Copy stable/9 to releng/9.3 as part of the 9.3-RELEASE cycle.

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

Copy head to stable/9 as part of 9.0-RELEASE release cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)

Change all the sample kernel configurations to use
NFSCL, NFSD instead of NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER since
NFSCL and NFSD are now the defaults. The client change is
needed for diskless configurations, so that the root
mount works for fstype nfs.
Reported by seanbru at yahoo-inc.com for i386/XEN.

Approved by: re (hrs)

- Add shim to simplify migration to the CAM-based ATA. For each new adaX
device in /dev/ create symbolic link with adY name, trying to mimic old ATA
numbering. Imitation is not complete, but should be enough in most cases to
mount file systems without touching /etc/fstab.
- To know what behavior to mimic, restore ATA_STATIC_ID option in cases
where it was present before.
- Add some more details to UPDATING.

Switch the GENERIC kernels for all architectures to the new CAM-based ATA
stack. It means that all legacy ATA drivers are disabled and replaced by
respective CAM drivers. If you are using ATA device names in /etc/fstab or
other places, make sure to update them respectively (adX -> adaY,
acdX -> cdY, afdX -> daY, astX -> saY, where 'Y's are the sequential
numbers for each type in order of detection, unless configured otherwise
with tunables, see cam(4)).

ataraid(4) functionality is now supported by the RAID GEOM class.
To use it you can load geom_raid kernel module and use graid(8) tool
for management. Instead of /dev/arX device names, use /dev/raid/rX.

Remove mem, io, isa and npx since they are duplicative of the entries
in DEFAULTS. Saves 8 lines of warnings when we build XBOX.

Change USB_DEBUG to #ifdef and allow it to be turned off. Previously this had
the illusion of a tunable setting but was always turned on regardless.

MFC after: 1 week

- Use "device\t" and "options \t" for consistency.

Remove the uscanner(4) driver, this follows the removal of the kernel scanner
driver in Linux 2.6. uscanner was just a simple wrapper around a fifo and
contained no logic, the default interface is now libusb (supported by sane).

Reviewed by: HPS

Change over the usb kernel options to the new stack (retaining existing
naming). The old usb stack can be compiled in my prefixing the name with 'o'.

Integrate the new MPSAFE TTY layer to the FreeBSD operating system.

The last half year I've been working on a replacement TTY layer for the
FreeBSD kernel. The new TTY layer was designed to improve the following:

- Improved driver model:

The old TTY layer has a driver model that is not abstract enough to
make it friendly to use. A good example is the output path, where the
device drivers directly access the output buffers. This means that an
in-kernel PPP implementation must always convert network buffers into
TTY buffers.

If a PPP implementation would be built on top of the new TTY layer
(still needs a hooks layer, though), it would allow the PPP
implementation to directly hand the data to the TTY driver.

- Improved hotplugging:

With the old TTY layer, it isn't entirely safe to destroy TTY's from
the system. This implementation has a two-step destructing design,
where the driver first abandons the TTY. After all threads have left
the TTY, the TTY layer calls a routine in the driver, which can be
used to free resources (unit numbers, etc).

The pts(4) driver also implements this feature, which means
posix_openpt() will now return PTY's that are created on the fly.

- Improved performance:

One of the major improvements is the per-TTY mutex, which is expected
to improve scalability when compared to the old Giant locking.
Another change is the unbuffered copying to userspace, which is both
used on TTY device nodes and PTY masters.

Upgrading should be quite straightforward. Unlike previous versions,
existing kernel configuration files do not need to be changed, except
when they reference device drivers that are listed in UPDATING.

Obtained from: //depot/projects/mpsafetty/...
Approved by: philip (ex-mentor)
Discussed: on the lists, at BSDCan, at the DevSummit
Sponsored by: Snow B.V., the Netherlands
dcons(4) fixed by: kan

Add kernel module support for nfslockd and krpc. Use the module system
to detect (or load) kernel NLM support in rpc.lockd. Remove the '-k'
option to rpc.lockd and make kernel NLM the default. A user can still
force the use of the old user NLM by building a kernel without NFSLOCKD
and/or removing the nfslockd.ko module.

Make ADAPTIVE_GIANT as the default in the kernel and remove the option.
Currently, Giant is not too much contented so that it is ok to treact it
like any other mutexes.

Please don't forget to update your own custom config kernel files.

Approved by: cognet, marcel (maintainers of arches where option is
not enabled at the moment)

Eliminate one set of XBOX #ifdefs. The Xbox code just needs to set a
different TIMER_FREQ value than default. Accomplish this via the
config file rather than via an #ifdef.

Updated the XBOX kernel to use the new nfe(4) driver obtained from
OpenBSD. This driver seems to give a small performance increase, and
should lead to better maintainability in the future.

The nForce Ethernet-specific hack in sys/i386/xbox/xbox.c is still
required, judging from dev/nfe/if_nfe.c. The condition it hacks will
almost certainly only occur on XBOX-es anyway, so it is best left there.

Approved by: imp (mentor)

Remove COMPAT_43 from GENERIC (and other kernel configs). For amd64 there's
an explicit comment that it's needed for the linuxolator. This is not the
case anymore. For all other architectures there was only a "KEEP THIS".
I'm (and other people too) running a COMPAT_43-less kernel since it's not
necessary anymore for the linuxolator. Roman is running such a kernel for a
for longer time. No problems so far. And I doubt other (newer than ia32
or alpha) architectures really depend on it.

This may result in a small performance increase for some workloads.

If the removal of COMPAT_43 results in a not working program, please
recompile it and all dependencies and try again before reporting a
problem.

The only place where COMPAT_43 is needed (as in: does not compile without
it) is in the (outdated/not usable since too old) svr4 code.

Note: this does not remove the COMPAT_43TTY option.

Nagging by: rdivacky

Committed the xbox syscons(8)-able console driver.

Reviewed by: arch@ (no comments)
Approved by: imp (mentor)

Patch to allow XBox-users to use the onboard nve(4) nForce ethernet driver.

The patch crudely forces the NIC out of operating mode before the nve(4)
driver can initialize it; this is required to properly initialize the NIC.

It is XBox-specific, as this condition can only occur on XBoxes (Most loaders
will simply leave the NIC running, forcing us to use a crude workaround like
this to get it in a workable condition). Due to the XBox-only aspect, this has
been solved in XBox-specific initialization code and not within nve(4).

Reviewed by: imp
Approved by: imp (mentor)
No objection: bz@, obrien@, q@ontheweb.com.au

- Allow duplicate "machine" directives with the same arguments.
- Move existing "machine" directives to DEFAULTS.

Add support for XBOX to the FreeBSD port. The xbox architecture is
nearly identical to wintel/ia32, with a couple of tweaks. Since it is
so similar to ia32, it is optionally added to a i386 kernel. This
port is preliminary, but seems to work well. Further improvements
will improve the interaction with syscons(4), port Linux nforce driver
and future versions of the xbox.

This supports the 64MB and 128MB boxes. You'll need the most recent
CVS version of Cromwell (the Linux BIOS for the XBOX) to boot.

Rink will be maintaining this port, and is interested in feedback.
He's setup a website http://xbox-bsd.nl to report the latest
developments.

Any silly mistakes are my fault.

Submitted by: Rink P.W. Springer rink at stack dot nl and
Ed Schouten ed at fxq dot nl