npx is no more mandatory than sc. Its mandatoryness went away in
rev.1.226 of i386/machdep.c 9 months before it was made mandatory in
rev.1.24 of config/mkmakefile.c.
This change is mainly to test building of minimal kernel configurations.
npx should really be even more standard than clk. It was optional mainly
so that the usual device driver configuration info could be specified in
the usual way in config files, but this hasn't been necessary for a few
years.
prior ICP Vortex models. This driver was developed by Achim Leubner
of Intel (previously with ICP Vortex) and Boji Kannanthanam of Intel.
Submitted by: "Kannanthanam, Boji T" <boji.t.kannanthanam@intel.com>
MFC after: 2 weeks
Integrated RAID driver, supported by <boji.t.kannanthanam@intel.com> and
<achim.leubner@intel.com>.
Submitted by: "Kannanthanam, Boji T" <boji.t.kannanthanam@intel.com>
defined, no symbols are exported from the module. This is
the typical configuration for most device drivers and
standalone modules; only infrastructure modules or those with
special requirements typically need to export symbols.
Don't print the objcopy commands as they are run when converting
symbols; they're bulky and annoying in many cases.
simplifying the module linking process and eliminating the risks
associated with doubly-defined variables.
Cases where commons were legitimately used (detection of
compiled-in subsystems) have been converted to use sysinits, and
any new code should use this or an equivalent practice as a
matter of course.
Modules can override this behaviour by substituting -fno-common
out of ${CFLAGS} in cases where commons are necessary
(eg. third-party object modules). Commons will be resolved and
allocated space when the kld is linked as part of the module
build process, so they will not pose a risk to the kernel or
other modules.
Provide a mechanism for controlling the export of symbols from
the module namespace. The EXPORT_SYMS variable may be set in the
Makefile to NO (export no symbols), a list of symbols to export,
or the name of a file containing a newline-seperated list of
symbols to be exported. Non-exported symbols are converted to
local symbols. If EXPORT_SYMS is not set, all global symbols are
currently exported. This behaviour is expected to change (to
exporting no symbols) once modules have been converted.
Reviewed by: peter (in principle)
Obtained from: green (kmod_syms.awk)
hw.midi.debug and hw.midi.seq.debug to 1 to enable debug log.
- Make debug messages human-frendly.
- Implement /dev/music.
- Add a timer engine required by /dev/music.
- Fix nonblocking I/O.
- Fix the numbering of midi and synth devices.
Remove the explicit call to aio_proc_rundown() from exit1(), instead AIO
will use at_exit(9).
Add functions at_exec(9), rm_at_exec(9) which function nearly the
same as at_exec(9) and rm_at_exec(9), these functions are called
on behalf of modules at the time of execve(2) after the image
activator has run.
Use a modified version of tegge's suggestion via at_exec(9) to close
an exploitable race in AIO.
Fix SYSCALL_MODULE_HELPER such that it's archetecuterally neutral,
the problem was that one had to pass it a paramater indicating the
number of arguments which were actually the number of "int". Fix
it by using an inline version of the AS macro against the syscall
arguments. (AS should be available globally but we'll get to that
later.)
Add a primative system for dynamically adding kqueue ops, it's really
not as sophisticated as it should be, but I'll discuss with jlemon when
he's around.
- Temporary fix a bug of Intel ACPI CA core code.
- Add OS layer ACPI mutex support. This can be disabled by
specifying option ACPI_NO_SEMAPHORES.
- Add ACPI threading support. Now that we have a dedicate taskqueue for
ACPI tasks and more ACPI task threads can be created by specifying option
ACPI_MAX_THREADS.
- Change acpi_EvaluateIntoBuffer() behavior slightly to reuse given
caller's buffer unless AE_BUFFER_OVERFLOW occurs. Also CM battery's
evaluations were changed to use acpi_EvaluateIntoBuffer().
- Add new utility function acpi_ConvertBufferToInteger().
- Add simple locking for CM battery and temperature updating.
- Fix a minor problem on EC locking.
- Make the thermal zone polling rate to be changeable.
- Change minor things on AcpiOsSignal(); in ACPI_SIGNAL_FATAL case,
entering Debugger is easier to investigate the problem rather than panic.
Non-SMP, i386-only, no polling in the idle loop at the moment.
To use this code you must compile a kernel with
options DEVICE_POLLING
and at runtime enable polling with
sysctl kern.polling.enable=1
The percentage of CPU reserved to userland can be set with
sysctl kern.polling.user_frac=NN (default is 50)
while the remainder is used by polling device drivers and netisr's.
These are the only two variables that you should need to touch. There
are a few more parameters in kern.polling but the default values
are adequate for all purposes. See the code in kern_poll.c for
more details on them.
Polling in the idle loop will be implemented shortly by introducing
a kernel thread which does the job. Until then, the amount of CPU
dedicated to polling will never exceed (100-user_frac).
The equivalent (actually, better) code for -stable is at
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/polling/
and also supports polling in the idle loop.
NOTE to Alpha developers:
There is really nothing in this code that is i386-specific.
If you move the 2 lines supporting the new option from
sys/conf/{files,options}.i386 to sys/conf/{files,options} I am
pretty sure that this should work on the Alpha as well, just that
I do not have a suitable test box to try it. If someone feels like
trying it, I would appreciate it.
NOTE to other developers:
sure some things could be done better, and as always I am open to
constructive criticism, which a few of you have already given and
I greatly appreciated.
However, before proposing radical architectural changes, please
take some time to possibly try out this code, or at the very least
read the comments in kern_poll.c, especially re. the reason why I
am using a soft netisr and cannot (I believe) replace it with a
simple timeout.
Quick description of files touched by this commit:
sys/conf/files.i386
new file kern/kern_poll.c
sys/conf/options.i386
new option
sys/i386/i386/trap.c
poll in trap (disabled by default)
sys/kern/kern_clock.c
initialization and hardclock hooks.
sys/kern/kern_intr.c
minor swi_net changes
sys/kern/kern_poll.c
the bulk of the code.
sys/net/if.h
new flag
sys/net/if_var.h
declaration for functions used in device drivers.
sys/net/netisr.h
NETISR_POLL
sys/dev/fxp/if_fxp.c
sys/dev/fxp/if_fxpvar.h
sys/pci/if_dc.c
sys/pci/if_dcreg.h
sys/pci/if_sis.c
sys/pci/if_sisreg.h
device driver modifications
for use on machines with untrusted local users, for security as well
as stability reasons.
o Lack of clarity pointed out by: David Rufino <dr@soniq.net> via bugtraq.
Assert that compilation takes place in a freestanding environment. This
implies `-fno-builtin'. A freestanding environment is one in which the
standard library may not exist, and program startup may not necessarily be
at main. The most obvious example is an OS kernel. This is equivalent to
`-fno-hosted'.
cardbus in the kernel, not on all the bridges that implement it.
Note: this is NEWCARD only, so we don't want it for the 'card' case,
unlike card_if.m, which is both NEWCARD and OLDCARD.
