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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#
282# ACPICA_PEDANTIC enables strict checking of AML.  Our default is to
283# relax these checks to allow code generated by the Microsoft compiler
284# to still execute.
285#
286# Note that building ACPI into the kernel is deprecated; the module is
287# normally loaded automatically by the loader.
288
289device		acpi
290options 	ACPI_DEBUG
291#!options 	ACPI_NO_SEMAPHORES
292#!options 	ACPICA_PEDANTIC
293
294# The cpufreq(4) driver provides support for non-ACPI CPU frequency control
295device		cpufreq
296
297# Direct Rendering modules for 3D acceleration.
298device		drm		# DRM core module required by DRM drivers
299device		i915drm		# Intel i830 through i915
300device		mach64drm	# ATI Rage Pro, Rage Mobility P/M, Rage XL
301device		mgadrm		# AGP Matrox G200, G400, G450, G550
302device		r128drm		# ATI Rage 128
303device		radeondrm	# ATI Radeon
304device		savagedrm	# S3 Savage3D, Savage4
305device		sisdrm		# SiS 300/305, 540, 630
306device		tdfxdrm		# 3dfx Voodoo 3/4/5 and Banshee
307options 	DRM_DEBUG	# Include debug printfs (slow)
308
309#
310# Network interfaces:
311#
312
313# ath:  Atheros a/b/g WiFi adapters (requires ath_hal and wlan)
314# ed:   Western Digital and SMC 80xx; Novell NE1000 and NE2000; 3Com 3C503
315#       HP PC Lan+, various PC Card devices
316#       (requires miibus)
317# ipw:	Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11 adapter
318# iwi:	Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11 adapters
319# nfe:	nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking (BSD open source)
320# nve:	nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking
321# ral:	Ralink Technology IEEE 802.11 wireless adapter
322# ural:	Ralink Technology RT2500USB IEEE 802.11 wireless adapter
323
324device		ed
325options 	ED_3C503
326options 	ED_HPP
327options 	ED_SIC
328device		iwi
329device		ipw
330device		nfe		# nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking
331device		nve		# nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking
332device		ral
333device		ural
334
335device		ath
336device		ath_hal		# Atheros HAL (includes binary component)
337#device		ath_rate_amrr	# AMRR rate control for ath driver
338#device		ath_rate_onoe	# Onoe rate control for ath driver
339device		ath_rate_sample	# SampleRate rate control for the ath driver
340#device		wlan		# 802.11 layer
341
342#
343#XXX this stores pointers in a 32bit field that is defined by the hardware
344#device	pst
345
346#
347# Areca 11xx and 12xx series of SATA II RAID controllers.
348# CAM is required.
349#
350device		arcmsr		# Areca SATA II RAID
351
352#
353# 3ware 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controller driver and options.
354# The driver is implemented as a SIM, and so, needs the CAM infrastructure.
355#
356options 	TWA_DEBUG		# 0-10; 10 prints the most messages.
357options 	TWA_FLASH_FIRMWARE	# firmware image bundled when defined.
358device		twa			# 3ware 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID
359
360#
361# SCSI host adapters:
362#
363# ncv: NCR 53C500 based SCSI host adapters.
364# nsp: Workbit Ninja SCSI-3 based PC Card SCSI host adapters.
365# stg: TMC 18C30, 18C50 based SCSI host adapters.
366
367device		ncv
368device		nsp
369device		stg
370
371#
372# Adaptec FSA RAID controllers, including integrated DELL controllers,
373# the Dell PERC 2/QC and the HP NetRAID-4M
374device		aac
375device		aacp	# SCSI Passthrough interface (optional, CAM required)
376
377#
378# Highpoint RocketRAID 182x.  This is really just software RAID on a
379# Marvell SATA chip.
380device		hptmv
381
382#
383# Highpoint RocketRAID 232x.  This is software RAID but with hardware
384# acceleration assistance for RAID_5.
385device		rr232x
386
387#
388# IBM (now Adaptec) ServeRAID controllers
389device		ips
390
391#
392# SafeNet crypto driver: can be moved to the MI NOTES as soon as
393# it's tested on a big-endian machine
394#
395device		safe		# SafeNet 1141
396options 	SAFE_DEBUG	# enable debugging support: hw.safe.debug
397options 	SAFE_RNDTEST	# enable rndtest support
398
399#####################################################################
400
401#
402# Miscellaneous hardware:
403#
404# ipmi: Intelligent Platform Management Interface
405# smbios: DMI/SMBIOS entry point
406# vpd: Vital Product Data kernel interface
407# cy: Cyclades serial driver
408# digi: Digiboard driver
409
410# Notes on the Specialix SI/XIO driver:
411#  The host card is memory, not IO mapped.
412#  The Rev 1 host cards use a 64K chunk, on a 32K boundary.
413#  The Rev 2 host cards use a 32K chunk, on a 32K boundary.
414#  The cards can use an IRQ of 11, 12 or 15.
415
416device		cy
417options 	CY_PCI_FASTINTR		# Use with cy_pci unless irq is shared
418device		digi
419# BIOS & FEP/OS components of device digi.
420device		digi_CX
421device		digi_CX_PCI
422device		digi_EPCX
423device		digi_EPCX_PCI
424device		digi_Xe
425device		digi_Xem
426device		digi_Xr
427device		ipmi
428# Parallel (8255 PPI) basic I/O (mode 0) port (e.g. Advantech PCL-724)
429device		pbio
430hint.pbio.0.at="isa"
431hint.pbio.0.port="0x360"
432device		smbios
433device		vpd
434# HOT1 Xilinx 6200 card (http://www.vcc.com/)
435device		xrpu
436
437#
438# Laptop/Notebook options:
439#
440
441
442#
443# I2C Bus
444#
445
446#
447# Hardware watchdog timers:
448#
449# ichwd: Intel ICH watchdog timer
450#
451device		ichwd
452
453#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
454# ISDN4BSD
455#
456# See /usr/share/examples/isdn/ROADMAP for an introduction to isdn4bsd.
457#
458# i4b passive ISDN cards support contains the following hardware drivers:
459#
460#	isic  - Siemens/Infineon ISDN ISAC/HSCX/IPAC chipset driver
461#	iwic  - Winbond W6692 PCI bus ISDN S/T interface controller
462#	ifpi  - AVM Fritz!Card PCI driver
463#	ifpi2  - AVM Fritz!Card PCI version 2 driver
464#	itjc  - Siemens ISAC / TJNet Tiger300/320 chipset
465#
466# i4b active ISDN cards support contains the following hardware drivers:
467#
468#	iavc  - AVM B1 PCI, AVM B1 ISA, AVM T1
469#
470# Note that the ``options'' (if given) and ``device'' lines must BOTH
471# be uncommented to enable support for a given card !
472#
473# In addition to a hardware driver (and probably an option) the mandatory
474# ISDN protocol stack devices and the mandatory support device must be
475# enabled as well as one or more devices from the optional devices section.
476#
477#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
478#	isic driver (Siemens/Infineon chipsets)
479#
480#XXX#device	isic
481#
482# PCI bus Cards:
483# --------------
484#
485# ELSA MicroLink ISDN/PCI (same as ELSA QuickStep 1000pro PCI)
486options 	ELSA_QS1PCI
487#
488#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
489#	ifpi2 driver for AVM Fritz!Card PCI version 2
490#
491# AVM Fritz!Card PCI version 2
492#XXX#device	ifpi2
493#
494#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
495#	iwic driver for Winbond W6692 chipset
496#
497# ASUSCOM P-IN100-ST-D (and other Winbond W6692 based cards)
498#XXX#device	iwic
499#
500#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
501#	itjc driver for Siemens ISAC / TJNet Tiger300/320 chipset
502#
503# Traverse Technologies NETjet-S
504# Teles PCI-TJ
505#XXX#device	itjc
506#
507#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
508#	iavc driver (AVM active cards, needs i4bcapi driver!)
509#
510#XXX#device	iavc
511#
512#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
513#	ISDN Protocol Stack - mandatory for all hardware drivers
514#
515# Q.921 / layer 2 - i4b passive cards D channel handling
516#XXX#device	i4bq921
517#
518# Q.931 / layer 3 - i4b passive cards D channel handling
519#XXX#device	i4bq931
520#
521# layer 4 - i4b common passive and active card handling
522#XXX#device	i4b
523#
524#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
525#	ISDN devices - mandatory for all hardware drivers
526#
527# userland driver to do ISDN tracing (for passive cards only)
528#XXX#device	i4btrc
529#XXX#options 	NI4BTRC=4
530#
531# userland driver to control the whole thing
532#XXX#device	i4bctl
533#
534#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
535#	ISDN devices - optional
536#
537# userland driver for access to raw B channel
538#XXX#device	i4brbch
539#XXX#options 	NI4BRBCH=4
540#
541# userland driver for telephony
542#XXX#device	i4btel
543#XXX#options 	NI4BTEL=2
544#
545# network driver for IP over raw HDLC ISDN
546#XXX#device	i4bipr
547#XXX#options 	NI4BIPR=4
548# enable VJ header compression detection for ipr i/f
549options 	IPR_VJ
550# enable logging of the first n IP packets to isdnd (n=32 here)
551options 	IPR_LOG=32
552#
553# network driver for sync PPP over ISDN; requires an equivalent
554# number of sppp device to be configured
555#XXX#device	i4bisppp
556#XXX#options 	NI4BISPPP=4
557#
558# B-channel interface to the netgraph subsystem
559#XXX#device	i4bing
560#XXX#options 	NI4BING=2
561#
562# CAPI driver needed for active ISDN cards (see iavc driver above)
563#XXX#device	i4bcapi
564#
565#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
566
567#
568# System Management Bus (SMB)
569#
570options 	ENABLE_ALART		# Control alarm on Intel intpm driver
571
572#
573# Set the number of PV entries per process.  Increasing this can
574# stop panics related to heavy use of shared memory.  However, that can
575# (combined with large amounts of physical memory) cause panics at
576# boot time due the kernel running out of VM space.
577#
578# If you're tweaking this, you might also want to increase the sysctls
579# "vm.v_free_min", "vm.v_free_reserved", and "vm.v_free_target".
580#
581# The value below is the one more than the default.
582#
583options 	PMAP_SHPGPERPROC=201
584
585
586#####################################################################
587# ABI Emulation
588
589#XXX keep these here for now and reactivate when support for emulating
590#XXX these 32 bit binaries is added.
591
592# Enable 32-bit runtime support for FreeBSD/i386 binaries.
593options 	COMPAT_IA32
594
595# Enable iBCS2 runtime support for SCO and ISC binaries
596#XXX#options 	IBCS2
597
598# Emulate spx device for client side of SVR3 local X interface
599#XXX#options 	SPX_HACK
600
601# Enable Linux ABI emulation
602#XXX#options 	COMPAT_LINUX
603
604# Enable 32-bit Linux ABI emulation (requires COMPAT_43 and COMPAT_IA32)
605options 	COMPAT_LINUX32
606
607# Enable the linux-like proc filesystem support (requires COMPAT_LINUX32
608# and PSEUDOFS)
609options 	LINPROCFS
610
611#Enable the linux-like sys filesystem support (requires COMPAT_LINUX32
612# and PSEUDOFS)
613options		LINSYSFS
614
615#
616# SysVR4 ABI emulation
617#
618# The svr4 ABI emulator can be statically compiled into the kernel or loaded as
619# a KLD module.
620# The STREAMS network emulation code can also be compiled statically or as a
621# module.  If loaded as a module, it must be loaded before the svr4 module
622# (the /usr/sbin/svr4 script does this for you).  If compiling statically,
623# the `streams' device must be configured into any kernel which also
624# specifies COMPAT_SVR4.  It is possible to have a statically-configured
625# STREAMS device and a dynamically loadable svr4 emulator;  the /usr/sbin/svr4
626# script understands that it doesn't need to load the `streams' module under
627# those circumstances.
628# Caveat:  At this time, `options KTRACE' is required for the svr4 emulator
629# (whether static or dynamic).
630#
631#XXX#options 	COMPAT_SVR4	# build emulator statically
632#XXX#options 	DEBUG_SVR4	# enable verbose debugging
633#XXX#device	streams		# STREAMS network driver (required for svr4).
634
635
636#####################################################################
637# VM OPTIONS
638
639# KSTACK_PAGES is the number of memory pages to assign to the kernel
640# stack of each thread.
641
642options 	KSTACK_PAGES=3
643
644#####################################################################
645
646# More undocumented options for linting.
647# Note that documenting these are not considered an affront.
648
649options 	FB_INSTALL_CDEV		# install a CDEV entry in /dev
650
651options 	KBDIO_DEBUG=2
652options 	KBD_MAXRETRY=4
653options 	KBD_MAXWAIT=6
654options 	KBD_RESETDELAY=201
655
656options 	PSM_DEBUG=1
657
658options 	TIMER_FREQ=((14318182+6)/12)
659
660options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE
661options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX
662options 	VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE
663
664# Enable NDIS binary driver support
665options 	NDISAPI
666device		ndis
667