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# b1ece243 19-Feb-2019 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Remove drm from LINT kernels

drm was accidentally left in the LINT kernels.

Pointy hat to: imp


# 9e43c218 10-Feb-2019 Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>

Merge ^/head r343807 through r343955.


# e26563b8 06-Feb-2019 Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>

Retire SPX_HACK option unused after r342244


# 628888f0 19-Dec-2018 Mateusz Guzik <mjg@FreeBSD.org>

Remove iBCS2, part2: general kernel

Reviewed by: kib (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


Revision tags: release/12.0.0
# c6879c6c 23-Oct-2018 Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>

Merge ^/head r339015 through r339669.


# 49a93324 22-Oct-2018 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Remove stg(4) driver

stg(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 stg(4) driver

stg(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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# 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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# c1cdf6a4 22-Oct-2018 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Remove mse(4) from tree

Remove mse and all support for bus and inport devices from the tree.
Data from nycbug's dmesg database shows the last sighting of this
driver was in 4.10 on only one machine.

Remove mse(4) from tree

Remove mse and all support for bus and inport devices from the tree.
Data from nycbug's dmesg database shows the last sighting of this
driver was in 4.10 on only one machine.

Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17628

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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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Revision tags: release/11.2.0
# 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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# d86c1f0d 13-Apr-2018 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

i386 4/4G split.

The change makes the user and kernel address spaces on i386
independent, giving each almost the full 4G of usable virtual addresses
except for one PDE at top used for trampoline and

i386 4/4G split.

The change makes the user and kernel address spaces on i386
independent, giving each almost the full 4G of usable virtual addresses
except for one PDE at top used for trampoline and per-CPU trampoline
stacks, and system structures that must be always mapped, namely IDT,
GDT, common TSS and LDT, and process-private TSS and LDT if allocated.

By using 1:1 mapping for the kernel text and data, it appeared
possible to eliminate assembler part of the locore.S which bootstraps
initial page table and KPTmap. The code is rewritten in C and moved
into the pmap_cold(). The comment in vmparam.h explains the KVA
layout.

There is no PCID mechanism available in protected mode, so each
kernel/user switch forth and back completely flushes the TLB, except
for the trampoline PTD region. The TLB invalidations for userspace
becomes trivial, because IPI handlers switch page tables. On the other
hand, context switches no longer need to reload %cr3.

copyout(9) was rewritten to use vm_fault_quick_hold(). An issue for
new copyout(9) is compatibility with wiring user buffers around sysctl
handlers. This explains two kind of locks for copyout ptes and
accounting of the vslock() calls. The vm_fault_quick_hold() AKA slow
path, is only tried after the 'fast path' failed, which temporary
changes mapping to the userspace and copies the data to/from small
per-cpu buffer in the trampoline. If a page fault occurs during the
copy, it is short-circuit by exception.s to not even reach C code.

The change was motivated by the need to implement the Meltdown
mitigation, but instead of KPTI the full split is done. The i386
architecture already shows the sizing problems, in particular, it is
impossible to link clang and lld with debugging. I expect that the
issues due to the virtual address space limits would only exaggerate
and the split gives more liveness to the platform.

Tested by: pho
Discussed with: bde
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 month
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14633

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# 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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# c79126f2 12-Jan-2018 Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>

Merge ^/head r327624 through r327885.


# 695d2543 10-Jan-2018 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Retire pmtimer driver. Move time fixing into apm driver. Move
Iwasaki-san's copyright over. Remove FIXME code that couldn't possibly
work. Call tc_settime() with our estimate of the delta we've been

Retire pmtimer driver. Move time fixing into apm driver. Move
Iwasaki-san's copyright over. Remove FIXME code that couldn't possibly
work. Call tc_settime() with our estimate of the delta we've been
alseep (the one we print) to adjust the time. Not sure what to do
about callouts, so keep the small #ifdef in place there.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13823

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# 4b49587c 06-Jan-2018 Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>

Merge ^/head r327341 through r327623.


# d14e21a8 30-Dec-2017 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Remove two stray references to wl driver, removed some time ago.


# 4fc74049 29-Dec-2017 Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>

Merge ^/head r327169 through r327340.


# 9a1bf495 28-Dec-2017 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Remove a few more dangling references to ie(4).


# 3f6867ef 11-Dec-2017 Conrad Meyer <cem@FreeBSD.org>

i386: Bump KSTACK_PAGES default to match amd64

Logically, extend r286288 to cover all threads, by default.

The world has largely moved on from i386. Most FreeBSD users and developers
test on amd64

i386: Bump KSTACK_PAGES default to match amd64

Logically, extend r286288 to cover all threads, by default.

The world has largely moved on from i386. Most FreeBSD users and developers
test on amd64 hardware. For better or worse, we have written a non-trivial
amount of kernel code that relies on stacks larger than 8 kB, and it "just
works" on amd64, so there has been little incentive to shrink it.

amd64 had its KSTACK_PAGES bumped to 4 back in Peter's initial AMD64 commit,
r114349, in 2003. Since that time, i386 has limped along on a stack half
the size. We've even observed the stack overflows years ago, but neglected
to fix the issue; see the 20121223 and 20150728 entries in UPDATING.

If anyone is concerned with this change, I suggest they configure their
AMD64 kernels with KSTACK_PAGES 2 and fix the fallout there first. Eugene
has identified a list of high stack usage functions in the first PR below.

PR: 219476, 224218
Reported by: eugen@, Shreesh Holla <hshreesh AT yahoo.com>
Relnotes: maybe
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon

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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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# 937d37fc 19-Nov-2017 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@FreeBSD.org>

Merge ^/head r325842 through r325998.


# 4e421792 16-Nov-2017 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Remove i386 XBOX support.

It is for console presented at 2001 and featuring Pentium III
processor. Even if any of them are still alive and run FreeBSD, we do
not have any sign of life from their us

Remove i386 XBOX support.

It is for console presented at 2001 and featuring Pentium III
processor. Even if any of them are still alive and run FreeBSD, we do
not have any sign of life from their users. While removing another
dozens of #ifdefs from the i386 sources reduces the aversion from
looking at the code and improves the platform vitality.

Reviewed by: cem, pfg, rink (XBOX support author)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13016

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