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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
21#####################################################################
22# SMP OPTIONS:
23#
24# Notes:
25#
26# IPI_PREEMPTION instructs the kernel to preempt threads running on other
27#	  CPUS if needed.  Relies on the PREEMPTION option
28
29# Optional:
30options 	IPI_PREEMPTION
31device		atpic			# Optional legacy pic support
32device		mptable			# Optional MPSPEC mptable support
33
34#
35# Watchdog routines.
36#
37options 	MP_WATCHDOG
38
39# Debugging options.
40#
41options 	COUNT_XINVLTLB_HITS	# Counters for TLB events
42options 	COUNT_IPIS		# Per-CPU IPI interrupt counters
43
44
45
46#####################################################################
47# CPU OPTIONS
48
49#
50# You must specify at least one CPU (the one you intend to run on);
51# deleting the specification for CPUs you don't need to use may make
52# parts of the system run faster.
53#
54cpu		HAMMER			# aka K8, aka Opteron & Athlon64
55
56#
57# Options for CPU features.
58#
59
60#
61# PERFMON causes the driver for Pentium/Pentium Pro performance counters
62# to be compiled.  See perfmon(4) for more information.
63#
64#XXX#options 	PERFMON
65
66
67#####################################################################
68# NETWORKING OPTIONS
69
70#
71# DEVICE_POLLING adds support for mixed interrupt-polling handling
72# of network device drivers, which has significant benefits in terms
73# of robustness to overloads and responsivity, as well as permitting
74# accurate scheduling of the CPU time between kernel network processing
75# and other activities.  The drawback is a moderate (up to 1/HZ seconds)
76# potential increase in response times.
77# It is strongly recommended to use HZ=1000 or 2000 with DEVICE_POLLING
78# to achieve smoother behaviour.
79# Additionally, you can enable/disable polling at runtime with help of
80# the ifconfig(8) utility, and select the CPU fraction reserved to
81# userland with the sysctl variable kern.polling.user_frac
82# (default 50, range 0..100).
83#
84# Not all device drivers support this mode of operation at the time of
85# this writing.  See polling(4) for more details.
86
87options 	DEVICE_POLLING
88
89# BPF_JITTER adds support for BPF just-in-time compiler.
90
91options 	BPF_JITTER
92
93# OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (Infiniband).
94options 	OFED
95options 	OFED_DEBUG_INIT
96
97# Sockets Direct Protocol
98options 	SDP
99options 	SDP_DEBUG
100
101# IP over Infiniband
102options 	IPOIB
103options 	IPOIB_DEBUG
104options 	IPOIB_CM
105
106
107#####################################################################
108# CLOCK OPTIONS
109
110# Provide read/write access to the memory in the clock chip.
111device		nvram		# Access to rtc cmos via /dev/nvram
112
113
114#####################################################################
115# MISCELLANEOUS DEVICES AND OPTIONS
116
117device		speaker		#Play IBM BASIC-style noises out your speaker
118hint.speaker.0.at="isa"
119hint.speaker.0.port="0x61"
120device		gzip		#Exec gzipped a.out's.  REQUIRES COMPAT_AOUT!
121
122
123#####################################################################
124# HARDWARE BUS CONFIGURATION
125
126#
127# ISA bus
128#
129device		isa
130
131#
132# Options for `isa':
133#
134# AUTO_EOI_1 enables the `automatic EOI' feature for the master 8259A
135# interrupt controller.  This saves about 0.7-1.25 usec for each interrupt.
136# This option breaks suspend/resume on some portables.
137#
138# AUTO_EOI_2 enables the `automatic EOI' feature for the slave 8259A
139# interrupt controller.  This saves about 0.7-1.25 usec for each interrupt.
140# Automatic EOI is documented not to work for for the slave with the
141# original i8259A, but it works for some clones and some integrated
142# versions.
143#
144# MAXMEM specifies the amount of RAM on the machine; if this is not
145# specified, FreeBSD will first read the amount of memory from the CMOS
146# RAM, so the amount of memory will initially be limited to 64MB or 16MB
147# depending on the BIOS.  If the BIOS reports 64MB, a memory probe will
148# then attempt to detect the installed amount of RAM.  If this probe
149# fails to detect >64MB RAM you will have to use the MAXMEM option.
150# The amount is in kilobytes, so for a machine with 128MB of RAM, it would
151# be 131072 (128 * 1024).
152#
153# BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET disables the use of the keyboard controller to
154# reset the CPU for reboot.  This is needed on some systems with broken
155# keyboard controllers.
156
157options 	AUTO_EOI_1
158#options 	AUTO_EOI_2
159
160options 	MAXMEM=(128*1024)
161#options 	BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET
162
163#
164# PCI bus & PCI options:
165#
166device		pci
167
168#
169# AGP GART support
170device		agp
171
172#
173# AGP debugging.
174#
175options 	AGP_DEBUG
176
177
178#####################################################################
179# HARDWARE DEVICE CONFIGURATION
180
181# To include support for VGA VESA video modes
182options 	VESA
183
184# Turn on extra debugging checks and output for VESA support.
185options 	VESA_DEBUG
186
187device		dpms		# DPMS suspend & resume via VESA BIOS
188
189# x86 real mode BIOS emulator, required by atkbdc/dpms/vesa
190options 	X86BIOS
191
192#
193# Optional devices:
194#
195
196# PS/2 mouse
197device		psm
198hint.psm.0.at="atkbdc"
199hint.psm.0.irq="12"
200
201# Options for psm:
202options 	PSM_HOOKRESUME		#hook the system resume event, useful
203					#for some laptops
204options 	PSM_RESETAFTERSUSPEND	#reset the device at the resume event
205
206# The keyboard controller; it controls the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse.
207device		atkbdc
208hint.atkbdc.0.at="isa"
209hint.atkbdc.0.port="0x060"
210
211# The AT keyboard
212device		atkbd
213hint.atkbd.0.at="atkbdc"
214hint.atkbd.0.irq="1"
215
216# Options for atkbd:
217options 	ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP	# specify the built-in keymap
218makeoptions	ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=fr.dvorak
219
220# `flags' for atkbd:
221#       0x01    Force detection of keyboard, else we always assume a keyboard
222#       0x02    Don't reset keyboard, useful for some newer ThinkPads
223#	0x03	Force detection and avoid reset, might help with certain
224#		dockingstations
225#       0x04    Old-style (XT) keyboard support, useful for older ThinkPads
226
227# Video card driver for VGA adapters.
228device		vga
229hint.vga.0.at="isa"
230
231# Options for vga:
232# Try the following option if the mouse pointer is not drawn correctly
233# or font does not seem to be loaded properly.  May cause flicker on
234# some systems.
235options 	VGA_ALT_SEQACCESS
236
237# If you can dispense with some vga driver features, you may want to
238# use the following options to save some memory.
239#options 	VGA_NO_FONT_LOADING	# don't save/load font
240#options 	VGA_NO_MODE_CHANGE	# don't change video modes
241
242# Older video cards may require this option for proper operation.
243options 	VGA_SLOW_IOACCESS	# do byte-wide i/o's to TS and GDC regs
244
245# The following option probably won't work with the LCD displays.
246options 	VGA_WIDTH90		# support 90 column modes
247
248# Debugging.
249options 	VGA_DEBUG
250
251# vt(4) drivers.
252device		vt_vga		# VGA
253device		vt_efifb	# EFI framebuffer
254
255# Linear framebuffer driver for S3 VESA 1.2 cards. Works on top of VESA.
256device		s3pci
257
258# 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics, Voodoo II /dev/3dfx CDEV support.  This will create
259# the /dev/3dfx0 device to work with glide implementations.  This should get
260# linked to /dev/3dfx and /dev/voodoo.  Note that this is not the same as
261# the tdfx DRI module from XFree86 and is completely unrelated.
262#
263# To enable Linuxulator support, one must also include COMPAT_LINUX in the
264# config as well.  The other option is to load both as modules.
265
266device		tdfx			# Enable 3Dfx Voodoo support
267#XXX#device 	tdfx_linux		# Enable Linuxulator support
268
269#
270# ACPI support using the Intel ACPI Component Architecture reference
271# implementation.
272#
273# ACPI_DEBUG enables the use of the debug.acpi.level and debug.acpi.layer
274# kernel environment variables to select initial debugging levels for the
275# Intel ACPICA code.  (Note that the Intel code must also have USE_DEBUGGER
276# defined when it is built).
277
278device		acpi
279options 	ACPI_DEBUG
280
281# The cpufreq(4) driver provides support for non-ACPI CPU frequency control
282device		cpufreq
283
284# Direct Rendering modules for 3D acceleration.
285device		drm		# DRM core module required by DRM drivers
286device		i915drm		# Intel i830 through i915
287device		mach64drm	# ATI Rage Pro, Rage Mobility P/M, Rage XL
288device		mgadrm		# AGP Matrox G200, G400, G450, G550
289device		r128drm		# ATI Rage 128
290device		radeondrm	# ATI Radeon
291device		savagedrm	# S3 Savage3D, Savage4
292device		sisdrm		# SiS 300/305, 540, 630
293device		tdfxdrm		# 3dfx Voodoo 3/4/5 and Banshee
294device		viadrm		# VIA
295options 	DRM_DEBUG	# Include debug printfs (slow)
296
297#
298# Network interfaces:
299#
300
301# bxe:  Broadcom NetXtreme II (BCM5771X/BCM578XX) PCIe 10Gb Ethernet
302#       adapters.
303# ed:   Western Digital and SMC 80xx; Novell NE1000 and NE2000; 3Com 3C503
304#       HP PC Lan+, various PC Card devices
305#       (requires miibus)
306# ipw:	Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11 adapter
307#	Requires the ipw firmware module
308# iwi:	Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11 adapters
309#	Requires the iwi firmware module
310# iwn:	Intel Wireless WiFi Link 1000/105/135/2000/4965/5000/6000/6050 abgn
311#	802.11 network adapters
312#	Requires the iwn firmware module
313# ixl:	Intel XL710 40Gbe PCIE Ethernet
314# ixlv:	Intel XL710 40Gbe VF PCIE Ethernet
315# mlx4ib: Mellanox ConnectX HCA InfiniBand
316# mlxen: Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet
317# mthca: Mellanox HCA InfiniBand
318# nfe:	nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking (BSD open source)
319# sfxge: Solarflare SFC9000 family 10Gb Ethernet adapters
320# vmx:	VMware VMXNET3 Ethernet (BSD open source)
321# wpi:	Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller
322#	Requires the wpi firmware module
323
324device		bxe		# Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5771X/BCM578XX 10GbE
325device		ed		# NE[12]000, SMC Ultra, 3c503, DS8390 cards
326options 	ED_3C503
327options 	ED_HPP
328options 	ED_SIC
329device		ipw		# Intel 2100 wireless NICs.
330device		iwi		# Intel 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG wireless NICs.
331device		iwn		# Intel 4965/1000/5000/6000 wireless NICs.
332device		ixl		# Intel XL710 40Gbe PCIE Ethernet
333device		ixlv		# Intel XL710 40Gbe VF PCIE Ethernet
334device  	mlx4ib		# Mellanox ConnectX HCA InfiniBand
335device  	mlxen		# Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet
336device  	mthca		# Mellanox HCA InfiniBand
337device		nfe		# nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet
338device		sfxge		# Solarflare SFC9000 10Gb Ethernet
339device		vmx		# VMware VMXNET3 Ethernet
340device		wpi		# Intel 3945ABG wireless NICs.
341
342# IEEE 802.11 adapter firmware modules
343
344# Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 firmware:
345#   ipwfw:		BSS/IBSS/monitor mode firmware
346#   ipwbssfw:		BSS mode firmware
347#   ipwibssfw:		IBSS mode firmware
348#   ipwmonitorfw:	Monitor mode firmware
349# Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG firmware:
350#   iwifw:		BSS/IBSS/monitor mode firmware
351#   iwibssfw:		BSS mode firmware
352#   iwiibssfw:		IBSS mode firmware
353#   iwimonitorfw:	Monitor mode firmware
354# Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965/1000/5000/6000 series firmware:
355#   iwnfw:		Single module to support all devices
356#   iwn1000fw:		Specific module for the 1000 only
357#   iwn105fw:		Specific module for the 105 only
358#   iwn135fw:		Specific module for the 135 only
359#   iwn2000fw:		Specific module for the 2000 only
360#   iwn2030fw:		Specific module for the 2030 only
361#   iwn4965fw:		Specific module for the 4965 only
362#   iwn5000fw:		Specific module for the 5000 only
363#   iwn5150fw:		Specific module for the 5150 only
364#   iwn6000fw:		Specific module for the 6000 only
365#   iwn6000g2afw:	Specific module for the 6000g2a only
366#   iwn6000g2bfw:	Specific module for the 6000g2b only
367#   iwn6050fw:		Specific module for the 6050 only
368# wpifw:	Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN Controller firmware
369
370device		iwifw
371device		iwibssfw
372device		iwiibssfw
373device		iwimonitorfw
374device		ipwfw
375device		ipwbssfw
376device		ipwibssfw
377device		ipwmonitorfw
378device		iwnfw
379device		iwn1000fw
380device		iwn105fw
381device		iwn135fw
382device		iwn2000fw
383device		iwn2030fw
384device		iwn4965fw
385device		iwn5000fw
386device		iwn5150fw
387device		iwn6000fw
388device		iwn6000g2afw
389device		iwn6000g2bfw
390device		iwn6050fw
391device		wpifw
392
393# Intel Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB) hardware
394device		ntb_hw	# Hardware Abstraction Layer for the NTB
395device		if_ntb	# Simulated ethernet device using the NTB
396
397#
398#XXX this stores pointers in a 32bit field that is defined by the hardware
399#device	pst
400
401#
402# Areca 11xx and 12xx series of SATA II RAID controllers.
403# CAM is required.
404#
405device		arcmsr		# Areca SATA II RAID
406
407#
408# 3ware 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controller driver and options.
409# The driver is implemented as a SIM, and so, needs the CAM infrastructure.
410#
411options 	TWA_DEBUG		# 0-10; 10 prints the most messages.
412options 	TWA_FLASH_FIRMWARE	# firmware image bundled when defined.
413device		twa			# 3ware 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID
414
415#
416# SCSI host adapters:
417#
418# ncv: NCR 53C500 based SCSI host adapters.
419# nsp: Workbit Ninja SCSI-3 based PC Card SCSI host adapters.
420# stg: TMC 18C30, 18C50 based SCSI host adapters.
421
422device		ncv
423device		nsp
424device		stg
425
426#
427# Adaptec FSA RAID controllers, including integrated DELL controllers,
428# the Dell PERC 2/QC and the HP NetRAID-4M
429device		aac
430device		aacp	# SCSI Passthrough interface (optional, CAM required)
431
432#
433# Adaptec by PMC RAID controllers, Series 6/7/8 and upcoming families
434device		aacraid		# Container interface, CAM required
435
436#
437# Highpoint RocketRAID 27xx.
438device		hpt27xx
439
440#
441# Highpoint RocketRAID 182x.
442device		hptmv
443
444#
445# Highpoint DC7280 and R750.
446device		hptnr
447
448#
449# Highpoint RocketRAID.  Supports RR172x, RR222x, RR2240, RR232x, RR2340,
450# RR2210, RR174x, RR2522, RR231x, RR230x.
451device		hptrr
452
453#
454# Highpoint RocketRaid 3xxx series SATA RAID
455device		hptiop
456
457#
458# IBM (now Adaptec) ServeRAID controllers
459device		ips
460
461#
462# Intel C600 (Patsburg) integrated SAS controller
463device		isci
464options 	ISCI_LOGGING	# enable debugging in isci HAL
465
466#
467# NVM Express (NVMe) support
468device         nvme    # base NVMe driver
469device         nvd     # expose NVMe namespaces as disks, depends on nvme
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
497device 		hyperv		# HyperV drivers
498
499# Xen HVM Guest Optimizations
500options 	XENHVM		# Xen HVM kernel infrastructure
501device 		xenpci		# Xen HVM Hypervisor services driver
502
503#####################################################################
504
505#
506# Miscellaneous hardware:
507#
508# ipmi: Intelligent Platform Management Interface
509# pbio: Parallel (8255 PPI) basic I/O (mode 0) port (e.g. Advantech PCL-724)
510# smbios: DMI/SMBIOS entry point
511# vpd: Vital Product Data kernel interface
512# asmc: Apple System Management Controller
513# si: Specialix International SI/XIO or SX intelligent serial card
514# tpm: Trusted Platform Module
515
516# Notes on the Specialix SI/XIO driver:
517#  The host card is memory, not IO mapped.
518#  The Rev 1 host cards use a 64K chunk, on a 32K boundary.
519#  The Rev 2 host cards use a 32K chunk, on a 32K boundary.
520#  The cards can use an IRQ of 11, 12 or 15.
521
522device		ipmi
523device		pbio
524hint.pbio.0.at="isa"
525hint.pbio.0.port="0x360"
526device		smbios
527device		vpd
528device		asmc
529device		si
530device		tpm
531device		padlock_rng	# VIA Padlock RNG
532device		rdrand_rng	# Intel Bull Mountain RNG
533device		aesni		# AES-NI OpenCrypto module
534
535#
536# Laptop/Notebook options:
537#
538
539
540#
541# I2C Bus
542#
543
544#
545# Hardware watchdog timers:
546#
547# ichwd: Intel ICH watchdog timer
548# amdsbwd: AMD SB7xx watchdog timer
549# viawd: VIA south bridge watchdog timer
550# wbwd: Winbond watchdog timer
551#
552device		ichwd
553device		amdsbwd
554device		viawd
555device		wbwd
556
557#
558# Temperature sensors:
559#
560# coretemp: on-die sensor on Intel Core and newer CPUs
561# amdtemp: on-die sensor on AMD K8/K10/K11 CPUs
562#
563device		coretemp
564device		amdtemp
565
566#
567# CPU control pseudo-device. Provides access to MSRs, CPUID info and
568# microcode update feature.
569#
570device		cpuctl
571
572#
573# System Management Bus (SMB)
574#
575options 	ENABLE_ALART		# Control alarm on Intel intpm driver
576
577#
578# Number of initial kernel page table pages used for early bootstrap.
579# This number should include enough pages to map the kernel and any
580# modules or other data loaded with the kernel by the loader.  Each
581# page table page maps 2MB.
582#
583options 	NKPT=31
584
585
586#####################################################################
587# ABI Emulation
588
589#XXX keep these here for now and reactivate when support for emulating
590#XXX these 32 bit binaries is added.
591
592# Enable 32-bit runtime support for FreeBSD/i386 binaries.
593options 	COMPAT_FREEBSD32
594
595# Enable iBCS2 runtime support for SCO and ISC binaries
596#XXX#options 	IBCS2
597
598# Emulate spx device for client side of SVR3 local X interface
599#XXX#options 	SPX_HACK
600
601# Enable Linux ABI emulation
602#XXX#options 	COMPAT_LINUX
603
604# Enable 32-bit Linux ABI emulation (requires COMPAT_43 and COMPAT_FREEBSD32)
605options 	COMPAT_LINUX32
606
607# Enable the linux-like proc filesystem support (requires COMPAT_LINUX32
608# and PSEUDOFS)
609options 	LINPROCFS
610
611#Enable the linux-like sys filesystem support (requires COMPAT_LINUX32
612# and PSEUDOFS)
613options 	LINSYSFS
614
615#
616# SysVR4 ABI emulation
617#
618# The svr4 ABI emulator can be statically compiled into the kernel or loaded as
619# a KLD module.
620# The STREAMS network emulation code can also be compiled statically or as a
621# module.  If loaded as a module, it must be loaded before the svr4 module
622# (the /usr/sbin/svr4 script does this for you).  If compiling statically,
623# the `streams' device must be configured into any kernel which also
624# specifies COMPAT_SVR4.  It is possible to have a statically-configured
625# STREAMS device and a dynamically loadable svr4 emulator;  the /usr/sbin/svr4
626# script understands that it doesn't need to load the `streams' module under
627# those circumstances.
628# Caveat:  At this time, `options KTRACE' is required for the svr4 emulator
629# (whether static or dynamic).
630#
631#XXX#options 	COMPAT_SVR4	# build emulator statically
632#XXX#options 	DEBUG_SVR4	# enable verbose debugging
633#XXX#device	streams		# STREAMS network driver (required for svr4).
634
635
636#####################################################################
637# VM OPTIONS
638
639# KSTACK_PAGES is the number of memory pages to assign to the kernel
640# stack of each thread.
641
642options 	KSTACK_PAGES=5
643
644# Enable detailed accounting by the PV entry allocator.
645
646options 	PV_STATS
647
648#####################################################################
649
650# More undocumented options for linting.
651# Note that documenting these are not considered an affront.
652
653options 	FB_INSTALL_CDEV		# install a CDEV entry in /dev
654
655options 	KBDIO_DEBUG=2
656options 	KBD_MAXRETRY=4
657options 	KBD_MAXWAIT=6
658options 	KBD_RESETDELAY=201
659
660options 	PSM_DEBUG=1
661
662options 	TIMER_FREQ=((14318182+6)/12)
663
664options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE
665options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX
666options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE
667
668# Enable NDIS binary driver support
669options 	NDISAPI
670device		ndis
671