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.
DELAY(1)'s. This should fix interrupt driven lpt driver hang and
reboot problems for the group of users who have experienced them, and
shouldn't hurt anyone else.
& strobe cycle. These bracket DELAY()'s of BROKEN_LPT_DELAY
microseconds. This can be used to kludge around mysterious hangs and
reboots some users experience. The cause of these failures is still
not known, but is conjectured to be hardware bug originated failures
in the bus cycle.
tty structures, and on some machines (namely the DraCo internal lpt, and some
multi-i/o boards for Amigas and DraCos), tying spltty to the pretty high printer
interupt level would hurt serial performance.
On all affected ports but Amiga, spllpt() has been defined in machine/intr.h
to be spltty(), thus preserving old behaviour. Portmasters are encouraged to
change is, if they feel something else is better (e.g., one of its own were
possible).
This is useful in the case where an attachment's probe routine
verifies that there is indeed hardware present but something goes
"wrong" in the attach causing the device to be unusable. (Without
keeping track of this, in that case incorrect ports could be
accessed or uninitted pointers could be deferenced on open or at
other times.)
The isa attachment code is in isa/lpt_isa.c now, which attaches to the
already created ic/lpt* files.
You don't need to change your config files, but you need to re-"config" if
using lpt at isa.
XXX The "lpt" device definition should be in sys/conf/files instead, but to
my knowledge, there are some ports which have private copies of lpt, and would
choke on that. No need to make people unhappy 7 days before release branching.
I also made inclusion of LPRINTF() dependent solely on the symbol
LPTDEBUG, initialized lptdebug variable to 0 instead of 1, and
matched arguments to format strings in LPRINTF() calls.
- No more distinction between i/o-mapped and memory-mapped
devices. It's all "bus space" now, and space tags
differentiate the space with finer grain than the
bus chipset tag.
- Add memory barrier methods.
- Implement space alloc/free methods.
- Implement region read/write methods (like memcpy to/from
bus space).
This interface provides a better abstraction for dealing with
machine-independent chipset drivers.
- split softc size and match/attach out from cfdriver into
a new struct cfattach.
- new "attach" directive for files.*. May specify the name of
the cfattach structure, so that devices may be easily attached
to parents with different autoconfiguration semantics.
round: moving the drivers into a machine-independent directory.
Some drivers (e.g. fd.c) not moved because they use other pc features (e.g.
CMOS settings), and none of the non-driver files moved, because they're
still pretty much PC specific. eventually (when other ports with ISA
busses really start using this code), more 'high-level' ISA support will
live here.
thorpej