[Pcbsd-developer] 1.2 Beta kernel features

[Andrei K. <an...@bs...>]

Hi all!

I preformed some tests and read forums and installed on different computers. 
Here I point out some quirks and ideas that I found.

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# The following options are valid on the ATA driver:
#
# ATA_STATIC_ID:        controller numbering is static ie depends on location
#                       else the device numbers are dynamically allocated.

# options         ATA_STATIC_ID

some users are confused about REAL id numbering and I think we should revert 
back to not include ATA_STATIC_ID in default configuration. SATA users who 
updated their system with patch were unable tu boot up with this feature- 
they had to change fstab manually to fix this problem.

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 some userland config files are outdated and need to run mergemaster again.

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 # This allows you to actually store this configuration file into
# the kernel binary itself, where it may be later read by saying:
#    strings -n 3 /boot/kernel/kernel | sed -n 's/^___//p' > MYKERNEL
#
options         INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE     # Include this file in kernel

Would be useful for debugging kernel configuration later

4) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# altq(9). Enable the base part of the hooks with the ALTQ option.
# Individual disciplines must be built into the base system and can not be
# loaded as modules at this point. In order to build a SMP kernel you must
# also have the ALTQ_NOPCC option.
options         ALTQ
options         ALTQ_CBQ        # Class Bases Queueing
options         ALTQ_RED        # Random Early Detection
options         ALTQ_RIO        # RED In/Out
options         ALTQ_HFSC       # Hierarchical Packet Scheduler
options         ALTQ_CDNR       # Traffic conditioner
options         ALTQ_PRIQ       # Priority Queueing
options         ALTQ_NOPCC      # Required for SMP build

Without ALTQ PF can't use advanced features.