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Date:      Sun, 27 Apr 2003 12:02:34 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bodo_R=FCskamp?= <jordbaer@mac.com>
To:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   misc patches to FreeBSD (Geode, USB, kqueue, ObjC)
Message-ID:  <5E112B5E-7897-11D7-BB6A-000393DB98F8@mac.com>

Hi,

I have compiled a list of patches for FreeBSD on
 <http://www.clabsms.de/FreeBSD/index.html>. They are the result of
using the FreeBSD kernel on our Set-Top-Box hardware, which uses the
Geode processor by National Semiconductor.

We used to patch the past FreeBSD releases since 4.3 to get our
software working, but since our product is now released, we would like

to merge the patches into the main FreeBSD repository, so that they are

included in FreeBSD 4.9.

A short overview:

http://www.clabsms.de/FreeBSD/patch.sys.i386.i386.identcpu.c
http://www.clabsms.de/FreeBSD/patch.sys.i386.i386.vm_machdep.c
These patches are to support the NSC Geode processor.

http://www.clabsms.de/FreeBSD/patch.sys.net.bpf.c
http://www.clabsms.de/FreeBSD/patch.sys.dev.usb.usb.c
These patches add the kqueue(2) interface to bpf(4) and usb(4).

http://www.clabsms.de/FreeBSD/patch.sys.dev.usb.ohci.c
This contains a fix for a serious bug in the OHCI code that was present

for a very long time in FreeBSD and NetBSD: The attach/detach routines

have a bug that makes the usbd hang in the kernel (unkillable). Also
some minor fixes are included, ported from NetBSD 1.6.1.

http://www.clabsms.de/FreeBSD/patch.sys.netgraph.ng_ksocket.c
This patch makes the connect() function of ng_ksocket work.

http://www.clabsms.de/FreeBSD/patch.contrib.libobjc.objc.hash.h
http://www.clabsms.de/FreeBSD/patch.contrib.libobjc.objc.thr.h
Patches for the ObjC include headers that are required, if you use GCC
with all warnings turned on.

; Bodo R=FCskamp

--
Bodo R=FCskamp <jordbaer@mac.com>

Andrew Lankford <arlankfo@141.com> wrote:
 > http://www.clabsms.de/FreeBSD/patch.sys.i386.i386.identcpu.c
 > http://www.clabsms.de/FreeBSD/patch.sys.i386.i386.vm_machdep.c
 > These patches are to support the NSC Geode processor.

What do you mean -- "support"?  I'm just curious ...

I've been using NS Geode processors (233 and 300 MHz) for
quite some time without any problems, and without requiring
patches.  They're recognized during booting like this:

CPU: Cyrix GXm (232.74-MHz 586-class CPU)
  Origin = "CyrixInstead"  Id = 0x540  DIR=0x8246  Stepping=8 
Revision=2

(Yes, the Geode _is_ a Cyrix processor.)

I've put a complete dmesg output here:
http://www.secnetix.de/~olli/cantaro/dmesg.boot.txt

Regards
   Oliver

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Andrew Lankford wrote:
> We used to patch the past FreeBSD releases since 4.3 to get our
> software working, but since our product is now released, we would like
> to merge the patches into the main FreeBSD repository, so that they are
> included in FreeBSD 4.9.
> 
> http://www.clabsms.de/FreeBSD/patch.sys.netgraph.ng_ksocket.c
> This patch makes the connect() function of ng_ksocket work.
Thanks, I'll commit this one.

-Archie

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Archie Cobbs     *     Precision I/O      *     http://www.precisionio.com