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1# $FreeBSD$
2
3This directory is for tools.
4
5A tool is something which is sometimes useful, and doesn't fit any of
6the other categories.
7
8Please make a subdir per program, and add a brief description to this
9file.
10
11ansify		Convert K&R-style function definitions to ANSI style
12ath		Tools specific to the Atheros 802.11 support
13cfi		Common Flash Interface (CFI) tool
14commitsdb	A tool for reconstructing commit history using md5
15		checksums of the commit logs.
16crypto		Test and exercise tools related to the crypto framework
17cxgbetool	A tool for the cxgbe(4) driver.
18cxgbtool	A tool for the cxgb(4) driver.
19drm		Tools specific to the DRM/KMS device drivers.
20editing		Editor modes and the like to help editing FreeBSD code.
21epfe 		Extract printing filter examples from printing.sgml.
22ether_reflect	An Ethernet packet reflector for low level testing.
23find-sb		Scan a disk for possible filesystem superblocks.
24gdb_regofs	A simple tool that prints out a register offset table
25		for mapping gdb(1) register numbers to struct reg and
26		struct fpreg offsets. The tool is useful on selected
27		platforms only.
28genericize	Turn a kernel config into something that can more easily
29		be diffed against the appropriate GENERIC.
30git		Tools to simplify the use of git by committers.
31hcomp		Compress header files by removing comments and whitespace.
32html-mv         Rename HTML generated filenames to human readable filenames.
33ifinfo		Uses the interface MIB to print out all the information
34		an interface exports in an ugly form.
35indent_wrapper	Tool for style(9) checking SVN/GIT patches.
36intel-ucode-split Tool to split Intel microcode into individual files.
37iso             Tool to compare the iso3166 and iso639 files in
38		/usr/share/misc with the data from the master sites.
39iwi		Tools specific to the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG
40		support.
41kdrv		KernelDriver; add/list/remove third-party kernel driver
42		source to/in/from a kernel source tree.
43kernelcruft	Shellscript to find orphaned *.c files in /sys
44kerninclude	Shellscript to find unused #includes in the kernel.
45kernxref	Shellscript to cross reference symbols in the LINT kernel.
46kttcp		An in-kernel version of the ttcp network performance tool
47man		Scripts useful for working on man pages.
48mctest		A multicast test program
49mid	 	Create a Message-ID database for mailing lists.
50mwl		Tools specific to the Marvell 88W8363 support
51ncpus		Count the number of processors
52netmap		Test applications for netmap(4)
53notescheck	Check for missing devices and options in NOTES files.
54npe		Tools specific to the Intel IXP4XXX NPE device
55pciid		Generate src/share/misc/pci_vendors.
56pciroms		A tool for dumping PCI ROM images. WARNING: alpha quality.
57pirtool		A tool for dumping the $PIR table on i386 machines at runtime.
58portsinfo 	Generate list of new ports for last two weeks.
59scsi-defects	Get at the primary or grown defect list of a SCSI disk.
60sysdoc		Build a manual page with available sysctls for a specific
61		kernel configuration.
62track		Track the progress of a world / kernel build
63vimage		An interim utility for managing the virtualized network
64		stack infrastructure.
65vop_table	Generates a HTML document that shows all the VOP's in
66		the kernel.
67whereintheworld	Summarizes "make world" output.
68