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# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 236509 03-Jun-2012 joel

Minor spelling fixes.


# 163191 10-Oct-2006 trhodes

Remove ndisapi.9 Xref.

PR: 97375


# 148580 31-Jul-2005 keramida

Fix all the spelling mistakes I could find in the man pages for words
that have at least 3 characters.

MFC after: 1 week
Thanks to: Music band ``Chingon''
for keeping me company while searching for these.


# 147436 16-Jun-2005 ru

Markup fixes.

Approved by: re


# 140063 11-Jan-2005 ru

Scheduled mdoc(7) sweep.


# 132973 01-Aug-2004 wpaul

Big mess 'o changes:

- Give ndiscvt(8) the ability to process a .SYS file directly into
a .o file so that we don't have to emit big messy char arrays into
the ndis_driver_data.h file. This behavior is currently optional, but
may become the default some day.

- Give ndiscvt(8) the ability to turn arbitrary files into .ko files
so that they can be pre-loaded or kldloaded. (Both this and the
previous change involve using objcopy(1)).

- Give NdisOpenFile() the ability to 'read' files out of kernel memory
that have been kldloaded or pre-loaded, and disallow the use of
the normal vn_open() file opening method during bootstrap (when no
filesystems have been mounted yet). Some people have reported that
kldloading if_ndis.ko works fine when the system is running multiuser
but causes a panic when the modile is pre-loaded by /boot/loader. This
happens with drivers that need to use NdisOpenFile() to access
external files (i.e. firmware images). NdisOpenFile() won't work
during kernel bootstrapping because no filesystems have been mounted.
To get around this, you can now do the following:

o Say you have a firmware file called firmware.img
o Do: ndiscvt -f firmware.img -- this creates firmware.img.ko
o Put the firmware.img.ko in /boot/kernel
o add firmware.img_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf
o add if_ndis_load="YES" and ndis_load="YES" as well

Now the loader will suck the additional file into memory as a .ko. The
phony .ko has two symbols in it: filename_start and filename_end, which
are generated by objcopy(1). ndis_open_file() will traverse each module
in the module list looking for these symbols and, if it finds them, it'll
use them to generate the file mapping address and length values that
the caller of NdisOpenFile() wants.

As a bonus, this will even work if the file has been statically linked
into the kernel itself, since the "kernel" module is searched too.
(ndiscvt(8) will generate both filename.o and filename.ko for you).

- Modify the mechanism used to provide make-pretend FASTCALL support.
Rather than using inline assembly to yank the first two arguments
out of %ecx and %edx, we now use the __regparm__(3) attribute (and
the __stdcall__ attribute) and use some macro magic to re-order
the arguments and provide dummy arguments as needed so that the
arguments passed in registers end up in the right place. Change
taken from DragonflyBSD version of the NDISulator.


# 130420 13-Jun-2004 ru

Assorted markup, grammar, and spelling fixes.


# 124060 02-Jan-2004 wpaul

Clean up ndiscvt a bit (leaving out the -i flag didn't work) and add
copyrights to the inf parser files.

Add a -n flag to ndiscvt to allow the user to override the default
device name of NDIS devices. Instead of "ndis0, ndis1, etc..."
you can have "foo0, foo1, etc..." This allows you to have more than
one kind of NDIS device in the kernel at the same time.

Convert from printf() to device_printf() in if_ndis.c, kern_ndis.c
and subr_ndis.c.

Create UMA zones for ndis_packet and ndis_buffer structs allocated
on transmit. The zones are created and destroyed in the modevent
handler in kern_ndis.c.

printf() and UMA changes submitted by green@freebsd.org


# 123775 23-Dec-2003 wpaul

Correct a typo in the text.
Remove BUGS section since the bug it describes has been fixed.
Spell Matt Dodd's name correctly. (Oops.)


# 123475 11-Dec-2003 wpaul

Commit the ndiscvt(8) utility too. (Missed it in the last import.)