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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# BPF_JITTER adds support for BPF just-in-time compiler.
84
85options		BPF_JITTER
86
87
88#####################################################################
89# CLOCK OPTIONS
90
91# Provide read/write access to the memory in the clock chip.
92device		nvram		# Access to rtc cmos via /dev/nvram
93
94
95#####################################################################
96# MISCELLANEOUS DEVICES AND OPTIONS
97
98#
99# sio: serial ports (see sio(4)), including support for various
100#      PC Card devices, such as Modem and NICs
101#
102device		sio
103hint.sio.0.at="isa"
104hint.sio.0.port="0x3F8"
105hint.sio.0.flags="0x10"
106hint.sio.0.irq="4"
107
108# `flags' specific to sio(4).
109#	0x10	enable console support for this unit.  Other console flags
110#		(if applicable) are ignored unless this is set.  Enabling
111#		console support does not make the unit the preferred console.
112#		Boot with -h or set boot_serial=YES in the loader.  For sio(4)
113#		specifically, the 0x20 flag can also be set (see above).
114#		Currently, at most one unit can have console support; the
115#		first one (in config file order) with this flag set is
116#		preferred.  Setting this flag for sio0 gives the old behaviour.
117#	0x20	force this unit to be the console (unless there is another
118#		higher priority console).  This replaces the COMCONSOLE option.
119#	0x40	reserve this unit for low level console operations.  Do not
120#		access the device in any normal way.
121#	0x80	use this port for serial line gdb support in ddb.  Also known
122#		as debug port.
123# PnP `flags'
124#	0x1	disable probing of this device.  Used to prevent your modem
125#		from being attached as a PnP modem.
126# Other flags for sio that aren't documented in the man page.
127#	0x20000	enable hardware RTS/CTS and larger FIFOs.  Only works for
128#		ST16650A-compatible UARTs.
129
130# Options for sio:
131options 	COM_ESP			# Code for Hayes ESP.
132options 	COM_MULTIPORT		# Code for some cards with shared IRQs.
133options 	CONSPEED=115200		# Speed for serial console
134					# (default 9600).
135
136device		speaker		#Play IBM BASIC-style noises out your speaker
137hint.speaker.0.at="isa"
138hint.speaker.0.port="0x61"
139device		gzip		#Exec gzipped a.out's.  REQUIRES COMPAT_AOUT!
140
141
142#####################################################################
143# HARDWARE BUS CONFIGURATION
144
145#
146# ISA bus
147#
148device		isa
149
150#
151# Options for `isa':
152#
153# AUTO_EOI_1 enables the `automatic EOI' feature for the master 8259A
154# interrupt controller.  This saves about 0.7-1.25 usec for each interrupt.
155# This option breaks suspend/resume on some portables.
156#
157# AUTO_EOI_2 enables the `automatic EOI' feature for the slave 8259A
158# interrupt controller.  This saves about 0.7-1.25 usec for each interrupt.
159# Automatic EOI is documented not to work for for the slave with the
160# original i8259A, but it works for some clones and some integrated
161# versions.
162#
163# MAXMEM specifies the amount of RAM on the machine; if this is not
164# specified, FreeBSD will first read the amount of memory from the CMOS
165# RAM, so the amount of memory will initially be limited to 64MB or 16MB
166# depending on the BIOS.  If the BIOS reports 64MB, a memory probe will
167# then attempt to detect the installed amount of RAM.  If this probe
168# fails to detect >64MB RAM you will have to use the MAXMEM option.
169# The amount is in kilobytes, so for a machine with 128MB of RAM, it would
170# be 131072 (128 * 1024).
171#
172# BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET disables the use of the keyboard controller to
173# reset the CPU for reboot.  This is needed on some systems with broken
174# keyboard controllers.
175
176options 	AUTO_EOI_1
177#options 	AUTO_EOI_2
178
179options 	MAXMEM=(128*1024)
180#options 	BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET
181
182#
183# PCI bus & PCI options:
184#
185device		pci
186
187#
188# AGP GART support
189device		agp
190
191
192#####################################################################
193# HARDWARE DEVICE CONFIGURATION
194
195#
196# Optional devices:
197#
198
199# PS/2 mouse
200device		psm
201hint.psm.0.at="atkbdc"
202hint.psm.0.irq="12"
203
204# Options for psm:
205options 	PSM_HOOKRESUME		#hook the system resume event, useful
206					#for some laptops
207options 	PSM_RESETAFTERSUSPEND	#reset the device at the resume event
208
209# The keyboard controller; it controls the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse.
210device		atkbdc
211hint.atkbdc.0.at="isa"
212hint.atkbdc.0.port="0x060"
213
214# The AT keyboard
215device		atkbd
216hint.atkbd.0.at="atkbdc"
217hint.atkbd.0.irq="1"
218
219# Options for atkbd:
220options 	ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP	# specify the built-in keymap
221makeoptions	ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=jp.106
222
223# `flags' for atkbd:
224#       0x01    Force detection of keyboard, else we always assume a keyboard
225#       0x02    Don't reset keyboard, useful for some newer ThinkPads
226#	0x03	Force detection and avoid reset, might help with certain
227#		dockingstations
228#       0x04    Old-style (XT) keyboard support, useful for older ThinkPads
229
230# Video card driver for VGA adapters.
231device		vga
232hint.vga.0.at="isa"
233
234# Options for vga:
235# Try the following option if the mouse pointer is not drawn correctly
236# or font does not seem to be loaded properly.  May cause flicker on
237# some systems.
238options 	VGA_ALT_SEQACCESS
239
240# If you can dispense with some vga driver features, you may want to
241# use the following options to save some memory.
242#options 	VGA_NO_FONT_LOADING	# don't save/load font
243#options 	VGA_NO_MODE_CHANGE	# don't change video modes
244
245# Older video cards may require this option for proper operation.
246options 	VGA_SLOW_IOACCESS	# do byte-wide i/o's to TS and GDC regs
247
248# The following option probably won't work with the LCD displays.
249options 	VGA_WIDTH90		# support 90 column modes
250
251# Debugging.
252options 	VGA_DEBUG
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#
274# ACPI_NO_SEMAPHORES makes the AcpiOs*Semaphore routines a no-op.
275
276device		acpi
277options 	ACPI_DEBUG
278#!options 	ACPI_NO_SEMAPHORES
279
280# The cpufreq(4) driver provides support for non-ACPI CPU frequency control
281device		cpufreq
282
283# Direct Rendering modules for 3D acceleration.
284device		drm		# DRM core module required by DRM drivers
285device		i915drm		# Intel i830 through i915
286device		mach64drm	# ATI Rage Pro, Rage Mobility P/M, Rage XL
287device		mgadrm		# AGP Matrox G200, G400, G450, G550
288device		r128drm		# ATI Rage 128
289device		radeondrm	# ATI Radeon
290device		savagedrm	# S3 Savage3D, Savage4
291device		sisdrm		# SiS 300/305, 540, 630
292device		tdfxdrm		# 3dfx Voodoo 3/4/5 and Banshee
293options 	DRM_DEBUG	# Include debug printfs (slow)
294
295#
296# Network interfaces:
297#
298
299# ath:  Atheros a/b/g WiFi adapters (requires ath_hal and wlan)
300# ed:   Western Digital and SMC 80xx; Novell NE1000 and NE2000; 3Com 3C503
301#       HP PC Lan+, various PC Card devices
302#       (requires miibus)
303# ipw:	Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11 adapter
304# iwi:	Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11 adapters
305# nfe:	nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking (BSD open source)
306# nve:	nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking
307# ral:	Ralink Technology IEEE 802.11 wireless adapter
308# ural:	Ralink Technology RT2500USB IEEE 802.11 wireless adapter
309# wpi:	Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller
310
311device		ed
312options 	ED_3C503
313options 	ED_HPP
314options 	ED_SIC
315device		iwi
316device		ipw
317device		nfe		# nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking
318device		nve		# nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking
319device		ral
320device		ural
321device		wpi
322
323device		ath
324device		ath_hal		# Atheros HAL (includes binary component)
325#device		ath_rate_amrr	# AMRR rate control for ath driver
326#device		ath_rate_onoe	# Onoe rate control for ath driver
327device		ath_rate_sample	# SampleRate rate control for the ath driver
328#device		wlan		# 802.11 layer
329
330#
331#XXX this stores pointers in a 32bit field that is defined by the hardware
332#device	pst
333
334#
335# Areca 11xx and 12xx series of SATA II RAID controllers.
336# CAM is required.
337#
338device		arcmsr		# Areca SATA II RAID
339
340#
341# 3ware 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controller driver and options.
342# The driver is implemented as a SIM, and so, needs the CAM infrastructure.
343#
344options 	TWA_DEBUG		# 0-10; 10 prints the most messages.
345options 	TWA_FLASH_FIRMWARE	# firmware image bundled when defined.
346device		twa			# 3ware 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID
347
348#
349# SCSI host adapters:
350#
351# ncv: NCR 53C500 based SCSI host adapters.
352# nsp: Workbit Ninja SCSI-3 based PC Card SCSI host adapters.
353# stg: TMC 18C30, 18C50 based SCSI host adapters.
354
355device		ncv
356device		nsp
357device		stg
358
359#
360# Adaptec FSA RAID controllers, including integrated DELL controllers,
361# the Dell PERC 2/QC and the HP NetRAID-4M
362device		aac
363device		aacp	# SCSI Passthrough interface (optional, CAM required)
364
365#
366# Highpoint RocketRAID 182x.
367device		hptmv
368
369#
370# Highpoint RocketRAID.  Supports RR172x, RR222x, RR2240, RR232x, RR2340,
371# RR2210, RR174x, RR2522, RR231x, RR230x.
372device		hptrr
373
374#
375# Highpoint RocketRaid 3xxx series SATA RAID
376device		hptiop
377
378#
379# IBM (now Adaptec) ServeRAID controllers
380device		ips
381
382#
383# SafeNet crypto driver: can be moved to the MI NOTES as soon as
384# it's tested on a big-endian machine
385#
386device		safe		# SafeNet 1141
387options 	SAFE_DEBUG	# enable debugging support: hw.safe.debug
388options 	SAFE_RNDTEST	# enable rndtest support
389
390#####################################################################
391
392#
393# Miscellaneous hardware:
394#
395# ipmi: Intelligent Platform Management Interface
396# smbios: DMI/SMBIOS entry point
397# vpd: Vital Product Data kernel interface
398# cy: Cyclades serial driver
399# digi: Digiboard driver
400# asmc: Apple System Management Controller
401
402# Notes on the Specialix SI/XIO driver:
403#  The host card is memory, not IO mapped.
404#  The Rev 1 host cards use a 64K chunk, on a 32K boundary.
405#  The Rev 2 host cards use a 32K chunk, on a 32K boundary.
406#  The cards can use an IRQ of 11, 12 or 15.
407
408device		cy
409options 	CY_PCI_FASTINTR		# Use with cy_pci unless irq is shared
410device		digi
411# BIOS & FEP/OS components of device digi.
412device		digi_CX
413device		digi_CX_PCI
414device		digi_EPCX
415device		digi_EPCX_PCI
416device		digi_Xe
417device		digi_Xem
418device		digi_Xr
419device		ipmi
420# Parallel (8255 PPI) basic I/O (mode 0) port (e.g. Advantech PCL-724)
421device		pbio
422hint.pbio.0.at="isa"
423hint.pbio.0.port="0x360"
424device		smbios
425device		vpd
426device		asmc
427#
428# Laptop/Notebook options:
429#
430
431
432#
433# I2C Bus
434#
435
436#
437# Hardware watchdog timers:
438#
439# ichwd: Intel ICH watchdog timer
440#
441device		ichwd
442
443#
444# Temperature sensors:
445#
446# coretemp: on-die sensor on Intel Core and newer CPUs
447# k8temp: on-die sensor on AMD K8 CPUs
448#
449device		coretemp
450device		k8temp
451
452#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
453# ISDN4BSD
454#
455# See /usr/share/examples/isdn/ROADMAP for an introduction to isdn4bsd.
456#
457# i4b passive ISDN cards support contains the following hardware drivers:
458#
459#	isic  - Siemens/Infineon ISDN ISAC/HSCX/IPAC chipset driver
460#	iwic  - Winbond W6692 PCI bus ISDN S/T interface controller
461#	ifpi  - AVM Fritz!Card PCI driver
462#	ifpi2  - AVM Fritz!Card PCI version 2 driver
463#	itjc  - Siemens ISAC / TJNet Tiger300/320 chipset
464#
465# i4b active ISDN cards support contains the following hardware drivers:
466#
467#	iavc  - AVM B1 PCI, AVM B1 ISA, AVM T1
468#
469# Note that the ``options'' (if given) and ``device'' lines must BOTH
470# be uncommented to enable support for a given card !
471#
472# In addition to a hardware driver (and probably an option) the mandatory
473# ISDN protocol stack devices and the mandatory support device must be
474# enabled as well as one or more devices from the optional devices section.
475#
476#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
477#	isic driver (Siemens/Infineon chipsets)
478#
479#XXX#device	isic
480#
481# PCI bus Cards:
482# --------------
483#
484# ELSA MicroLink ISDN/PCI (same as ELSA QuickStep 1000pro PCI)
485options 	ELSA_QS1PCI
486#
487#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
488#	ifpi2 driver for AVM Fritz!Card PCI version 2
489#
490# AVM Fritz!Card PCI version 2
491#XXX#device	ifpi2
492#
493#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
494#	iwic driver for Winbond W6692 chipset
495#
496# ASUSCOM P-IN100-ST-D (and other Winbond W6692 based cards)
497#XXX#device	iwic
498#
499#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
500#	itjc driver for Siemens ISAC / TJNet Tiger300/320 chipset
501#
502# Traverse Technologies NETjet-S
503# Teles PCI-TJ
504#XXX#device	itjc
505#
506#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
507#	iavc driver (AVM active cards, needs i4bcapi driver!)
508#
509#XXX#device	iavc
510#
511#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
512#	ISDN Protocol Stack - mandatory for all hardware drivers
513#
514# Q.921 / layer 2 - i4b passive cards D channel handling
515#XXX#device	i4bq921
516#
517# Q.931 / layer 3 - i4b passive cards D channel handling
518#XXX#device	i4bq931
519#
520# layer 4 - i4b common passive and active card handling
521#XXX#device	i4b
522#
523#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
524#	ISDN devices - mandatory for all hardware drivers
525#
526# userland driver to do ISDN tracing (for passive cards only)
527#XXX#device	i4btrc
528#XXX#options 	NI4BTRC=4
529#
530# userland driver to control the whole thing
531#XXX#device	i4bctl
532#
533#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
534#	ISDN devices - optional
535#
536# userland driver for access to raw B channel
537#XXX#device	i4brbch
538#XXX#options 	NI4BRBCH=4
539#
540# userland driver for telephony
541#XXX#device	i4btel
542#XXX#options 	NI4BTEL=2
543#
544# network driver for IP over raw HDLC ISDN
545#XXX#device	i4bipr
546#XXX#options 	NI4BIPR=4
547# enable VJ header compression detection for ipr i/f
548#XXX#options 	IPR_VJ
549# enable logging of the first n IP packets to isdnd (n=32 here)
550#XXX#options 	IPR_LOG=32
551#
552# network driver for sync PPP over ISDN; requires an equivalent
553# number of sppp device to be configured
554#XXX#device	i4bisppp
555#XXX#options 	NI4BISPPP=4
556#
557# B-channel interface to the netgraph subsystem
558#XXX#device	i4bing
559#XXX#options 	NI4BING=2
560#
561# CAPI driver needed for active ISDN cards (see iavc driver above)
562#XXX#device	i4bcapi
563#
564#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
565
566#
567# System Management Bus (SMB)
568#
569options 	ENABLE_ALART		# Control alarm on Intel intpm driver
570
571#
572# Set the number of PV entries per process.  Increasing this can
573# stop panics related to heavy use of shared memory.  However, that can
574# (combined with large amounts of physical memory) cause panics at
575# boot time due the kernel running out of VM space.
576#
577# If you're tweaking this, you might also want to increase the sysctls
578# "vm.v_free_min", "vm.v_free_reserved", and "vm.v_free_target".
579#
580# The value below is the one more than the default.
581#
582options 	PMAP_SHPGPERPROC=201
583
584
585#####################################################################
586# ABI Emulation
587
588#XXX keep these here for now and reactivate when support for emulating
589#XXX these 32 bit binaries is added.
590
591# Enable 32-bit runtime support for FreeBSD/i386 binaries.
592options 	COMPAT_IA32
593
594# Enable iBCS2 runtime support for SCO and ISC binaries
595#XXX#options 	IBCS2
596
597# Emulate spx device for client side of SVR3 local X interface
598#XXX#options 	SPX_HACK
599
600# Enable Linux ABI emulation
601#XXX#options 	COMPAT_LINUX
602
603# Enable 32-bit Linux ABI emulation (requires COMPAT_43 and COMPAT_IA32)
604options 	COMPAT_LINUX32
605
606# Enable the linux-like proc filesystem support (requires COMPAT_LINUX32
607# and PSEUDOFS)
608options 	LINPROCFS
609
610#Enable the linux-like sys filesystem support (requires COMPAT_LINUX32
611# and PSEUDOFS)
612options		LINSYSFS
613
614#
615# SysVR4 ABI emulation
616#
617# The svr4 ABI emulator can be statically compiled into the kernel or loaded as
618# a KLD module.
619# The STREAMS network emulation code can also be compiled statically or as a
620# module.  If loaded as a module, it must be loaded before the svr4 module
621# (the /usr/sbin/svr4 script does this for you).  If compiling statically,
622# the `streams' device must be configured into any kernel which also
623# specifies COMPAT_SVR4.  It is possible to have a statically-configured
624# STREAMS device and a dynamically loadable svr4 emulator;  the /usr/sbin/svr4
625# script understands that it doesn't need to load the `streams' module under
626# those circumstances.
627# Caveat:  At this time, `options KTRACE' is required for the svr4 emulator
628# (whether static or dynamic).
629#
630#XXX#options 	COMPAT_SVR4	# build emulator statically
631#XXX#options 	DEBUG_SVR4	# enable verbose debugging
632#XXX#device	streams		# STREAMS network driver (required for svr4).
633
634
635#####################################################################
636# VM OPTIONS
637
638# KSTACK_PAGES is the number of memory pages to assign to the kernel
639# stack of each thread.
640
641options 	KSTACK_PAGES=3
642
643#####################################################################
644
645# More undocumented options for linting.
646# Note that documenting these are not considered an affront.
647
648options 	FB_INSTALL_CDEV		# install a CDEV entry in /dev
649
650options 	KBDIO_DEBUG=2
651options 	KBD_MAXRETRY=4
652options 	KBD_MAXWAIT=6
653options 	KBD_RESETDELAY=201
654
655options 	PSM_DEBUG=1
656
657options 	TIMER_FREQ=((14318182+6)/12)
658
659options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE
660options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX
661options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE
662
663# Enable NDIS binary driver support
664options 	NDISAPI
665device		ndis
666