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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#####################################################################
16# SMP OPTIONS:
17#
18# Notes:
19#
20# IPI_PREEMPTION instructs the kernel to preempt threads running on other
21#	  CPUS if needed.  Relies on the PREEMPTION option
22
23# Optional:
24options 	IPI_PREEMPTION
25device		atpic			# Optional legacy pic support
26device		mptable			# Optional MPSPEC mptable support
27
28#
29# Watchdog routines.
30#
31options 	MP_WATCHDOG
32
33#
34# Debugging options.
35#
36options		STOP_NMI		# Stop CPUS using NMI instead of IPI
37
38
39
40#####################################################################
41# CPU OPTIONS
42
43#
44# You must specify at least one CPU (the one you intend to run on);
45# deleting the specification for CPUs you don't need to use may make
46# parts of the system run faster.
47#
48cpu		HAMMER			# aka K8, aka Opteron & Athlon64
49
50#
51# Options for CPU features.
52#
53
54#
55# PERFMON causes the driver for Pentium/Pentium Pro performance counters
56# to be compiled.  See perfmon(4) for more information.
57#
58#XXX#options 	PERFMON
59
60
61#####################################################################
62# NETWORKING OPTIONS
63
64#
65# DEVICE_POLLING adds support for mixed interrupt-polling handling
66# of network device drivers, which has significant benefits in terms
67# of robustness to overloads and responsivity, as well as permitting
68# accurate scheduling of the CPU time between kernel network processing
69# and other activities.  The drawback is a moderate (up to 1/HZ seconds)
70# potential increase in response times.
71# It is strongly recommended to use HZ=1000 or 2000 with DEVICE_POLLING
72# to achieve smoother behaviour.
73# Additionally, you can enable/disable polling at runtime with help of
74# the ifconfig(8) utility, and select the CPU fraction reserved to
75# userland with the sysctl variable kern.polling.user_frac
76# (default 50, range 0..100).
77#
78# Not all device drivers support this mode of operation at the time of
79# this writing.  See polling(4) for more details.
80
81options 	DEVICE_POLLING
82
83
84#####################################################################
85# CLOCK OPTIONS
86
87# The following options are used for debugging clock behavior only, and
88# should not be used for production systems.
89
90# CLK_CALIBRATION_LOOP causes clock calibration to be run in a loop at
91# startup until the user presses a key.  (The i8254 clock is always
92# calibrated relative to the RTC (mc146818a) and this option causes the
93# calibration to be repeated.)
94options 	CLK_CALIBRATION_LOOP
95
96# CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION causes the calibrated frequency of the i8254
97# clock to actually be used.
98options 	CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION
99
100
101#####################################################################
102# MISCELLANEOUS DEVICES AND OPTIONS
103
104#
105# sio: serial ports (see sio(4)), including support for various
106#      PC Card devices, such as Modem and NICs
107#
108device		sio
109hint.sio.0.at="isa"
110hint.sio.0.port="0x3F8"
111hint.sio.0.flags="0x10"
112hint.sio.0.irq="4"
113
114# `flags' specific to sio(4).
115#	0x10	enable console support for this unit.  Other console flags
116#		(if applicable) are ignored unless this is set.  Enabling
117#		console support does not make the unit the preferred console.
118#		Boot with -h or set boot_serial=YES in the loader.  For sio(4)
119#		specifically, the 0x20 flag can also be set (see above).
120#		Currently, at most one unit can have console support; the
121#		first one (in config file order) with this flag set is
122#		preferred.  Setting this flag for sio0 gives the old behaviour.
123#	0x20	force this unit to be the console (unless there is another
124#		higher priority console).  This replaces the COMCONSOLE option.
125#	0x40	reserve this unit for low level console operations.  Do not
126#		access the device in any normal way.
127#	0x80	use this port for serial line gdb support in ddb.  Also known
128#		as debug port.
129# PnP `flags'
130#	0x1	disable probing of this device.  Used to prevent your modem
131#		from being attached as a PnP modem.
132# Other flags for sio that aren't documented in the man page.
133#	0x20000	enable hardware RTS/CTS and larger FIFOs.  Only works for
134#		ST16650A-compatible UARTs.
135
136# Options for sio:
137options 	COM_ESP			# Code for Hayes ESP.
138options 	COM_MULTIPORT		# Code for some cards with shared IRQs.
139options 	CONSPEED=115200		# Speed for serial console
140					# (default 9600).
141
142device		speaker		#Play IBM BASIC-style noises out your speaker
143hint.speaker.0.at="isa"
144hint.speaker.0.port="0x61"
145device		gzip		#Exec gzipped a.out's.  REQUIRES COMPAT_AOUT!
146
147
148#####################################################################
149# HARDWARE BUS CONFIGURATION
150
151#
152# ISA bus
153#
154device		isa
155
156#
157# Options for `isa':
158#
159# AUTO_EOI_1 enables the `automatic EOI' feature for the master 8259A
160# interrupt controller.  This saves about 0.7-1.25 usec for each interrupt.
161# This option breaks suspend/resume on some portables.
162#
163# AUTO_EOI_2 enables the `automatic EOI' feature for the slave 8259A
164# interrupt controller.  This saves about 0.7-1.25 usec for each interrupt.
165# Automatic EOI is documented not to work for for the slave with the
166# original i8259A, but it works for some clones and some integrated
167# versions.
168#
169# MAXMEM specifies the amount of RAM on the machine; if this is not
170# specified, FreeBSD will first read the amount of memory from the CMOS
171# RAM, so the amount of memory will initially be limited to 64MB or 16MB
172# depending on the BIOS.  If the BIOS reports 64MB, a memory probe will
173# then attempt to detect the installed amount of RAM.  If this probe
174# fails to detect >64MB RAM you will have to use the MAXMEM option.
175# The amount is in kilobytes, so for a machine with 128MB of RAM, it would
176# be 131072 (128 * 1024).
177#
178# BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET disables the use of the keyboard controller to
179# reset the CPU for reboot.  This is needed on some systems with broken
180# keyboard controllers.
181
182options 	AUTO_EOI_1
183#options 	AUTO_EOI_2
184
185options 	MAXMEM=(128*1024)
186#options 	BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET
187
188#
189# PCI bus & PCI options:
190#
191device		pci
192
193#
194# AGP GART support
195device		agp
196
197
198#####################################################################
199# HARDWARE DEVICE CONFIGURATION
200
201#
202# Optional devices:
203#
204
205# PS/2 mouse
206device		psm
207hint.psm.0.at="atkbdc"
208hint.psm.0.irq="12"
209
210# Options for psm:
211options 	PSM_HOOKRESUME		#hook the system resume event, useful
212					#for some laptops
213options 	PSM_RESETAFTERSUSPEND	#reset the device at the resume event
214
215# The keyboard controller; it controls the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse.
216device		atkbdc
217hint.atkbdc.0.at="isa"
218hint.atkbdc.0.port="0x060"
219
220# The AT keyboard
221device		atkbd
222hint.atkbd.0.at="atkbdc"
223hint.atkbd.0.irq="1"
224
225# Options for atkbd:
226options 	ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP	# specify the built-in keymap
227makeoptions	ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=jp.106
228
229# `flags' for atkbd:
230#       0x01    Force detection of keyboard, else we always assume a keyboard
231#       0x02    Don't reset keyboard, useful for some newer ThinkPads
232#	0x03	Force detection and avoid reset, might help with certain
233#		dockingstations
234#       0x04    Old-style (XT) keyboard support, useful for older ThinkPads
235
236# Video card driver for VGA adapters.
237device		vga
238hint.vga.0.at="isa"
239
240# Options for vga:
241# Try the following option if the mouse pointer is not drawn correctly
242# or font does not seem to be loaded properly.  May cause flicker on
243# some systems.
244options 	VGA_ALT_SEQACCESS
245
246# If you can dispense with some vga driver features, you may want to
247# use the following options to save some memory.
248#options 	VGA_NO_FONT_LOADING	# don't save/load font
249#options 	VGA_NO_MODE_CHANGE	# don't change video modes
250
251# Older video cards may require this option for proper operation.
252options 	VGA_SLOW_IOACCESS	# do byte-wide i/o's to TS and GDC regs
253
254# The following option probably won't work with the LCD displays.
255options 	VGA_WIDTH90		# support 90 column modes
256
257# Debugging.
258options 	VGA_DEBUG
259
260# 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics, Voodoo II /dev/3dfx CDEV support.  This will create
261# the /dev/3dfx0 device to work with glide implementations.  This should get
262# linked to /dev/3dfx and /dev/voodoo.  Note that this is not the same as
263# the tdfx DRI module from XFree86 and is completely unrelated.
264#
265# To enable Linuxulator support, one must also include COMPAT_LINUX in the
266# config as well.  The other option is to load both as modules.
267
268device		tdfx			# Enable 3Dfx Voodoo support
269#XXX#device 	tdfx_linux		# Enable Linuxulator support
270
271#
272# ACPI support using the Intel ACPI Component Architecture reference
273# implementation.
274#
275# ACPI_DEBUG enables the use of the debug.acpi.level and debug.acpi.layer
276# kernel environment variables to select initial debugging levels for the
277# Intel ACPICA code.  (Note that the Intel code must also have USE_DEBUGGER
278# defined when it is built).
279#
280# ACPI_NO_SEMAPHORES makes the AcpiOs*Semaphore routines a no-op.
281
282device		acpi
283options 	ACPI_DEBUG
284#!options 	ACPI_NO_SEMAPHORES
285
286# The cpufreq(4) driver provides support for non-ACPI CPU frequency control
287device		cpufreq
288
289# Direct Rendering modules for 3D acceleration.
290device		drm		# DRM core module required by DRM drivers
291device		i915drm		# Intel i830 through i915
292device		mach64drm	# ATI Rage Pro, Rage Mobility P/M, Rage XL
293device		mgadrm		# AGP Matrox G200, G400, G450, G550
294device		r128drm		# ATI Rage 128
295device		radeondrm	# ATI Radeon
296device		savagedrm	# S3 Savage3D, Savage4
297device		sisdrm		# SiS 300/305, 540, 630
298device		tdfxdrm		# 3dfx Voodoo 3/4/5 and Banshee
299options 	DRM_DEBUG	# Include debug printfs (slow)
300
301#
302# Network interfaces:
303#
304
305# ath:  Atheros a/b/g WiFi adapters (requires ath_hal and wlan)
306# ed:   Western Digital and SMC 80xx; Novell NE1000 and NE2000; 3Com 3C503
307#       HP PC Lan+, various PC Card devices
308#       (requires miibus)
309# ipw:	Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11 adapter
310# iwi:	Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11 adapters
311# nfe:	nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking (BSD open source)
312# nve:	nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking
313# ral:	Ralink Technology IEEE 802.11 wireless adapter
314# ural:	Ralink Technology RT2500USB IEEE 802.11 wireless adapter
315
316device		ed
317options 	ED_3C503
318options 	ED_HPP
319options 	ED_SIC
320device		iwi
321device		ipw
322device		nfe		# nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking
323device		nve		# nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking
324device		ral
325device		ural
326
327device		ath
328device		ath_hal		# Atheros HAL (includes binary component)
329#device		ath_rate_amrr	# AMRR rate control for ath driver
330#device		ath_rate_onoe	# Onoe rate control for ath driver
331device		ath_rate_sample	# SampleRate rate control for the ath driver
332#device		wlan		# 802.11 layer
333
334#
335#XXX this stores pointers in a 32bit field that is defined by the hardware
336#device	pst
337
338#
339# Areca 11xx and 12xx series of SATA II RAID controllers.
340# CAM is required.
341#
342device		arcmsr		# Areca SATA II RAID
343
344#
345# 3ware 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controller driver and options.
346# The driver is implemented as a SIM, and so, needs the CAM infrastructure.
347#
348options 	TWA_DEBUG		# 0-10; 10 prints the most messages.
349options 	TWA_FLASH_FIRMWARE	# firmware image bundled when defined.
350device		twa			# 3ware 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID
351
352#
353# SCSI host adapters:
354#
355# ncv: NCR 53C500 based SCSI host adapters.
356# nsp: Workbit Ninja SCSI-3 based PC Card SCSI host adapters.
357# stg: TMC 18C30, 18C50 based SCSI host adapters.
358
359device		ncv
360device		nsp
361device		stg
362
363#
364# Adaptec FSA RAID controllers, including integrated DELL controllers,
365# the Dell PERC 2/QC and the HP NetRAID-4M
366device		aac
367device		aacp	# SCSI Passthrough interface (optional, CAM required)
368
369#
370# Highpoint RocketRAID 182x.  This is really just software RAID on a
371# Marvell SATA chip.
372device		hptmv
373
374#
375# Highpoint RocketRAID 232x.  This is software RAID but with hardware
376# acceleration assistance for RAID_5.
377device		rr232x
378
379#
380# Highpoint RocketRaid 3xxx series SATA RAID
381device		hptiop
382
383#
384# IBM (now Adaptec) ServeRAID controllers
385device		ips
386
387#
388# SafeNet crypto driver: can be moved to the MI NOTES as soon as
389# it's tested on a big-endian machine
390#
391device		safe		# SafeNet 1141
392options 	SAFE_DEBUG	# enable debugging support: hw.safe.debug
393options 	SAFE_RNDTEST	# enable rndtest support
394
395#####################################################################
396
397#
398# Miscellaneous hardware:
399#
400# ipmi: Intelligent Platform Management Interface
401# smbios: DMI/SMBIOS entry point
402# vpd: Vital Product Data kernel interface
403# cy: Cyclades serial driver
404# digi: Digiboard driver
405
406# Notes on the Specialix SI/XIO driver:
407#  The host card is memory, not IO mapped.
408#  The Rev 1 host cards use a 64K chunk, on a 32K boundary.
409#  The Rev 2 host cards use a 32K chunk, on a 32K boundary.
410#  The cards can use an IRQ of 11, 12 or 15.
411
412device		cy
413options 	CY_PCI_FASTINTR		# Use with cy_pci unless irq is shared
414device		digi
415# BIOS & FEP/OS components of device digi.
416device		digi_CX
417device		digi_CX_PCI
418device		digi_EPCX
419device		digi_EPCX_PCI
420device		digi_Xe
421device		digi_Xem
422device		digi_Xr
423device		ipmi
424# Parallel (8255 PPI) basic I/O (mode 0) port (e.g. Advantech PCL-724)
425device		pbio
426hint.pbio.0.at="isa"
427hint.pbio.0.port="0x360"
428device		smbios
429device		vpd
430# HOT1 Xilinx 6200 card (http://www.vcc.com/)
431device		xrpu
432
433#
434# Laptop/Notebook options:
435#
436
437
438#
439# I2C Bus
440#
441
442#
443# Hardware watchdog timers:
444#
445# ichwd: Intel ICH watchdog timer
446#
447device		ichwd
448
449#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
450# ISDN4BSD
451#
452# See /usr/share/examples/isdn/ROADMAP for an introduction to isdn4bsd.
453#
454# i4b passive ISDN cards support contains the following hardware drivers:
455#
456#	isic  - Siemens/Infineon ISDN ISAC/HSCX/IPAC chipset driver
457#	iwic  - Winbond W6692 PCI bus ISDN S/T interface controller
458#	ifpi  - AVM Fritz!Card PCI driver
459#	ifpi2  - AVM Fritz!Card PCI version 2 driver
460#	itjc  - Siemens ISAC / TJNet Tiger300/320 chipset
461#
462# i4b active ISDN cards support contains the following hardware drivers:
463#
464#	iavc  - AVM B1 PCI, AVM B1 ISA, AVM T1
465#
466# Note that the ``options'' (if given) and ``device'' lines must BOTH
467# be uncommented to enable support for a given card !
468#
469# In addition to a hardware driver (and probably an option) the mandatory
470# ISDN protocol stack devices and the mandatory support device must be
471# enabled as well as one or more devices from the optional devices section.
472#
473#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
474#	isic driver (Siemens/Infineon chipsets)
475#
476#XXX#device	isic
477#
478# PCI bus Cards:
479# --------------
480#
481# ELSA MicroLink ISDN/PCI (same as ELSA QuickStep 1000pro PCI)
482options 	ELSA_QS1PCI
483#
484#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
485#	ifpi2 driver for AVM Fritz!Card PCI version 2
486#
487# AVM Fritz!Card PCI version 2
488#XXX#device	ifpi2
489#
490#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
491#	iwic driver for Winbond W6692 chipset
492#
493# ASUSCOM P-IN100-ST-D (and other Winbond W6692 based cards)
494#XXX#device	iwic
495#
496#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
497#	itjc driver for Siemens ISAC / TJNet Tiger300/320 chipset
498#
499# Traverse Technologies NETjet-S
500# Teles PCI-TJ
501#XXX#device	itjc
502#
503#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
504#	iavc driver (AVM active cards, needs i4bcapi driver!)
505#
506#XXX#device	iavc
507#
508#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
509#	ISDN Protocol Stack - mandatory for all hardware drivers
510#
511# Q.921 / layer 2 - i4b passive cards D channel handling
512#XXX#device	i4bq921
513#
514# Q.931 / layer 3 - i4b passive cards D channel handling
515#XXX#device	i4bq931
516#
517# layer 4 - i4b common passive and active card handling
518#XXX#device	i4b
519#
520#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
521#	ISDN devices - mandatory for all hardware drivers
522#
523# userland driver to do ISDN tracing (for passive cards only)
524#XXX#device	i4btrc
525#XXX#options 	NI4BTRC=4
526#
527# userland driver to control the whole thing
528#XXX#device	i4bctl
529#
530#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
531#	ISDN devices - optional
532#
533# userland driver for access to raw B channel
534#XXX#device	i4brbch
535#XXX#options 	NI4BRBCH=4
536#
537# userland driver for telephony
538#XXX#device	i4btel
539#XXX#options 	NI4BTEL=2
540#
541# network driver for IP over raw HDLC ISDN
542#XXX#device	i4bipr
543#XXX#options 	NI4BIPR=4
544# enable VJ header compression detection for ipr i/f
545options 	IPR_VJ
546# enable logging of the first n IP packets to isdnd (n=32 here)
547options 	IPR_LOG=32
548#
549# network driver for sync PPP over ISDN; requires an equivalent
550# number of sppp device to be configured
551#XXX#device	i4bisppp
552#XXX#options 	NI4BISPPP=4
553#
554# B-channel interface to the netgraph subsystem
555#XXX#device	i4bing
556#XXX#options 	NI4BING=2
557#
558# CAPI driver needed for active ISDN cards (see iavc driver above)
559#XXX#device	i4bcapi
560#
561#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
562
563#
564# System Management Bus (SMB)
565#
566options 	ENABLE_ALART		# Control alarm on Intel intpm driver
567
568#
569# Set the number of PV entries per process.  Increasing this can
570# stop panics related to heavy use of shared memory.  However, that can
571# (combined with large amounts of physical memory) cause panics at
572# boot time due the kernel running out of VM space.
573#
574# If you're tweaking this, you might also want to increase the sysctls
575# "vm.v_free_min", "vm.v_free_reserved", and "vm.v_free_target".
576#
577# The value below is the one more than the default.
578#
579options 	PMAP_SHPGPERPROC=201
580
581
582#####################################################################
583# ABI Emulation
584
585#XXX keep these here for now and reactivate when support for emulating
586#XXX these 32 bit binaries is added.
587
588# Enable 32-bit runtime support for FreeBSD/i386 binaries.
589options 	COMPAT_IA32
590
591# Enable iBCS2 runtime support for SCO and ISC binaries
592#XXX#options 	IBCS2
593
594# Emulate spx device for client side of SVR3 local X interface
595#XXX#options 	SPX_HACK
596
597# Enable Linux ABI emulation
598#XXX#options 	COMPAT_LINUX
599
600# Enable 32-bit Linux ABI emulation (requires COMPAT_43 and COMPAT_IA32)
601options 	COMPAT_LINUX32
602
603# Enable the linux-like proc filesystem support (requires COMPAT_LINUX32
604# and PSEUDOFS)
605options 	LINPROCFS
606
607#Enable the linux-like sys filesystem support (requires COMPAT_LINUX32
608# and PSEUDOFS)
609options		LINSYSFS
610
611#
612# SysVR4 ABI emulation
613#
614# The svr4 ABI emulator can be statically compiled into the kernel or loaded as
615# a KLD module.
616# The STREAMS network emulation code can also be compiled statically or as a
617# module.  If loaded as a module, it must be loaded before the svr4 module
618# (the /usr/sbin/svr4 script does this for you).  If compiling statically,
619# the `streams' device must be configured into any kernel which also
620# specifies COMPAT_SVR4.  It is possible to have a statically-configured
621# STREAMS device and a dynamically loadable svr4 emulator;  the /usr/sbin/svr4
622# script understands that it doesn't need to load the `streams' module under
623# those circumstances.
624# Caveat:  At this time, `options KTRACE' is required for the svr4 emulator
625# (whether static or dynamic).
626#
627#XXX#options 	COMPAT_SVR4	# build emulator statically
628#XXX#options 	DEBUG_SVR4	# enable verbose debugging
629#XXX#device	streams		# STREAMS network driver (required for svr4).
630
631
632#####################################################################
633# VM OPTIONS
634
635# KSTACK_PAGES is the number of memory pages to assign to the kernel
636# stack of each thread.
637
638options 	KSTACK_PAGES=3
639
640#####################################################################
641
642# More undocumented options for linting.
643# Note that documenting these are not considered an affront.
644
645options 	FB_INSTALL_CDEV		# install a CDEV entry in /dev
646
647options 	KBDIO_DEBUG=2
648options 	KBD_MAXRETRY=4
649options 	KBD_MAXWAIT=6
650options 	KBD_RESETDELAY=201
651
652options 	PSM_DEBUG=1
653
654options 	TIMER_FREQ=((14318182+6)/12)
655
656options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE
657options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX
658options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE
659
660# Enable NDIS binary driver support
661options 	NDISAPI
662device		ndis
663