Yes, it's what you think it is. Yes, you should run away now.
This is a special compatibility module for allowing Windows NDIS
miniport network drivers to be used with FreeBSD/x86. This provides
_binary_ NDIS compatibility (not source): you can run NDIS driver
code, but you can't build it. There are three main parts:
sys/compat/ndis: the NDIS compat API, which provides binary
compatibility functions for many routines in NDIS.SYS, HAL.dll
and ntoskrnl.exe in Windows (these are the three modules that
most NDIS miniport drivers use). The compat module also contains
a small PE relocator/dynalinker which relocates the Windows .SYS
image and then patches in our native routines.
sys/dev/if_ndis: the if_ndis driver wrapper. This module makes
use of the ndis compat API and can be compiled with a specially
prepared binary image file (ndis_driver_data.h) containing the
Windows .SYS image and registry key information parsed out of the
accompanying .INF file. Once if_ndis.ko is built, it can be loaded
and unloaded just like a native FreeBSD kenrel module.
usr.sbin/ndiscvt: a special utility that converts foo.sys and foo.inf
into an ndis_driver_data.h file that can be compiled into if_ndis.o.
Contains an .inf file parser graciously provided by Matt Dodd (and
mercilessly hacked upon by me) that strips out device ID info and
registry key info from a .INF file and packages it up with a binary
image array. The ndiscvt(8) utility also does some manipulation of
the segments within the .sys file to make life easier for the kernel
loader. (Doing the manipulation here saves the kernel code from having
to move things around later, which would waste memory.)
ndiscvt is only built for the i386 arch. Only files.i386 has been
updated, and none of this is turned on in GENERIC. It should probably
work on pc98. I have no idea about amd64 or ia64 at this point.
This is still a work in progress. I estimate it's about %85 done, but
I want it under CVS control so I can track subsequent changes. It has
been tested with exactly three drivers: the LinkSys LNE100TX v4 driver
(Lne100v4.sys), the sample Intel 82559 driver from the Windows DDK
(e100bex.sys) and the Broadcom BCM43xx wireless driver (bcmwl5.sys). It
still needs to have a net80211 stuff added to it. To use it, you would
do something like this:
# cd /sys/modules/ndis
# make; make load
# cd /sys/modules/if_ndis
# ndiscvt -i /path/to/foo.inf -s /path/to/foo.sys -o ndis_driver_data.h
# make; make load
# sysctl -a | grep ndis
All registry keys are mapped to sysctl nodes. Sometimes drivers refer
to registry keys that aren't mentioned in foo.inf. If this happens,
the NDIS API module creates sysctl nodes for these keys on the fly so
you can tweak them.
An example usage of the Broadcom wireless driver would be:
# sysctl hw.ndis0.EnableAutoConnect=1
# sysctl hw.ndis0.SSID="MY_SSID"
# sysctl hw.ndis0.NetworkType=0 (0 for bss, 1 for adhoc)
# ifconfig ndis0 <my ipaddr> netmask 0xffffff00 up
Things to be done:
- get rid of debug messages
- add in ndis80211 support
- defer transmissions until after a status update with
NDIS_STATUS_CONNECTED occurs
- Create smarter lookaside list support
- Split off if_ndis_pci.c and if_ndis_pccard.c attachments
- Make sure PCMCIA support works
- Fix ndiscvt to properly parse PCMCIA device IDs from INF files
- write ndisapi.9 man page
with the sendsig code in the MD area. It is not safe to assume that all
the register conventions will be the same. Also, the way of producing
32 bit code (.code32 directives) in this file is amd64 specific.
The split-up code is derived from the ia64 code originally.
Note that I have only compile-tested this, not actually run-tested it.
The ia64 side of the force is missing some significant chunks of signal
delivery code.
purpose and the resulting vattr structure was ignored. In addition,
the VOP_GETATTR call was made with no vnode lock held, resulting in
vnode locking violation panic with debug kernels.
Reported by: truckman
Approved by: re@ (rwatson)
- improve sysinfo(2) syscall;
- add dummy fadvise64(2) syscall;
- add dummy *xattr(2) family of syscalls;
- add protos for the syscalls 222-225, 238-249 and 253-267;
- add exit_group(2) syscall, which is currently just wired to exit(2).
Obtained from: OpenBSD
MFC after: 2 weeks
is highly MD in an emulation environment since it operates on the host
environment. Although the setregs functions are really for exec support
rather than signals, they deal with the same sorts of context and include
files. So I put it there rather than create yet another file.
1.36 +73 -60 src/sys/compat/linux/linux_ipc.c
1.83 +102 -48 src/sys/kern/sysv_shm.c
1.8 +4 -0 src/sys/sys/syscallsubr.h
That change was intended to support vmware3, but
wantrem parameter is useless because vmware3 uses SYSV shared memory
to talk with X server and X server is native application.
The patch worked because check for wantrem was not valid
(wantrem and SHMSEG_REMOVED was never checked for SHMSEG_ALLOCATED segments).
Add kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed (integer, rw) sysctl (default 0) which when set
to 1 allows to return removed segments in
shm_find_segment_by_shmid() and shm_find_segment_by_shmidx().
MFC after: 1 week
if_xname, if_dname, and if_dunit. if_xname is the name of the interface
and if_dname/unit are the driver name and instance.
This change paves the way for interface renaming and enhanced pseudo
device creation and configuration symantics.
Approved By: re (in principle)
Reviewed By: njl, imp
Tested On: i386, amd64, sparc64
Obtained From: NetBSD (if_xname)
structures come out the right size.
Fix the ones that broke. stat32 had some missing fields from the end
and statfs32 was broken due to the strange definition of MNAMELEN
(which is dependent on sizeof(long))
I'm not sure if this fixes any actual problems or not.
- Return NULL instead of returning memory outside of the stackgap
in stackgap_alloc() (FreeBSD-SA-00:42.linux)
- Check for stackgap_alloc() returning NULL in svr4_emul_find(),
and clean_pipe().
- Avoid integer overflow on large nfds argument in svr4_sys_poll()
- Reject negative nbytes argument in svr4_sys_getdents()
- Don't copy out past the end of the struct componentname
pathname buffer in svr4_sys_resolvepath()
- Reject out-of-range signal numbers in svr4_sys_sigaction(),
svr4_sys_signal(), and svr4_sys_kill().
- Don't malloc() user-specified lengths in show_ioc() and
show_strbuf(), place arbitrary limits instead.
- Range-check lengths in si_listen(), ti_getinfo(), ti_bind(),
svr4_do_putmsg(), svr4_do_getmsg(), svr4_stream_ti_ioctl().
Some fixes obtain from OpenBSD.
- Allocate storage for uap->msg always because it is copyin()'ed in
native sendmsg().
- Convert sockopt level from Linux to FreeBSD after native recvmsg() calling.
- Some cleanups.
Tested with: Oracle 9i shared server connection mode.
MFC after: 1 week
systems where the data/stack/etc limits are too big for a 32 bit process.
Move the 5 or so identical instances of ELF_RTLD_ADDR() into imgact_elf.c.
Supply an ia32_fixlimits function. Export the clip/default values to
sysctl under the compat.ia32 heirarchy.
Have mmap(0, ...) respect the current p->p_limits[RLIMIT_DATA].rlim_max
value rather than the sysctl tweakable variable. This allows mmap to
place mappings at sensible locations when limits have been reduced.
Have the imgact_elf.c ld-elf.so.1 placement algorithm use the same
method as mmap(0, ...) now does.
Note that we cannot remove all references to the sysctl tweakable
maxdsiz etc variables because /etc/login.conf specifies a datasize
of 'unlimited'. And that causes exec etc to fail since it can no
longer find space to mmap things.
with 64-bit longs again. This was fixed in rev.1.42 but the fix
rotted non-fatally in rev.1.105 and fatally in rev.1.137.
Many more non-egregrious casts are strictly required for conversions
from semi-opaque types to pointers, but we avoid most of them by using
types that are almost certain to be compatible with uintptr_t for
representing pointers (e.g., vm_offset_t). Here we don't really want
the u_longs, but we have them because a.out.h and its support code
doesn't use typedefs (it uses unsigned in V7 and unsigned long in
FreeBSD) and is too obsolete to fix now.
from the ia32 specific stuff. Some of this still needs to move to the MI
freebsd32 area, and some needs to move to the MD area. This is still
work-in-progress.
