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1#
2# NOTES -- Lines that can be cut/pasted into kernel and hints configs.
3#
4# This file contains machine dependent kernel configuration notes.  For
5# machine independent notes, look in /sys/conf/NOTES.
6#
7# $FreeBSD$
8#
9
10#
11# We want LINT to cover profiling as well.
12profile         2
13
14#
15# Enable the kernel DTrace hooks which are required to load the DTrace
16# kernel modules.
17#
18options 	KDTRACE_HOOKS
19
20# DTrace core
21# NOTE: introduces CDDL-licensed components into the kernel
22#device		dtrace
23
24# DTrace modules
25#device		dtrace_profile
26#device		dtrace_sdt
27#device		dtrace_fbt
28#device		dtrace_systrace
29#device		dtrace_prototype
30#device		dtnfscl
31#device		dtmalloc
32
33# Alternatively include all the DTrace modules
34#device		dtraceall
35
36
37#####################################################################
38# SMP OPTIONS:
39#
40# Notes:
41#
42# IPI_PREEMPTION instructs the kernel to preempt threads running on other
43#	  CPUS if needed.  Relies on the PREEMPTION option
44
45# Optional:
46options 	IPI_PREEMPTION
47device		atpic			# Optional legacy pic support
48device		mptable			# Optional MPSPEC mptable support
49
50#
51# Watchdog routines.
52#
53options 	MP_WATCHDOG
54
55# Debugging options.
56#
57options 	COUNT_XINVLTLB_HITS	# Counters for TLB events
58options 	COUNT_IPIS		# Per-CPU IPI interrupt counters
59
60
61
62#####################################################################
63# CPU OPTIONS
64
65#
66# You must specify at least one CPU (the one you intend to run on);
67# deleting the specification for CPUs you don't need to use may make
68# parts of the system run faster.
69#
70cpu		HAMMER			# aka K8, aka Opteron & Athlon64
71
72#
73# Options for CPU features.
74#
75
76
77#####################################################################
78# NETWORKING OPTIONS
79
80#
81# DEVICE_POLLING adds support for mixed interrupt-polling handling
82# of network device drivers, which has significant benefits in terms
83# of robustness to overloads and responsivity, as well as permitting
84# accurate scheduling of the CPU time between kernel network processing
85# and other activities.  The drawback is a moderate (up to 1/HZ seconds)
86# potential increase in response times.
87# It is strongly recommended to use HZ=1000 or 2000 with DEVICE_POLLING
88# to achieve smoother behaviour.
89# Additionally, you can enable/disable polling at runtime with help of
90# the ifconfig(8) utility, and select the CPU fraction reserved to
91# userland with the sysctl variable kern.polling.user_frac
92# (default 50, range 0..100).
93#
94# Not all device drivers support this mode of operation at the time of
95# this writing.  See polling(4) for more details.
96
97options 	DEVICE_POLLING
98
99# BPF_JITTER adds support for BPF just-in-time compiler.
100
101options 	BPF_JITTER
102
103# OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (Infiniband).
104options 	OFED
105options 	OFED_DEBUG_INIT
106
107# Sockets Direct Protocol
108options 	SDP
109options 	SDP_DEBUG
110
111# IP over Infiniband
112options 	IPOIB
113options 	IPOIB_DEBUG
114options 	IPOIB_CM
115
116
117#####################################################################
118# CLOCK OPTIONS
119
120# Provide read/write access to the memory in the clock chip.
121device		nvram		# Access to rtc cmos via /dev/nvram
122
123
124#####################################################################
125# MISCELLANEOUS DEVICES AND OPTIONS
126
127device		speaker		#Play IBM BASIC-style noises out your speaker
128hint.speaker.0.at="isa"
129hint.speaker.0.port="0x61"
130device		gzip		#Exec gzipped a.out's.  REQUIRES COMPAT_AOUT!
131
132
133#####################################################################
134# HARDWARE BUS CONFIGURATION
135
136#
137# ISA bus
138#
139device		isa
140
141#
142# Options for `isa':
143#
144# AUTO_EOI_1 enables the `automatic EOI' feature for the master 8259A
145# interrupt controller.  This saves about 0.7-1.25 usec for each interrupt.
146# This option breaks suspend/resume on some portables.
147#
148# AUTO_EOI_2 enables the `automatic EOI' feature for the slave 8259A
149# interrupt controller.  This saves about 0.7-1.25 usec for each interrupt.
150# Automatic EOI is documented not to work for for the slave with the
151# original i8259A, but it works for some clones and some integrated
152# versions.
153#
154# MAXMEM specifies the amount of RAM on the machine; if this is not
155# specified, FreeBSD will first read the amount of memory from the CMOS
156# RAM, so the amount of memory will initially be limited to 64MB or 16MB
157# depending on the BIOS.  If the BIOS reports 64MB, a memory probe will
158# then attempt to detect the installed amount of RAM.  If this probe
159# fails to detect >64MB RAM you will have to use the MAXMEM option.
160# The amount is in kilobytes, so for a machine with 128MB of RAM, it would
161# be 131072 (128 * 1024).
162#
163# BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET disables the use of the keyboard controller to
164# reset the CPU for reboot.  This is needed on some systems with broken
165# keyboard controllers.
166
167options 	AUTO_EOI_1
168#options 	AUTO_EOI_2
169
170options 	MAXMEM=(128*1024)
171#options 	BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET
172
173#
174# AGP GART support
175device		agp
176
177#
178# AGP debugging.
179#
180options 	AGP_DEBUG
181
182
183#####################################################################
184# HARDWARE DEVICE CONFIGURATION
185
186# To include support for VGA VESA video modes
187options 	VESA
188
189# Turn on extra debugging checks and output for VESA support.
190options 	VESA_DEBUG
191
192device		dpms		# DPMS suspend & resume via VESA BIOS
193
194# x86 real mode BIOS emulator, required by atkbdc/dpms/vesa
195options 	X86BIOS
196
197#
198# Optional devices:
199#
200
201# PS/2 mouse
202device		psm
203hint.psm.0.at="atkbdc"
204hint.psm.0.irq="12"
205
206# Options for psm:
207options 	PSM_HOOKRESUME		#hook the system resume event, useful
208					#for some laptops
209options 	PSM_RESETAFTERSUSPEND	#reset the device at the resume event
210
211# The keyboard controller; it controls the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse.
212device		atkbdc
213hint.atkbdc.0.at="isa"
214hint.atkbdc.0.port="0x060"
215
216# The AT keyboard
217device		atkbd
218hint.atkbd.0.at="atkbdc"
219hint.atkbd.0.irq="1"
220
221# Options for atkbd:
222options 	ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP	# specify the built-in keymap
223makeoptions	ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=fr.dvorak
224
225# `flags' for atkbd:
226#       0x01    Force detection of keyboard, else we always assume a keyboard
227#       0x02    Don't reset keyboard, useful for some newer ThinkPads
228#	0x03	Force detection and avoid reset, might help with certain
229#		dockingstations
230#       0x04    Old-style (XT) keyboard support, useful for older ThinkPads
231
232# Video card driver for VGA adapters.
233device		vga
234hint.vga.0.at="isa"
235
236# Options for vga:
237# Try the following option if the mouse pointer is not drawn correctly
238# or font does not seem to be loaded properly.  May cause flicker on
239# some systems.
240options 	VGA_ALT_SEQACCESS
241
242# If you can dispense with some vga driver features, you may want to
243# use the following options to save some memory.
244#options 	VGA_NO_FONT_LOADING	# don't save/load font
245#options 	VGA_NO_MODE_CHANGE	# don't change video modes
246
247# Older video cards may require this option for proper operation.
248options 	VGA_SLOW_IOACCESS	# do byte-wide i/o's to TS and GDC regs
249
250# The following option probably won't work with the LCD displays.
251options 	VGA_WIDTH90		# support 90 column modes
252
253# Debugging.
254options 	VGA_DEBUG
255
256# vt(4) drivers.
257device		vt_vga		# VGA
258device		vt_efifb	# EFI framebuffer
259
260# Linear framebuffer driver for S3 VESA 1.2 cards. Works on top of VESA.
261device		s3pci
262
263# 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics, Voodoo II /dev/3dfx CDEV support.  This will create
264# the /dev/3dfx0 device to work with glide implementations.  This should get
265# linked to /dev/3dfx and /dev/voodoo.  Note that this is not the same as
266# the tdfx DRI module from XFree86 and is completely unrelated.
267#
268# To enable Linuxulator support, one must also include COMPAT_LINUX in the
269# config as well.  The other option is to load both as modules.
270
271device		tdfx			# Enable 3Dfx Voodoo support
272#XXX#device 	tdfx_linux		# Enable Linuxulator support
273
274#
275# ACPI support using the Intel ACPI Component Architecture reference
276# implementation.
277#
278# ACPI_DEBUG enables the use of the debug.acpi.level and debug.acpi.layer
279# kernel environment variables to select initial debugging levels for the
280# Intel ACPICA code.  (Note that the Intel code must also have USE_DEBUGGER
281# defined when it is built).
282
283device		acpi
284options 	ACPI_DEBUG
285
286# The cpufreq(4) driver provides support for non-ACPI CPU frequency control
287device		cpufreq
288
289#
290# Network interfaces:
291#
292
293# bxe:  Broadcom NetXtreme II (BCM5771X/BCM578XX) PCIe 10Gb Ethernet
294#       adapters.
295# ed:   Western Digital and SMC 80xx; Novell NE1000 and NE2000; 3Com 3C503
296#       HP PC Lan+, various PC Card devices
297#       (requires miibus)
298# ipw:	Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11 adapter
299#	Requires the ipw firmware module
300# iwi:	Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11 adapters
301#	Requires the iwi firmware module
302# iwn:	Intel Wireless WiFi Link 1000/105/135/2000/4965/5000/6000/6050 abgn
303#	802.11 network adapters
304#	Requires the iwn firmware module
305# mthca: Mellanox HCA InfiniBand
306# mlx4ib: Mellanox ConnectX HCA InfiniBand
307# mlx4en: Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet
308# nfe:	nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking (BSD open source)
309# sfxge: Solarflare SFC9000 family 10Gb Ethernet adapters
310# vmx:	VMware VMXNET3 Ethernet (BSD open source)
311# wpi:	Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller
312#	Requires the wpi firmware module
313
314device		bxe		# Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5771X/BCM578XX 10GbE
315device		ed		# NE[12]000, SMC Ultra, 3c503, DS8390 cards
316options 	ED_3C503
317options 	ED_HPP
318options 	ED_SIC
319device		ipw		# Intel 2100 wireless NICs.
320device		iwi		# Intel 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG wireless NICs.
321device		iwn		# Intel 4965/1000/5000/6000 wireless NICs.
322device		ixl		# Intel 700 Series Physical Function
323device		iavf		# Intel Adaptive Virtual Function
324device  	mthca		# Mellanox HCA InfiniBand
325device  	mlx4		# Shared code module between IB and Ethernet
326device  	mlx4ib		# Mellanox ConnectX HCA InfiniBand
327device  	mlx4en		# Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet
328device		nfe		# nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet
329device		sfxge		# Solarflare SFC9000 10Gb Ethernet
330device		vmx		# VMware VMXNET3 Ethernet
331device		wpi		# Intel 3945ABG wireless NICs.
332
333# IEEE 802.11 adapter firmware modules
334
335# Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 firmware:
336#   ipwfw:		BSS/IBSS/monitor mode firmware
337#   ipwbssfw:		BSS mode firmware
338#   ipwibssfw:		IBSS mode firmware
339#   ipwmonitorfw:	Monitor mode firmware
340# Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG firmware:
341#   iwifw:		BSS/IBSS/monitor mode firmware
342#   iwibssfw:		BSS mode firmware
343#   iwiibssfw:		IBSS mode firmware
344#   iwimonitorfw:	Monitor mode firmware
345# Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965/1000/5000/6000 series firmware:
346#   iwnfw:		Single module to support all devices
347#   iwn1000fw:		Specific module for the 1000 only
348#   iwn105fw:		Specific module for the 105 only
349#   iwn135fw:		Specific module for the 135 only
350#   iwn2000fw:		Specific module for the 2000 only
351#   iwn2030fw:		Specific module for the 2030 only
352#   iwn4965fw:		Specific module for the 4965 only
353#   iwn5000fw:		Specific module for the 5000 only
354#   iwn5150fw:		Specific module for the 5150 only
355#   iwn6000fw:		Specific module for the 6000 only
356#   iwn6000g2afw:	Specific module for the 6000g2a only
357#   iwn6000g2bfw:	Specific module for the 6000g2b only
358#   iwn6050fw:		Specific module for the 6050 only
359# wpifw:	Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN Controller firmware
360
361device		iwifw
362device		iwibssfw
363device		iwiibssfw
364device		iwimonitorfw
365device		ipwfw
366device		ipwbssfw
367device		ipwibssfw
368device		ipwmonitorfw
369device		iwnfw
370device		iwn1000fw
371device		iwn105fw
372device		iwn135fw
373device		iwn2000fw
374device		iwn2030fw
375device		iwn4965fw
376device		iwn5000fw
377device		iwn5150fw
378device		iwn6000fw
379device		iwn6000g2afw
380device		iwn6000g2bfw
381device		iwn6050fw
382device		wpifw
383
384#
385# Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB) drivers
386#
387device		if_ntb		# Virtual NTB network interface
388device		ntb_transport	# NTB packet transport driver
389device		ntb		# NTB hardware interface
390device		ntb_hw_intel	# Intel NTB hardware driver
391device		ntb_hw_plx	# PLX NTB hardware driver
392
393#
394#XXX this stores pointers in a 32bit field that is defined by the hardware
395#device	pst
396
397#
398# Areca 11xx and 12xx series of SATA II RAID controllers.
399# CAM is required.
400#
401device		arcmsr		# Areca SATA II RAID
402
403#
404# Microsemi smartpqi controllers.
405# These controllers have a SCSI-like interface, and require the
406# CAM infrastructure.
407#
408device		smartpqi
409
410#
411# 3ware 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controller driver and options.
412# The driver is implemented as a SIM, and so, needs the CAM infrastructure.
413#
414options 	TWA_DEBUG		# 0-10; 10 prints the most messages.
415device		twa			# 3ware 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID
416
417#
418# Adaptec FSA RAID controllers, including integrated DELL controllers,
419# the Dell PERC 2/QC and the HP NetRAID-4M
420device		aac
421device		aacp	# SCSI Passthrough interface (optional, CAM required)
422
423#
424# Adaptec by PMC RAID controllers, Series 6/7/8 and upcoming families
425device		aacraid		# Container interface, CAM required
426
427#
428# Highpoint RocketRAID 27xx.
429device		hpt27xx
430
431#
432# Highpoint RocketRAID 182x.
433device		hptmv
434
435#
436# Highpoint DC7280 and R750.
437device		hptnr
438
439#
440# Highpoint RocketRAID.  Supports RR172x, RR222x, RR2240, RR232x, RR2340,
441# RR2210, RR174x, RR2522, RR231x, RR230x.
442device		hptrr
443
444#
445# Highpoint RocketRaid 3xxx series SATA RAID
446device		hptiop
447
448#
449# IBM (now Adaptec) ServeRAID controllers
450device		ips
451
452#
453# Intel integrated Memory Controller (iMC) SMBus controller
454#	Sandybridge-Xeon, Ivybridge-Xeon, Haswell-Xeon, Broadwell-Xeon
455device		imcsmb
456
457#
458# Intel C600 (Patsburg) integrated SAS controller
459device		isci
460options 	ISCI_LOGGING	# enable debugging in isci HAL
461
462#
463# NVM Express (NVMe) support
464device         nvme    # base NVMe driver
465device         nvd     # expose NVMe namespaces as disks, depends on nvme
466
467#
468# PMC-Sierra SAS/SATA controller
469device		pmspcv
470
471#
472# SafeNet crypto driver: can be moved to the MI NOTES as soon as
473# it's tested on a big-endian machine
474#
475device		safe		# SafeNet 1141
476options 	SAFE_DEBUG	# enable debugging support: hw.safe.debug
477options 	SAFE_RNDTEST	# enable rndtest support
478
479#
480# VirtIO support
481#
482# The virtio entry provides a generic bus for use by the device drivers.
483# It must be combined with an interface that communicates with the host.
484# Multiple such interfaces are defined by the VirtIO specification. FreeBSD
485# only has support for PCI. Therefore, virtio_pci must be statically
486# compiled in or loaded as a module for the device drivers to function.
487#
488device		virtio		# Generic VirtIO bus (required)
489device		virtio_pci	# VirtIO PCI Interface
490device		vtnet		# VirtIO Ethernet device
491device		virtio_blk	# VirtIO Block device
492device		virtio_scsi	# VirtIO SCSI device
493device		virtio_balloon	# VirtIO Memory Balloon device
494device		virtio_random	# VirtIO Entropy device
495device		virtio_console	# VirtIO Console device
496
497# Microsoft Hyper-V enhancement support
498device 		hyperv		# HyperV drivers
499
500# Xen HVM Guest Optimizations
501options 	XENHVM		# Xen HVM kernel infrastructure
502device 		xenpci		# Xen HVM Hypervisor services driver
503
504#####################################################################
505
506#
507# Miscellaneous hardware:
508#
509# ipmi: Intelligent Platform Management Interface
510# pbio: Parallel (8255 PPI) basic I/O (mode 0) port (e.g. Advantech PCL-724)
511# smbios: DMI/SMBIOS entry point
512# vpd: Vital Product Data kernel interface
513# asmc: Apple System Management Controller
514# si: Specialix International SI/XIO or SX intelligent serial card
515# tpm: Trusted Platform Module
516
517# Notes on the Specialix SI/XIO driver:
518#  The host card is memory, not IO mapped.
519#  The Rev 1 host cards use a 64K chunk, on a 32K boundary.
520#  The Rev 2 host cards use a 32K chunk, on a 32K boundary.
521#  The cards can use an IRQ of 11, 12 or 15.
522
523device		ipmi
524device		pbio
525hint.pbio.0.at="isa"
526hint.pbio.0.port="0x360"
527device		smbios
528device		vpd
529device		asmc
530device		tpm
531device		padlock_rng	# VIA Padlock RNG
532device		rdrand_rng	# Intel Bull Mountain RNG
533device		aesni		# AES-NI OpenCrypto module
534device		ioat		# Intel I/OAT DMA engine
535
536#
537# Laptop/Notebook options:
538#
539
540
541#
542# I2C Bus
543#
544
545#
546# Hardware watchdog timers:
547#
548# ichwd: Intel ICH watchdog timer
549# amdsbwd: AMD SB7xx watchdog timer
550# viawd: VIA south bridge watchdog timer
551# wbwd: Winbond watchdog timer
552#
553device		ichwd
554device		amdsbwd
555device		viawd
556device		wbwd
557
558#
559# Temperature sensors:
560#
561# coretemp: on-die sensor on Intel Core and newer CPUs
562# amdtemp: on-die sensor on AMD K8/K10/K11 CPUs
563#
564device		coretemp
565device		amdtemp
566
567#
568# CPU control pseudo-device. Provides access to MSRs, CPUID info and
569# microcode update feature.
570#
571device		cpuctl
572
573#
574# System Management Bus (SMB)
575#
576options 	ENABLE_ALART		# Control alarm on Intel intpm driver
577
578#
579# AMD System Management Network (SMN)
580#
581device		amdsmn
582
583#
584# Number of initial kernel page table pages used for early bootstrap.
585# This number should include enough pages to map the kernel and any
586# modules or other data loaded with the kernel by the loader.  Each
587# page table page maps 2MB.
588#
589options 	NKPT=31
590
591# EFI Runtime Services support
592options 	EFIRT
593
594
595#####################################################################
596# ABI Emulation
597
598#XXX keep these here for now and reactivate when support for emulating
599#XXX these 32 bit binaries is added.
600
601# Enable 32-bit runtime support for FreeBSD/i386 binaries.
602options 	COMPAT_FREEBSD32
603
604# Enable (32-bit) a.out binary support
605options 	COMPAT_AOUT
606
607# Enable 32-bit runtime support for CloudABI binaries.
608options 	COMPAT_CLOUDABI32
609
610# Enable 64-bit runtime support for CloudABI binaries.
611options 	COMPAT_CLOUDABI64
612
613# Enable Linux ABI emulation
614#XXX#options 	COMPAT_LINUX
615
616# Enable 32-bit Linux ABI emulation (requires COMPAT_FREEBSD32).
617options 	COMPAT_LINUX32
618
619# Enable the linux-like proc filesystem support (requires COMPAT_LINUX32
620# and PSEUDOFS)
621options 	LINPROCFS
622
623#Enable the linux-like sys filesystem support (requires COMPAT_LINUX32
624# and PSEUDOFS)
625options 	LINSYSFS
626
627#####################################################################
628# ZFS support
629
630options		ZFS
631
632#####################################################################
633# VM OPTIONS
634
635# KSTACK_PAGES is the number of memory pages to assign to the kernel
636# stack of each thread.
637
638options 	KSTACK_PAGES=5
639
640# Enable detailed accounting by the PV entry allocator.
641
642options 	PV_STATS
643
644#####################################################################
645
646# More undocumented options for linting.
647# Note that documenting these are not considered an affront.
648
649options 	FB_INSTALL_CDEV		# install a CDEV entry in /dev
650
651options 	KBDIO_DEBUG=2
652options 	KBD_MAXRETRY=4
653options 	KBD_MAXWAIT=6
654options 	KBD_RESETDELAY=201
655
656options 	PSM_DEBUG=1
657
658options 	TIMER_FREQ=((14318182+6)/12)
659
660options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE
661options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX
662options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE
663
664# Enable NDIS binary driver support
665options 	NDISAPI
666device		ndis
667
668
669# GCOV (code coverage) support
670
671options		LINDEBUGFS
672options		GCOV
673