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# 285830 23-Jul-2015 gjb

- Copy stable/10@285827 to releng/10.2 in preparation for 10.2-RC1
builds.
- Update newvers.sh to reflect RC1.
- Update __FreeBSD_version to reflect 10.2.
- Update default pkg(8) configuration to use the quarterly branch.[1]

Discussed with: re, portmgr [1]
Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 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


# 238805 26-Jul-2012 mav

Refactor enclosure manegement support in ahci(4). Move it out into separate
subdevice ahciem. Emulate SEMB SES device from AHCI LED interface to expose
it to users in form of ses(4) CAM device. If we ever see AHCI controllers
supporting SES of SAF-TE over I2C as described by specification, they should
fit well into this new picture.

Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.


# 237234 18-Jun-2012 marius

Avoid hard sentence break.

MFC after: 3 days


# 236443 02-Jun-2012 joel

mdoc: minor Bl improvements.


# 235317 12-May-2012 gjb

General mdoc(7) and typo fixes.

PR: 167776
Submitted by: Nobuyuki Koganemaru (kogane!jp.freebsd.org)
MFC after: 3 days


# 232380 02-Mar-2012 mav

Fix names of some Marvell SATA chips. It looks like chips with proprietary
interface supported by mvs(4) are 88SX, while AHCI-like chips are 88SE.

PR: kern/165271
Submitted by: Jia-Shiun Li <jiashiun@gmail.com>
MFC after: 1 week


# 228305 06-Dec-2011 mav

Mention that Cold Presence Detection feature used for hot-plug detection
when interface power management is enabled.


# 228200 02-Dec-2011 mav

Add hw.ahci.force tunable to control whether AHCI drivers should attach
to known AHCI-capable chips (AMD/NVIDIA), configured for legacy emulation.

Enabled by default to get additional performance and functionality of AHCI
when it can't be enabled by BIOS. Can be disabled to honor BIOS settings if
needed for some reason.

MFC after: 1 month


# 222039 17-May-2011 mav

Add support for "LED" enclosure management messages, defined by the AHCI.

When supported by hardware, this allows to control per-port activity, locate
and fault LEDs via the led(4) API for localization and status reporting
purposes. Supporting AHCI controllers may transmit that information to the
backplane controllers via SGPIO interface. Backplane controllers interpret
received statuses in some way (IBPI standard) to report them using present
indicators.


# 212636 15-Sep-2010 mav

Change licenses of my manual pages to the recommended 2-clause form.

Suggested by: joel


# 204705 04-Mar-2010 mav

Add links to cam(4).


# 204565 02-Mar-2010 mav

Some style and language improvements.

Submitted by: ru


# 203124 28-Jan-2010 mav

Note added FIS-based switching support.


# 196656 30-Aug-2009 mav

MFp4:
- Add Command Completion Coalescing support.
- Add SNTF support.
- Add two more power management modes (4, 5), implemented on driver level.
- Fix interface mode setting.
- Reduce interface reset time.
- Do not report meaningless protocol/transport versions.
- Report CAP2 register content.
- Some performance optimizations.


# 195874 25-Jul-2009 mav

PMP provides 16 targets (15 drives + itself).

Approved by: re (implicitly)


# 195534 10-Jul-2009 scottl

Separate the parallel scsi knowledge out of the core of the XPT, and
modularize it so that new transports can be created.

Add a transport for SATA

Add a periph+protocol layer for ATA

Add a driver for AHCI-compliant hardware.

Add a maxio field to CAM so that drivers can advertise their max
I/O capability. Modify various drivers so that they are insulated
from the value of MAXPHYS.

The new ATA/SATA code supports AHCI-compliant hardware, and will override
the classic ATA driver if it is loaded as a module at boot time or compiled
into the kernel. The stack now support NCQ (tagged queueing) for increased
performance on modern SATA drives. It also supports port multipliers.

ATA drives are accessed via 'ada' device nodes. ATAPI drives are
accessed via 'cd' device nodes. They can all be enumerated and manipulated
via camcontrol, just like SCSI drives. SCSI commands are not translated to
their ATA equivalents; ATA native commands are used throughout the entire
stack, including camcontrol. See the camcontrol manpage for further
details. Testing this code may require that you update your fstab, and
possibly modify your BIOS to enable AHCI functionality, if available.

This code is very experimental at the moment. The userland ABI/API has
changed, so applications will need to be recompiled. It may change
further in the near future. The 'ada' device name may also change as
more infrastructure is completed in this project. The goal is to
eventually put all CAM busses and devices until newbus, allowing for
interesting topology and management options.

Few functional changes will be seen with existing SCSI/SAS/FC drivers,
though the userland ABI has still changed. In the future, transports
specific modules for SAS and FC may appear in order to better support
the topologies and capabilities of these technologies.

The modularization of CAM and the addition of the ATA/SATA modules is
meant to break CAM out of the mold of being specific to SCSI, letting it
grow to be a framework for arbitrary transports and protocols. It also
allows drivers to be written to support discrete hardware without
jeopardizing the stability of non-related hardware. While only an AHCI
driver is provided now, a Silicon Image driver is also in the works.
Drivers for ICH1-4, ICH5-6, PIIX, classic IDE, and any other hardware
is possible and encouraged. Help with new transports is also encouraged.

Submitted by: scottl, mav
Approved by: re