This merge changes the device switch tables from static array to
dynamically generated by config(8).
- All device switches is defined as a constant structure in device drivers.
- The new grammer ``device-major'' is introduced to ``files''.
device-major <prefix> char <num> [block <num>] [<rules>]
- All device major numbers must be listed up in port dependent majors.<arch>
by using this grammer.
- Added the new naming convention.
The name of the device switch must be <prefix>_[bc]devsw for auto-generation
of device switch tables.
- The backward compatibility of loading block/character device
switch by LKM framework is broken. This is necessary to convert
from block/character device major to device name in runtime and vice versa.
- The restriction to assign device major by LKM is completely removed.
We don't need to reserve LKM entries for dynamic loading of device switch.
- In compile time, device major numbers list is packed into the kernel and
the LKM framework will refer it to assign device major number dynamically.
clients to use a hardware-assisted data mover to clear a region of memory,
fill a region of memory with a specific value, copy a region of memory,
and perform simple boolean operations such as XOR on multiple regions
of memory.
Included here is a software back-end which can serve as an example of
how to write a back-end (and also provides a fall-back in case hardware
for a given function is not available), as well as a dmoverio(4) pseudo-
device which provides access to dmover(9) to userland via a message
passing interface.
dmover(9) is still a work-in-progress -- a few minor changes to the
interface are expected.
gehenna