
considered suspect.
the negative of their blue-box (UNIX/OVMS) counterpart. This was
causing us to panic early in the boot process because we weren't
expecting a negative index into the cpuinit[] array.
Obtained from: NetBSD
Reported by: Brett Bump <bbump@mail.enetis.net>
chipsets. An example of this is the USB controller on these chipsets.
With this, I can now use USB devices on the test Alpha I am borrowing at
the moment.
Reviewed by: dfr, obrien
