src/sys/alpha/include/param.h, branch release/3.5.0_cvs

This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create tag

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'RELENG_3_5_0_RELEASE'.

This commit was manufactured to restore the state of the 3.5-RELEASE image.
Releases prior to 5.3-RELEASE are omitting the secure/ and crypto/ subdirs.

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$

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MFC: Most non-newbus and non-vm changes to the alpha port since the

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3.1 branch was started, including:
* Crashdumps
* Fixes to spl
* Sysctls to control unaligned accesses
* Use the new syscons driver instead of the old one.
* A few other minor fixes and cleanups.

Add a new library function getobjformat(). It checks all the

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standard places ("/etc/objformat", ${OBJFORMAT}, argv) for an
indication of the user's preferred object file format.  This
consolidates some code that was starting to be duplicated in more
and more places.

Use the new function in ldconfig.

Note: I don't think that gcc should use getobjformat(), even though
it could.  The compiler should limit itself to functions that are
widespread, to ease porting and cross-compilation.

Change load address to 0xfffffc0000300000 to help support AS200.

1998-07-30T08:12:14+00:00

Overhaul the spl system so that it actually works properly.

1998-07-12T16:32:10+00:00

Major changes to the generic device framework for FreeBSD/alpha:

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* Eliminate bus_t and make it possible for all devices to have
  attached children.

* Support dynamically extendable interfaces for drivers to replace
  both the function pointers in driver_t and bus_ops_t (which has been
  removed entirely.  Two system defined interfaces have been defined,
  'device' which is mandatory for all devices and 'bus' which is
  recommended for all devices which support attached children.

* In addition, the alpha port defines two simple interfaces 'clock'
  for attaching various real time clocks to the system and 'mcclock'
  for the many different variations of mc146818 clocks which can be
  attached to different alpha platforms.  This eliminates two more
  function pointer tables in favour of the generic method dispatch
  system provided by the device framework.

Future device interfaces may include:

* cdev and bdev interfaces for devfs to use in replacement for specfs
  and the fixed interfaces bdevsw and cdevsw.

* scsi interface to replace struct scsi_adapter (not sure how this
  works in CAM but I imagine there is something similar there).

* various tailored interfaces for different bus types such as pci,
  isa, pccard etc.

Add initial support for the FreeBSD/alpha kernel. This is very much a

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work in progress and has never booted a real machine.  Initial
development and testing was done using SimOS (see
http://simos.stanford.edu for details).  On the SimOS simulator, this
port successfully reaches single-user mode and has been tested with
loads as high as one copy of /bin/ls :-).

Obtained from: partly from NetBSD/alpha

Updates to reflect differences in what NetBSD does and what FreeBSD

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userland expects.

These are a few of the alpha machine dependent header files - the first

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referenced by the build of user-space libraries. These files were
obtained from NetBSD (with ansi.h being modified to reflect the FreeBSD
off_t and pid_t implementation).