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# 267654 19-Jun-2014 gjb

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

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

# 225736 22-Sep-2011 kensmith

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

Approved by: re (implicit)


# 207329 28-Apr-2010 attilio

- Extract the IODEV_PIO interface from ia64 and make it MI.
In the end, it does help fixing /dev/io usage from multithreaded
processes.
- On i386 and amd64 the old behaviour is kept but multithreaded
processes must use the new interface in order to work well.
- Support for the other architectures is greatly improved, where
necessary, by the necessity to define very small things now.

Manpage update will happen shortly.

Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
PR: threads/116181
Reviewed by: emaste, marcel
MFC after: 3 weeks


# 202097 11-Jan-2010 marcel

Use io(4) for I/O port access on ia64, rather than through sysarch(2).
I/O port access is implemented on Itanium by reading and writing to a
special region in memory. To hide details and avoid misaligned memory
accesses, a process did I/O port reads and writes by making a MD system
call. There's one fatal problem with this approach: unprivileged access
was not being prevented. /dev/io serves that purpose on amd64/i386, so
employ it on ia64 as well. Use an ioctl for doing the actual I/O and
remove the sysarch(2) interface.

Backward compatibility is not being considered. The sysarch(2) approach
was added to support X11, but support for FreeBSD/ia64 was never fully
implemented in X11. Thus, nothing gets broken that didn't need more work
to begin with.

MFC after: 1 week


# 179990 25-Jun-2008 ed

Remove the unused major/minor numbers from iodev and memdev.

Now that st_rdev is being automatically generated by the kernel, there
is no need to define static major/minor numbers for the iodev and
memdev. We still need the minor numbers for the memdev, however, to
distinguish between /dev/mem and /dev/kmem.

Approved by: philip (mentor)


# 132956 01-Aug-2004 markm

Break out the MI part of the /dev/[k]mem and /dev/io drivers into
their own directory and module, leaving the MD parts in the MD
area (the MD parts _are_ part of the modules). /dev/mem and /dev/io
are now loadable modules, thus taking us one step further towards
a kernel created entirely out of modules. Of course, there is nothing
preventing the kernel from having these statically compiled.