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#
# NOTES -- Lines that can be cut/pasted into kernel and hints configs.
#
# This file contains machine dependent kernel configuration notes.  For
# machine independent notes, look in /sys/conf/NOTES.
#
# $FreeBSD$
#

#
# We want LINT to cover profiling as well.
profile         2

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# SMP OPTIONS:
#
# Notes:
#
# IPI_PREEMPTION instructs the kernel to preempt threads running on other
#         CPUS if needed.  Relies on the PREEMPTION option

# Optional:
options         IPI_PREEMPTION
device          atpic                   # Optional legacy pic support
device          mptable                 # Optional MPSPEC mptable support

#
# Watchdog routines.
#
options         MP_WATCHDOG

# 
# Debugging options.
#
options         STOP_NMI                # Stop CPUS using NMI instead of IPI


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# CPU OPTIONS

#
# You must specify at least one CPU (the one you intend to run on);
# deleting the specification for CPUs you don't need to use may make
# parts of the system run faster.
#
cpu             HAMMER                  # aka K8, aka Opteron & Athlon64

#
# Options for CPU features.
#

#
# PERFMON causes the driver for Pentium/Pentium Pro performance counters
# to be compiled.  See perfmon(4) for more information.
#
#XXX#options    PERFMON

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# NETWORKING OPTIONS

#
# DEVICE_POLLING adds support for mixed interrupt-polling handling
# of network device drivers, which has significant benefits in terms
# of robustness to overloads and responsivity, as well as permitting
# accurate scheduling of the CPU time between kernel network processing
# and other activities.  The drawback is a moderate (up to 1/HZ seconds)
# potential increase in response times.
# It is strongly recommended to use HZ=1000 or 2000 with DEVICE_POLLING
# to achieve smoother behaviour.
# Additionally, you can enable/disable polling at runtime with help of
# the ifconfig(8) utility, and select the CPU fraction reserved to
# userland with the sysctl variable kern.polling.user_frac
# (default 50, range 0..100).
#
# Not all device drivers support this mode of operation at the time of
# this writing.  See polling(4) for more details.

options         DEVICE_POLLING

# BPF_JITTER adds support for BPF just-in-time compiler.

options         BPF_JITTER

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# CLOCK OPTIONS

# Provide read/write access to the memory in the clock chip.
device          nvram           # Access to rtc cmos via /dev/nvram

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# MISCELLANEOUS DEVICES AND OPTIONS

device          speaker         #Play IBM BASIC-style noises out your speaker
hint.speaker.0.at="isa"
hint.speaker.0.port="0x61"
device          gzip            #Exec gzipped a.out's.  REQUIRES COMPAT_AOUT!

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# HARDWARE BUS CONFIGURATION

#
# ISA bus
#
device          isa

#
# Options for `isa':
#
# AUTO_EOI_1 enables the `automatic EOI' feature for the master 8259A
# interrupt controller.  This saves about 0.7-1.25 usec for each interrupt.
# This option breaks suspend/resume on some portables.
#
# AUTO_EOI_2 enables the `automatic EOI' feature for the slave 8259A
# interrupt controller.  This saves about 0.7-1.25 usec for each interrupt.
# Automatic EOI is documented not to work for for the slave with the
# original i8259A, but it works for some clones and some integrated
# versions.
#
# MAXMEM specifies the amount of RAM on the machine; if this is not
# specified, FreeBSD will first read the amount of memory from the CMOS
# RAM, so the amount of memory will initially be limited to 64MB or 16MB
# depending on the BIOS.  If the BIOS reports 64MB, a memory probe will
# then attempt to detect the installed amount of RAM.  If this probe
# fails to detect >64MB RAM you will have to use the MAXMEM option.
# The amount is in kilobytes, so for a machine with 128MB of RAM, it would
# be 131072 (128 * 1024).
#
# BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET disables the use of the keyboard controller to
# reset the CPU for reboot.  This is needed on some systems with broken
# keyboard controllers.

options         AUTO_EOI_1
#options        AUTO_EOI_2

options         MAXMEM=(128*1024)
#options        BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET

#
# PCI bus & PCI options:
#
device          pci

#
# AGP GART support
device          agp

#
# AGP debugging.
#
options         AGP_DEBUG

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# HARDWARE DEVICE CONFIGURATION

#
# Optional devices:
#

# PS/2 mouse
device          psm
hint.psm.0.at="atkbdc"
hint.psm.0.irq="12"

# Options for psm:
options         PSM_HOOKRESUME          #hook the system resume event, useful
                                        #for some laptops
options         PSM_RESETAFTERSUSPEND   #reset the device at the resume event

# The keyboard controller; it controls the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse.
device          atkbdc
hint.atkbdc.0.at="isa"
hint.atkbdc.0.port="0x060"

# The AT keyboard
device          atkbd
hint.atkbd.0.at="atkbdc"
hint.atkbd.0.irq="1"

# Options for atkbd:
options         ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP       # specify the built-in keymap
makeoptions     ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=jp.106

# `flags' for atkbd:
#       0x01    Force detection of keyboard, else we always assume a keyboard
#       0x02    Don't reset keyboard, useful for some newer ThinkPads
#       0x03    Force detection and avoid reset, might help with certain
#               dockingstations
#       0x04    Old-style (XT) keyboard support, useful for older ThinkPads

# Video card driver for VGA adapters.
device          vga
hint.vga.0.at="isa"

# Options for vga:
# Try the following option if the mouse pointer is not drawn correctly
# or font does not seem to be loaded properly.  May cause flicker on
# some systems.
options         VGA_ALT_SEQACCESS

# If you can dispense with some vga driver features, you may want to
# use the following options to save some memory.
#options        VGA_NO_FONT_LOADING     # don't save/load font
#options        VGA_NO_MODE_CHANGE      # don't change video modes

# Older video cards may require this option for proper operation.
options         VGA_SLOW_IOACCESS       # do byte-wide i/o's to TS and GDC regs

# The following option probably won't work with the LCD displays.
options         VGA_WIDTH90             # support 90 column modes

# Debugging.
options         VGA_DEBUG

# 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics, Voodoo II /dev/3dfx CDEV support.  This will create
# the /dev/3dfx0 device to work with glide implementations.  This should get
# linked to /dev/3dfx and /dev/voodoo.  Note that this is not the same as
# the tdfx DRI module from XFree86 and is completely unrelated.
#
# To enable Linuxulator support, one must also include COMPAT_LINUX in the
# config as well.  The other option is to load both as modules.

device          tdfx                    # Enable 3Dfx Voodoo support
#XXX#device     tdfx_linux              # Enable Linuxulator support

#
# ACPI support using the Intel ACPI Component Architecture reference
# implementation.
#
# ACPI_DEBUG enables the use of the debug.acpi.level and debug.acpi.layer
# kernel environment variables to select initial debugging levels for the
# Intel ACPICA code.  (Note that the Intel code must also have USE_DEBUGGER
# defined when it is built).

device          acpi
options         ACPI_DEBUG

# The cpufreq(4) driver provides support for non-ACPI CPU frequency control
device          cpufreq

# Direct Rendering modules for 3D acceleration.
device          drm             # DRM core module required by DRM drivers
device          i915drm         # Intel i830 through i915
device          mach64drm       # ATI Rage Pro, Rage Mobility P/M, Rage XL
device          mgadrm          # AGP Matrox G200, G400, G450, G550
device          r128drm         # ATI Rage 128
device          radeondrm       # ATI Radeon
device          savagedrm       # S3 Savage3D, Savage4
device          sisdrm          # SiS 300/305, 540, 630
device          tdfxdrm         # 3dfx Voodoo 3/4/5 and Banshee
options         DRM_DEBUG       # Include debug printfs (slow)

#
# Network interfaces:
#

# ed:   Western Digital and SMC 80xx; Novell NE1000 and NE2000; 3Com 3C503
#       HP PC Lan+, various PC Card devices
#       (requires miibus)
# ipw:  Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11 adapter
# iwi:  Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11 adapters
# iwn:  Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN 802.11 network adapters
# nfe:  nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking (BSD open source)
# nve:  nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking
# ral:  Ralink Technology IEEE 802.11 wireless adapter
# wpi:  Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller

device          ed
options         ED_3C503
options         ED_HPP
options         ED_SIC
device          iwi
device          iwn
device          ipw
device          nfe
device          nve
device          ral
device          wpi

device          ath                     # Atheros pci/cardbus NIC's
device          ath_hal                 # pci/cardbus chip support
options         AH_SUPPORT_AR5416       # enable AR5416 tx/rx descriptors
device          ath_rate_sample         # SampleRate tx rate control for ath
#device         ath_rate_amrr           # AMRR rate control for ath driver
#device         ath_rate_onoe           # Onoe rate control for ath driver

#
#XXX this stores pointers in a 32bit field that is defined by the hardware
#device pst

#
# Areca 11xx and 12xx series of SATA II RAID controllers.
# CAM is required.
#
device          arcmsr          # Areca SATA II RAID

#
# 3ware 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID controller driver and options.
# The driver is implemented as a SIM, and so, needs the CAM infrastructure.
#
options         TWA_DEBUG               # 0-10; 10 prints the most messages.
options         TWA_FLASH_FIRMWARE      # firmware image bundled when defined.
device          twa                     # 3ware 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID

#
# SCSI host adapters:
#
# ncv: NCR 53C500 based SCSI host adapters.
# nsp: Workbit Ninja SCSI-3 based PC Card SCSI host adapters.
# stg: TMC 18C30, 18C50 based SCSI host adapters.

device          ncv
device          nsp
device          stg

#
# Adaptec FSA RAID controllers, including integrated DELL controllers,
# the Dell PERC 2/QC and the HP NetRAID-4M
device          aac
device          aacp    # SCSI Passthrough interface (optional, CAM required)

#
# Highpoint RocketRAID 182x.
device          hptmv

#
# Highpoint RocketRAID.  Supports RR172x, RR222x, RR2240, RR232x, RR2340,
# RR2210, RR174x, RR2522, RR231x, RR230x.
device          hptrr

#
# Highpoint RocketRaid 3xxx series SATA RAID
device          hptiop

#
# IBM (now Adaptec) ServeRAID controllers
device          ips

#
# SafeNet crypto driver: can be moved to the MI NOTES as soon as
# it's tested on a big-endian machine
#
device          safe            # SafeNet 1141
options         SAFE_DEBUG      # enable debugging support: hw.safe.debug
options         SAFE_RNDTEST    # enable rndtest support

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#
# Miscellaneous hardware:
#
# ipmi: Intelligent Platform Management Interface
# pbio: Parallel (8255 PPI) basic I/O (mode 0) port (e.g. Advantech PCL-724)
# smbios: DMI/SMBIOS entry point
# vpd: Vital Product Data kernel interface
# asmc: Apple System Management Controller
# si: Specialix International SI/XIO or SX intelligent serial card

# Notes on the Specialix SI/XIO driver:
#  The host card is memory, not IO mapped.
#  The Rev 1 host cards use a 64K chunk, on a 32K boundary.
#  The Rev 2 host cards use a 32K chunk, on a 32K boundary.
#  The cards can use an IRQ of 11, 12 or 15.

device          ipmi
device          pbio
hint.pbio.0.at="isa"
hint.pbio.0.port="0x360"
device          smbios
device          vpd
device          asmc
#device         si

#
# Laptop/Notebook options:
#


#
# I2C Bus
#

#
# Hardware watchdog timers:
#
# ichwd: Intel ICH watchdog timer
#
device          ichwd

#
# Temperature sensors:
#
# coretemp: on-die sensor on Intel Core and newer CPUs
# amdtemp: on-die sensor on AMD K8/K10/K11 CPUs
#
device          coretemp
device          amdtemp

#
# CPU control pseudo-device. Provides access to MSRs, CPUID info and
# microcode update feature.
#
device          cpuctl

#
# System Management Bus (SMB)
#
options         ENABLE_ALART            # Control alarm on Intel intpm driver

#
# Set the number of PV entries per process.  Increasing this can
# stop panics related to heavy use of shared memory.  However, that can
# (combined with large amounts of physical memory) cause panics at
# boot time due the kernel running out of VM space.
#
# If you're tweaking this, you might also want to increase the sysctls
# "vm.v_free_min", "vm.v_free_reserved", and "vm.v_free_target".
#
# The value below is the one more than the default.
#
options         PMAP_SHPGPERPROC=201

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# ABI Emulation

#XXX keep these here for now and reactivate when support for emulating
#XXX these 32 bit binaries is added.

# Enable 32-bit runtime support for FreeBSD/i386 binaries.
options         COMPAT_IA32

# Enable iBCS2 runtime support for SCO and ISC binaries
#XXX#options    IBCS2

# Emulate spx device for client side of SVR3 local X interface
#XXX#options    SPX_HACK

# Enable Linux ABI emulation
#XXX#options    COMPAT_LINUX

# Enable 32-bit Linux ABI emulation (requires COMPAT_43 and COMPAT_IA32)
options         COMPAT_LINUX32

# Enable the linux-like proc filesystem support (requires COMPAT_LINUX32
# and PSEUDOFS)
options         LINPROCFS

#Enable the linux-like sys filesystem support (requires COMPAT_LINUX32
# and PSEUDOFS)
options         LINSYSFS

#
# SysVR4 ABI emulation
#
# The svr4 ABI emulator can be statically compiled into the kernel or loaded as
# a KLD module.
# The STREAMS network emulation code can also be compiled statically or as a
# module.  If loaded as a module, it must be loaded before the svr4 module
# (the /usr/sbin/svr4 script does this for you).  If compiling statically,
# the `streams' device must be configured into any kernel which also
# specifies COMPAT_SVR4.  It is possible to have a statically-configured
# STREAMS device and a dynamically loadable svr4 emulator;  the /usr/sbin/svr4
# script understands that it doesn't need to load the `streams' module under
# those circumstances.
# Caveat:  At this time, `options KTRACE' is required for the svr4 emulator
# (whether static or dynamic).
#
#XXX#options    COMPAT_SVR4     # build emulator statically
#XXX#options    DEBUG_SVR4      # enable verbose debugging
#XXX#device     streams         # STREAMS network driver (required for svr4).

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# VM OPTIONS

# KSTACK_PAGES is the number of memory pages to assign to the kernel
# stack of each thread.

options         KSTACK_PAGES=3

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# More undocumented options for linting.
# Note that documenting these are not considered an affront.

options         FB_INSTALL_CDEV         # install a CDEV entry in /dev

options         KBDIO_DEBUG=2
options         KBD_MAXRETRY=4
options         KBD_MAXWAIT=6
options         KBD_RESETDELAY=201

options         PSM_DEBUG=1

options         TIMER_FREQ=((14318182+6)/12)

options         VM_KMEM_SIZE
options         VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX
options         VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE

# Enable NDIS binary driver support
options         NDISAPI
device          ndis