Remove COMPAT_43TTY from stock kernel configuration files.

COMPAT_43TTY enables the sgtty interface. Even though its exposure has
only been removed in FreeBSD 8.0, it wasn't used by anything in the

Remove COMPAT_43TTY from stock kernel configuration files.

COMPAT_43TTY enables the sgtty interface. Even though its exposure has
only been removed in FreeBSD 8.0, it wasn't used by anything in the base
system in FreeBSD 5.x (possibly even 4.x?). On those releases, if your
ports/packages are less than two years old, they will prefer termios
over sgtty.

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Provide groundwork for 32-bit binary compatibility on non-x86 platforms,
for upcoming 64-bit PowerPC and MIPS support. This renames the COMPAT_IA32
option to COMPAT_FREEBSD32, removes some IA32-speci

Provide groundwork for 32-bit binary compatibility on non-x86 platforms,
for upcoming 64-bit PowerPC and MIPS support. This renames the COMPAT_IA32
option to COMPAT_FREEBSD32, removes some IA32-specific code from MI parts
of the kernel and enhances the freebsd32 compatibility code to support
big-endian platforms.

Reviewed by: kib, jhb

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Adjust style (following the already existing rules) for the newly
introduced option DEADLKRES.

Reported by: danfe, julian, avg

Add the options DEADLKRES (introducing the deadlock resolver thread) in
the 'debugging' section of any HEAD kernel and enable for the mainstream
ones, excluding the embedded architectures.
It may, of

Add the options DEADLKRES (introducing the deadlock resolver thread) in
the 'debugging' section of any HEAD kernel and enable for the mainstream
ones, excluding the embedded architectures.
It may, of course, enabled on a case-by-case basis.

Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
Requested by: emaste
Discussed with: kib

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Move the examples for the 'hints' and 'env' keywords from various GENERIC
kernel configs into NOTES.

Reviewed by: imp

Add INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE in GENERIC on all non-embedded platforms.

# This is the resolution of removing it from DEFAULTS...

MFC after: 5 days

Add vlan(4) to all GENERIC kernels.

MFC after: 1 week

Move the USB wireless drivers down into their own section next to the USB
ethernet drivers.

Submitted by: Glen Barber glen.j.barber @ gmail
MFC after: 1 month

Improve 802.11s comment.

Spotted by: dougb
MFC after: 1 day

* Completely Remove the option STOP_NMI from the kernel. This option
has proven to have a good effect when entering KDB by using a NMI,
but it completely violates all the good rules about interrupts

* Completely Remove the option STOP_NMI from the kernel. This option
has proven to have a good effect when entering KDB by using a NMI,
but it completely violates all the good rules about interrupts
disabled while holding a spinlock in other occasions. This can be the
cause of deadlocks on events where a normal IPI_STOP is expected.
* Adds an new IPI called IPI_STOP_HARD on all the supported architectures.
This IPI is responsible for sending a stop message among CPUs using a
privileged channel when disponible. In other cases it just does match a
normal IPI_STOP.
Right now the IPI_STOP_HARD functionality uses a NMI on ia32 and amd64
architectures, while on the other has a normal IPI_STOP effect. It is
responsibility of maintainers to eventually implement an hard stop
when necessary and possible.
* Use the new IPI facility in order to implement a new userend SMP kernel
function called stop_cpus_hard(). That is specular to stop_cpu() but
it does use the privileged channel for the stopping facility.
* Let KDB use the newly introduced function stop_cpus_hard() and leave
stop_cpus() for all the other cases
* Disable interrupts on CPU0 when starting the process of APs suspension.
* Style cleanup and comments adding

This patch should fix the reboot/shutdown deadlocks many users are
constantly reporting on mailing lists.

Please don't forget to update your config file with the STOP_NMI
option removal

Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: pho, bz, rink
Approved by: re (kib)

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Implementation of the upcoming Wireless Mesh standard, 802.11s, on the
net80211 wireless stack. This work is based on the March 2009 D3.0 draft
standard. This standard is expected to become final nex

Implementation of the upcoming Wireless Mesh standard, 802.11s, on the
net80211 wireless stack. This work is based on the March 2009 D3.0 draft
standard. This standard is expected to become final next year.
This includes two main net80211 modules, ieee80211_mesh.c
which deals with peer link management, link metric calculation,
routing table control and mesh configuration and ieee80211_hwmp.c
which deals with the actually routing process on the mesh network.
HWMP is the mandatory routing protocol on by the mesh standard, but
others, such as RA-OLSR, can be implemented.

Authentication and encryption are not implemented.

There are several scripts under tools/tools/net80211/scripts that can be
used to test different mesh network topologies and they also teach you
how to setup a mesh vap (for the impatient: ifconfig wlan0 create
wlandev ... wlanmode mesh).

A new build option is available: IEEE80211_SUPPORT_MESH and it's enabled
by default on GENERIC kernels for i386, amd64, sparc64 and pc98.

Drivers that support mesh networks right now are: ath, ral and mwl.

More information at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WifiMesh

Please note that this work is experimental. Also, please note that
bridging a mesh vap with another network interface is not yet supported.

Many thanks to the FreeBSD Foundation for sponsoring this project and to
Sam Leffler for his support.
Also, I would like to thank Gateworks Corporation for sending me a
Cambria board which was used during the development of this project.

Reviewed by: sam
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Obtained from: projects/mesh11s

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Enable POSIX semaphores on all non-embedded architectures by default.

More applications (including Firefox) seem to depend on this nowadays,
so not having this enabled by default is a bad idea.

Pro

Enable POSIX semaphores on all non-embedded architectures by default.

More applications (including Firefox) seem to depend on this nowadays,
so not having this enabled by default is a bad idea.

Proposed by: miwi
Patch by: Florian Smeets <flo kasimir com>
Approved by: re (kib)

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Enable PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE on i386 and amd64 by default.

In the past there have been some reports of PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE not
functioning correctly. Instead of having garbled console messages, we
should ju

Enable PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE on i386 and amd64 by default.

In the past there have been some reports of PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE not
functioning correctly. Instead of having garbled console messages, we
should just see whether the issues are still there and analyze them.

Approved by: re

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Add alc(4), a driver for Atheros AR8131/AR8132 PCIe ethernet
controller. These controllers are also known as L1C(AR8131) and
L2C(AR8132) respectively. These controllers resembles the first
generation

Add alc(4), a driver for Atheros AR8131/AR8132 PCIe ethernet
controller. These controllers are also known as L1C(AR8131) and
L2C(AR8132) respectively. These controllers resembles the first
generation controller L1 but usage of different descriptor format
and new register mappings over L1 register space requires a new
driver. There are a couple of registers I still don't understand
but the driver seems to have no critical issues for performance and
stability. Currently alc(4) supports the following hardware
features.
o MSI
o TCP Segmentation offload
o Hardware VLAN tag insertion/stripping
o Tx/Rx interrupt moderation
o Hardware statistics counters(dev.alc.%d.stats)
o Jumbo frame
o WOL
AR8131/AR8132 also supports Tx checksum offloading but I disabled
it due to stability issues. I'm not sure this comes from broken
sample boards or hardware bugs. If you know your controller works
without problems you can still enable it. The controller has a
silicon bug for Rx checksum offloading, so the feature was not
implemented.
I'd like to say big thanks to Atheros. Atheros kindly sent sample
boards to me and answered several questions I had.

HW donated by: Atheros Communications, Inc.

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opt in to flowtable on i386/amd64

Remove MAC kernel config files and add "options MAC" to GENERIC, with the
goal of shipping 8.0 with MAC support in the default kernel. No policies
will be compiled in or enabled by default, but it w

Remove MAC kernel config files and add "options MAC" to GENERIC, with the
goal of shipping 8.0 with MAC support in the default kernel. No policies
will be compiled in or enabled by default, but it will now be possible to
load them at boot or runtime without a kernel recompile.

While the framework is not believed to impose measurable overhead when no
policies are loaded (a result of optimization over the past few months in
HEAD), we'll continue to benchmark and optimize as the release approaches.
Please keep an eye out for performance or functionality regressions that
could be a result of this change.

Approved by: re (kensmith)
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project

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- Use "device\t" and "options \t" for consistency.

o add uath
o sort usb wireless drivers

Add ixgbe to the GENERIC amd64 kernel in place of the
older ixgb driver. I will add to other architectures
after this one proves trouble free.

MFC after: 2 weeks

Remove the uscanner(4) driver, this follows the removal of the kernel scanner
driver in Linux 2.6. uscanner was just a simple wrapper around a fifo and
contained no logic, the default interface is no

Remove the uscanner(4) driver, this follows the removal of the kernel scanner
driver in Linux 2.6. uscanner was just a simple wrapper around a fifo and
contained no logic, the default interface is now libusb (supported by sane).

Reviewed by: HPS

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Change over the usb kernel options to the new stack (retaining existing
naming). The old usb stack can be compiled in my prefixing the name with 'o'.

Add uslcom to the build too.

Reminded by: Michael Butler

Switch over GENERIC kernels to USB2 by default.

Tested by: make universe

Take NTFS option out to match i386 GENERIC.

Suggested by: phk, luigi

asr(4) is not amd64-clean, not amr(4).

Pointy hat to: myself
Submitted by: scottl