Back in the good old days, PC's had random pieces of rock for
frequency generation and what frequency the generated was anyones
guess.

In general the 32.768kHz RTC clock x-tal was the best, because

Back in the good old days, PC's had random pieces of rock for
frequency generation and what frequency the generated was anyones
guess.

In general the 32.768kHz RTC clock x-tal was the best, because that
was a regular wrist-watch Xtal, whereas the X-tal generating the
ISA bus frequency was much lower quality, often costing as much as
several cents a piece, so it made good sense to check the ISA bus
frequency against the RTC clock.

The other relevant property of those machines, is that they
typically had no more than 16MB RAM.

These days, CPU chips croak if their clocks are not tightly within
specs and all necessary frequencies are derived from the master
crystal by means if PLL's.

Considering that it takes on average 1.5 second to calibrate the
frequency of the i8254 counter, that more likely than not, we will
not actually use the result of the calibration, and as the final
clincher, we seldom use the i8254 for anything besides BEL in
syscons anyway, it has become time to drop the calibration code.

If you need to tell the system what frequency your i8254 runs,
you can do so from the loader using hw.i8254.freq or using the
sysctl kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.frequency.

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Allow the sio acpi attachment to be disabled (ie: use hints only). This
hack means you can get the units and flags to match up more easily with
serial consoles on machines with acpi tables that caus

Allow the sio acpi attachment to be disabled (ie: use hints only). This
hack means you can get the units and flags to match up more easily with
serial consoles on machines with acpi tables that cause the com ports
to be probed in the wrong order (and hence get the wrong sio unit number).

This replaces the common alternative hack of editing the code to comment
out the acpi attachment. This could go away entirely when device wiring
patches are committed.

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Temporary disconnect i4bing, i4bisppp and i4bipr from the build for
the 7.0 timeframe.

This is needed because I4B is not locked and NET_NEEDS_GIANT goes away.

The plan is to lock I4B and bring ever

Temporary disconnect i4bing, i4bisppp and i4bipr from the build for
the 7.0 timeframe.

This is needed because I4B is not locked and NET_NEEDS_GIANT goes away.

The plan is to lock I4B and bring everything back for 7.1.

Approved by: re (kensmith)

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Remove sio(4) and related options from MI files to amd64, i386
and pc98 MD files. Remove nodevice and nooption lines specific
to sio(4) from ia64, powerpc and sparc64 NOTES. There were no
such lines

Remove sio(4) and related options from MI files to amd64, i386
and pc98 MD files. Remove nodevice and nooption lines specific
to sio(4) from ia64, powerpc and sparc64 NOTES. There were no
such lines for arm yet.
sio(4) is usable on less than half the platforms, not counting
a future mips platform. Its presence in MI files is therefore
increasingly becoming a burden.

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Send the pcvt(4) driver off to retirement.

Fix LINSYSFS in the platform options files that I missed from the platform
split out change.

- change the example of compiling only specific modules to not contain
the linux module, since it is not cross-platform
- move linprocfs from "files" and "options" to architecture specific files,

- change the example of compiling only specific modules to not contain
the linux module, since it is not cross-platform
- move linprocfs from "files" and "options" to architecture specific files,
since it only makes sense to build this for those architectures, where we
also have a linuxolator
- disable the build of the linuxolator on our tier-2 architecture "Alpha":
* we don't have a linux_base port which supports Alpha and at the
same time is not outdated/obsoleted upstream/in a good condition/
currently working
* the upcomming new default linux base port is based upon Fedora
Core 3 (security support via http://www.fedoralegacy.org), which
isn't available for Alpha (like the current default linux base
port which is based upon Red Hat 8)
* nobody answered my request for testing it ~1 month ago on
current@ and alpha@ (it doesn't surprises me, see above)
* a SoC student wouldn't have to waste time on something which
nobody is willing to test

This does not remove the alpha specific MD files of the linuxolator yet.

Discussed on: arch (mostly silence)
Spiritual support by: scottl

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o Move ISA specific code from ppc.c to ppc_isa.c -- a bus front-
end for isa(4).
o Add a seperate bus frontend for acpi(4) and allow ISA DMA for
it when ISA is configured in the kernel. This

o Move ISA specific code from ppc.c to ppc_isa.c -- a bus front-
end for isa(4).
o Add a seperate bus frontend for acpi(4) and allow ISA DMA for
it when ISA is configured in the kernel. This allows acpi(4)
attachments in non-ISA configurations, as is possible for ia64.
o Add a seperate bus frontend for pci(4) and detect known single
port parallel cards.
o Merge PC98 specific changes under pc98/cbus into the MI driver.
The changes are minor enough for conditional compilation and
in this form invites better abstraction.
o Have ppc(4) usabled on all platforms, now that ISA specifics
are untangled enough.

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Move XBOX option to options. While it is only valid on i386,
syscons_isa is shared with other machines.

Remove all redundant option file names that don't hurt readability.

Add experimental BPF Just-In-Time compiler for amd64 and i386.

Use the following kernel configuration option to enable:

options BPF_JITTER

If you want to use bpf_filter() instead (e. g., debuggin

Add experimental BPF Just-In-Time compiler for amd64 and i386.

Use the following kernel configuration option to enable:

options BPF_JITTER

If you want to use bpf_filter() instead (e. g., debugging), do:

sysctl net.bpf.jitter.enable=0

to turn it off.

Currently BIOCSETWF and bpf_mtap2() are unsupported, and bpf_mtap() is
partially supported because 1) no need, 2) avoid expensive m_copydata(9).

Obtained from: WinPcap 3.1 (for i386)

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Sort.

Make COUNT_IPIS and COUNT_XINVLTLB_HITS real kernel options and take
them out of machine/smptests.h.

Add support for XBOX to the FreeBSD port. The xbox architecture is
nearly identical to wintel/ia32, with a couple of tweaks. Since it is
so similar to ia32, it is optionally added to a i386 kernel.

Add support for XBOX to the FreeBSD port. The xbox architecture is
nearly identical to wintel/ia32, with a couple of tweaks. Since it is
so similar to ia32, it is optionally added to a i386 kernel. This
port is preliminary, but seems to work well. Further improvements
will improve the interaction with syscons(4), port Linux nforce driver
and future versions of the xbox.

This supports the 64MB and 128MB boxes. You'll need the most recent
CVS version of Cromwell (the Linux BIOS for the XBOX) to boot.

Rink will be maintaining this port, and is interested in feedback.
He's setup a website http://xbox-bsd.nl to report the latest
developments.

Any silly mistakes are my fault.

Submitted by: Rink P.W. Springer rink at stack dot nl and
Ed Schouten ed at fxq dot nl

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Rename the KDB_STOP_NMI kernel option to STOP_NMI and make it apply to all
IPI_STOP IPIs.
- Change the i386 and amd64 MD IPI code to send an NMI if STOP_NMI is
enabled if an attempt is made to send

Rename the KDB_STOP_NMI kernel option to STOP_NMI and make it apply to all
IPI_STOP IPIs.
- Change the i386 and amd64 MD IPI code to send an NMI if STOP_NMI is
enabled if an attempt is made to send an IPI_STOP IPI. If the kernel
option is enabled, there is also a sysctl to change the behavior at
runtime (debug.stop_cpus_with_nmi which defaults to enabled). This
includes removing stop_cpus_nmi() and making ipi_nmi_selected() a
private function for i386 and amd64.
- Fix ipi_all(), ipi_all_but_self(), and ipi_self() on i386 and amd64 to
properly handle bitmapped IPIs as well as IPI_STOP IPIs when STOP_NMI is
enabled.
- Fix ipi_nmi_handler() to execute the restart function on the first CPU
that is restarted making use of atomic_readandclear() rather than
assuming that the BSP is always included in the set of restarted CPUs.
Also, the NMI handler didn't clear the function pointer meaning that
subsequent stop and restarts could execute the function again.
- Define a new macro HAVE_STOPPEDPCBS on i386 and amd64 to control the use
of stoppedpcbs[] and always enable it for i386 and amd64 instead of
being dependent on KDB_STOP_NMI. It works fine in both the NMI and
non-NMI cases.

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Remove the CPU_ENABLE_SSE option from the i386 and pc98 architectures,
as they are already default for I686_CPU for almost 3 years, and
CPU_DISABLE_SSE always disables it. On the other hand, CPU_ENA

Remove the CPU_ENABLE_SSE option from the i386 and pc98 architectures,
as they are already default for I686_CPU for almost 3 years, and
CPU_DISABLE_SSE always disables it. On the other hand, CPU_ENABLE_SSE
does not work for I486_CPU and I586_CPU.

This commit has:
- Removed the option from conf/options.*
- Removed the option and comments from MD NOTES files
- Simplified the CPU_ENABLE_SSE ifdef's so they don't
deal with CPU_ENABLE_SSE from kernel configuration. (*)

For most users, this commit should be largely no-op. If you used to
place CPU_ENABLE_SSE into your kernel configuration for some reason,
it is time to remove it.

(*) The ifdef's of CPU_ENABLE_SSE are not removed at this point, since
we need to change it to !defined(CPU_DISABLE_SSE) && defined(I686_CPU),
not just !defined(CPU_DISABLE_SSE), if we really want to do so.

Discussed on: -arch
Approved by: re (scottl)

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Move the KDB_STOP_NMI option from opt_global.h to opt_kdb.h

Approved by: re

Connect reiserfs build to every platforms, not only i386 and pc98.

Reviewed by: mux (mentor)
Approved by: re (dougb)

Connect the ReiserFS filesystem to the build (i386 only).

Approved by: mux (mentor)

- Move the NPX_DEBUG option to options.{i386,pc98} and use opt_npx.h.
- Move npx related defines to {i386,pc98}/include/npx.h to remove #include
{isa,cbus}.h.

Implement an alternate method to stop CPUs when entering DDB. Normally we use
a regular IPI vector, but this vector is blocked when interrupts are disabled.
With "options KDB_STOP_NMI" and debug.kdb.

Implement an alternate method to stop CPUs when entering DDB. Normally we use
a regular IPI vector, but this vector is blocked when interrupts are disabled.
With "options KDB_STOP_NMI" and debug.kdb.stop_cpus_with_nmi set, KDB will
send an NMI to each CPU instead. The code also has a context-stuffing
feature which helps ddb extract the state of processes running on the
stopped CPUs.

KDB_STOP_NMI is only useful with SMP and complains if SMP is not defined.
This feature only applies to i386 and amd64 at the moment, but could be
used on other architectures with the appropriate MD bits.

Submitted by: ups

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Remove support for mixed mode altogether now that we no longer use IRQ 0
when using an APIC. This simplifies the APIC code somewhat and also allows
us to be pedantically more compliant with ACPI whi

Remove support for mixed mode altogether now that we no longer use IRQ 0
when using an APIC. This simplifies the APIC code somewhat and also allows
us to be pedantically more compliant with ACPI which mandates no use of
mixed mode.

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Bring back some of the ioctl junk that was removed in rev 1.59 as a
i386-only kernel option, ASR_COMPAT, and under BURN_BRIDGES.
It is really ugly, but raidutils depends on it.

Discussed with: scottl

Remove CPU_ENABLE_TCC and hook the cpufreq p4tcc up to the build.

Initiate deorbit burn sequence for 80386 support in FreeBSD: Remove
80386 (I386_CPU) support from the kernel.