It uses an authorization wrapper per device class on the system to
ensure type-safety.
For now, it supports only terminal (TTY) devices, and has two actions
for them: "open terminal" and "privileged set". Sample usage has been
added to i386 and hp300 code for reference.
Update documentation.
1) Pass address and ipl locators at attachment;
2) Remove hack which made the internal HP-IB controller
look like a DIO device.
The hack to allow the nhpib driver to support internal and DIO
controllers appears to be a leftover from 4.3BD where it was not
possible to have a driver attach to different busses. NetBSD has
supported bus-dependent attachments for a long time.
"Occasionally a blocking open of dcm port 0 will hang in ttyopen()
waiting for carrier detect to be asserted when it's already
present.
The problem is that dcmmint() will return before updating the
value of sc->sc_mcndlast if the device is not open. If carrier
detect drops after the device is closed, sc->sc_mcndlast will
no longer correctly represent the "previous" state of the
signals when the next transition of carrier detect occurs.
A subsequent blocking open will wait forever for an event
which has in fact taken place."
kqueue provides a stateful and efficient event notification framework
currently supported events include socket, file, directory, fifo,
pipe, tty and device changes, and monitoring of processes and signals
kqueue is supported by all writable filesystems in NetBSD tree
(with exception of Coda) and all device drivers supporting poll(2)
based on work done by Jonathan Lemon for FreeBSD
initial NetBSD port done by Luke Mewburn and Jason Thorpe
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.
indicating an unhandled "command". ERESTART is -1, which can lead to
confusion. ERESTART has been moved to -3 and EPASSTHROUGH has been
placed at -4. No ioctl code should now return -1 anywhere. The
ioctl() system call is now properly restartable.
- While servicing an rx, tx, or modem status interrupt: if we have a
NULL struct tty * or if the tty isn't open, just return.
- Skip the self test if we are the console; it manages to do funny
things to autoconfig messages. (XXX - this should be fixed)
We're about 75% there. SCSI and HP-IB are not yet supported in a new
config kernel; some autoconfiguration hackery has to be done there, yet.
These changes are enough to network boot a diskless kernel.
New config glue is enabled with the "NEWCONFIG" kernel option. If that
option is not present, an old config kernel will be built. Any kernel
configured with config(8) will automatically pick up the NEWCONFIG
option from std.hp300.
cegger