Remove the old USB stack and related userland, etc.

As detailed in UPDATING, users with a custom configuration file which
was derived from a *GENERIC file before we made usb4bsd default (this
happen

Remove the old USB stack and related userland, etc.

As detailed in UPDATING, users with a custom configuration file which
was derived from a *GENERIC file before we made usb4bsd default (this
happened in 3.6) might need to remove or comment out a couple of
devices which are now unknown.

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kernel: Completely remove the obsolete DEVICE_POLLING and SMP options.

DEVICE_POLLING is IFPOLL_ENABLE and SMP is the default for some time
now.

kernel: Make sysvipc syscalls non-optional.

Before this commit, we had three related kernel options, SYSVMSG,
SYSVSEM and SYSVSHM, to enable the syscalls. They were in all our
configs, but in theory

kernel: Make sysvipc syscalls non-optional.

Before this commit, we had three related kernel options, SYSVMSG,
SYSVSEM and SYSVSHM, to enable the syscalls. They were in all our
configs, but in theory the user could disable the functionality.
Having to deal with scenarios where they are not available is
unnecessarily complicated and there seems to be no real reason to
want to disable them.

For convenience, leave the three options as no-ops for now, so
adjusting the kernel config is not necessarily needed. We'll
change them to being unknown at some later point.

This commit also removes some parts which assumed that we had
sysvmsg.ko, sysvsem.ko and sysvshm.ko modules, like FreeBSD, but
this assumption was never true on DragonFly.

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kernel: Switch to mrsas(4) as the default for 'Thunderbird' series cards.

Note need for most recent 3.6 possible before updating.

Move ed(4), sr(4), and ng_sync_{ar,sr} to being i386 only.

If someone needs them on x86_64, they will first have to fix the various
int <-> pointer conversions which they warn about.

Remove ATM protocol support.

FreeBSD ditched it about 6 years ago. Also, I'm not sure if this ever
worked on x86_64.

Remove support for the IPX and NCP protocols, and for NWFS.

This was on the list for a longer time now. FreeBSD removed it
recently, too. Their commit msg has some more info:

"IPX was a network tra

Remove support for the IPX and NCP protocols, and for NWFS.

This was on the list for a longer time now. FreeBSD removed it
recently, too. Their commit msg has some more info:

"IPX was a network transport protocol in Novell's NetWare network
operating system from late 80s and then 90s. The NetWare itself
switched to TCP/IP as default transport in 1998. Later, in this
century the Novell Open Enterprise Server became successor of
Novell NetWare. The last release that claimed to still support
IPX was OES 2 in 2007. Routing equipment vendors (e.g. Cisco)
discontinued support for IPX in 2011."

The commit removes support for NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) and
NWFS (NetWare File System) along with it (both gone from FreeBSD
too since a while).

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Create and install an initial ramdisk image

* This initrd can be used to mount encrypted filesystems or as a
minimal rescue system

* Existing initrd.img files will be removed by make upgrade; the

Create and install an initial ramdisk image

* This initrd can be used to mount encrypted filesystems or as a
minimal rescue system

* Existing initrd.img files will be removed by make upgrade; the
new ramdisk images are compressed and named initrd.img.gz

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Make usb4bsd the default USB stack.

To get back to the old stack, put "WANT_OLDUSB=yes" in /etc/make.conf and
replace "device usb" with "device oldusb" in the kernel configuration.

Requested-by: di

Make usb4bsd the default USB stack.

To get back to the old stack, put "WANT_OLDUSB=yes" in /etc/make.conf and
replace "device usb" with "device oldusb" in the kernel configuration.

Requested-by: dillon, profmakx, marino etc.

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UPDATING: Don't stop shouting in the middle of the sentence.

kernel: Drop ISA support from most remaining drivers that had some.

After this commit we're only left with things like atkbd, sio, etc.
which have to stay.

Note on ABI change requiring rebuild of third-party software.

(cherry picked from commit ac04afc3258dcdbfc2072a1df56803905e8bbbad)

Add note about reboot before 'make upgrade' step.

Based on:

http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2013-September/090163.html
(cherry picked from commit 43f7fa4fcaec7f2308a0442cf485b180de7b3

Add note about reboot before 'make upgrade' step.

Based on:

http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2013-September/090163.html
(cherry picked from commit 43f7fa4fcaec7f2308a0442cf485b180de7b3c1a)

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Update UPDATING a bit.

kernel: Remove 'options COMPAT_SUNOS'.

It was supposed to provide binary compatibility with SunOS 4.x for the
sparc32 port of 4.4BSD.

kernel: Nuke ISA sound card support.

This removes the following modules:

snd_ad1816.ko
snd_ess.ko
snd_mss.ko
snd_sb8.ko
snd_sb16.ko
snd_sbc.ko

UPDATING: Adjust heading.

Promote GCC 4.7 to be the default compiler

This commit causes world and kernel to be built by GCC 4.7 if the compiler
is not specified. As a side effect, the make variable "NO_GCC47" no longer
func

Promote GCC 4.7 to be the default compiler

This commit causes world and kernel to be built by GCC 4.7 if the compiler
is not specified. As a side effect, the make variable "NO_GCC47" no longer
functions. GCC 4.7 will always be built. In addition to changing the
default of WORLD_CCVER, the CCVER variable also defaults to "gcc47" now.

The variable "NO_GCC44" has been resurrected to prevent GCC 4.4 from
being built. As noted in the UPDATING file, using this option is highly
discouraged. GCC 4.4 is very useful in building some packages in pkgsrc
that fail to build with GCC 4.7's stricter standards. The new DPorts
system is designed to use GCC 4.4 by default, regardless of the base's
default compiler setting. If at all possible, build *both* compilers
for the maximum flexibility to build packages.

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kernel/i386: With stl(4) and cy(4) made PCI only, remove COMPAT_OLDISA.

UPDATING: Note that aic(4) was deISAized (forgot to mention at the time).

cy(4): Remove ISA support.

Remove stli(4). Also remove ISA support from stl(4).

stli(4) was ISA only. stl(4) was for ISA/PCI controllers.

The stlload(8) and stlstty(8) utilities were for ISA controllers only,
so remove them

Remove stli(4). Also remove ISA support from stl(4).

stli(4) was ISA only. stl(4) was for ISA/PCI controllers.

The stlload(8) and stlstty(8) utilities were for ISA controllers only,
so remove them too (along with ISA only firmware).

While here, clean up stl(4) a bit.

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UPDATING: Mention that bt(4) is PCI only now.

UPDATING: Use release version numbers.