stored in EEPROM or NVRAM. It's inspired by the NetBSD eeprom(8) and
the SunOS/Solaris eeprom(1M) utilities. Currently, this eeprom(8)
only supports systems equipped with Open Firmware and is only tested
on Sun machines but should work on any platform using Open Firmware.
A bit more specific, eeprom(8) can be used on these systems to do the
same under FreeBSD as can be done using the printenv and setenv
commandos in the boot monitor. One thing that only hardly can be done
using the boot monitor but easily with eeprom(8) is to write a logo
to the "oem-logo" property. eeprom(8) may also be useful to recover
the boot monitor password (in the default configuration only as root,
of course), i.e. when the boot monitor allows you to boot but you
can't alter the configuration because the password is unknown. The
man page may also be a useful reference of the various configuration
variables.
The idea of eeprom(8) is that handlers can be written to add support
for any firmware that stores such configuration in EEPROM or NVRAM;
sort of e.g. eeprom(1M) on Solaris/x86 is used to turn PAE-support
on and off (stored in a file then, not hardware). In FreeBSD, a
candidate for this would be a handler for the EFI boot environment
for FreeBSD/ia64.
eeprom(8) uses some code from NetBSD (eeprom.c and the base for
eeprom.8), the handler for the Open Firmware /options node
(ofw_options.[c,h]) was written using ofw_util.[c,h] from ofwdump(8).
Reviewed by: ru (slightly earlier version of the man page)
- Make the code use the new OFIOCMAXVALUE instead of defining the maximum
length of property values locally.
- Move the application specific parts from ofw_util.c to ofwdump.c in
order to make ofw_util.c more library-like. While ofw_dump_properties()
could be made non-specific to ofwdump(8) it's currently optimized for
use in ofwdump(8) and making it a library-like function would just
complicate the code unnecessarily.
- Minor clean-up in ofw_util.c, e.g. make its use of getopt(3) the way
it's described in style(9), make its usage() static, etc.
- Add a comment in ofw_util.c about why it doesn't call usage() when
neither the "-a" option nor a node-name where given.
- Add ofw_optnode() and ofw_setprop(), helper functions for the
OFIOCGETOPTNODE and OFIOCSET ioctls respectively, to ofw_util.[c,h].
- Be consistent with the use of 'const' in ofw_util.[c,h] and add 'const'
to the function arguments that are acutally const but weren't declared
as such.
- Mark WARNS=6 clean.
Approved by: tmm
installation as far as most people are concerned but both 'Standard' and
'Select' begin with S and 'Select' is winning. This makes it so 'Select'
is not select-able using a keystroke but that is probably for the best
and the text on the screen adequately describes how to move back and forth
between 'Select' and 'Exit'.
Adapted from work by: josef@
PR: i386/37999
MFC after: 1 week
. forward declare all static functions
. add a couple of redundant parens in return statements where they've
been missing
. remove the space after exit since it's a function
the maximum amount of time jitter for root and other users, respectively.
Before starting a job, cron(8) will sleep a random number of seconds,
from 0 to the amount specified. This can help to smooth down load spikes
when a lot of jobs are to start at the beginning of a particular minute
(e.g., the first minute of an hour.)
PR: bin/66474
Submitted by: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck <@> rinet.ru>
where the RSD PTR can actually occur. According to section 5.2.2
of the ACPI spec, we only consider two regions for the base address:
1. EBDA (0x0 - 0x3FF)
2. High memory (0xE0000 - 0xFFFFF)
I don't know whether this fixes any actual problems but is more correct.
levels by which they are used. On a typical production setting (no
debug or filter logging) this will save an open/read/close system
call sequence per packet, approximately halving the system overhead
and reducing the overall overhead by 38%.
dd bs=1k count=512 if=/usr/share/dict/web2 |
ssh ppp-linked-host dd of=/dev/null
# time original-ppp -nat -foreground connection
Working in foreground mode
Using interface: tun0
2.822u 2.404s 2:00.31 4.3% 392+496k 8+18io 3pf+0w
# time new-ppp -nat -foreground connection
Working in foreground mode
Using interface: tun0
2.082u 1.173s 1:26.06 3.7% 379+450k 0+18io 0pf+0w
MFC after: 3 weeks
- Don't look for partitions inside a FreeBSD chunk on ia64 when mounting
the filesystems just before the chroot and install.
- Write entries out to /etc/fstab for filesystems that aren't inside a
FreeBSD chunk, but are a top-level chunk under the disk.
rarpd clobbered any AF_INET information already configured for a given
interface name, so interfaces with more than one IP address made rarpd
listen only for the last address out of all IP aliases.
I changed this, so that AF_LINK information is always collected first
(to ensure the interface name gets its link-layer address associated),
but while looking for AF_INET addresses, the configuration is cloned
if there has already been one IP address seen for that interface name.
Thus, rarpd now effectively listens on all subnets.
MFC after: 1 week
o mention that the acctfile has to exist for accton to work [1]
o add reference to acct.5
PR: 65071 [1] (slightly modified)
Submitted by: Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org>
X-MFC after: re approval
