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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/vesafb.rst b/Documentation/fb/vesafb.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f890a4f56 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/fb/vesafb.rst @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +=============== +What is vesafb? +=============== + +This is a generic driver for a graphic framebuffer on intel boxes. + +The idea is simple: Turn on graphics mode at boot time with the help +of the BIOS, and use this as framebuffer device /dev/fb0, like the m68k +(and other) ports do. + +This means we decide at boot time whenever we want to run in text or +graphics mode. Switching mode later on (in protected mode) is +impossible; BIOS calls work in real mode only. VESA BIOS Extensions +Version 2.0 are required, because we need a linear frame buffer. + +Advantages: + + * It provides a nice large console (128 cols + 48 lines with 1024x768) + without using tiny, unreadable fonts. + * You can run XF68_FBDev on top of /dev/fb0 (=> non-accelerated X11 + support for every VBE 2.0 compliant graphics board). + * Most important: boot logo :-) + +Disadvantages: + + * graphic mode is slower than text mode... + + +How to use it? +============== + +Switching modes is done using the vga=... boot parameter. Read +Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst for details. + +You should compile in both vgacon (for text mode) and vesafb (for +graphics mode). Which of them takes over the console depends on +whenever the specified mode is text or graphics. + +The graphic modes are NOT in the list which you get if you boot with +vga=ask and hit return. The mode you wish to use is derived from the +VESA mode number. Here are those VESA mode numbers: + +====== ======= ======= ======== ========= +colors 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 +====== ======= ======= ======== ========= +256 0x101 0x103 0x105 0x107 +32k 0x110 0x113 0x116 0x119 +64k 0x111 0x114 0x117 0x11A +16M 0x112 0x115 0x118 0x11B +====== ======= ======= ======== ========= + + +The video mode number of the Linux kernel is the VESA mode number plus +0x200: + + Linux_kernel_mode_number = VESA_mode_number + 0x200 + +So the table for the Kernel mode numbers are: + +====== ======= ======= ======== ========= +colors 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 +====== ======= ======= ======== ========= +256 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307 +32k 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319 +64k 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A +16M 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B +====== ======= ======= ======== ========= + +To enable one of those modes you have to specify "vga=ask" in the +lilo.conf file and rerun LILO. Then you can type in the desired +mode at the "vga=ask" prompt. For example if you like to use +1024x768x256 colors you have to say "305" at this prompt. + +If this does not work, this might be because your BIOS does not support +linear framebuffers or because it does not support this mode at all. +Even if your board does, it might be the BIOS which does not. VESA BIOS +Extensions v2.0 are required, 1.2 is NOT sufficient. You will get a +"bad mode number" message if something goes wrong. + +1. Note: LILO cannot handle hex, for booting directly with + "vga=mode-number" you have to transform the numbers to decimal. +2. Note: Some newer versions of LILO appear to work with those hex values, + if you set the 0x in front of the numbers. + +X11 +=== + +XF68_FBDev should work just fine, but it is non-accelerated. Running +another (accelerated) X-Server like XF86_SVGA might or might not work. +It depends on X-Server and graphics board. + +The X-Server must restore the video mode correctly, else you end up +with a broken console (and vesafb cannot do anything about this). + + +Refresh rates +============= + +There is no way to change the vesafb video mode and/or timings after +booting linux. If you are not happy with the 60 Hz refresh rate, you +have these options: + + * configure and load the DOS-Tools for the graphics board (if + available) and boot linux with loadlin. + * use a native driver (matroxfb/atyfb) instead if vesafb. If none + is available, write a new one! + * VBE 3.0 might work too. I have neither a gfx board with VBE 3.0 + support nor the specs, so I have not checked this yet. + + +Configuration +============= + +The VESA BIOS provides protected mode interface for changing +some parameters. vesafb can use it for palette changes and +to pan the display. It is turned off by default because it +seems not to work with some BIOS versions, but there are options +to turn it on. + +You can pass options to vesafb using "video=vesafb:option" on +the kernel command line. Multiple options should be separated +by comma, like this: "video=vesafb:ypan,inverse" + +Accepted options: + +inverse use inverse color map + +========= ====================================================================== +ypan enable display panning using the VESA protected mode + interface. The visible screen is just a window of the + video memory, console scrolling is done by changing the + start of the window. + + pro: + + * scrolling (fullscreen) is fast, because there is + no need to copy around data. + + kontra: + + * scrolling only parts of the screen causes some + ugly flicker effects (boot logo flickers for + example). + +ywrap Same as ypan, but assumes your gfx board can wrap-around + the video memory (i.e. starts reading from top if it + reaches the end of video memory). Faster than ypan. + +redraw Scroll by redrawing the affected part of the screen, this + is the safe (and slow) default. + + +vgapal Use the standard vga registers for palette changes. + This is the default. +pmipal Use the protected mode interface for palette changes. + +mtrr:n Setup memory type range registers for the vesafb framebuffer + where n: + + - 0 - disabled (equivalent to nomtrr) (default) + - 1 - uncachable + - 2 - write-back + - 3 - write-combining + - 4 - write-through + + If you see the following in dmesg, choose the type that matches the + old one. In this example, use "mtrr:2". +... +mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,8000000 old: write-back new: + write-combining +... + +nomtrr disable mtrr + +vremap:n + Remap 'n' MiB of video RAM. If 0 or not specified, remap memory + according to video mode. (2.5.66 patch/idea by Antonino Daplas + reversed to give override possibility (allocate more fb memory + than the kernel would) to 2.4 by tmb@iki.fi) + +vtotal:n If the video BIOS of your card incorrectly determines the total + amount of video RAM, use this option to override the BIOS (in MiB). +========= ====================================================================== + +Have fun! + +Gerd Knorr <kraxel@goldbach.in-berlin.de> + +Minor (mostly typo) changes +by Nico Schmoigl <schmoigl@rumms.uni-mannheim.de> |