backend for timecounters.
Due to known bugs in some chipsets, always read until we get 3 successive
samples which are monotonic, as FreeBSD does in its "safe" variant.
This can be refined later, either by chipset quirks or by a test (as
FreeBSD does).
and INSTALL_SMALL. Since floppy images have to fit on one floppy, we
have to really cut down on the drivers on that image, but people
netbooting don't have that problem, so they deserve a more featured
kernel to install with. (namely one with raid support and more ethernet
drivers)
Otherwise, if there are two resources definitions of the same type in _CRS,
the same one from _PRS will be used twice, which of course leads to errors.
Note: _PRS is Possible Resources Set
_CRS is Current Resources Set
XXX acpi_allocate_resources is still very weak, e.g. it completely ignores
StartDependentFn entries which are kind of a switch. But at least it's
slightly better that way.
Tested by jmcneill@.
ntp on my 7248, however, my 7043-140 is still a bit flaky. I suspect the
only way to fix the 7043 is going to be writing a timecounter driver for
the 8254 present on these machines. Either way, this makes some of the
machines better, and the other machines are still about the same as they
were before, so it's a net gain for the port.
partitions. We do this by checking the NetBSD label to see if the
boot partition is of type RAID. If so, we offset reads from the
disk so that the kernel image can be read.
Note that with this code, sun4 machines (with PROM monitor) will only
boot from RAID if the RAID partition is the first one on the disk.
Tested on a SPARCstation 20, a SPARCstation 2 and a 4/330.
> The driver for the family of Promise SATA controllers,
> /usr/src/sys/dev/pci/pdcsata.c is not very robust when it comes to handling
> transient drive errors, or interrupt hickups when the card is under load.
> Worse, my experience seems to indicate, and the Linux driver confirms,
> that these cards tend to fall over rather frequently during high load
> operations or if drives unexpectedly reset or go to sleep. Symptoms
> include interupt timeouts during heavy load, the inability to reset drives
> if they go to sleep, and a failure of the card to generate interrupts at
> all if the interrupt load gets too high.
NetBSD Foundation Membership still pending.) This stack was written by
Iain under sponsorship from Itronix Inc.
The stack includes support for rfcomm networking (networking via your
bluetooth enabled cell phone), hid devices (keyboards/mice), and headsets.
Drivers for both PCMCIA and USB bluetooth controllers are included.
This code is not intended to be visible by the userland anyway, and it
also triggers a bug in SPARC's gcc 3.3.* that causes bootxx to explode
beyond its size limit (gcc emits unused reference to __muldi3).
