NOTES: Remove a double word in comments

- s/for for/for/

MFC after: 3 days

NOTES: Fix a typo in a comments

- s/accomodate/accommodate/

MFC after: 3 days

Retire broken snd_ds1 and snd_maestro drivers

In 2012 joel@ reported[1] that these were not functional, and they do
not appear to have been fixed since.

[1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/free

Retire broken snd_ds1 and snd_maestro drivers

In 2012 joel@ reported[1] that these were not functional, and they do
not appear to have been fixed since.

[1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2012-January/012751.html

Reported by: joel
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

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Remove an obsolete warning from NOTES

The PREEMPTION option is enabled in all GENERIC kernel configurations.

MFC after: 1 week

Add lio back to NOTES

lio appears to be partially removed from this file. It's a modern enough
card, so add it back. It builds everywhere.

Sponsored by: Netflix

Remove references to PCMCIA

Remove more references to PCMCIA in kernel config files. We no longer
support PC Card devices.

Sponsored by: Netflix

Remove references to sio(4) from NOTES

Also zs(4) and sab(4), which have similarly been removed.

Reviewed by: imp, jhb, emaste
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D

Remove references to sio(4) from NOTES

Also zs(4) and sab(4), which have similarly been removed.

Reviewed by: imp, jhb, emaste
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33279

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MAC/priority module for realtime privilege group

This is a MAC policy module that grants scheduling privileges based on
group membership. Users or processes in the group realtime (gid 47) are
allow

MAC/priority module for realtime privilege group

This is a MAC policy module that grants scheduling privileges based on
group membership. Users or processes in the group realtime (gid 47) are
allowed to run threads and processes with realtime scheduling priority.
For timing-sensitive, low-latency software like audio/jack, running with
realtime priority helps to avoid stutter and gaps.

PR: 239125
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33191

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esp: Remove

Belatedly remove esp(4). It was tagged as gone in 13, but was overlooked
until now.

Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: scottl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33115

amr: remove

Belatedly remove amr(4). It was slated to depart before 13.0 but was
overlooked until now.

Sponsored by: Netflix
Relnotes: yes
Reviewed by: scottl
Differential Revision: https://revi

amr: remove

Belatedly remove amr(4). It was slated to depart before 13.0 but was
overlooked until now.

Sponsored by: Netflix
Relnotes: yes
Reviewed by: scottl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33113

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iir: Remove

Belatedly remove iir(4). It was slated to go before 13, but was
overlooked.

Sponsored by: Netflix
Relnotes: yes
Reviewed by: scottl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org

iir: Remove

Belatedly remove iir(4). It was slated to go before 13, but was
overlooked.

Sponsored by: Netflix
Relnotes: yes
Reviewed by: scottl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33112

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mly: Remove.

We'd said this was going away in 13, but was overlooked. Belatedly
remove.

Sponsored by: Netflix
Relnotes: yes
Reviewed by: scottl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org

mly: Remove.

We'd said this was going away in 13, but was overlooked. Belatedly
remove.

Sponsored by: Netflix
Relnotes: yes
Reviewed by: scottl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33111

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Add a COMPAT_FREEBSD13 kernel option

Use it wherever COMPAT_FREEBSD11 is currently specified.

Reviewed by: jhb (previous version)
Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications, LLC ("Netgate")
Differential

Add a COMPAT_FREEBSD13 kernel option

Use it wherever COMPAT_FREEBSD11 is currently specified.

Reviewed by: jhb (previous version)
Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications, LLC ("Netgate")
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33005

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tcp: Congestion control cleanup.

NOTE: HEADS UP read the note below if your kernel config is not including GENERIC!!

This patch does a bit of cleanup on TCP congestion control modules. There were s

tcp: Congestion control cleanup.

NOTE: HEADS UP read the note below if your kernel config is not including GENERIC!!

This patch does a bit of cleanup on TCP congestion control modules. There were some rather
interesting surprises that one could get i.e. where you use a socket option to change
from one CC (say cc_cubic) to another CC (say cc_vegas) and you could in theory get
a memory failure and end up on cc_newreno. This is not what one would expect. The
new code fixes this by requiring a cc_data_sz() function so we can malloc with M_WAITOK
and pass in to the init function preallocated memory. The CC init is expected in this
case *not* to fail but if it does and a module does break the
"no fail with memory given" contract we do fall back to the CC that was in place at the time.

This also fixes up a set of common newreno utilities that can be shared amongst other
CC modules instead of the other CC modules reaching into newreno and executing
what they think is a "common and understood" function. Lets put these functions in
cc.c and that way we have a common place that is easily findable by future developers or
bug fixers. This also allows newreno to evolve and grow support for its features i.e. ABE
and HYSTART++ without having to dance through hoops for other CC modules, instead
both newreno and the other modules just call into the common functions if they desire
that behavior or roll there own if that makes more sense.

Note: This commit changes the kernel configuration!! If you are not using GENERIC in
some form you must add a CC module option (one of CC_NEWRENO, CC_VEGAS, CC_CUBIC,
CC_CDG, CC_CHD, CC_DCTCP, CC_HTCP, CC_HD). You can have more than one defined
as well if you desire. Note that if you create a kernel configuration that does not
define a congestion control module and includes INET or INET6 the kernel compile will
break. Also you need to define a default, generic adds 'options CC_DEFAULT=\"newreno\"
but you can specify any string that represents the name of the CC module (same names
that show up in the CC module list under net.inet.tcp.cc). If you fail to add the
options CC_DEFAULT in your kernel configuration the kernel build will also break.

Reviewed by: Michael Tuexen
Sponsored by: Netflix Inc.
RELNOTES:YES
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32693

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Retire obsolete iscsi_initiator(4)

The new iSCSI initiator iscsi(4) was introduced with FreeBSD 10.0, and
the old intiator was marked obsolete shortly thereafter (in commit
d32789d95cfbf, MFC'd to s

Retire obsolete iscsi_initiator(4)

The new iSCSI initiator iscsi(4) was introduced with FreeBSD 10.0, and
the old intiator was marked obsolete shortly thereafter (in commit
d32789d95cfbf, MFC'd to stable/10 in ba54910169c4). Remove it now.

Reviewed by: jhb, mav
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32673

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Retire synchronous PPP kernel driver sppp(4).

The last two drivers that required sppp are cp(4) and ce(4).

These devices are still produced and can be purchased
at Cronyx <http://cronyx.ru/hardware

Retire synchronous PPP kernel driver sppp(4).

The last two drivers that required sppp are cp(4) and ce(4).

These devices are still produced and can be purchased
at Cronyx <http://cronyx.ru/hardware/wan.html>.

Since Roman Kurakin <rik@FreeBSD.org> has quit them, they no
longer support FreeBSD officially. Later they have dropped
support for Linux drivers to. As of mid-2020 they don't even
have a developer to maintain their Windows driver. However,
their support verbally told me that they could provide aid to
a FreeBSD developer with documentaion in case if there appears
a new customer for their devices.

These drivers have a feature to not use sppp(4) and create an
interface, but instead expose the device as netgraph(4) node.
Then, you can attach ng_ppp(4) with help of ports/net/mpd5 on
top of the node and get your synchronous PPP. Alternatively
you can attach ng_frame_relay(4) or ng_cisco(4) for HDLC.
Actually, last time I used cp(4) back in 2004, using netgraph(4)
instead of sppp(4) was already the right way to do.

Thus, remove the sppp(4) related part of the drivers and enable
by default the negraph(4) part. Further maintenance of these
drivers in the tree shouldn't be a big deal.

While doing that, remove some cruft and enable cp(4) compilation
on amd64. The ce(4) for some unknown reason marks its internal
DDK functions with __attribute__ fastcall, which most likely is
safe to remove, but without hardware I'm not going to do that, so
ce(4) remains i386-only.

Reviewed by: emaste, imp, donner
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32590
See also: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23928

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Restore PPS_SYNC in NOTES

This partially reverts e81e77c5a055, leaving the option both in
GENERICs on amd64/arm64/arm, and in global NOTES file. Apparently
this better matches existing practice, wh

Restore PPS_SYNC in NOTES

This partially reverts e81e77c5a055, leaving the option both in
GENERICs on amd64/arm64/arm, and in global NOTES file. Apparently
this better matches existing practice, where we do not try to hard
to make LINT and GENERIC complimentary.

Requested and reviewed by: jhb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week

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Enable PPS_SYNC on amd64, arm64 and armv7

Remove the option from NOTES/LINT, and add to NOTES for powerpc and
riscv.

PR: 259036
Requested by: John Hay <john@sanren.ac.za>
Discussed with: ian, imp
S

Enable PPS_SYNC on amd64, arm64 and armv7

Remove the option from NOTES/LINT, and add to NOTES for powerpc and
riscv.

PR: 259036
Requested by: John Hay <john@sanren.ac.za>
Discussed with: ian, imp
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week

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Add EPOCH_TRACE to NOTES to get LINT coverage.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

pccard: remove pccard device from all kernels

All the PC Card drivers have been removed from the tree. Remove the
pccard drivers from all the kernels.

Sponsored by: Netflix

fan53555: attach to build and switch from syr827

Rather than extending syr827 for syr828 (as initially done in D31103)
switch to the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation fan53555 implementation
which

fan53555: attach to build and switch from syr827

Rather than extending syr827 for syr828 (as initially done in D31103)
switch to the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation fan53555 implementation
which is in-tree but was not attached to the build. The fan53555
implementation also supports syr827/syr8278 already. [1]
Update NOTES and the arm64 GENERIC configuration for the switch.
syr827 for now stays in the tree but is not used by any
kernel configuration.

Suggested by: mmel [1]
Reviewed by: mmel, manu
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31112

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linux(4): Get rid of Linuxulator kernel build options.

Stop confusing people, retire COMPAT_LINUX and COMPAT_LINUX32 kernel
build options. Since we have 32 and 64 bit Linux emulators, we can't build

linux(4): Get rid of Linuxulator kernel build options.

Stop confusing people, retire COMPAT_LINUX and COMPAT_LINUX32 kernel
build options. Since we have 32 and 64 bit Linux emulators, we can't build both
emulators together into the kernel. I don't think it matters, Linux emulation
depends on loadable modules (via rc).

Cut LINPROCFS and LINSYSFS for consistency.

PR: 215061
Reviewed by: bcr (manpages), trasz
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30751
MFC after: 2 weeks

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NOTES: Improve wording

jhb@ pointed out an extra plural in this phrase and a gramatical error,
so reword a little to be less awkward to fix both issues.

Sponsored by: Netflix

NOTES: fix typo

Noted by: gj@
Sponsored by: Netflix

NOTES: Update the HZ entry with latest advice.

Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30804