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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
94#####################################################################
95# CLOCK OPTIONS
96
97# Provide read/write access to the memory in the clock chip.
98device		nvram		# Access to rtc cmos via /dev/nvram
99
100
101#####################################################################
102# MISCELLANEOUS DEVICES AND OPTIONS
103
104device		speaker		#Play IBM BASIC-style noises out your speaker
105hint.speaker.0.at="isa"
106hint.speaker.0.port="0x61"
107device		gzip		#Exec gzipped a.out's.  REQUIRES COMPAT_AOUT!
108
109
110#####################################################################
111# HARDWARE BUS CONFIGURATION
112
113#
114# ISA bus
115#
116device		isa
117
118#
119# Options for `isa':
120#
121# AUTO_EOI_1 enables the `automatic EOI' feature for the master 8259A
122# interrupt controller.  This saves about 0.7-1.25 usec for each interrupt.
123# This option breaks suspend/resume on some portables.
124#
125# AUTO_EOI_2 enables the `automatic EOI' feature for the slave 8259A
126# interrupt controller.  This saves about 0.7-1.25 usec for each interrupt.
127# Automatic EOI is documented not to work for for the slave with the
128# original i8259A, but it works for some clones and some integrated
129# versions.
130#
131# MAXMEM specifies the amount of RAM on the machine; if this is not
132# specified, FreeBSD will first read the amount of memory from the CMOS
133# RAM, so the amount of memory will initially be limited to 64MB or 16MB
134# depending on the BIOS.  If the BIOS reports 64MB, a memory probe will
135# then attempt to detect the installed amount of RAM.  If this probe
136# fails to detect >64MB RAM you will have to use the MAXMEM option.
137# The amount is in kilobytes, so for a machine with 128MB of RAM, it would
138# be 131072 (128 * 1024).
139#
140# BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET disables the use of the keyboard controller to
141# reset the CPU for reboot.  This is needed on some systems with broken
142# keyboard controllers.
143
144options 	AUTO_EOI_1
145#options 	AUTO_EOI_2
146
147options 	MAXMEM=(128*1024)
148#options 	BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET
149
150#
151# PCI bus & PCI options:
152#
153device		pci
154
155#
156# AGP GART support
157device		agp
158
159#
160# AGP debugging.
161#
162options 	AGP_DEBUG
163
164
165#####################################################################
166# HARDWARE DEVICE CONFIGURATION
167
168# To include support for VGA VESA video modes
169options 	VESA
170
171# Turn on extra debugging checks and output for VESA support.
172options 	VESA_DEBUG
173
174device		dpms		# DPMS suspend & resume via VESA BIOS
175
176# x86 real mode BIOS emulator, required by atkbdc/dpms/vesa
177options		X86BIOS
178
179#
180# Optional devices:
181#
182
183# PS/2 mouse
184device		psm
185hint.psm.0.at="atkbdc"
186hint.psm.0.irq="12"
187
188# Options for psm:
189options 	PSM_HOOKRESUME		#hook the system resume event, useful
190					#for some laptops
191options 	PSM_RESETAFTERSUSPEND	#reset the device at the resume event
192
193# The keyboard controller; it controls the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse.
194device		atkbdc
195hint.atkbdc.0.at="isa"
196hint.atkbdc.0.port="0x060"
197
198# The AT keyboard
199device		atkbd
200hint.atkbd.0.at="atkbdc"
201hint.atkbd.0.irq="1"
202
203# Options for atkbd:
204options 	ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP	# specify the built-in keymap
205makeoptions	ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=jp.106
206
207# `flags' for atkbd:
208#       0x01    Force detection of keyboard, else we always assume a keyboard
209#       0x02    Don't reset keyboard, useful for some newer ThinkPads
210#	0x03	Force detection and avoid reset, might help with certain
211#		dockingstations
212#       0x04    Old-style (XT) keyboard support, useful for older ThinkPads
213
214# Video card driver for VGA adapters.
215device		vga
216hint.vga.0.at="isa"
217
218# Options for vga:
219# Try the following option if the mouse pointer is not drawn correctly
220# or font does not seem to be loaded properly.  May cause flicker on
221# some systems.
222options 	VGA_ALT_SEQACCESS
223
224# If you can dispense with some vga driver features, you may want to
225# use the following options to save some memory.
226#options 	VGA_NO_FONT_LOADING	# don't save/load font
227#options 	VGA_NO_MODE_CHANGE	# don't change video modes
228
229# Older video cards may require this option for proper operation.
230options 	VGA_SLOW_IOACCESS	# do byte-wide i/o's to TS and GDC regs
231
232# The following option probably won't work with the LCD displays.
233options 	VGA_WIDTH90		# support 90 column modes
234
235# Debugging.
236options 	VGA_DEBUG
237
238# Linear framebuffer driver for S3 VESA 1.2 cards. Works on top of VESA.
239device		s3pci
240
241# 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics, Voodoo II /dev/3dfx CDEV support.  This will create
242# the /dev/3dfx0 device to work with glide implementations.  This should get
243# linked to /dev/3dfx and /dev/voodoo.  Note that this is not the same as
244# the tdfx DRI module from XFree86 and is completely unrelated.
245#
246# To enable Linuxulator support, one must also include COMPAT_LINUX in the
247# config as well.  The other option is to load both as modules.
248
249device		tdfx			# Enable 3Dfx Voodoo support
250#XXX#device 	tdfx_linux		# Enable Linuxulator support
251
252#
253# ACPI support using the Intel ACPI Component Architecture reference
254# implementation.
255#
256# ACPI_DEBUG enables the use of the debug.acpi.level and debug.acpi.layer
257# kernel environment variables to select initial debugging levels for the
258# Intel ACPICA code.  (Note that the Intel code must also have USE_DEBUGGER
259# defined when it is built).
260
261device		acpi
262options 	ACPI_DEBUG
263
264# The cpufreq(4) driver provides support for non-ACPI CPU frequency control
265device		cpufreq
266
267# Direct Rendering modules for 3D acceleration.
268device		drm		# DRM core module required by DRM drivers
269device		i915drm		# Intel i830 through i915
270device		mach64drm	# ATI Rage Pro, Rage Mobility P/M, Rage XL
271device		mgadrm		# AGP Matrox G200, G400, G450, G550
272device		r128drm		# ATI Rage 128
273device		radeondrm	# ATI Radeon
274device		savagedrm	# S3 Savage3D, Savage4
275device		sisdrm		# SiS 300/305, 540, 630
276device		tdfxdrm		# 3dfx Voodoo 3/4/5 and Banshee
277device		viadrm		# VIA
278options 	DRM_DEBUG	# Include debug printfs (slow)
279
280#
281# Network interfaces:
282#
283
284# ed:   Western Digital and SMC 80xx; Novell NE1000 and NE2000; 3Com 3C503
285#       HP PC Lan+, various PC Card devices
286#       (requires miibus)
287# ipw:	Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11 adapter
288#	Requires the ipw firmware module
289# iwi:	Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11 adapters
290#	Requires the iwi firmware module
291# iwn:	Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965/1000/5000/6000 802.11 network adapters
292#	Requires the iwn firmware module
293# mwl:	Marvell 88W8363 IEEE 802.11 adapter
294#	Requires the mwl firmware module
295# nfe:	nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking (BSD open source)
296# nve:	nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking
297# sfxge: Solarflare SFC9000 family 10Gb Ethernet adapters
298# wpi:	Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller
299#	Requires the wpi firmware module
300
301device		ed
302options 	ED_3C503
303options 	ED_HPP
304options 	ED_SIC
305device		ipw
306device		iwi
307device		iwn
308device		mwl
309device		nfe
310device		nve
311device		sfxge
312device		wpi
313
314# IEEE 802.11 adapter firmware modules
315
316# Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 firmware:
317#   ipwfw:		BSS/IBSS/monitor mode firmware
318#   ipwbssfw:		BSS mode firmware
319#   ipwibssfw:		IBSS mode firmware
320#   ipwmonitorfw:	Monitor mode firmware
321# Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG firmware:
322#   iwifw:		BSS/IBSS/monitor mode firmware
323#   iwibssfw:		BSS mode firmware
324#   iwiibssfw:		IBSS mode firmware
325#   iwimonitorfw:	Monitor mode firmware
326# Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965/1000/5000/6000 series firmware:
327#   iwnfw:		Single module to support the 4965/1000/5000/5150/6000
328#   iwn4965fw:		Specific module for the 4965 only
329#   iwn1000fw:		Specific module for the 1000 only
330#   iwn5000fw:		Specific module for the 5000 only
331#   iwn5150fw:		Specific module for the 5150 only
332#   iwn6000fw:		Specific module for the 6000 only
333#   iwn6050fw:		Specific module for the 6050 only
334# mwlfw:	Marvell 88W8363 firmware
335# wpifw:	Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN Controller firmware
336
337device		iwifw
338device		iwibssfw
339device		iwiibssfw
340device		iwimonitorfw
341device		ipwfw
342device		ipwbssfw
343device		ipwibssfw
344device		ipwmonitorfw
345device		iwnfw
346device		iwn4965fw
347device		iwn1000fw
348device		iwn5000fw
349device		iwn5150fw
350device		iwn6000fw
351device		iwn6050fw
352device		mwlfw
353device		wpifw
354
355#
356#XXX this stores pointers in a 32bit field that is defined by the hardware
357#device	pst
358
359#
360# Areca 11xx and 12xx series of SATA II RAID controllers.
361# CAM is required.
362#
363device		arcmsr		# Areca SATA II RAID
364
365#
366# 3ware 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controller driver and options.
367# The driver is implemented as a SIM, and so, needs the CAM infrastructure.
368#
369options 	TWA_DEBUG		# 0-10; 10 prints the most messages.
370options 	TWA_FLASH_FIRMWARE	# firmware image bundled when defined.
371device		twa			# 3ware 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID
372
373#
374# SCSI host adapters:
375#
376# ncv: NCR 53C500 based SCSI host adapters.
377# nsp: Workbit Ninja SCSI-3 based PC Card SCSI host adapters.
378# stg: TMC 18C30, 18C50 based SCSI host adapters.
379
380device		ncv
381device		nsp
382device		stg
383
384#
385# Adaptec FSA RAID controllers, including integrated DELL controllers,
386# the Dell PERC 2/QC and the HP NetRAID-4M
387device		aac
388device		aacp	# SCSI Passthrough interface (optional, CAM required)
389
390#
391# Highpoint RocketRAID 27xx.
392device		hpt27xx
393
394#
395# Highpoint RocketRAID 182x.
396device		hptmv
397
398#
399# Highpoint RocketRAID.  Supports RR172x, RR222x, RR2240, RR232x, RR2340,
400# RR2210, RR174x, RR2522, RR231x, RR230x.
401device		hptrr
402
403#
404# Highpoint RocketRaid 3xxx series SATA RAID
405device		hptiop
406
407#
408# IBM (now Adaptec) ServeRAID controllers
409device		ips
410
411#
412# SafeNet crypto driver: can be moved to the MI NOTES as soon as
413# it's tested on a big-endian machine
414#
415device		safe		# SafeNet 1141
416options 	SAFE_DEBUG	# enable debugging support: hw.safe.debug
417options 	SAFE_RNDTEST	# enable rndtest support
418
419#####################################################################
420
421#
422# Miscellaneous hardware:
423#
424# ipmi: Intelligent Platform Management Interface
425# pbio: Parallel (8255 PPI) basic I/O (mode 0) port (e.g. Advantech PCL-724)
426# smbios: DMI/SMBIOS entry point
427# vpd: Vital Product Data kernel interface
428# asmc: Apple System Management Controller
429# si: Specialix International SI/XIO or SX intelligent serial card
430# tpm: Trusted Platform Module
431
432# Notes on the Specialix SI/XIO driver:
433#  The host card is memory, not IO mapped.
434#  The Rev 1 host cards use a 64K chunk, on a 32K boundary.
435#  The Rev 2 host cards use a 32K chunk, on a 32K boundary.
436#  The cards can use an IRQ of 11, 12 or 15.
437
438device		ipmi
439device		pbio
440hint.pbio.0.at="isa"
441hint.pbio.0.port="0x360"
442device		smbios
443device		vpd
444device		asmc
445#device		si
446device		tpm
447
448#
449# Laptop/Notebook options:
450#
451
452
453#
454# I2C Bus
455#
456
457#
458# Hardware watchdog timers:
459#
460# ichwd: Intel ICH watchdog timer
461# amdsbwd: AMD SB7xx watchdog timer
462# viawd: VIA south bridge watchdog timer
463#
464device		ichwd
465device		amdsbwd
466device		viawd
467
468#
469# Temperature sensors:
470#
471# coretemp: on-die sensor on Intel Core and newer CPUs
472# amdtemp: on-die sensor on AMD K8/K10/K11 CPUs
473#
474device		coretemp
475device		amdtemp
476
477#
478# CPU control pseudo-device. Provides access to MSRs, CPUID info and
479# microcode update feature.
480#
481device		cpuctl
482
483#
484# System Management Bus (SMB)
485#
486options 	ENABLE_ALART		# Control alarm on Intel intpm driver
487
488#
489# Set the number of PV entries per process.  Increasing this can
490# stop panics related to heavy use of shared memory.  However, that can
491# (combined with large amounts of physical memory) cause panics at
492# boot time due the kernel running out of VM space.
493#
494# If you're tweaking this, you might also want to increase the sysctls
495# "vm.v_free_min", "vm.v_free_reserved", and "vm.v_free_target".
496#
497# The value below is the one more than the default.
498#
499options 	PMAP_SHPGPERPROC=201
500
501#
502# Number of initial kernel page table pages used for early bootstrap.
503# This number should include enough pages to map the kernel and any
504# modules or other data loaded with the kernel by the loader.  Each
505# page table page maps 2MB.
506#
507options 	NKPT=31
508
509
510#####################################################################
511# ABI Emulation
512
513#XXX keep these here for now and reactivate when support for emulating
514#XXX these 32 bit binaries is added.
515
516# Enable 32-bit runtime support for FreeBSD/i386 binaries.
517options 	COMPAT_FREEBSD32
518
519# Enable iBCS2 runtime support for SCO and ISC binaries
520#XXX#options 	IBCS2
521
522# Emulate spx device for client side of SVR3 local X interface
523#XXX#options 	SPX_HACK
524
525# Enable Linux ABI emulation
526#XXX#options 	COMPAT_LINUX
527
528# Enable 32-bit Linux ABI emulation (requires COMPAT_43 and COMPAT_FREEBSD32)
529options 	COMPAT_LINUX32
530
531# Enable the linux-like proc filesystem support (requires COMPAT_LINUX32
532# and PSEUDOFS)
533options 	LINPROCFS
534
535#Enable the linux-like sys filesystem support (requires COMPAT_LINUX32
536# and PSEUDOFS)
537options 	LINSYSFS
538
539#
540# SysVR4 ABI emulation
541#
542# The svr4 ABI emulator can be statically compiled into the kernel or loaded as
543# a KLD module.
544# The STREAMS network emulation code can also be compiled statically or as a
545# module.  If loaded as a module, it must be loaded before the svr4 module
546# (the /usr/sbin/svr4 script does this for you).  If compiling statically,
547# the `streams' device must be configured into any kernel which also
548# specifies COMPAT_SVR4.  It is possible to have a statically-configured
549# STREAMS device and a dynamically loadable svr4 emulator;  the /usr/sbin/svr4
550# script understands that it doesn't need to load the `streams' module under
551# those circumstances.
552# Caveat:  At this time, `options KTRACE' is required for the svr4 emulator
553# (whether static or dynamic).
554#
555#XXX#options 	COMPAT_SVR4	# build emulator statically
556#XXX#options 	DEBUG_SVR4	# enable verbose debugging
557#XXX#device	streams		# STREAMS network driver (required for svr4).
558
559
560#####################################################################
561# VM OPTIONS
562
563# KSTACK_PAGES is the number of memory pages to assign to the kernel
564# stack of each thread.
565
566options 	KSTACK_PAGES=5
567
568#####################################################################
569
570# More undocumented options for linting.
571# Note that documenting these are not considered an affront.
572
573options 	FB_INSTALL_CDEV		# install a CDEV entry in /dev
574
575options 	KBDIO_DEBUG=2
576options 	KBD_MAXRETRY=4
577options 	KBD_MAXWAIT=6
578options 	KBD_RESETDELAY=201
579
580options 	PSM_DEBUG=1
581
582options 	TIMER_FREQ=((14318182+6)/12)
583
584options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE
585options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX
586options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE
587
588# Enable NDIS binary driver support
589options 	NDISAPI
590device		ndis
591
592# Linux-specific pseudo devices support
593device		lindev
594