keyboard and video card drivers.
Because of the changes, you are required to update your kernel
configuration file now!
The files in sys/dev/syscons are still i386-specific (but less so than
before), and won't compile for alpha and PC98 yet.
syscons still directly accesses the video card registers here and
there; this will be rectified in the later stages.
+ ECP parallel port chipset FIFO detection
+ DMA+FIFO parallel I/O handled as chipset specific
+ nlpt updated in order to use the above enhanced parallel I/O.
Use 'lptcontrol -e' to use enhanced I/O
+ Various options documented in LINT
+ Full IEEE1284 NIBBLE and BYTE modes support. See ppbus(4) for
an overview of the IEEE1284 standard
+ Detection of PnP parallel devices at boot
+ Read capability added to nlpt driver to get IEEE1284 compliant
printer status with a simple 'cat /dev/lpt0'
+ IEEE1284 peripheral emulation added to BYTE mode. Two computers
may dialog according to IEEE1284 signaling method.
See PERIPH_1284 option and /sys/dev/ppbus/ppi.c
All this code is supposed to provide basic functions for IEEE1284 programming.
ppi.c and nlpt.c may act as examples.
It was nay'ed before committing on the grounds that this is not
the way to do it, and has been decided as such several times in
the past.
There is not point in loading gobs of ascii into the kernel when
the only use of that ascii is presentation to the user.
Next thing we'd be adding all section 4 man pages to the loaded
kernel as well.
The argument about KLD's is bogus, klds can store a file in
/usr/share/doc/sysctl/dev/foo/thisvar.txt with a description and
sysctl or other facilities can pick it up there.
Proper documentation will take several K worth of text for many
sysctl variables, we don't want that in the kernel under any
circumstances.
I will welcome any well thought out attempt at improving the
situation wrt. sysctl documentation, but this wasn't it.
than ".so". The old extension conflicted with well-established
naming conventions for dynamically loadable modules.
The "clean" targets continue to remove ".so" files too, to deal with
old systems.
was tested for month or two in production).
Noticed by: Stephen McKay
Stephen also suggested to remove the complication at all. I don't do it as
it would be backout of a large part of 1.190 (from 1998/03/16)...
on the ASIX AX88140A chip. Update /sys/conf/files, RELNOTES.TXT,
/sys/i388/i386/userconfig.c, sysinstall/devices.c, GENERIC and LINT
accordingly.
For now, the only board that I know of that uses this chip is the
Alfa Inc. GFC2204. (Its predecessor, the GFC2202, was a DEC tulip card.)
Thanks again to Ulf for obtaining the board for me. If anyone runs
across another, please feel free to update the man page and/or the
release notes. (The same applies for the other drivers.)
FreeBSD should now have support for all of the DEC tulip workalike
chipsets currently on the market (Macronix, Lite-On, Winbond, ASIX).
And unless I'm mistaken, it should also have support for all PCI fast
ethernet chipsets in general (except maybe the SMC FEAST chip, which
nobody seems to ever use, including SMC). Now if only we could convince
3Com, Intel or whoever to cough up some documentation for gigabit
ethernet hardware.
Also updated RELNOTEX.TXT to mention that the SVEC PN102TX is supported
by the Macronix driver (assuming you actually have an SVEC PN102TX with
a Macronix chip on it; I tried to order a PN102TX once and got a box
labeled 'Hawking Technology PN102TX' that had a VIA Rhine board inside
it).
devices dynamically. That means,
+ only one /dev/iic or /dev/smb device for each smb/iic bus to access
+ I2C/SMB device address must be given to any ioctl
+ new devices may be plugged and accessed after boot, which was
impossible previously (device addresses were hardcoded into
the kernel)
version and the asm version are inlined, and everything is cached,
the asm version is 1.75 times slower than the C version on P5's.
On K6's, it is only 1.25 times slower.
fixing it. See rev.1.22 of ../sound/audio.c for fixes. When both
the C version and the asm version are inlined, and everything is cached,
the asm version is 1.75 times slower than the C version on P5's. On
K6's, it is only 1.25 times slower.
versions of gcc and broken for current versions of egcs. The asm
here (for translate_bytes()) is now an interesting example of one
that needs to be volatile to work.
Fixed missing "memory" in the clobber list for translate_bytes().
Submitted by: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> but rewritten by me
versions of gcc and broken for current versions of egcs.
Cleaned up the asm statement for do_cpuid() a little.
Submitted by: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> but rewritten by me
RB_CONFIG.
Now, the code should do the right thing in the following cases, when
kernel is compiled with INTRO_USERCONFIG:
* when booted without userconfig_script and without RB_CONFIG, present
intro screen, and wait for user input.
* when booted with userconfig_script and without RB_CONFIG, DON'T present
intro screen unless explicitly asked in userconfig_script, basing on
assumption that if a user loads userconfig_script, (s)he already
decided what parameters to configure. Proceed with booting.
* when booted without userconfig_script, and with RB_CONFIG, enter
configuration utility and wait for user input.
* when booted with userconfig_script, and with RB_CONFIG, execute all
commands from userconfig_script, and DON'T leave the config utility,
but wait for user input.
And finally, regardless of the combination of the above parameters,
when intro screen is invoked either first or next times, and user
chooses to go back to CLI interface, unblock the quit command.
On a system with a large amount of ram (e.g. 2G), allocation of per-page
data structures (512K physical pages) could easily bust the initial kernel
page table (36M), and growth of kernel page table requires kptobj.
from sc, vt and sio drivers. Use instead a linker_set to collect them.
Staticize ??cngetc(), ??cnputc(), etc functions in sc and vt drivers.
We must still have siocngetc() and siocnputc() as globals because they
are directly referred to by i386-gdbstub.c :-(
Oked by: bde
already loaded and interpreted userconfig_script. Otherwise, when using
such kernel system would always block waiting for user input in UserConfig,
while the intention was to avoid this by having userconfig_script.
Reviewed by: msmith
that they might be about to blow their feet off if they have not been
reading their mail. I don't know if or how well this will work, but it's
worth a try.
downward growing stacks more general.
Add (but don't activate) code to use the new stack facility
when running threads, (specifically the linux threads support).
This allows people to use both linux compiled linuxthreads, and also the
native FreeBSD linux-threads port.
The code is conditional on VM_STACK. Not using this will
produce the old heavily tested system.
Submitted by: Richard Seaman <dick@tar.com>
list of devices which has been changed in UserConfig, without resorting
to reading /dev/kmem.
The data returned consist of series of struct isa_device and
char dev_name[8].
Ok'd by: jkh
