timeout()/untimeout() API:
- Clients supply callout handle storage, thus eliminating problems of
resource allocation.
- Insertion and removal of callouts is constant time, important as
this facility is used quite a lot in the kernel.
The old timeout()/untimeout() API has been removed from the kernel.
* do not require a `zs' driver for console handling
* run the console on PROM primitives until a device recognises
itself as a console device during normal autoconfiguration.
* allow (keyboard) devices to take over the input channel of
the PROM primitive-based console device.
As a result, consinit() is much simplified and does no longer have
to "detect" devices to setup a working console device. This complexity
has moved to individual drivers which interpret the PROM information
after they have attached to decide whether or not to act as a console.
that is priority is rasied. Add a new spllowersoftclock() to provide the
atomic drop-to-softclock semantics that the old splsoftclock() provided,
and update calls accordingly.
This fixes a problem with using the "rnd" pseudo-device from within
interrupt context to extract random data (e.g. from within the softnet
interrupt) where doing so would incorrectly unblock interrupts (causing
all sorts of lossage).
XXX 4 platforms do not have priority-raising capability: newsmips, sparc,
XXX sparc64, and VAX. This platforms still have this bug until their
XXX spl*() functions are fixed.
hannken