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Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextgrafted
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core:
- Add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head, avoid having
to access struct page at kfree time, and improve memory use.
- Introduce sysctl to set default RPS configuration for new netdevs.
- Define Netlink protocol specification format which can be used to
describe messages used by each family and auto-generate parsers.
Add tools for generating kernel data structures and uAPI headers.
- Expose all net/core sysctls inside netns.
- Remove 4s sleep in netpoll if carrier is instantly detected on
boot.
- Add configurable limit of MDB entries per port, and port-vlan.
- Continue populating drop reasons throughout the stack.
- Retire a handful of legacy Qdiscs and classifiers.
Protocols:
- Support IPv4 big TCP (TSO frames larger than 64kB).
- Add IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option, to control local port range
on socket by socket basis.
- Track and report in procfs number of MPTCP sockets used.
- Support mixing IPv4 and IPv6 flows in the in-kernel MPTCP path
manager.
- IPv6: don't check net.ipv6.route.max_size and rely on garbage
collection to free memory (similarly to IPv4).
- Support Penultimate Segment Pop (PSP) flavor in SRv6 (RFC8986).
- ICMP: add per-rate limit counters.
- Add support for user scanning requests in ieee802154.
- Remove static WEP support.
- Support minimal Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) rate
reporting.
- WiFi 7 EHT channel puncturing support (client & AP).
BPF:
- Add a rbtree data structure following the "next-gen data structure"
precedent set by recently added linked list, that is, by using
kfunc + kptr instead of adding a new BPF map type.
- Expose XDP hints via kfuncs with initial support for RX hash and
timestamp metadata.
- Add BPF_F_NO_TUNNEL_KEY extension to bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key to
better support decap on GRE tunnel devices not operating in collect
metadata.
- Improve x86 JIT's codegen for PROBE_MEM runtime error checks.
- Remove the need for trace_printk_lock for bpf_trace_printk and
bpf_trace_vprintk helpers.
- Extend libbpf's bpf_tracing.h support for tracing arguments of
kprobes/uprobes and syscall as a special case.
- Significantly reduce the search time for module symbols by
livepatch and BPF.
- Enable cpumasks to be used as kptrs, which is useful for tracing
programs tracking which tasks end up running on which CPUs in
different time intervals.
- Add support for BPF trampoline on s390x and riscv64.
- Add capability to export the XDP features supported by the NIC.
- Add __bpf_kfunc tag for marking kernel functions as kfuncs.
- Add cgroup.memory=nobpf kernel parameter option to disable BPF
memory accounting for container environments.
Netfilter:
- Remove the CLUSTERIP target. It has been marked as obsolete for
years, and we still have WARN splats wrt races of the out-of-band
/proc interface installed by this target.
- Add 'destroy' commands to nf_tables. They are identical to the
existing 'delete' commands, but do not return an error if the
referenced object (set, chain, rule...) did not exist.
Driver API:
- Improve cpumask_local_spread() locality to help NICs set the right
IRQ affinity on AMD platforms.
- Separate C22 and C45 MDIO bus transactions more clearly.
- Introduce new DCB table to control DSCP rewrite on egress.
- Support configuration of Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA)
Reconciliation Sublayer (RS) (802.3cg-2019). Modern version of
shared medium Ethernet.
- Support for MAC Merge layer (IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99). Allowing
preemption of low priority frames by high priority frames.
- Add support for controlling MACSec offload using netlink SET.
- Rework devlink instance refcounts to allow registration and
de-registration under the instance lock. Split the code into
multiple files, drop some of the unnecessarily granular locks and
factor out common parts of netlink operation handling.
- Add TX frame aggregation parameters (for USB drivers).
- Add a new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report TC (offload) warning
messages with notifications for debug.
- Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct.
- Add support for per action HW stats in TC.
- Support hardware miss to TC action (continue processing in SW from
a specific point in the action chain).
- Warn if old Wireless Extension user space interface is used with
modern cfg80211/mac80211 drivers. Do not support Wireless
Extensions for Wi-Fi 7 devices at all. Everyone should switch to
using nl80211 interface instead.
- Improve the CAN bit timing configuration. Use extack to return
error messages directly to user space, update the SJW handling,
including the definition of a new default value that will benefit
CAN-FD controllers, by increasing their oscillator tolerance.
New hardware / drivers:
- Ethernet:
- nVidia BlueField-3 support (control traffic driver)
- Ethernet support for imx93 SoCs
- Motorcomm yt8531 gigabit Ethernet PHY
- onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY (with support for PLCA)
- Microchip LAN8841 PHY (incl. cable diagnostics and PTP)
- Amlogic gxl MDIO mux
- WiFi:
- RealTek RTL8188EU (rtl8xxxu)
- Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices (ath12k)
- CAN:
- Renesas R-Car V4H
Drivers:
- Bluetooth:
- Set Per Platform Antenna Gain (PPAG) for Intel controllers.
- Ethernet NICs:
- Intel (1G, igc):
- support TSN / Qbv / packet scheduling features of i226 model
- Intel (100G, ice):
- use GNSS subsystem instead of TTY
- multi-buffer XDP support
- extend support for GPIO pins to E823 devices
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- update the shared buffer configuration on PFC commands
- implement PTP adjphase function for HW offset control
- TC support for Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload
- more efficient crypto key management method
- multi-port eswitch support
- Netronome/Corigine:
- add DCB IEEE support
- support IPsec offloading for NFP3800
- Freescale/NXP (enetc):
- support XDP_REDIRECT for XDP non-linear buffers
- improve reconfig, avoid link flap and waiting for idle
- support MAC Merge layer
- Other NICs:
- sfc/ef100: add basic devlink support for ef100
- ionic: rx_push mode operation (writing descriptors via MMIO)
- bnxt: use the auxiliary bus abstraction for RDMA
- r8169: disable ASPM and reset bus in case of tx timeout
- cpsw: support QSGMII mode for J721e CPSW9G
- cpts: support pulse-per-second output
- ngbe: add an mdio bus driver
- usbnet: optimize usbnet_bh() by avoiding unnecessary queuing
- r8152: handle devices with FW with NCM support
- amd-xgbe: support 10Mbps, 2.5GbE speeds and rx-adaptation
- virtio-net: support multi buffer XDP
- virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff
- tsnep: XDP support
- Ethernet high-speed switches:
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw):
- add support for latency TLV (in FW control messages)
- Microchip (sparx5):
- separate explicit and implicit traffic forwarding rules, make
the implicit rules always active
- add support for egress DSCP rewrite
- IS0 VCAP support (Ingress Classification)
- IS2 VCAP filters (protos, L3 addrs, L4 ports, flags, ToS
etc.)
- ES2 VCAP support (Egress Access Control)
- support for Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (802.1Q,
8.6.5.1)
- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
- add MAB (port auth) offload support
- enable PTP receive for mv88e6390
- NXP (ocelot):
- support MAC Merge layer
- support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys
- Microchip:
- lan9303: convert to PHYLINK
- lan966x: support TC flower filter statistics
- lan937x: PTP support for KSZ9563/KSZ8563 and LAN937x
- lan937x: support Credit Based Shaper configuration
- ksz9477: support Energy Efficient Ethernet
- other:
- qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API, use bulk operations
- rswitch: Improve TX timestamp accuracy
- Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
- EHT (Wi-Fi 7) rate reporting
- STEP equalizer support: transfer some STEP (connection to radio
on platforms with integrated wifi) related parameters from the
BIOS to the firmware.
- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- IPQ5018 support
- Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) responder role support
- channel 177 support
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- per-PHY LED support
- mt7996: EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support
- Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) reset support
- switch to using page pool allocator
- RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
- support new version of Bluetooth co-existance
- Mobile:
- rmnet: support TX aggregation"
* tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1872 commits)
page_pool: add a comment explaining the fragment counter usage
net: ethtool: fix __ethtool_dev_mm_supported() implementation
ethtool: pse-pd: Fix double word in comments
xsk: add linux/vmalloc.h to xsk.c
sefltests: netdevsim: wait for devlink instance after netns removal
selftest: fib_tests: Always cleanup before exit
net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware
net/mlx5e: TC, Set CT miss to the specific ct action instance
net/mlx5e: Rename CHAIN_TO_REG to MAPPED_OBJ_TO_REG
net/mlx5: Refactor tc miss handling to a single function
net/mlx5: Kconfig: Make tc offload depend on tc skb extension
net/sched: flower: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: flower: Move filter handle initialization earlier
net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: Rename user cookie and act cookie
sfc: fix builds without CONFIG_RTC_LIB
sfc: clean up some inconsistent indentings
net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning
net: lan966x: Fix possible deadlock inside PTP
net/ulp: Remove redundant ->clone() test in inet_clone_ulp().
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diff --git a/Documentation/fb/sisfb.rst b/Documentation/fb/sisfb.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8f4e502ea --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/fb/sisfb.rst @@ -0,0 +1,160 @@ +============== +What is sisfb? +============== + +sisfb is a framebuffer device driver for SiS (Silicon Integrated Systems) +graphics chips. Supported are: + +- SiS 300 series: SiS 300/305, 540, 630(S), 730(S) +- SiS 315 series: SiS 315/H/PRO, 55x, (M)65x, 740, (M)661(F/M)X, (M)741(GX) +- SiS 330 series: SiS 330 ("Xabre"), (M)760 + + +Why do I need a framebuffer driver? +=================================== + +sisfb is eg. useful if you want a high-resolution text console. Besides that, +sisfb is required to run DirectFB (which comes with an additional, dedicated +driver for the 315 series). + +On the 300 series, sisfb on kernels older than 2.6.3 furthermore plays an +important role in connection with DRM/DRI: Sisfb manages the memory heap +used by DRM/DRI for 3D texture and other data. This memory management is +required for using DRI/DRM. + +Kernels >= around 2.6.3 do not need sisfb any longer for DRI/DRM memory +management. The SiS DRM driver has been updated and features a memory manager +of its own (which will be used if sisfb is not compiled). So unless you want +a graphical console, you don't need sisfb on kernels >=2.6.3. + +Sidenote: Since this seems to be a commonly made mistake: sisfb and vesafb +cannot be active at the same time! Do only select one of them in your kernel +configuration. + + +How are parameters passed to sisfb? +=================================== + +Well, it depends: If compiled statically into the kernel, use lilo's append +statement to add the parameters to the kernel command line. Please see lilo's +(or GRUB's) documentation for more information. If sisfb is a kernel module, +parameters are given with the modprobe (or insmod) command. + +Example for sisfb as part of the static kernel: Add the following line to your +lilo.conf:: + + append="video=sisfb:mode:1024x768x16,mem:12288,rate:75" + +Example for sisfb as a module: Start sisfb by typing:: + + modprobe sisfb mode=1024x768x16 rate=75 mem=12288 + +A common mistake is that folks use a wrong parameter format when using the +driver compiled into the kernel. Please note: If compiled into the kernel, +the parameter format is video=sisfb:mode:none or video=sisfb:mode:1024x768x16 +(or whatever mode you want to use, alternatively using any other format +described above or the vesa keyword instead of mode). If compiled as a module, +the parameter format reads mode=none or mode=1024x768x16 (or whatever mode you +want to use). Using a "=" for a ":" (and vice versa) is a huge difference! +Additionally: If you give more than one argument to the in-kernel sisfb, the +arguments are separated with ",". For example:: + + video=sisfb:mode:1024x768x16,rate:75,mem:12288 + + +How do I use it? +================ + +Preface statement: This file only covers very little of the driver's +capabilities and features. Please refer to the author's and maintainer's +website at http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsisvga.shtml for more +information. Additionally, "modinfo sisfb" gives an overview over all +supported options including some explanation. + +The desired display mode can be specified using the keyword "mode" with +a parameter in one of the following formats: + + - XxYxDepth or + - XxY-Depth or + - XxY-Depth@Rate or + - XxY + - or simply use the VESA mode number in hexadecimal or decimal. + +For example: 1024x768x16, 1024x768-16@75, 1280x1024-16. If no depth is +specified, it defaults to 8. If no rate is given, it defaults to 60Hz. Depth 32 +means 24bit color depth (but 32 bit framebuffer depth, which is not relevant +to the user). + +Additionally, sisfb understands the keyword "vesa" followed by a VESA mode +number in decimal or hexadecimal. For example: vesa=791 or vesa=0x117. Please +use either "mode" or "vesa" but not both. + +Linux 2.4 only: If no mode is given, sisfb defaults to "no mode" (mode=none) if +compiled as a module; if sisfb is statically compiled into the kernel, it +defaults to 800x600x8 unless CRT2 type is LCD, in which case the LCD's native +resolution is used. If you want to switch to a different mode, use the fbset +shell command. + +Linux 2.6 only: If no mode is given, sisfb defaults to 800x600x8 unless CRT2 +type is LCD, in which case it defaults to the LCD's native resolution. If +you want to switch to another mode, use the stty shell command. + +You should compile in both vgacon (to boot if you remove you SiS card from +your system) and sisfb (for graphics mode). Under Linux 2.6, also "Framebuffer +console support" (fbcon) is needed for a graphical console. + +You should *not* compile-in vesafb. And please do not use the "vga=" keyword +in lilo's or grub's configuration file; mode selection is done using the +"mode" or "vesa" keywords as a parameter. See above and below. + + +X11 +=== + +If using XFree86 or X.org, it is recommended that you don't use the "fbdev" +driver but the dedicated "sis" X driver. The "sis" X driver and sisfb are +developed by the same person (Thomas Winischhofer) and cooperate well with +each other. + + +SVGALib +======= + +SVGALib, if directly accessing the hardware, never restores the screen +correctly, especially on laptops or if the output devices are LCD or TV. +Therefore, use the chipset "FBDEV" in SVGALib configuration. This will make +SVGALib use the framebuffer device for mode switches and restoration. + + +Configuration +============= + +(Some) accepted options: + +========= ================================================================== +off Disable sisfb. This option is only understood if sisfb is + in-kernel, not a module. +mem:X size of memory for the console, rest will be used for DRI/DRM. X + is in kilobytes. On 300 series, the default is 4096, 8192 or + 16384 (each in kilobyte) depending on how much video ram the card + has. On 315/330 series, the default is the maximum available ram + (since DRI/DRM is not supported for these chipsets). +noaccel do not use 2D acceleration engine. (Default: use acceleration) +noypan disable y-panning and scroll by redrawing the entire screen. + This is much slower than y-panning. (Default: use y-panning) +vesa:X selects startup videomode. X is number from 0 to 0x1FF and + represents the VESA mode number (can be given in decimal or + hexadecimal form, the latter prefixed with "0x"). +mode:X selects startup videomode. Please see above for the format of + "X". +========= ================================================================== + +Boolean options such as "noaccel" or "noypan" are to be given without a +parameter if sisfb is in-kernel (for example "video=sisfb:noypan). If +sisfb is a module, these are to be set to 1 (for example "modprobe sisfb +noypan=1"). + + +Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net> + +May 27, 2004 |