The /dev/acpi character device gives an aperture into physical memory
that allows only read access to known ACPI tables: RSDP, XSDT/RSDT, and
the root tables. Adapt acpidump(8) to use this interface by default,
falling back to the old /dev/mem method if it is not available or if
ACPIDUMP_USE_DEVMEM=1 is set in the environment. The user visible benefit
of this change is that "options INSECURE" is no longer required to
dump ACPI tables.
Also define and use "MACHINE" variable to describe port names
(no uname(1) or sysctl(8) in miniroot binary list by default).
I guess the short format like "91" by ${DISTRIBREV} was used only
for split sets for floppies in 1990's releases.
Worth to pullup to netbsd-9.
Several binary sets are stored as symbolic links on releases and
it seems some ftpd doesn't sort nlist outputs by name in such case.
Worth to pullup to netbsd-9 and netbsd-8.
> awk: warning: escape sequence `\[' treated as plain `['
> source line number 1
> context is
> { h=$0; >>> gsub("^[ <<<
> awk: warning: escape sequence `\]' treated as plain `]'
> source line number 1
Should be pulled up to netbsd-9.
the BSD/POSIX per-process timers:
- "struct ptimer" is split into "struct itimer" (common interval timer
data) and "struct ptimer" (per-process timer data, which contains a
"struct itimer").
- Introduce a new "struct itimer_ops" that supplies information about
the specific kind of interval timer, including it's processing
queue, the softint handle used to schedule processing, the function
to call when the timer fires (which adds it to the queue), and an
optional function to call when the CLOCK_REALTIME clock is changed by
a call to clock_settime() or settimeofday().
- Rename some fuctions to clearly identify what they're operating on
(ptimer vs itimer).
- Use kmem(9) to allocate ptimer-related structures, rather than having
dedicated pools for them.
Welcome to NetBSD 9.99.77.
Several parts of make intentionally depend on the guarantee that
snprintf and vsnprintf do not overflow their buffer. If an
implementation cannot provide this guarantee, refuse to use it.
jmcneill