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# 08204c2c 22-Oct-2018 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Remove nsp(4) driver

nsp(4) is marked as gone in 12. Remove it. There are no sightings of
it in the nycbug dmesg database. It was for an obscure SCSI card that
sold mostly in Japan, and was especial

Remove nsp(4) driver

nsp(4) is marked as gone in 12. Remove it. There are no sightings of
it in the nycbug dmesg database. It was for an obscure SCSI card that
sold mostly in Japan, and was especially popilar among pc98 hackers in
the 4.x time frame. It was also only enabled on i386.

Relnote: Yes

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# 2dfd3588 22-Oct-2018 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Remove ncv(4) driver

ncv(4) is marked as gone in 12. Remove it. There are no sightings of
it in the nycbug dmesg database. It was for an obscure SCSI card that
sold mostly in Japan, and was especial

Remove ncv(4) driver

ncv(4) is marked as gone in 12. Remove it. There are no sightings of
it in the nycbug dmesg database. It was for an obscure SCSI card that
sold mostly in Japan, and was especially popilar among pc98 hackers in
the 4.x time frame..

Relnote: Yes

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# 77c1fcec 13-Oct-2018 Eric Joyner <erj@FreeBSD.org>

ixl/iavf(4): Change ixlv to iavf and update it to use iflib(9)

Finishes the conversion of the 40Gb Intel Ethernet drivers to iflib(9) for
FreeBSD 12.0, and fixes numerous bugs in both ixl(4) and iav

ixl/iavf(4): Change ixlv to iavf and update it to use iflib(9)

Finishes the conversion of the 40Gb Intel Ethernet drivers to iflib(9) for
FreeBSD 12.0, and fixes numerous bugs in both ixl(4) and iavf(4).

This commit also re-adds the VF driver to GENERIC since it now compiles and
functions.

The VF driver name was changed from ixlv(4) to iavf(4) because the VF driver is
now intended to be used with future products, not just with Fortville/Fort Park
VFs.

A man page update that documents these drivers is forthcoming in a separate
commit.

Reviewed by: sbruno@, kbowling@
Tested by: jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com
Approved by: re (gjb@)
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Intel Corporation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16429

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# 592ffb21 24-Aug-2018 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Revert drm2 removal.

Revert r338177, r338176, r338175, r338174, r338172

After long consultations with re@, core members and mmacy, revert
these changes. Followup changes will be made to mark them a

Revert drm2 removal.

Revert r338177, r338176, r338175, r338174, r338172

After long consultations with re@, core members and mmacy, revert
these changes. Followup changes will be made to mark them as
deprecated and prent a message about where to find the up-to-date
driver. Followup commits will be made to make this clear in the
installer. Followup commits to reduce POLA in ways we're still
exploring.

It's anticipated that after the freeze, this will be removed in
13-current (with the residual of the drm2 code copied to
sys/arm/dev/drm2 for the TEGRA port's use w/o the intel or
radeon drivers).

Due to the impending freeze, there was no formal core vote for
this. I've been talking to different core members all day, as well as
Matt Macey and Glen Barber. Nobody is completely happy, all are
grudgingly going along with this. Work is in progress to mitigate
the negative effects as much as possible.

Requested by: re@ (gjb, rgrimes)

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# d157fbd5 22-Aug-2018 Matt Macy <mmacy@FreeBSD.org>

Remove legacy drm and drm2 from tree

As discussed on the MLs drm2 conflicts with the ports' version and there
is no upstream for most if not all of drm. Both have been merged in to
a single port.

U

Remove legacy drm and drm2 from tree

As discussed on the MLs drm2 conflicts with the ports' version and there
is no upstream for most if not all of drm. Both have been merged in to
a single port.

Users on powerpc, 32-bit hardware, or with GPUs predating Radeon
and i915 will need to install the graphics/drm-legacy-kmod. All
other users should be able to use one of the LinuxKPI-based ports:
graphics/drm-stable-kmod, graphics/drm-next-kmod, graphics/drm-devel-kmod.

MFC: never
Approved by: core@

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# 14b841d4 11-Aug-2018 Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>

MFH @ r337607, in preparation for boarding


# bbd7a929 04-Aug-2018 Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>

Merge ^/head r336870 through r337285, and resolve conflicts.


# 40fd4495 31-Jul-2018 Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>

COMPAT_LINUX32 has not depended on COMPAT_43 in some time.

MFC after: 3 days


# 164138e7 30-Jul-2018 Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>

amd64/GENERIC: Enable EFIRT by default

As noted in UDPATING, the new loader tunable efi.rt_disabled may be used to
disable EFIRT at runtime. It should have no effect if you are not booted via
UEFI b

amd64/GENERIC: Enable EFIRT by default

As noted in UDPATING, the new loader tunable efi.rt_disabled may be used to
disable EFIRT at runtime. It should have no effect if you are not booted via
UEFI boot.

MFC after: 6 weeks

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Revision tags: release/11.2.0
# 92689b3f 19-Jun-2018 Matt Macy <mmacy@FreeBSD.org>

remove ixl iwarp and ixlv from the build until they are in a working state


# c507c512 02-Jun-2018 Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org>

Finish COMPAT_AOUT support for amd64. It wasn't in any amd64 or MI
file in /sys/conf, so was unavailable in configurations that don't use
modules, and was not testable or notable in NOTES. Its norm

Finish COMPAT_AOUT support for amd64. It wasn't in any amd64 or MI
file in /sys/conf, so was unavailable in configurations that don't use
modules, and was not testable or notable in NOTES. Its normal
configuration (not using a module) is still silently deprecated in
aout(4) by not mentioning it there.

Update i386 NOTES for COMPAT_AOUT. It is not i386-only, or even very MD.
Sort its entry better.

Finish gzip configuration (but not support) for amd64. gzip is really
gzipped aout. It is currently broken even for i386 (a call to vm fails).
amd64 has always attempted to configure and test it, but it depends on
COMPAT_AOUT (as noted). The bug that it depends on unconfigured files
was not detected since it is configured as a device. All other optional
image activators are configured properly using an option.

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# 14ec0f3a 27-Apr-2018 Sean Bruno <sbruno@FreeBSD.org>

move smartpqi(4) controller out of NOTES and into sys/amd64/NOTES to
appease LINT

Submitted by: rpokala
Reported by: npn


# 24f93aa0 03-Mar-2018 Ravi Pokala <rpokala@FreeBSD.org>

imcsmb(4): Intel integrated Memory Controller (iMC) SMBus controller driver

imcsmb(4) provides smbus(4) support for the SMBus controller functionality
in the integrated Memory Controllers (iMCs) emb

imcsmb(4): Intel integrated Memory Controller (iMC) SMBus controller driver

imcsmb(4) provides smbus(4) support for the SMBus controller functionality
in the integrated Memory Controllers (iMCs) embedded in Intel Sandybridge-
Xeon, Ivybridge-Xeon, Haswell-Xeon, and Broadwell-Xeon CPUs. Each CPU
implements one or more iMCs, depending on the number of cores; each iMC
implements two SMBus controllers (iMC-SMBs).

*** IMPORTANT NOTE ***
Because motherboard firmware or the BMC might try to use the iMC-SMBs for
monitoring DIMM temperatures and/or managing an NVDIMM, the driver might
need to temporarily disable those functions, or take a hardware interlock,
before using the iMC-SMBs. Details on how to do this may vary from board to
board, and the procedure may be proprietary. It is strongly suggested that
anyone wishing to use this driver contact their motherboard vendor, and
modify the driver as described in the manual page and in the driver itself.
(For what it's worth, the driver as-is has been tested on various SuperMicro
motherboards.)

Reviewed by: avg, jhb
MFC after: 1 week
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Panasas
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14447
Discussed with: avg, ian, jhb
Tested by: allanjude (previous version), Panasas

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# 33ec1ccb 13-Feb-2018 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@FreeBSD.org>

Import the mthca kernel side infiniband driver from Linux 4.9 and fix
compilation under FreeBSD. The mthca driver was temporarily removed as
part of the Linux 4.9 RoCE/infinband upgrade.

Top commit

Import the mthca kernel side infiniband driver from Linux 4.9 and fix
compilation under FreeBSD. The mthca driver was temporarily removed as
part of the Linux 4.9 RoCE/infinband upgrade.

Top commit in Linux source tree:
69973b830859bc6529a7a0468ba0d80ee5117826

Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies

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# 87181516 24-Nov-2017 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@FreeBSD.org>

RoCE/infiniband upgrade to Linux v4.9 for kernel and userspace.

This commit merges projects/bsd_rdma_4_9 to head.

List of kernel sources used:
============================

1) kernel sources were c

RoCE/infiniband upgrade to Linux v4.9 for kernel and userspace.

This commit merges projects/bsd_rdma_4_9 to head.

List of kernel sources used:
============================

1) kernel sources were cloned from git://github.com/torvalds/linux.git
Top commit 69973b830859bc6529a7a0468ba0d80ee5117826 - tag: v4.9, linux-4.9

2) krping was cloned from https://github.com/larrystevenwise/krping
Top commit 292a2f1abf0348285e678a82264740d52e4dcfe4

List of userspace sources used:
===============================

1) rdma-core was cloned from https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core.git
Top commit d65138ef93af30b3ea249f3a84aa6a24ba7f8a75

2) OpenSM was cloned from git://git.openfabrics.org/~halr/opensm.git
Top commit 85f841cf209f791c89a075048a907020e924528d

3) libibmad was cloned from git://git.openfabrics.org/~iraweiny/libibmad.git
Tag 1.3.13 with some additional patches from Mellanox.

4) infiniband-diags was cloned from git://git.openfabrics.org/~iraweiny/infiniband-diags.git
Tag 1.6.7 with some additional patches from Mellanox.

NOTES:
======

1) The mthca driver has been removed in kernel and in userspace.
2) All GPLv2 only sources have been removed and where applicable
rewritten from scratch under a BSD license.
3) List of fully supported drivers in userspace and kernel:
a) iw_cxgbe (Chelsio)
b) mlx4ib (Mellanox)
c) mlx5ib (Mellanox)
4) WITH_OFED=YES is still required by make in order to build
OFED userspace and kernel code.
5) Full support has been added for routable RoCE, RoCE v2.

Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies

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# 8dee9a7a 13-Nov-2017 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@FreeBSD.org>

Remove no longer supported mthca driver.

Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies


Revision tags: release/10.4.0
# b754c279 13-Sep-2017 Navdeep Parhar <np@FreeBSD.org>

MFH @ r323558.


# 5be4ad9e 09-Sep-2017 Enji Cooper <ngie@FreeBSD.org>

MFhead@r323343


# 907f50fe 05-Sep-2017 Conrad Meyer <cem@FreeBSD.org>

Add smn(4) driver for AMD System Management Network

AMD Family 17h CPUs have an internal network used to communicate between
the host CPU and the PSP and SMU coprocessors. It exposes a simple
32-bi

Add smn(4) driver for AMD System Management Network

AMD Family 17h CPUs have an internal network used to communicate between
the host CPU and the PSP and SMU coprocessors. It exposes a simple
32-bit register space.

Reviewed by: avg (no +1), mjoras, truckman
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12217

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# ed9652da 30-Aug-2017 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Add NTB driver for PLX/Avago/Broadcom PCIe switches.

This driver supports both NTB-to-NTB and NTB-to-Root Port modes (though
the second with predictable complications on hot-plug and reboot events).

Add NTB driver for PLX/Avago/Broadcom PCIe switches.

This driver supports both NTB-to-NTB and NTB-to-Root Port modes (though
the second with predictable complications on hot-plug and reboot events).
I tested it with PEX 8717 and PEX 8733 chips, but expect it should work
with many other compatible ones too. It supports up to two NT bridges
per chip, each of which can have up to 2 64-bit or 4 32-bit memory windows,
6 or 12 scratchpad registers and 16 doorbells. There are also 4 DMA engines
in those chips, but they are not yet supported.

While there, rename Intel NTB driver from generic ntb_hw(4) to more specific
ntb_hw_intel(4), so now it is on par with this new ntb_hw_plx(4) driver and
alike to Linux naming.

MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.

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# 531c2d7a 24-Jul-2017 Enji Cooper <ngie@FreeBSD.org>

MFhead@r320180


# bca9d05f 23-Jul-2017 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@FreeBSD.org>

Merge ^/head r319973 through 321382.


Revision tags: release/11.1.0
# d2043ca3 14-Jul-2017 Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>

Merge ^/head r320573 through r320970.


# 6ef95661 03-Jul-2017 Sean Bruno <sbruno@FreeBSD.org>

Garbage collect kernel option TWA_FLASH_FIRMWARE

Submitted by: kevin.bowling0kev009.com
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11387


# aa6b3456 12-Mar-2017 Emmanuel Vadot <manu@FreeBSD.org>

Remove i915drm and radeondrm from NOTES and conf.
This unbreak LINT kernel.

Reported by: lwhsu


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