chris gilbert

22 06 2008

NetBSD CVS Digest  Sun, 06/22/2008 - 12:38

Merge yamt-pf42 branch. (import newer pf from OpenBSD 4.2) ok'ed by peter@. requested by core@ [YAMAMOTO Takashi]

Don't try to standby on a lid_switch pressed event, this has a few problems: [Jared D.

McNeill]
1. ACPI S1 doesn't work properly for many people on NetBSD
2. It prevents someone from using their laptop with an external display

Make pmap_extract() lockless.

Reviewed by chs@ who reports a ~1% reduction in system time during a kernel build on a quad core amd64 system.

[Andrew Doran]


 

22/06/2008

NetBSD CVS Digest  Sun, 06/22/2008 - 12:00

Merge yamt-pf42 branch. (import newer pf from OpenBSD 4.2) ok'ed by peter@. requested by core@ [YAMAMOTO Takashi]

Don't try to standby on a lid_switch pressed event, this has a few problems: [Jared D.

McNeill]
1. ACPI S1 doesn't work properly for many people on NetBSD
2. It prevents someone from using their laptop with an external display

Make pmap_extract() lockless.

Reviewed by chs@ who reports a ~1% reduction in system time during a kernel build on a quad core amd64 system.

[Andrew Doran]


 

07/04/2008

NetBSD CVS Digest  Mon, 04/07/2008 - 16:00

azalia(4): Added support for the Realtek ALC662-GR codec as found in the EeePC. [Jared D. McNeill]

asus(4): Added a driver for ASUS ACPI hotkeys as found in the EeePC.[Jared D.

McNeill]

zaurus: Add sysinst support. [Chris Gilbert]

finsio(4): Added a driver for the Fintek Super I/O chips, supporting the Hardware Monitor device.

Adapted from OpenBSD. [Juan Romero Pardines]


 

03/03/2008

NetBSD CVS Digest  Mon, 03/03/2008 - 06:18

mfi(4): Added support for LSI SAS1078 and Dell PERC 6, from OpenBSD. [Juan Romero Pardines]

Extend the pmf suspend/resume hooks by a shutdown method, so drivers can register a shutdown handler explicitly.

Install a pci bus shutdown handler which disables bus master accesses for all childs, so the drivers don't need to care.

[Matthias Drochner]