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1#
2# NOTES -- Lines that can be cut/pasted into kernel and hints configs.
3#
4# This file contains machine dependent kernel configuration notes.  For
5# machine independent notes, look in /sys/conf/NOTES.
6#
7# $FreeBSD$
8#
9
10#
11# We want LINT to cover profiling as well.
12profile         2
13
14#
15# Enable the kernel DTrace hooks which are required to load the DTrace
16# kernel modules.
17#
18options 	KDTRACE_HOOKS
19
20
21#####################################################################
22# SMP OPTIONS:
23#
24# Notes:
25#
26# IPI_PREEMPTION instructs the kernel to preempt threads running on other
27#	  CPUS if needed.  Relies on the PREEMPTION option
28
29# Optional:
30options 	IPI_PREEMPTION
31device		atpic			# Optional legacy pic support
32device		mptable			# Optional MPSPEC mptable support
33
34#
35# Watchdog routines.
36#
37options 	MP_WATCHDOG
38
39# Debugging options.
40#
41options 	COUNT_XINVLTLB_HITS	# Counters for TLB events
42options 	COUNT_IPIS		# Per-CPU IPI interrupt counters
43
44
45
46#####################################################################
47# CPU OPTIONS
48
49#
50# You must specify at least one CPU (the one you intend to run on);
51# deleting the specification for CPUs you don't need to use may make
52# parts of the system run faster.
53#
54cpu		HAMMER			# aka K8, aka Opteron & Athlon64
55
56#
57# Options for CPU features.
58#
59
60#
61# PERFMON causes the driver for Pentium/Pentium Pro performance counters
62# to be compiled.  See perfmon(4) for more information.
63#
64#XXX#options 	PERFMON
65
66
67#####################################################################
68# NETWORKING OPTIONS
69
70#
71# DEVICE_POLLING adds support for mixed interrupt-polling handling
72# of network device drivers, which has significant benefits in terms
73# of robustness to overloads and responsivity, as well as permitting
74# accurate scheduling of the CPU time between kernel network processing
75# and other activities.  The drawback is a moderate (up to 1/HZ seconds)
76# potential increase in response times.
77# It is strongly recommended to use HZ=1000 or 2000 with DEVICE_POLLING
78# to achieve smoother behaviour.
79# Additionally, you can enable/disable polling at runtime with help of
80# the ifconfig(8) utility, and select the CPU fraction reserved to
81# userland with the sysctl variable kern.polling.user_frac
82# (default 50, range 0..100).
83#
84# Not all device drivers support this mode of operation at the time of
85# this writing.  See polling(4) for more details.
86
87options 	DEVICE_POLLING
88
89# BPF_JITTER adds support for BPF just-in-time compiler.
90
91options 	BPF_JITTER
92
93# OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (Infiniband).
94options 	OFED
95options 	OFED_DEBUG_INIT
96
97# Sockets Direct Protocol
98options 	SDP
99options 	SDP_DEBUG
100
101# IP over Infiniband
102options 	IPOIB
103options 	IPOIB_DEBUG
104options 	IPOIB_CM
105
106
107#####################################################################
108# CLOCK OPTIONS
109
110# Provide read/write access to the memory in the clock chip.
111device		nvram		# Access to rtc cmos via /dev/nvram
112
113
114#####################################################################
115# MISCELLANEOUS DEVICES AND OPTIONS
116
117device		speaker		#Play IBM BASIC-style noises out your speaker
118hint.speaker.0.at="isa"
119hint.speaker.0.port="0x61"
120device		gzip		#Exec gzipped a.out's.  REQUIRES COMPAT_AOUT!
121
122
123#####################################################################
124# HARDWARE BUS CONFIGURATION
125
126#
127# ISA bus
128#
129device		isa
130
131#
132# Options for `isa':
133#
134# AUTO_EOI_1 enables the `automatic EOI' feature for the master 8259A
135# interrupt controller.  This saves about 0.7-1.25 usec for each interrupt.
136# This option breaks suspend/resume on some portables.
137#
138# AUTO_EOI_2 enables the `automatic EOI' feature for the slave 8259A
139# interrupt controller.  This saves about 0.7-1.25 usec for each interrupt.
140# Automatic EOI is documented not to work for for the slave with the
141# original i8259A, but it works for some clones and some integrated
142# versions.
143#
144# MAXMEM specifies the amount of RAM on the machine; if this is not
145# specified, FreeBSD will first read the amount of memory from the CMOS
146# RAM, so the amount of memory will initially be limited to 64MB or 16MB
147# depending on the BIOS.  If the BIOS reports 64MB, a memory probe will
148# then attempt to detect the installed amount of RAM.  If this probe
149# fails to detect >64MB RAM you will have to use the MAXMEM option.
150# The amount is in kilobytes, so for a machine with 128MB of RAM, it would
151# be 131072 (128 * 1024).
152#
153# BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET disables the use of the keyboard controller to
154# reset the CPU for reboot.  This is needed on some systems with broken
155# keyboard controllers.
156
157options 	AUTO_EOI_1
158#options 	AUTO_EOI_2
159
160options 	MAXMEM=(128*1024)
161#options 	BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET
162
163#
164# PCI bus & PCI options:
165#
166device		pci
167
168#
169# AGP GART support
170device		agp
171
172#
173# AGP debugging.
174#
175options 	AGP_DEBUG
176
177
178#####################################################################
179# HARDWARE DEVICE CONFIGURATION
180
181# To include support for VGA VESA video modes
182options 	VESA
183
184# Turn on extra debugging checks and output for VESA support.
185options 	VESA_DEBUG
186
187device		dpms		# DPMS suspend & resume via VESA BIOS
188
189# x86 real mode BIOS emulator, required by atkbdc/dpms/vesa
190options		X86BIOS
191
192#
193# Optional devices:
194#
195
196# PS/2 mouse
197device		psm
198hint.psm.0.at="atkbdc"
199hint.psm.0.irq="12"
200
201# Options for psm:
202options 	PSM_HOOKRESUME		#hook the system resume event, useful
203					#for some laptops
204options 	PSM_RESETAFTERSUSPEND	#reset the device at the resume event
205
206# The keyboard controller; it controls the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse.
207device		atkbdc
208hint.atkbdc.0.at="isa"
209hint.atkbdc.0.port="0x060"
210
211# The AT keyboard
212device		atkbd
213hint.atkbd.0.at="atkbdc"
214hint.atkbd.0.irq="1"
215
216# Options for atkbd:
217options 	ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP	# specify the built-in keymap
218makeoptions	ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=jp.106
219
220# `flags' for atkbd:
221#       0x01    Force detection of keyboard, else we always assume a keyboard
222#       0x02    Don't reset keyboard, useful for some newer ThinkPads
223#	0x03	Force detection and avoid reset, might help with certain
224#		dockingstations
225#       0x04    Old-style (XT) keyboard support, useful for older ThinkPads
226
227# Video card driver for VGA adapters.
228device		vga
229hint.vga.0.at="isa"
230
231# Options for vga:
232# Try the following option if the mouse pointer is not drawn correctly
233# or font does not seem to be loaded properly.  May cause flicker on
234# some systems.
235options 	VGA_ALT_SEQACCESS
236
237# If you can dispense with some vga driver features, you may want to
238# use the following options to save some memory.
239#options 	VGA_NO_FONT_LOADING	# don't save/load font
240#options 	VGA_NO_MODE_CHANGE	# don't change video modes
241
242# Older video cards may require this option for proper operation.
243options 	VGA_SLOW_IOACCESS	# do byte-wide i/o's to TS and GDC regs
244
245# The following option probably won't work with the LCD displays.
246options 	VGA_WIDTH90		# support 90 column modes
247
248# Debugging.
249options 	VGA_DEBUG
250
251# Linear framebuffer driver for S3 VESA 1.2 cards. Works on top of VESA.
252device		s3pci
253
254# 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics, Voodoo II /dev/3dfx CDEV support.  This will create
255# the /dev/3dfx0 device to work with glide implementations.  This should get
256# linked to /dev/3dfx and /dev/voodoo.  Note that this is not the same as
257# the tdfx DRI module from XFree86 and is completely unrelated.
258#
259# To enable Linuxulator support, one must also include COMPAT_LINUX in the
260# config as well.  The other option is to load both as modules.
261
262device		tdfx			# Enable 3Dfx Voodoo support
263#XXX#device 	tdfx_linux		# Enable Linuxulator support
264
265#
266# ACPI support using the Intel ACPI Component Architecture reference
267# implementation.
268#
269# ACPI_DEBUG enables the use of the debug.acpi.level and debug.acpi.layer
270# kernel environment variables to select initial debugging levels for the
271# Intel ACPICA code.  (Note that the Intel code must also have USE_DEBUGGER
272# defined when it is built).
273
274device		acpi
275options 	ACPI_DEBUG
276
277# The cpufreq(4) driver provides support for non-ACPI CPU frequency control
278device		cpufreq
279
280# Direct Rendering modules for 3D acceleration.
281device		drm		# DRM core module required by DRM drivers
282device		i915drm		# Intel i830 through i915
283device		mach64drm	# ATI Rage Pro, Rage Mobility P/M, Rage XL
284device		mgadrm		# AGP Matrox G200, G400, G450, G550
285device		r128drm		# ATI Rage 128
286device		radeondrm	# ATI Radeon
287device		savagedrm	# S3 Savage3D, Savage4
288device		sisdrm		# SiS 300/305, 540, 630
289device		tdfxdrm		# 3dfx Voodoo 3/4/5 and Banshee
290device		viadrm		# VIA
291options 	DRM_DEBUG	# Include debug printfs (slow)
292
293#
294# Network interfaces:
295#
296
297# ed:   Western Digital and SMC 80xx; Novell NE1000 and NE2000; 3Com 3C503
298#       HP PC Lan+, various PC Card devices
299#       (requires miibus)
300# ipw:	Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11 adapter
301#	Requires the ipw firmware module
302# iwi:	Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11 adapters
303#	Requires the iwi firmware module
304# iwn:	Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965/1000/5000/6000 802.11 network adapters
305#	Requires the iwn firmware module
306# mlx4ib: Mellanox ConnectX HCA InfiniBand
307# mlxen: Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet
308# mthca: Mellanox HCA InfiniBand
309# nfe:	nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking (BSD open source)
310# nve:	nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking
311# sfxge: Solarflare SFC9000 family 10Gb Ethernet adapters
312# wpi:	Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller
313#	Requires the wpi firmware module
314
315device		ed		# NE[12]000, SMC Ultra, 3c503, DS8390 cards
316options 	ED_3C503
317options 	ED_HPP
318options 	ED_SIC
319device		ipw		# Intel 2100 wireless NICs.
320device		iwi		# Intel 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG wireless NICs.
321device		iwn		# Intel 4965/1000/5000/6000 wireless NICs.
322device  	mlx4ib		# Mellanox ConnectX HCA InfiniBand
323device  	mlxen		# Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet
324device  	mthca		# Mellanox HCA InfiniBand
325device		nfe		# nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet
326device		nve		# nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking
327device		sfxge		# Solarflare SFC9000 10Gb Ethernet
328device		wpi		# Intel 3945ABG wireless NICs.
329
330# IEEE 802.11 adapter firmware modules
331
332# Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 firmware:
333#   ipwfw:		BSS/IBSS/monitor mode firmware
334#   ipwbssfw:		BSS mode firmware
335#   ipwibssfw:		IBSS mode firmware
336#   ipwmonitorfw:	Monitor mode firmware
337# Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG firmware:
338#   iwifw:		BSS/IBSS/monitor mode firmware
339#   iwibssfw:		BSS mode firmware
340#   iwiibssfw:		IBSS mode firmware
341#   iwimonitorfw:	Monitor mode firmware
342# Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965/1000/5000/6000 series firmware:
343#   iwnfw:		Single module to support the 4965/1000/5000/5150/6000
344#   iwn4965fw:		Specific module for the 4965 only
345#   iwn1000fw:		Specific module for the 1000 only
346#   iwn5000fw:		Specific module for the 5000 only
347#   iwn5150fw:		Specific module for the 5150 only
348#   iwn6000fw:		Specific module for the 6000 only
349#   iwn6050fw:		Specific module for the 6050 only
350# wpifw:	Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN Controller firmware
351
352device		iwifw
353device		iwibssfw
354device		iwiibssfw
355device		iwimonitorfw
356device		ipwfw
357device		ipwbssfw
358device		ipwibssfw
359device		ipwmonitorfw
360device		iwnfw
361device		iwn4965fw
362device		iwn1000fw
363device		iwn5000fw
364device		iwn5150fw
365device		iwn6000fw
366device		iwn6050fw
367device		wpifw
368
369# Intel Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB) hardware
370device		ntb_hw	# Hardware Abstraction Layer for the NTB
371device		if_ntb	# Simulated ethernet device using the NTB
372
373#
374#XXX this stores pointers in a 32bit field that is defined by the hardware
375#device	pst
376
377#
378# Areca 11xx and 12xx series of SATA II RAID controllers.
379# CAM is required.
380#
381device		arcmsr		# Areca SATA II RAID
382
383#
384# 3ware 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controller driver and options.
385# The driver is implemented as a SIM, and so, needs the CAM infrastructure.
386#
387options 	TWA_DEBUG		# 0-10; 10 prints the most messages.
388options 	TWA_FLASH_FIRMWARE	# firmware image bundled when defined.
389device		twa			# 3ware 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID
390
391#
392# SCSI host adapters:
393#
394# ncv: NCR 53C500 based SCSI host adapters.
395# nsp: Workbit Ninja SCSI-3 based PC Card SCSI host adapters.
396# stg: TMC 18C30, 18C50 based SCSI host adapters.
397
398device		ncv
399device		nsp
400device		stg
401
402#
403# Adaptec FSA RAID controllers, including integrated DELL controllers,
404# the Dell PERC 2/QC and the HP NetRAID-4M
405device		aac
406device		aacp	# SCSI Passthrough interface (optional, CAM required)
407
408#
409# Adaptec by PMC RAID controllers, Series 6/7/8 and upcoming families
410device		aacraid		# Container interface, CAM required
411
412#
413# Highpoint RocketRAID 27xx.
414device		hpt27xx
415
416#
417# Highpoint RocketRAID 182x.
418device		hptmv
419
420#
421# Highpoint RocketRAID.  Supports RR172x, RR222x, RR2240, RR232x, RR2340,
422# RR2210, RR174x, RR2522, RR231x, RR230x.
423device		hptrr
424
425#
426# Highpoint RocketRaid 3xxx series SATA RAID
427device		hptiop
428
429#
430# IBM (now Adaptec) ServeRAID controllers
431device		ips
432
433#
434# Intel C600 (Patsburg) integrated SAS controller
435device		isci
436options		ISCI_LOGGING	# enable debugging in isci HAL
437
438#
439# NVM Express (NVMe) support
440device         nvme    # base NVMe driver
441device         nvd     # expose NVMe namespaces as disks, depends on nvme
442
443#
444# SafeNet crypto driver: can be moved to the MI NOTES as soon as
445# it's tested on a big-endian machine
446#
447device		safe		# SafeNet 1141
448options 	SAFE_DEBUG	# enable debugging support: hw.safe.debug
449options 	SAFE_RNDTEST	# enable rndtest support
450
451#
452# VirtIO support
453#
454# The virtio entry provides a generic bus for use by the device drivers.
455# It must be combined with an interface that communicates with the host.
456# Multiple such interfaces defined by the VirtIO specification. FreeBSD
457# only has support for PCI. Therefore, virtio_pci must be statically
458# compiled in or loaded as a module for the device drivers to function.
459#
460device		virtio		# Generic VirtIO bus (required)
461device		virtio_pci	# VirtIO PCI Interface
462device		vtnet		# VirtIO Ethernet device
463device		virtio_blk	# VirtIO Block device
464device		virtio_scsi	# VirtIO SCSI device
465device		virtio_balloon	# VirtIO Memory Balloon device
466
467#####################################################################
468
469#
470# Miscellaneous hardware:
471#
472# ipmi: Intelligent Platform Management Interface
473# pbio: Parallel (8255 PPI) basic I/O (mode 0) port (e.g. Advantech PCL-724)
474# smbios: DMI/SMBIOS entry point
475# vpd: Vital Product Data kernel interface
476# asmc: Apple System Management Controller
477# si: Specialix International SI/XIO or SX intelligent serial card
478# tpm: Trusted Platform Module
479
480# Notes on the Specialix SI/XIO driver:
481#  The host card is memory, not IO mapped.
482#  The Rev 1 host cards use a 64K chunk, on a 32K boundary.
483#  The Rev 2 host cards use a 32K chunk, on a 32K boundary.
484#  The cards can use an IRQ of 11, 12 or 15.
485
486device		ipmi
487device		pbio
488hint.pbio.0.at="isa"
489hint.pbio.0.port="0x360"
490device		smbios
491device		vpd
492device		asmc
493#device		si
494device		tpm
495
496#
497# Laptop/Notebook options:
498#
499
500
501#
502# I2C Bus
503#
504
505#
506# Hardware watchdog timers:
507#
508# ichwd: Intel ICH watchdog timer
509# amdsbwd: AMD SB7xx watchdog timer
510# viawd: VIA south bridge watchdog timer
511# wbwd: Winbond watchdog timer
512#
513device		ichwd
514device		amdsbwd
515device		viawd
516device		wbwd
517
518#
519# Temperature sensors:
520#
521# coretemp: on-die sensor on Intel Core and newer CPUs
522# amdtemp: on-die sensor on AMD K8/K10/K11 CPUs
523#
524device		coretemp
525device		amdtemp
526
527#
528# CPU control pseudo-device. Provides access to MSRs, CPUID info and
529# microcode update feature.
530#
531device		cpuctl
532
533#
534# System Management Bus (SMB)
535#
536options 	ENABLE_ALART		# Control alarm on Intel intpm driver
537
538#
539# Number of initial kernel page table pages used for early bootstrap.
540# This number should include enough pages to map the kernel and any
541# modules or other data loaded with the kernel by the loader.  Each
542# page table page maps 2MB.
543#
544options 	NKPT=31
545
546
547#####################################################################
548# ABI Emulation
549
550#XXX keep these here for now and reactivate when support for emulating
551#XXX these 32 bit binaries is added.
552
553# Enable 32-bit runtime support for FreeBSD/i386 binaries.
554options 	COMPAT_FREEBSD32
555
556# Enable iBCS2 runtime support for SCO and ISC binaries
557#XXX#options 	IBCS2
558
559# Emulate spx device for client side of SVR3 local X interface
560#XXX#options 	SPX_HACK
561
562# Enable Linux ABI emulation
563#XXX#options 	COMPAT_LINUX
564
565# Enable 32-bit Linux ABI emulation (requires COMPAT_43 and COMPAT_FREEBSD32)
566options 	COMPAT_LINUX32
567
568# Enable the linux-like proc filesystem support (requires COMPAT_LINUX32
569# and PSEUDOFS)
570options 	LINPROCFS
571
572#Enable the linux-like sys filesystem support (requires COMPAT_LINUX32
573# and PSEUDOFS)
574options 	LINSYSFS
575
576#
577# SysVR4 ABI emulation
578#
579# The svr4 ABI emulator can be statically compiled into the kernel or loaded as
580# a KLD module.
581# The STREAMS network emulation code can also be compiled statically or as a
582# module.  If loaded as a module, it must be loaded before the svr4 module
583# (the /usr/sbin/svr4 script does this for you).  If compiling statically,
584# the `streams' device must be configured into any kernel which also
585# specifies COMPAT_SVR4.  It is possible to have a statically-configured
586# STREAMS device and a dynamically loadable svr4 emulator;  the /usr/sbin/svr4
587# script understands that it doesn't need to load the `streams' module under
588# those circumstances.
589# Caveat:  At this time, `options KTRACE' is required for the svr4 emulator
590# (whether static or dynamic).
591#
592#XXX#options 	COMPAT_SVR4	# build emulator statically
593#XXX#options 	DEBUG_SVR4	# enable verbose debugging
594#XXX#device	streams		# STREAMS network driver (required for svr4).
595
596
597#####################################################################
598# VM OPTIONS
599
600# KSTACK_PAGES is the number of memory pages to assign to the kernel
601# stack of each thread.
602
603options 	KSTACK_PAGES=5
604
605# Enable detailed accounting by the PV entry allocator.
606
607options 	PV_STATS
608
609#####################################################################
610
611# More undocumented options for linting.
612# Note that documenting these are not considered an affront.
613
614options 	FB_INSTALL_CDEV		# install a CDEV entry in /dev
615
616options 	KBDIO_DEBUG=2
617options 	KBD_MAXRETRY=4
618options 	KBD_MAXWAIT=6
619options 	KBD_RESETDELAY=201
620
621options 	PSM_DEBUG=1
622
623options 	TIMER_FREQ=((14318182+6)/12)
624
625options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE
626options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX
627options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE
628
629# Enable NDIS binary driver support
630options 	NDISAPI
631device		ndis
632
633# Linux-specific pseudo devices support
634device		lindev
635