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# d70e5b3a 25-Aug-2026 Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>

conf: Add COMPAT_FREEBSD15

Define it everywhere that wants COMPAT_FREEBSD14.

Reviewed by: imp, kib, emaste
Sponsored by: OPNsense
Sponsored by: Klara, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.fr

conf: Add COMPAT_FREEBSD15

Define it everywhere that wants COMPAT_FREEBSD14.

Reviewed by: imp, kib, emaste
Sponsored by: OPNsense
Sponsored by: Klara, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D59017

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Revision tags: release/15.1.0-p3, release/15.0.0-p13, release/14.4.0-p9, release/15.1.0-p2, release/15.0.0-p12, release/14.4.0-p8
# 23a6997e 12-Jul-2026 Abdelkader Boudih <freebsd@seuros.com>

fwdv: add AV/C DV capture driver for FireWire camcorders

Add fwdv(4) driver for DV video capture from FireWire camcorders
using AV/C protocol and isochronous streaming.

Supports AV/C tape transport

fwdv: add AV/C DV capture driver for FireWire camcorders

Add fwdv(4) driver for DV video capture from FireWire camcorders
using AV/C protocol and isochronous streaming.

Supports AV/C tape transport commands (play, stop, ff, rewind, pause,
record, eject) with NTSC/PAL auto-detection and read(2) interface
for frame capture.

Reviewed by: adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D58122

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Revision tags: release/15.0.0-p11, release/14.3.0-p16, release/14.4.0-p7, release/15.1.0-p1
# e2d56447 25-Jun-2026 Aymeric Wibo <obiwac@FreeBSD.org>

hrfkill: Add driver to report RFKILL button press

This driver only reports the RFKILL button presses.

This is needed for the "airplane" key on some Framework laptops.

Reviewed by: wulf, ziaee
Even

hrfkill: Add driver to report RFKILL button press

This driver only reports the RFKILL button presses.

This is needed for the "airplane" key on some Framework laptops.

Reviewed by: wulf, ziaee
Event: Halifax Hackathon 202606
Location: vishwin@'s car
Co-authored-by: Daniel Shaefer
Sponsored by: Framework Computer Inc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D57838

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# cd7b6508 09-Jul-2026 Abdelkader Boudih <freebsd@seuros.com>

fwisound: add Apple FireWire audio driver

Expose audio capture from Apple FireWire devices as a standard
pcm(4)/dsp(4) device via the newpcm framework.

(adrian: I've tested this on an isight camera

fwisound: add Apple FireWire audio driver

Expose audio capture from Apple FireWire devices as a standard
pcm(4)/dsp(4) device via the newpcm framework.

(adrian: I've tested this on an isight camera and looped
it back to USB speakers via "sox -t oss /dev/dsp3 -t oss /dev/dsp4")

Reviewed by: adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D58109

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# 40e05479 25-Jun-2026 Abdelkader Boudih <freebsd@seuros.com>

fwcam: add IIDC 1394 FireWire camera driver

Add fwcam(4), a driver for IIDC v1.30 (TA Document 1999023) digital
cameras over IEEE 1394.

Supports Format_0 (VGA) video modes with isochronous receive

fwcam: add IIDC 1394 FireWire camera driver

Add fwcam(4), a driver for IIDC v1.30 (TA Document 1999023) digital
cameras over IEEE 1394.

Supports Format_0 (VGA) video modes with isochronous receive DMA,
feature control (brightness, exposure, gain, shutter, white balance,
focus, etc.), poll/kqueue, and hot-plug via bus reset handling.

Reviewed by: adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D57685

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Revision tags: release/15.1.0, release/15.0.0-p10, release/14.4.0-p6, release/14.3.0-p15, release/14.4.0-p5, release/14.3.0-p14, release/15.0.0-p9, release/14.4.0-p4, release/14.3.0-p13, release/13.5.0-p14, release/15.0.0-p8, release/14.4.0-p3, release/14.3.0-p12, release/13.5.0-p13, release/15.0.0-p7, release/13.5.0-p12, release/14.3.0-p11, release/14.4.0-p2, release/15.0.0-p6
# cfec995c 17-Apr-2026 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

ixgbe: add MDIO bus support

This works enough to let me see the marvell switch on the MDIO bus.

It uses clause 22, which ixgbe's existing MDIO code doesn't currently
support, so it's implemented in

ixgbe: add MDIO bus support

This works enough to let me see the marvell switch on the MDIO bus.

It uses clause 22, which ixgbe's existing MDIO code doesn't currently
support, so it's implemented in a new source file.

Since mdio(4) is now required, add it where appropriate to GENERIC kernels.

Reviewed by: kbowling
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50128

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# e44d2e94 11-Apr-2026 Pouria Mousavizadeh Tehrani <pouria@FreeBSD.org>

if_geneve: Add Support for Geneve (RFC8926)

geneve creates a generic network virtualization tunnel interface
for Tentant Systems over an L3 (IP/UDP) underlay network that provides
a Layer 2 (etherne

if_geneve: Add Support for Geneve (RFC8926)

geneve creates a generic network virtualization tunnel interface
for Tentant Systems over an L3 (IP/UDP) underlay network that provides
a Layer 2 (ethernet) or Layer 3 service using the geneve protocol.
This implementation is based on RFC8926.

Reviewed by: glebius, adrian
Discussed with: zlei, kp
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D54172

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# 254b23eb 27-Mar-2026 Pouria Mousavizadeh Tehrani <pouria@FreeBSD.org>

routing: Retire ROUTE_MPATH compile option

The ROUTE_MPATH compile option was introduced to
test the new multipath implementation.
Since compiling it has no overhead and it's enabled
by default, rem

routing: Retire ROUTE_MPATH compile option

The ROUTE_MPATH compile option was introduced to
test the new multipath implementation.
Since compiling it has no overhead and it's enabled
by default, remove it.

Reviewed by: melifaro, markj
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55884

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Revision tags: release/13.5.0-p11, release/14.3.0-p10, release/14.4.0-p1, release/15.0.0-p5
# 72e85a4d 24-Mar-2026 Christos Margiolis <christos@FreeBSD.org>

snd_dummy: Add to sys/conf/files and sys/conf/NOTES

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Reviewed by: markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56040


# 9318336f 24-Mar-2026 Christos Margiolis <christos@FreeBSD.org>

sound: Retire SND_FEEDER_MULTIFORMAT and SND_FEEDER_FULL_MULTIFORMAT

There is no reason to have these legacy controls anymore, all these
formats can be handled just fine nowadays.

Sponsored by: The

sound: Retire SND_FEEDER_MULTIFORMAT and SND_FEEDER_FULL_MULTIFORMAT

There is no reason to have these legacy controls anymore, all these
formats can be handled just fine nowadays.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Reviewed by: markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55937

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# bf0e5d98 24-Mar-2026 Christos Margiolis <christos@FreeBSD.org>

sound: Retire SND_OLDSTEREO

This is a legacy option and does not serve a good purpose anymore.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Reviewed by: markj
Differential Revision: https

sound: Retire SND_OLDSTEREO

This is a legacy option and does not serve a good purpose anymore.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Reviewed by: markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55933

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# 5d311c75 24-Mar-2026 Christos Margiolis <christos@FreeBSD.org>

sound: Retire SND_DEBUG

Not useful anymore.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Reviewed by: markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55932


# 092687a0 21-Mar-2026 Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>

kernel: Be clearer about what ZSTDIO is for

ZSTDIO is not just for core dumps, and it is now required by ZFS, so
move it (and GZIO, which is still just for dumps) to a new “Compression
support” sect

kernel: Be clearer about what ZSTDIO is for

ZSTDIO is not just for core dumps, and it is now required by ZFS, so
move it (and GZIO, which is still just for dumps) to a new “Compression
support” section in GENERIC, and add them both to MINIMAL.

MFC after: 1 week
Reviewed by: imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55940

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Revision tags: release/14.4.0, release/13.5.0-p10, release/14.3.0-p9, release/15.0.0-p4, release/15.0.0-p3, release/13.5.0-p9, release/15.0.0-p2, release/14.3.0-p8, release/15.0.0-p1, release/13.5.0-p8, release/14.3.0-p7, release/15.0.0, release/14.3.0-p6, release/13.5.0-p7
# 7a323f87 24-Oct-2025 Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>

sys: Retire le(4)

We retired most obsolete 10 and 10/100 Ethernet NIC drivers in 2019 --
see commits following ebcf740a32ae ("FCP-101: remove obsolete 10 and
10/100 Ethernet drivers.).

le(4) was re

sys: Retire le(4)

We retired most obsolete 10 and 10/100 Ethernet NIC drivers in 2019 --
see commits following ebcf740a32ae ("FCP-101: remove obsolete 10 and
10/100 Ethernet drivers.).

le(4) was retained with with the note "Emulated by QEMU, alternatives
don't yet work for mips64." MIPS has since been removed from the tree
and emulators and virtual machines offer many other, more suitable
devices.

Reviewed by: brooks
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55516

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# 1322760f 23-Jan-2026 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

sys: enable both SCHED_ULE and SCHED_4BSD for some configs

Globally enable both schedulers for LINT.
Enable both schedulers for GENERIC on amd64.

Reviewed by: olce
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The

sys: enable both SCHED_ULE and SCHED_4BSD for some configs

Globally enable both schedulers for LINT.
Enable both schedulers for GENERIC on amd64.

Reviewed by: olce
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D54831

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# afbb21bd 17-Jan-2026 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

aq: remove from NOTES; it's unfortunately amd64 only

Unfortunately the aq driver is using readl/writel calls instead
of bus space routines.

This broke, well, everything else.
Fixes: c75eff16ef54aa

aq: remove from NOTES; it's unfortunately amd64 only

Unfortunately the aq driver is using readl/writel calls instead
of bus space routines.

This broke, well, everything else.
Fixes: c75eff16ef54aaae7b5dc52ed894cc73a855f469

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# c75eff16 17-Jan-2026 Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com>

aq: Add to amd64 GENERIC and to sys/conf/NOTES

Reviewed by: adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D54633


# 9d015a91 15-Jan-2026 Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>

Remove the DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS kernel option

After commit 3bd8fab2415b ("vfs: Move DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS checks to
INVARIANTS"), this option has no effect. Let's finish the removal.

There are a couple of ad

Remove the DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS kernel option

After commit 3bd8fab2415b ("vfs: Move DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS checks to
INVARIANTS"), this option has no effect. Let's finish the removal.

There are a couple of additional uses in zfs, I will submit a separate
patch upstream for them.

Reviewed by: mckusick, kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D54662

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# e28529ca 10-Jan-2026 Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com>

rge: Add to amd64 GENERIC and to sys/conf/NOTES

Reviewed by: adrian
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D54609


# 0ff0c19e 16-Nov-2025 Cy Schubert <cy@FreeBSD.org>

ipfilter: Disable ipfs(8) by default

At the moment ipfs(8) is a tool that can be easily abused. Though the
concept is sound the implementation needs some work.

ipfs(8) should be considered experime

ipfilter: Disable ipfs(8) by default

At the moment ipfs(8) is a tool that can be easily abused. Though the
concept is sound the implementation needs some work.

ipfs(8) should be considered experimental at the moment.

This commit also makes ipfs support in the kernel optional.

Reviewed by: emaste, glebius
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D53787

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# 2996c41e 26-Nov-2025 ykla <yklaxds@gmail.com>

NOTES: fix typos and unify terminology in comments

Signed-off-by: ykla yklaxds@gmail.com
Sponsored by: Chinese FreeBSD Community
Reviewed by: imp
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src

NOTES: fix typos and unify terminology in comments

Signed-off-by: ykla yklaxds@gmail.com
Sponsored by: Chinese FreeBSD Community
Reviewed by: imp
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1901

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# f7725c3c 25-Nov-2025 ykla <yklaxds@gmail.com>

NOTES: Fix a typo in a comments

Signed-off-by: ykla yklaxds@gmail.com
Sponsored by: Chinese FreeBSD Community
Reviewed by: imp
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1899


# d6f10a5d 28-Oct-2025 David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>

random: allow disabling of entropy harvesting from keyboard & mice

Reviewed by: jmg
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D53390


# 3deb21f1 28-Oct-2025 David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>

random: TPM_HARVEST should have been named RANDOM_ENABLE_TPM

* Enable RANDOM_ENABLE_TPM by default

* The commit of TPM_HARVEST failed to add it to NOTES
so that the LINT kernel would build the co

random: TPM_HARVEST should have been named RANDOM_ENABLE_TPM

* Enable RANDOM_ENABLE_TPM by default

* The commit of TPM_HARVEST failed to add it to NOTES
so that the LINT kernel would build the code.

Fixes: 4ee7d3b0118c82e651712bb65da53d08e78cd7b1
Reviewed by: imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D53460

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Revision tags: release/13.5.0-p6, release/14.3.0-p5
# 685a7857 18-Oct-2025 David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>

random: remove hifn(4)

The Hifn 7955 & 7956 only supports deprecated & NIST disallowed
algorithms (NIST SP800-224idp): SHA1 and SHA1-HMAC.

Furthermore the entropy RNG of the Hifn 7751, 7951, 7811,

random: remove hifn(4)

The Hifn 7955 & 7956 only supports deprecated & NIST disallowed
algorithms (NIST SP800-224idp): SHA1 and SHA1-HMAC.

Furthermore the entropy RNG of the Hifn 7751, 7951, 7811, 7955,
and 7956 has no NIST Entropy Source Validation (ESV) certificate
and cannot be used in a FIPS-140-3 nor Common Criteara environment.

Furthermore the most prolific instance for FreeBSD was the
Soekris Engineering vpn1201, vpn1211, vpn1401, and vpn1411
offerings. These are all 32-bit only processors. The i386
kernel was de-supported in 15.0.

Reviewed by: jhb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D53182

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