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Bjoern A. Zeeb
4b79449e2f Rather than using hidden includes (with cicular dependencies),
directly include only the header files needed. This reduces the
unneeded spamming of various headers into lots of files.

For now, this leaves us with very few modules including vnet.h
and thus needing to depend on opt_route.h.

Reviewed by:	brooks, gnn, des, zec, imp
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
2008-12-02 21:37:28 +00:00
Paul Saab
8f49dd912a Fix world by including opt_route.h 2008-12-02 04:45:33 +00:00
Sam Leffler
3364462355 Switch to ath hal source code. Note this removes the ath_hal
module; the ath module now brings in the hal support.  Kernel
config files are almost backwards compatible; supplying

device ath_hal

gives you the same chip support that the binary hal did but you
must also include

options AH_SUPPORT_AR5416

to enable the extended format descriptors used by 11n parts.
It is now possible to control the chip support included in a
build by specifying exactly which chips are to be supported
in the config file; consult ath_hal(4) for information.
2008-12-01 16:53:01 +00:00
Bjoern A. Zeeb
ac8fd4f437 make 'make universe' not complain about
In file included from /src/sys/modules/powermac_nvram/../../dev/powermac_nvram/powermac_nvram.c:38:
  @/dev/ofw/ofw_bus.h:36:24: error: ofw_bus_if.h: No such file or directory
I am not sure for how long this had not worked and if it was just the
latest vimage commit that had revealed this or if nobody had built
universe successfully in a while. Btw, the tinderbox did not complain
either so that is probably the reason noone had noticed.
2008-11-29 08:45:20 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
0cfab8ddc1 - Add support for PMCs in Intel CPUs of Family 6, model 0xE (Core Solo
and Core Duo), models 0xF (Core2), model 0x17 (Core2Extreme) and
  model 0x1C (Atom).

  In these CPUs, the actual numbers, kinds and widths of PMCs present
  need to queried at run time.  Support for specific "architectural"
  events also needs to be queried at run time.

  Model 0xE CPUs support programmable PMCs, subsequent CPUs
  additionally support "fixed-function" counters.

- Use event names that are close to vendor documentation, taking in
  account that:
  - events with identical semantics on two or more CPUs in this family
    can have differing names in vendor documentation,
  - identical vendor event names may map to differing events across
    CPUs,
  - each type of CPU supports a different subset of measurable
    events.

  Fixed-function and programmable counters both use the same vendor
  names for events.  The use of a class name prefix ("iaf-" or
  "iap-" respectively) permits these to be distinguished.

- In libpmc, refactor pmc_name_of_event() into a public interface
  and an internal helper function, for use by log handling code.

- Minor code tweaks: staticize a global, freshen a few comments.

Tested by:	gnn
2008-11-27 09:00:47 +00:00
Doug Rabson
23c107627d Fix standalone module build by generating opt_kgssapi.h.
Submitted by:	n_hibma
2008-11-25 16:11:41 +00:00
Bjoern A. Zeeb
b97cf8b6af Unbreak the build until alfred@ is back to fix it correctly.
For now disconnect the nonexistent serial_3g.
2008-11-25 09:17:01 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
6fda742dfe src/lib/libusb20/libusb20_compat01.c
Fix some issues about re-scanning of the devices.

src/lib/libusb20/libusb20_ugen20.c

Fix issue about libusb20 having to release the
USB transfers before doing a SET_CONFIG, else
the kernel will kill the file handle.

src/sys/dev/usb2/core/usb2_device.
src/sys/dev/usb2/core/usb2_generic.c
src/sys/dev/usb2/core/usb2_generic.h

Add support for U3G devices.
Improve and cleanup FIFO free handling.
Improve device re-enumeration.

src/sys/dev/usb2/core/usb2_msctest.c
src/sys/dev/usb2/core/usb2_msctest.h

Fix some problems in the USB Mass Storage Test.
Add Huawei vendor specific quirks.

src/sys/dev/usb2/core/usb2_request.c

Improve device re-enumeration.

src/sys/dev/usb2/ethernet/if_aue2.c
src/sys/dev/usb2/include/usb2_devid.h
src/sys/dev/usb2/include/usb2_devtable.h
src/sys/dev/usb2/quirk/usb2_quirk.c

Integrate changes from the old USB driver.

src/sys/dev/usb2/include/usb2_standard.h

Add definition of USB3.0 structures from USB.org.

src/sys/dev/usb2/serial/u3g2.c
src/sys/dev/usb2/serial/ugensa2.c
src/sys/modules/usb2/Makefile
src/sys/modules/usb2/serial_3g/Makefile

Import U3G driver.

Submitted by:	Hans Petter Selasky (usb4bsd)
2008-11-25 08:04:40 +00:00
Marcel Moolenaar
df1cb3b734 Include the QUICC backend in the kernel module.
PR:		127120
2008-11-22 21:24:07 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
1ba4a712dd Update ZFS from version 6 to 13 and bring some FreeBSD-specific changes.
This bring huge amount of changes, I'll enumerate only user-visible changes:

- Delegated Administration

	Allows regular users to perform ZFS operations, like file system
	creation, snapshot creation, etc.

- L2ARC

	Level 2 cache for ZFS - allows to use additional disks for cache.
	Huge performance improvements mostly for random read of mostly
	static content.

- slog

	Allow to use additional disks for ZFS Intent Log to speed up
	operations like fsync(2).

- vfs.zfs.super_owner

	Allows regular users to perform privileged operations on files stored
	on ZFS file systems owned by him. Very careful with this one.

- chflags(2)

	Not all the flags are supported. This still needs work.

- ZFSBoot

	Support to boot off of ZFS pool. Not finished, AFAIK.

	Submitted by:	dfr

- Snapshot properties

- New failure modes

	Before if write requested failed, system paniced. Now one
	can select from one of three failure modes:
	- panic - panic on write error
	- wait - wait for disk to reappear
	- continue - serve read requests if possible, block write requests

- Refquota, refreservation properties

	Just quota and reservation properties, but don't count space consumed
	by children file systems, clones and snapshots.

- Sparse volumes

	ZVOLs that don't reserve space in the pool.

- External attributes

	Compatible with extattr(2).

- NFSv4-ACLs

	Not sure about the status, might not be complete yet.

	Submitted by:	trasz

- Creation-time properties

- Regression tests for zpool(8) command.

Obtained from:	OpenSolaris
2008-11-17 20:49:29 +00:00
Paul Saab
b26f0efddd Fix world
Approved by:	kmacy
2008-11-14 01:56:11 +00:00
Bjoern A. Zeeb
f2718ae53f Add opt_inet.h which has been needed since r184718, which had
introduced checks for #ifdef INET.

MFC after:	54 days
2008-11-12 21:33:45 +00:00
Bjoern A. Zeeb
4174a06b60 Add opt_inet.h which has been needed since r184717 introducing
checks for #ifdef INET.

MFC after:	54 days
2008-11-12 21:32:49 +00:00
Bjoern A. Zeeb
710ca67300 Add opt_inet.h which has been needed since r184714, r184715 introducing
checks for #ifdef INET.

Submitted by:	kmacy (r184876, I splitted lines)
MFC after:	54 days
2008-11-12 21:30:39 +00:00
Pyun YongHyeon
3c6e15bcee Add ale(4), a driver for Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCIe ethernet
controller. The controller is also known as L1E(AR8121) and
L2E(AR8113/AR8114). Unlike its predecessor Attansic L1,
AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 uses completely different Rx logic such that
it requires separate driver. Datasheet for AR81xx is not available
to open source driver writers but it shares large part of Tx and
PHY logic of L1. I still don't understand some part of register
meaning and some MAC statistics counters but the driver seems to
have no critical issues for performance and stability.

The AR81xx requires copy operation to pass received frames to upper
stack such that ale(4) consumes a lot of CPU cycles than that of
other controller. A couple of silicon bugs also adds more CPU
cycles to address the known hardware bug. However, if you have fast
CPU you can still saturate the link.
Currently ale(4) supports the following hardware features.
  - MSI.
  - TCP Segmentation offload.
  - Hardware VLAN tag insertion/stripping with checksum offload.
  - Tx TCP/UDP checksum offload and Rx IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload.
  - Tx/Rx interrupt moderation.
  - Hardware statistics counters.
  - Jumbo frame.
  - WOL.

AR81xx PCIe ethernet controllers are mainly found on ASUS EeePC or
P5Q series of ASUS motherboards. Special thanks to Jeremy Chadwick
who sent the hardware to me. Without his donation writing a driver
for AR81xx would never have been possible. Big thanks to all people
who reported feedback or tested patches.

HW donated by:	koitsu
Tested by:	bsam, Joao Barros <joao.barros <> gmail DOT com >
		Jan Henrik Sylvester <me <> janh DOT de >
		Ivan Brawley < ivan <> brawley DOT id DOT au >,
		CURRENT ML
2008-11-12 09:52:06 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
e829eb6d61 - Separate PMC class dependent code from other kinds of machine
dependencies.  A 'struct pmc_classdep' structure describes operations
  on PMCs; 'struct pmc_mdep' contains one or more 'struct pmc_classdep'
  structures depending on the CPU in question.

  Inside PMC class dependent code, row indices are relative to the
  PMCs supported by the PMC class; MI code in "hwpmc_mod.c" translates
  global row indices before invoking class dependent operations.

- Augment the OP_GETCPUINFO request with the number of PMCs present
  in a PMC class.

- Move code common to Intel CPUs to file "hwpmc_intel.c".

- Move TSC handling to file "hwpmc_tsc.c".
2008-11-09 17:37:54 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
19aa71e559 Unbreak NFS.
Pointy hat to:	dfr
2008-11-06 10:53:35 +00:00
Craig Rodrigues
e506f34b24 Merge latest DTrace changes from Perforce.
Approved by:	jb
2008-11-05 19:40:36 +00:00
Ed Schouten
932ef5b5cd Reintroduce the snp(4) driver.
Because the TTY hooks interface was not finished when I imported the
MPSAFE TTY layer, I had to disconnect the snp(4) driver. This snp(4)
implementation has been sitting in my P4 branch for some time now.
Unfortunately it still doesn't use the same error handling as snp(4)
(returning codes through FIONREAD), but it should already be usable.

I'm committing this to SVN, hoping someone else could polish off its
rough edges. It's always better than having a broken driver sitting in
the tree.
2008-11-05 15:04:03 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
eabe30fc9c Bring in USB4BSD, Hans Petter Selasky rework of the USB stack
that includes significant features and SMP safety.

This commit includes a more or less complete rewrite of the *BSD USB
stack, including Host Controller and Device Controller drivers and
updating all existing USB drivers to use the new USB API:

1) A brief feature list:

  - A new and mutex enabled USB API.

  - Many USB drivers are now running Giant free.

  - Linux USB kernel compatibility layer.

  - New UGEN backend and libusb library, finally solves the "driver
    unloading" problem. The new BSD licensed libusb20 library is fully
    compatible with libusb-0.1.12 from sourceforge.

  - New "usbconfig" utility, for easy configuration of USB.

  - Full support for Split transactions, which means you can use your
    full speed USB audio device on a high speed USB HUB.

  - Full support for HS ISOC transactions, which makes writing drivers
    for various HS webcams possible, for example.

  - Full support for USB on embedded platforms, mostly cache flushing
    and buffer invalidating stuff.

  - Safer parsing of USB descriptors.

  - Autodetect of annoying USB install disks.

  - Support for USB device side mode, also called USB gadget mode,
    using the same API like the USB host side. In other words the new
    USB stack is symmetric with regard to host and device side.

  - Support for USB transfers like I/O vectors, means more throughput
    and less interrupts.

  - ... see the FreeBSD quarterly status reports under "USB project"

2) To enable the driver in the default kernel build:

2.a) Remove all existing USB device options from your kernel config
file.

2.b) Add the following USB device options to your kernel configuration
file:

# USB core support
device          usb2_core

# USB controller support
device		usb2_controller
device		usb2_controller_ehci
device		usb2_controller_ohci
device		usb2_controller_uhci

# USB mass storage support
device		usb2_storage
device		usb2_storage_mass

# USB ethernet support, requires miibus
device		usb2_ethernet
device		usb2_ethernet_aue
device		usb2_ethernet_axe
device		usb2_ethernet_cdce
device		usb2_ethernet_cue
device		usb2_ethernet_kue
device		usb2_ethernet_rue
device		usb2_ethernet_dav

# USB wireless LAN support
device		usb2_wlan
device		usb2_wlan_rum
device		usb2_wlan_ral
device		usb2_wlan_zyd

# USB serial device support
device		usb2_serial
device		usb2_serial_ark
device		usb2_serial_bsa
device		usb2_serial_bser
device		usb2_serial_chcom
device		usb2_serial_cycom
device		usb2_serial_foma
device		usb2_serial_ftdi
device		usb2_serial_gensa
device		usb2_serial_ipaq
device		usb2_serial_lpt
device		usb2_serial_mct
device		usb2_serial_modem
device		usb2_serial_moscom
device		usb2_serial_plcom
device		usb2_serial_visor
device		usb2_serial_vscom

# USB bluetooth support
device		usb2_bluetooth
device		usb2_bluetooth_ng

# USB input device support
device		usb2_input
device		usb2_input_hid
device		usb2_input_kbd
device		usb2_input_ms

# USB sound and MIDI device support
device		usb2_sound

2) To enable the driver at runtime:

2.a) Unload all existing USB modules. If USB is compiled into the
kernel then you might have to build a new kernel.

2.b) Load the "usb2_xxx.ko" modules under /boot/kernel having the same
base name like the kernel device option.

Submitted by: Hans Petter Selasky hselasky at c2i dot net
Reviewed by: imp, alfred
2008-11-04 02:31:03 +00:00
Doug Rabson
a9148abd9d Implement support for RPCSEC_GSS authentication to both the NFS client
and server. This replaces the RPC implementation of the NFS client and
server with the newer RPC implementation originally developed
(actually ported from the userland sunrpc code) to support the NFS
Lock Manager.  I have tested this code extensively and I believe it is
stable and that performance is at least equal to the legacy RPC
implementation.

The NFS code currently contains support for both the new RPC
implementation and the older legacy implementation inherited from the
original NFS codebase. The default is to use the new implementation -
add the NFS_LEGACYRPC option to fall back to the old code. When I
merge this support back to RELENG_7, I will probably change this so
that users have to 'opt in' to get the new code.

To use RPCSEC_GSS on either client or server, you must build a kernel
which includes the KGSSAPI option and the crypto device. On the
userland side, you must build at least a new libc, mountd, mount_nfs
and gssd. You must install new versions of /etc/rc.d/gssd and
/etc/rc.d/nfsd and add 'gssd_enable=YES' to /etc/rc.conf.

As long as gssd is running, you should be able to mount an NFS
filesystem from a server that requires RPCSEC_GSS authentication. The
mount itself can happen without any kerberos credentials but all
access to the filesystem will be denied unless the accessing user has
a valid ticket file in the standard place (/tmp/krb5cc_<uid>). There
is currently no support for situations where the ticket file is in a
different place, such as when the user logged in via SSH and has
delegated credentials from that login. This restriction is also
present in Solaris and Linux. In theory, we could improve this in
future, possibly using Brooks Davis' implementation of variant
symlinks.

Supporting RPCSEC_GSS on a server is nearly as simple. You must create
service creds for the server in the form 'nfs/<fqdn>@<REALM>' and
install them in /etc/krb5.keytab. The standard heimdal utility ktutil
makes this fairly easy. After the service creds have been created, you
can add a '-sec=krb5' option to /etc/exports and restart both mountd
and nfsd.

The only other difference an administrator should notice is that nfsd
doesn't fork to create service threads any more. In normal operation,
there will be two nfsd processes, one in userland waiting for TCP
connections and one in the kernel handling requests. The latter
process will create as many kthreads as required - these should be
visible via 'top -H'. The code has some support for varying the number
of service threads according to load but initially at least, nfsd uses
a fixed number of threads according to the value supplied to its '-n'
option.

Sponsored by:	Isilon Systems
MFC after:	1 month
2008-11-03 10:38:00 +00:00
Scott Long
9d685822a4 Add amr_cam module directory that was missed in the previous commit. 2008-11-03 04:13:27 +00:00
Scott Long
64c71632bf Move the CAM passthrough code into a true module so that it doesn't have to be
compiled into the main AMR driver.  It's code that is nice to have but not
required for normal operation, and it is reported to cause problems for some
people.
2008-11-03 00:53:54 +00:00
Warner Losh
4a8cdcaf87 Make RL_TWISTER_ENABLE a tunable/sysctl. Eliminate it as an option.
Fix module build.

Submitted by:	Kostik Belousov
2008-11-02 16:50:57 +00:00
Warner Losh
9b27478be4 Add RL_TWISTER_ENABLE option. This enables the magic bits to do long
cable tuning.  This has helped in some installations for hardware
deployed by a former employer.  Made optional because the lists aren't
full of complaints about these cards... even when they were wildly
popular.

Reviewed by:	attilio@, jhb@, trhodes@ (all an older version of the patch)
2008-10-31 23:24:13 +00:00
Robert Watson
34f6230e25 Break mac_bsdextended.c out into multiple .c files, with the base access
control logic and policy registration remaining in that file, and access
control checks broken out into other files by class of check.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
2008-10-27 12:09:15 +00:00
Nick Hibma
80ac287fe4 After adding U3G_DEBUG to LINT we need to create the opt_u3g.h file when
building the module.
2008-10-24 07:19:09 +00:00
Alexander Motin
831f5dcf12 Import sdhci (PCI SD Host Controller) driver.
Driver supports PCI devices with class 8 and subclass 5 according to
SD Host Controller Specification.

Update NOTES, enable module and static build.
Enable related mmc and mmcsd modules build.

Discussed on:   mobile@, current@
2008-10-21 20:33:40 +00:00
Nick Hibma
483b9e4739 Say hello to the u3g driver, implementing support for 3G modems.
This was located in the ubsa driver, but should be moved into a separate
driver:

- 3G modems provide multiple serial ports to allow AT commands while the PPP
  connection is up.
- 3G modems do not provide baud rate or other serial port settings.
- Huawei cards need specific initialisation.
- ubsa is for Belkin adapters, an Linuxy choice for another device like 3G.

Speeds achieved here with a weak signal at best is ~40kb/s (UMTS). No spooky
STALLED messages as well.

Next: Move over all entries for Sierra and Novatel cards once I have found
testers, and implemented serial port enumeration for Sierra (or rather have
Andrea Guzzo do it). They list all endpoints in 1 iface instead of 4 ifaces.

Submitted by:	aguzzo@anywi.com
MFC after:	3 weeks
2008-10-09 21:25:01 +00:00
Nick Hibma
84150d7fee Obfuscated by other diffs while committing r183728:
Remove the files for the HCI interfaces from the usb module.
2008-10-09 20:00:17 +00:00
Nick Hibma
5d4621f495 Add modules for the HCI part of USB. This is convenient when having a UHCI
controller in your laptop but inserting a (OHCI-based) Option Cardbus card.
2008-10-09 19:22:00 +00:00
Søren Schmidt
13014ca04a This is the roumored ATA modulerisation works, and it needs a little explanation.
If you just config KERNEL as usual there should be no apparent changes, you'll get all chipset support code compiled in.

However there is now a way to only compile in code for chipsets needed on a pr vendor basis. ATA now has the following "device" entries:

atacore:	ATA core functionality, always needed for any ATA setup

atacard:	CARDBUS support
atacbus:	PC98 cbus support
ataisa:		ISA bus support
atapci:		PCI bus support only generic chipset support.

ataahci:	AHCI support, also pulled in by some vendor modules.

ataacard, ataacerlabs, ataadaptec, ataamd, ataati, atacenatek, atacypress, atacyrix, atahighpoint, ataintel, ataite, atajmicron, atamarvell, atamicron, atanational, atanetcell, atanvidia, atapromise, ataserverworks, atasiliconimage, atasis, atavia;	Vendor support, ie atavia for VIA chipsets

atadisk:	ATA disk driver
ataraid:	ATA softraid driver

atapicd:	ATAPI cd/dvd driver
atapifd:	ATAPI floppy/flashdisk driver
atapist:	ATAPI tape driver

atausb:		ATA<>USB bridge
atapicam:	ATA<>CAM bridge

This makes it possible to config a kernel with just VIA chipset support by having the following ATA lines in the kernel config file:

device          atacore
device          atapci
device          atavia

And then you need the atadisk, atapicd etc lines in there just as usual.

If you use ATA as modules loaded at boot there is few changes except the rename of the "ata" module to "atacore", things looks just as usual.
However under atapci you now have a whole bunch of vendor specific drivers, that you can kldload individually depending on you needs. Drivers have the same names as used in the kernel config explained above.
2008-10-09 12:56:57 +00:00
Sam Leffler
77a62bf55d the 3945 firmware license does not require acknowledging the EULA,
remove the sysctl ack requirement

Pointed out by:	Joerg Sonnenberger
Reviewed by:	thompsa
Approved by:	core
2008-10-07 19:42:56 +00:00
Stanislav Sedov
ba26d470bd - Add driver for Attansic L2 FastEthernet controller found on
Asus EeePC and some Asus mainboards.

Reviewed by:	yongari, rpaulo, jhb
Tested by:	many
Approved by:	kib (mentor)
MFC after:	1 week
2008-10-03 10:31:31 +00:00
Kip Macy
a7db7fbd35 - Remove default NIC dependency on ulp headers
- make toe module build dependent on kernel support

Submitted by:	Chelsio Inc.
MFC after:	1 week
2008-09-24 01:19:08 +00:00
Kip Macy
79775f8f1b Update cxgb include paths to not require prefixing with dev/cxgb
Submitted by:	Chelsio Inc.
2008-09-23 03:16:54 +00:00
Sam Leffler
30e5495f26 add ddb support (default to off unless built with the kernel) 2008-09-15 22:46:12 +00:00
Ed Schouten
7969b32c44 Allow COMPAT_SVR4 to be built without COMPAT_43.
It seems we only depend on COMPAT_43 to implement the send() and recv()
routines. We can easily implement them using sendto() and recvfrom(),
just like we do inside our very own C library.

I wasn't able to really test it, apart from simple compilation testing.
I've heard rumours that COMPAT_SVR4 is broken inside execve() anyway.
It's still worth to fix this, because I suspect we'll get rid of
COMPAT_43 somewhere in the future...

Reviewed by:	rdivacky
Discussed with:	jhb
2008-09-15 15:09:35 +00:00
Takanori Watanabe
6ac5bf9062 Connect ufoma(4) to build and,
disable handsfree interface that is not yet ported to newtty.
2008-09-12 03:45:08 +00:00
John Baldwin
26e4688329 Resurrect the sbni(4) driver. Someone finally tested the MPSAFE patches and
the driver worked ok with them.

Tested by:	friends of yar
2008-09-10 18:36:58 +00:00
Rui Paulo
17a35b0822 Build k8temp on i386. 2008-09-09 22:32:30 +00:00
Warner Losh
9e51595ce6 Per email to arch@ a little while ago (that was greeted with silence),
prefer the more common > ${.TARGET} over > opt_foo.h in modules
makefiles.
2008-09-01 23:59:00 +00:00
Warner Losh
a423fd2c55 opt_bus.h isn't needed here anymore. It never was really needed,
since usb has no business including it like it did...
2008-08-30 16:24:01 +00:00
Warner Losh
ff54eabd8a Remove opt_wi.h from module and fix typo in pccarddevs. 2008-08-27 05:43:46 +00:00
Warner Losh
4cd8dc22eb Add uipaq. HTC smart phones use it, and it seems like a reasonable
thing to have laying around.
2008-08-24 21:27:01 +00:00
John Baldwin
aa7c1c059f Add a very simple dpms(4) driver that uses the VESA BIOS DPMS calls to
turn off the external display during suspend and restore it to its
original state on resume.

MFC after:	2 weeks
2008-08-23 21:00:40 +00:00
Robert Noland
a2a2d95441 Update drm kernel drivers.
This is a sync to mesa/drm pre-gem, with a few fixes on top of that.
It also contains one local patch supplied by kib@ that I can't apply to
git.master shared code.

Approved by:	flz
Obtained from:	mesa/drm git.master
MFC after:	2 weeks
2008-08-23 20:59:12 +00:00
Ed Schouten
bc093719ca Integrate the new MPSAFE TTY layer to the FreeBSD operating system.
The last half year I've been working on a replacement TTY layer for the
FreeBSD kernel. The new TTY layer was designed to improve the following:

- Improved driver model:

  The old TTY layer has a driver model that is not abstract enough to
  make it friendly to use. A good example is the output path, where the
  device drivers directly access the output buffers. This means that an
  in-kernel PPP implementation must always convert network buffers into
  TTY buffers.

  If a PPP implementation would be built on top of the new TTY layer
  (still needs a hooks layer, though), it would allow the PPP
  implementation to directly hand the data to the TTY driver.

- Improved hotplugging:

  With the old TTY layer, it isn't entirely safe to destroy TTY's from
  the system. This implementation has a two-step destructing design,
  where the driver first abandons the TTY. After all threads have left
  the TTY, the TTY layer calls a routine in the driver, which can be
  used to free resources (unit numbers, etc).

  The pts(4) driver also implements this feature, which means
  posix_openpt() will now return PTY's that are created on the fly.

- Improved performance:

  One of the major improvements is the per-TTY mutex, which is expected
  to improve scalability when compared to the old Giant locking.
  Another change is the unbuffered copying to userspace, which is both
  used on TTY device nodes and PTY masters.

Upgrading should be quite straightforward. Unlike previous versions,
existing kernel configuration files do not need to be changed, except
when they reference device drivers that are listed in UPDATING.

Obtained from:		//depot/projects/mpsafetty/...
Approved by:		philip (ex-mentor)
Discussed:		on the lists, at BSDCan, at the DevSummit
Sponsored by:		Snow B.V., the Netherlands
dcons(4) fixed by:	kan
2008-08-20 08:31:58 +00:00
Warner Losh
7e5dc2f88f Move wb driver from sys/pci to sys/dev/wb. 2008-08-14 21:26:29 +00:00
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5d5325f82c Move pcn driver from sys/pci to sys/dev/pcn. 2008-08-14 20:34:46 +00:00