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#
# NOTES -- Lines that can be cut/pasted into kernel and hints configs.
#
# This file contains machine dependent kernel configuration notes.  For
# machine independent notes, look in /sys/conf/NOTES.
#
# $FreeBSD$
#

#
# We want LINT to cover profiling as well.
profile         2

#
# Enable the kernel DTrace hooks which are required to load the DTrace
# kernel modules.
#
options 	KDTRACE_HOOKS

# DTrace core
# NOTE: introduces CDDL-licensed components into the kernel
#device		dtrace

# DTrace modules
#device		dtrace_profile
#device		dtrace_sdt
#device		dtrace_fbt
#device		dtrace_systrace
#device		dtrace_prototype
#device		dtnfscl
#device		dtmalloc

# Alternatively include all the DTrace modules
#device		dtraceall


#####################################################################
# SMP OPTIONS:
#
# Notes:
#
# IPI_PREEMPTION instructs the kernel to preempt threads running on other
#	  CPUS if needed.  Relies on the PREEMPTION option

# Optional:
options 	IPI_PREEMPTION
device		atpic			# Optional legacy pic support
device		mptable			# Optional MPSPEC mptable support

#
# Watchdog routines.
#
options 	MP_WATCHDOG

# Debugging options.
#
options 	COUNT_XINVLTLB_HITS	# Counters for TLB events
options 	COUNT_IPIS		# Per-CPU IPI interrupt counters



#####################################################################
# CPU OPTIONS

#
# You must specify at least one CPU (the one you intend to run on);
# deleting the specification for CPUs you don't need to use may make
# parts of the system run faster.
#
cpu		HAMMER			# aka K8, aka Opteron & Athlon64

#
# Options for CPU features.
#

#
# PERFMON causes the driver for Pentium/Pentium Pro performance counters
# to be compiled.  See perfmon(4) for more information.
#
#XXX#options 	PERFMON


#####################################################################
# NETWORKING OPTIONS

#
# DEVICE_POLLING adds support for mixed interrupt-polling handling
# of network device drivers, which has significant benefits in terms
# of robustness to overloads and responsivity, as well as permitting
# accurate scheduling of the CPU time between kernel network processing
# and other activities.  The drawback is a moderate (up to 1/HZ seconds)
# potential increase in response times.
# It is strongly recommended to use HZ=1000 or 2000 with DEVICE_POLLING
# to achieve smoother behaviour.
# Additionally, you can enable/disable polling at runtime with help of
# the ifconfig(8) utility, and select the CPU fraction reserved to
# userland with the sysctl variable kern.polling.user_frac
# (default 50, range 0..100).
#
# Not all device drivers support this mode of operation at the time of
# this writing.  See polling(4) for more details.

options 	DEVICE_POLLING

# BPF_JITTER adds support for BPF just-in-time compiler.

options 	BPF_JITTER

# OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (Infiniband).
options 	OFED
options 	OFED_DEBUG_INIT

# Sockets Direct Protocol
options 	SDP
options 	SDP_DEBUG

# IP over Infiniband
options 	IPOIB
options 	IPOIB_DEBUG
options 	IPOIB_CM


#####################################################################
# CLOCK OPTIONS

# Provide read/write access to the memory in the clock chip.
device		nvram		# Access to rtc cmos via /dev/nvram


#####################################################################
# MISCELLANEOUS DEVICES AND OPTIONS

device		speaker		#Play IBM BASIC-style noises out your speaker
hint.speaker.0.at="isa"
hint.speaker.0.port="0x61"
device		gzip		#Exec gzipped a.out's.  REQUIRES COMPAT_AOUT!


#####################################################################
# HARDWARE BUS CONFIGURATION

#
# ISA bus
#
device		isa

#
# Options for `isa':
#
# AUTO_EOI_1 enables the `automatic EOI' feature for the master 8259A
# interrupt controller.  This saves about 0.7-1.25 usec for each interrupt.
# This option breaks suspend/resume on some portables.
#
# AUTO_EOI_2 enables the `automatic EOI' feature for the slave 8259A
# interrupt controller.  This saves about 0.7-1.25 usec for each interrupt.
# Automatic EOI is documented not to work for for the slave with the
# original i8259A, but it works for some clones and some integrated
# versions.
#
# MAXMEM specifies the amount of RAM on the machine; if this is not
# specified, FreeBSD will first read the amount of memory from the CMOS
# RAM, so the amount of memory will initially be limited to 64MB or 16MB
# depending on the BIOS.  If the BIOS reports 64MB, a memory probe will
# then attempt to detect the installed amount of RAM.  If this probe
# fails to detect >64MB RAM you will have to use the MAXMEM option.
# The amount is in kilobytes, so for a machine with 128MB of RAM, it would
# be 131072 (128 * 1024).
#
# BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET disables the use of the keyboard controller to
# reset the CPU for reboot.  This is needed on some systems with broken
# keyboard controllers.

options 	AUTO_EOI_1
#options 	AUTO_EOI_2

options 	MAXMEM=(128*1024)
#options 	BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET

#
# AGP GART support
device		agp

#
# AGP debugging.
#
options 	AGP_DEBUG


#####################################################################
# HARDWARE DEVICE CONFIGURATION

# To include support for VGA VESA video modes
options 	VESA

# Turn on extra debugging checks and output for VESA support.
options 	VESA_DEBUG

device		dpms		# DPMS suspend & resume via VESA BIOS

# x86 real mode BIOS emulator, required by atkbdc/dpms/vesa
options 	X86BIOS

#
# Optional devices:
#

# PS/2 mouse
device		psm
hint.psm.0.at="atkbdc"
hint.psm.0.irq="12"

# Options for psm:
options 	PSM_HOOKRESUME		#hook the system resume event, useful
					#for some laptops
options 	PSM_RESETAFTERSUSPEND	#reset the device at the resume event

# The keyboard controller; it controls the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse.
device		atkbdc
hint.atkbdc.0.at="isa"
hint.atkbdc.0.port="0x060"

# The AT keyboard
device		atkbd
hint.atkbd.0.at="atkbdc"
hint.atkbd.0.irq="1"

# Options for atkbd:
options 	ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP	# specify the built-in keymap
makeoptions	ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=fr.dvorak

# `flags' for atkbd:
#       0x01    Force detection of keyboard, else we always assume a keyboard
#       0x02    Don't reset keyboard, useful for some newer ThinkPads
#	0x03	Force detection and avoid reset, might help with certain
#		dockingstations
#       0x04    Old-style (XT) keyboard support, useful for older ThinkPads

# Video card driver for VGA adapters.
device		vga
hint.vga.0.at="isa"

# Options for vga:
# Try the following option if the mouse pointer is not drawn correctly
# or font does not seem to be loaded properly.  May cause flicker on
# some systems.
options 	VGA_ALT_SEQACCESS

# If you can dispense with some vga driver features, you may want to
# use the following options to save some memory.
#options 	VGA_NO_FONT_LOADING	# don't save/load font
#options 	VGA_NO_MODE_CHANGE	# don't change video modes

# Older video cards may require this option for proper operation.
options 	VGA_SLOW_IOACCESS	# do byte-wide i/o's to TS and GDC regs

# The following option probably won't work with the LCD displays.
options 	VGA_WIDTH90		# support 90 column modes

# Debugging.
options 	VGA_DEBUG

# vt(4) drivers.
device		vt_vga		# VGA
device		vt_efifb	# EFI framebuffer

# Linear framebuffer driver for S3 VESA 1.2 cards. Works on top of VESA.
device		s3pci

# 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics, Voodoo II /dev/3dfx CDEV support.  This will create
# the /dev/3dfx0 device to work with glide implementations.  This should get
# linked to /dev/3dfx and /dev/voodoo.  Note that this is not the same as
# the tdfx DRI module from XFree86 and is completely unrelated.
#
# To enable Linuxulator support, one must also include COMPAT_LINUX in the
# config as well.  The other option is to load both as modules.

device		tdfx			# Enable 3Dfx Voodoo support
#XXX#device 	tdfx_linux		# Enable Linuxulator support

#
# ACPI support using the Intel ACPI Component Architecture reference
# implementation.
#
# ACPI_DEBUG enables the use of the debug.acpi.level and debug.acpi.layer
# kernel environment variables to select initial debugging levels for the
# Intel ACPICA code.  (Note that the Intel code must also have USE_DEBUGGER
# defined when it is built).

device		acpi
options 	ACPI_DEBUG

# The cpufreq(4) driver provides support for non-ACPI CPU frequency control
device		cpufreq

# Direct Rendering modules for 3D acceleration.
device		drm		# DRM core module required by DRM drivers
device		i915drm		# Intel i830 through i915
device		mach64drm	# ATI Rage Pro, Rage Mobility P/M, Rage XL
device		mgadrm		# AGP Matrox G200, G400, G450, G550
device		r128drm		# ATI Rage 128
device		radeondrm	# ATI Radeon
device		savagedrm	# S3 Savage3D, Savage4
device		sisdrm		# SiS 300/305, 540, 630
device		tdfxdrm		# 3dfx Voodoo 3/4/5 and Banshee
device		viadrm		# VIA
options 	DRM_DEBUG	# Include debug printfs (slow)

#
# Network interfaces:
#

# bxe:  Broadcom NetXtreme II (BCM5771X/BCM578XX) PCIe 10Gb Ethernet
#       adapters.
# ed:   Western Digital and SMC 80xx; Novell NE1000 and NE2000; 3Com 3C503
#       HP PC Lan+, various PC Card devices
#       (requires miibus)
# ipw:	Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11 adapter
#	Requires the ipw firmware module
# iwi:	Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11 adapters
#	Requires the iwi firmware module
# iwn:	Intel Wireless WiFi Link 1000/105/135/2000/4965/5000/6000/6050 abgn
#	802.11 network adapters
#	Requires the iwn firmware module
# ixl:	Intel XL710 40Gbe PCIE Ethernet
# ixlv:	Intel XL710 40Gbe VF PCIE Ethernet
# mlx4ib: Mellanox ConnectX HCA InfiniBand
# mlxen: Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet
# mthca: Mellanox HCA InfiniBand
# nfe:	nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking (BSD open source)
# sfxge: Solarflare SFC9000 family 10Gb Ethernet adapters
# vmx:	VMware VMXNET3 Ethernet (BSD open source)
# wpi:	Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller
#	Requires the wpi firmware module

device		bxe		# Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5771X/BCM578XX 10GbE
device		ed		# NE[12]000, SMC Ultra, 3c503, DS8390 cards
options 	ED_3C503
options 	ED_HPP
options 	ED_SIC
device		ipw		# Intel 2100 wireless NICs.
device		iwi		# Intel 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG wireless NICs.
device		iwn		# Intel 4965/1000/5000/6000 wireless NICs.
device		ixl		# Intel XL710 40Gbe PCIE Ethernet
device		ixlv		# Intel XL710 40Gbe VF PCIE Ethernet
device  	mlx4ib		# Mellanox ConnectX HCA InfiniBand
device  	mlxen		# Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet
device  	mthca		# Mellanox HCA InfiniBand
device		nfe		# nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet
device		sfxge		# Solarflare SFC9000 10Gb Ethernet
device		vmx		# VMware VMXNET3 Ethernet
device		wpi		# Intel 3945ABG wireless NICs.

# IEEE 802.11 adapter firmware modules

# Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 firmware:
#   ipwfw:		BSS/IBSS/monitor mode firmware
#   ipwbssfw:		BSS mode firmware
#   ipwibssfw:		IBSS mode firmware
#   ipwmonitorfw:	Monitor mode firmware
# Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG firmware:
#   iwifw:		BSS/IBSS/monitor mode firmware
#   iwibssfw:		BSS mode firmware
#   iwiibssfw:		IBSS mode firmware
#   iwimonitorfw:	Monitor mode firmware
# Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965/1000/5000/6000 series firmware:
#   iwnfw:		Single module to support all devices
#   iwn1000fw:		Specific module for the 1000 only
#   iwn105fw:		Specific module for the 105 only
#   iwn135fw:		Specific module for the 135 only
#   iwn2000fw:		Specific module for the 2000 only
#   iwn2030fw:		Specific module for the 2030 only
#   iwn4965fw:		Specific module for the 4965 only
#   iwn5000fw:		Specific module for the 5000 only
#   iwn5150fw:		Specific module for the 5150 only
#   iwn6000fw:		Specific module for the 6000 only
#   iwn6000g2afw:	Specific module for the 6000g2a only
#   iwn6000g2bfw:	Specific module for the 6000g2b only
#   iwn6050fw:		Specific module for the 6050 only
# wpifw:	Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN Controller firmware

device		iwifw
device		iwibssfw
device		iwiibssfw
device		iwimonitorfw
device		ipwfw
device		ipwbssfw
device		ipwibssfw
device		ipwmonitorfw
device		iwnfw
device		iwn1000fw
device		iwn105fw
device		iwn135fw
device		iwn2000fw
device		iwn2030fw
device		iwn4965fw
device		iwn5000fw
device		iwn5150fw
device		iwn6000fw
device		iwn6000g2afw
device		iwn6000g2bfw
device		iwn6050fw
device		wpifw

# Intel Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB) hardware
device		ntb_hw	# Hardware Abstraction Layer for the NTB
device		if_ntb	# Simulated ethernet device using the NTB

#
#XXX this stores pointers in a 32bit field that is defined by the hardware
#device	pst

#
# Areca 11xx and 12xx series of SATA II RAID controllers.
# CAM is required.
#
device		arcmsr		# Areca SATA II RAID

#
# 3ware 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controller driver and options.
# The driver is implemented as a SIM, and so, needs the CAM infrastructure.
#
options 	TWA_DEBUG		# 0-10; 10 prints the most messages.
options 	TWA_FLASH_FIRMWARE	# firmware image bundled when defined.
device		twa			# 3ware 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID

#
# SCSI host adapters:
#
# ncv: NCR 53C500 based SCSI host adapters.
# nsp: Workbit Ninja SCSI-3 based PC Card SCSI host adapters.
# stg: TMC 18C30, 18C50 based SCSI host adapters.

device		ncv
device		nsp
device		stg

#
# Adaptec FSA RAID controllers, including integrated DELL controllers,
# the Dell PERC 2/QC and the HP NetRAID-4M
device		aac
device		aacp	# SCSI Passthrough interface (optional, CAM required)

#
# Adaptec by PMC RAID controllers, Series 6/7/8 and upcoming families
device		aacraid		# Container interface, CAM required

#
# Highpoint RocketRAID 27xx.
device		hpt27xx

#
# Highpoint RocketRAID 182x.
device		hptmv

#
# Highpoint DC7280 and R750.
device		hptnr

#
# Highpoint RocketRAID.  Supports RR172x, RR222x, RR2240, RR232x, RR2340,
# RR2210, RR174x, RR2522, RR231x, RR230x.
device		hptrr

#
# Highpoint RocketRaid 3xxx series SATA RAID
device		hptiop

#
# IBM (now Adaptec) ServeRAID controllers
device		ips

#
# Intel C600 (Patsburg) integrated SAS controller
device		isci
options 	ISCI_LOGGING	# enable debugging in isci HAL

#
# NVM Express (NVMe) support
device         nvme    # base NVMe driver
device         nvd     # expose NVMe namespaces as disks, depends on nvme

#
# PMC-Sierra SAS/SATA controller
device		pmspcv

#
# SafeNet crypto driver: can be moved to the MI NOTES as soon as
# it's tested on a big-endian machine
#
device		safe		# SafeNet 1141
options 	SAFE_DEBUG	# enable debugging support: hw.safe.debug
options 	SAFE_RNDTEST	# enable rndtest support

#
# VirtIO support
#
# The virtio entry provides a generic bus for use by the device drivers.
# It must be combined with an interface that communicates with the host.
# Multiple such interfaces are defined by the VirtIO specification. FreeBSD
# only has support for PCI. Therefore, virtio_pci must be statically
# compiled in or loaded as a module for the device drivers to function.
#
device		virtio		# Generic VirtIO bus (required)
device		virtio_pci	# VirtIO PCI Interface
device		vtnet		# VirtIO Ethernet device
device		virtio_blk	# VirtIO Block device
device		virtio_scsi	# VirtIO SCSI device
device		virtio_balloon	# VirtIO Memory Balloon device
device		virtio_random	# VirtIO Entropy device
device		virtio_console	# VirtIO Console device

# Microsoft Hyper-V enhancement support
device 		hyperv		# HyperV drivers

# Xen HVM Guest Optimizations
options 	XENHVM		# Xen HVM kernel infrastructure
device 		xenpci		# Xen HVM Hypervisor services driver

#####################################################################

#
# Miscellaneous hardware:
#
# ipmi: Intelligent Platform Management Interface
# pbio: Parallel (8255 PPI) basic I/O (mode 0) port (e.g. Advantech PCL-724)
# smbios: DMI/SMBIOS entry point
# vpd: Vital Product Data kernel interface
# asmc: Apple System Management Controller
# si: Specialix International SI/XIO or SX intelligent serial card
# tpm: Trusted Platform Module

# Notes on the Specialix SI/XIO driver:
#  The host card is memory, not IO mapped.
#  The Rev 1 host cards use a 64K chunk, on a 32K boundary.
#  The Rev 2 host cards use a 32K chunk, on a 32K boundary.
#  The cards can use an IRQ of 11, 12 or 15.

device		ipmi
device		pbio
hint.pbio.0.at="isa"
hint.pbio.0.port="0x360"
device		smbios
device		vpd
device		asmc
device		tpm
device		padlock_rng	# VIA Padlock RNG
device		rdrand_rng	# Intel Bull Mountain RNG
device		aesni		# AES-NI OpenCrypto module
device		ioat		# Intel I/OAT DMA engine

#
# Laptop/Notebook options:
#


#
# I2C Bus
#

#
# Hardware watchdog timers:
#
# ichwd: Intel ICH watchdog timer
# amdsbwd: AMD SB7xx watchdog timer
# viawd: VIA south bridge watchdog timer
# wbwd: Winbond watchdog timer
#
device		ichwd
device		amdsbwd
device		viawd
device		wbwd

#
# Temperature sensors:
#
# coretemp: on-die sensor on Intel Core and newer CPUs
# amdtemp: on-die sensor on AMD K8/K10/K11 CPUs
#
device		coretemp
device		amdtemp

#
# CPU control pseudo-device. Provides access to MSRs, CPUID info and
# microcode update feature.
#
device		cpuctl

#
# System Management Bus (SMB)
#
options 	ENABLE_ALART		# Control alarm on Intel intpm driver

#
# Number of initial kernel page table pages used for early bootstrap.
# This number should include enough pages to map the kernel and any
# modules or other data loaded with the kernel by the loader.  Each
# page table page maps 2MB.
#
options 	NKPT=31


#####################################################################
# ABI Emulation

#XXX keep these here for now and reactivate when support for emulating
#XXX these 32 bit binaries is added.

# Enable 32-bit runtime support for FreeBSD/i386 binaries.
options 	COMPAT_FREEBSD32

# Enable iBCS2 runtime support for SCO and ISC binaries
#XXX#options 	IBCS2

# Emulate spx device for client side of SVR3 local X interface
#XXX#options 	SPX_HACK

# Enable 32-bit runtime support for CloudABI binaries.
options 	COMPAT_CLOUDABI32

# Enable 64-bit runtime support for CloudABI binaries.
options 	COMPAT_CLOUDABI64

# Enable Linux ABI emulation
#XXX#options 	COMPAT_LINUX

# Enable 32-bit Linux ABI emulation (requires COMPAT_43 and COMPAT_FREEBSD32)
options 	COMPAT_LINUX32

# Enable the linux-like proc filesystem support (requires COMPAT_LINUX32
# and PSEUDOFS)
options 	LINPROCFS

#Enable the linux-like sys filesystem support (requires COMPAT_LINUX32
# and PSEUDOFS)
options 	LINSYSFS

#
# SysVR4 ABI emulation
#
# The svr4 ABI emulator can be statically compiled into the kernel or loaded as
# a KLD module.
# The STREAMS network emulation code can also be compiled statically or as a
# module.  If loaded as a module, it must be loaded before the svr4 module
# (the /usr/sbin/svr4 script does this for you).  If compiling statically,
# the `streams' device must be configured into any kernel which also
# specifies COMPAT_SVR4.  It is possible to have a statically-configured
# STREAMS device and a dynamically loadable svr4 emulator;  the /usr/sbin/svr4
# script understands that it doesn't need to load the `streams' module under
# those circumstances.
# Caveat:  At this time, `options KTRACE' is required for the svr4 emulator
# (whether static or dynamic).
#
#XXX#options 	COMPAT_SVR4	# build emulator statically
#XXX#options 	DEBUG_SVR4	# enable verbose debugging
#XXX#device	streams		# STREAMS network driver (required for svr4).


#####################################################################
# VM OPTIONS

# KSTACK_PAGES is the number of memory pages to assign to the kernel
# stack of each thread.

options 	KSTACK_PAGES=5

# Enable detailed accounting by the PV entry allocator.

options 	PV_STATS

#####################################################################

# More undocumented options for linting.
# Note that documenting these are not considered an affront.

options 	FB_INSTALL_CDEV		# install a CDEV entry in /dev

options 	KBDIO_DEBUG=2
options 	KBD_MAXRETRY=4
options 	KBD_MAXWAIT=6
options 	KBD_RESETDELAY=201

options 	PSM_DEBUG=1

options 	TIMER_FREQ=((14318182+6)/12)

options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE
options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX
options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE

# Enable NDIS binary driver support
options 	NDISAPI
device		ndis