1.\" $NetBSD: options.4,v 1.288 2005/08/19 12:28:37 christos Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1996 4.\" Perry E. Metzger. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgment: 16.\" This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project 17.\" by Perry E. Metzger. 18.\" 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 19.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission. 20.\" 21.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 23.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 24.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 25.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 26.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 27.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 28.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 29.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 30.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" 33.Dd August 19, 2005 34.Os 35.Dt OPTIONS 4 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm options 38.Nd Miscellaneous kernel configuration options 39.Sh SYNOPSIS 40.Cd cinclude ... 41.Cd config ... 42.Cd [no] file-system ... 43.Cd ident ... 44.Cd include ... 45.Cd [no] makeoptions ... 46.Cd maxusers ... 47.Cd [no] options ... 48.Cd [no] pseudo-device ... 49.Sh DESCRIPTION 50This manual page describes a number of miscellaneous kernel 51configuration options that may be specified in a kernel config 52file. 53See 54.Xr config 1 55for information on how to configure and build kernels. 56.Pp 57The 58.Ar no 59form removes a previously specified option. 60.Ss Keywords 61The following keywords are recognized in a kernel configuration file: 62.Bl -ohang 63.It Sy cinclude Xo 64.Qq Ar filename 65.Xc 66Conditionally includes another kernel configuration file whose name is 67.Ar filename , 68which may be double-quoted and may be an explicit path or relative to 69the kernel source directory. 70Failure to open the named file is ignored. 71.It Sy config Xo 72.Ar exec_name 73.No root on 74.Ar rootdev 75.Op type Ar fstype 76.Op dumps on Ar dumpdev 77.Xc 78Defines a configuration whose kernel executable is named 79.Ar exec_name , 80normally 81.Dq netbsd , 82with its root file system of type 83.Ar fstype 84on the device 85.Ar rootdev , 86and optionally specifying the location of kernel core dumps on the device 87.Ar dumpdev . 88.Ar dev 89or 90.Ar dumpdev 91and 92.Ar fstype 93may be specified as 94.Dq \&? , 95which is a wild card. 96The root 97.Ar fstype 98and 99.Ar dumpdev 100are optional and assumed to be wild carded if they are not specified. 101.It Ar device_instance Xo 102at 103.Ar attachment 104.Op Ar locators value Op ... 105.Op flags Ar value 106.Xc 107Define an instance of the device driver 108.Ar device_instance 109that attaches to the bus or device named 110.Ar attachment . 111An 112.Ar attachment 113may require additional information on where the device can be found, such 114as an address, channel, function, offset, and/or slot, referred to as 115.Ar locators , 116whose 117.Ar value 118often may be a wild card, 119.Dq \&? . 120Some device drivers have one or more 121.Ar flags 122that can be adjusted to affect the way they operate. 123.It Sy file-system Xo 124.Ar fs_name Op , Ar fs_name Op ... 125.Xc 126Include support for the file-system 127.Ar fs_name . 128.It Sy ident Xo 129.Qq Ar string 130.Xc 131Sets the kernel identification string to 132.Ar string . 133.It Sy include Xo 134.Qq Ar filename 135.Xc 136Functions the same as 137.Ar cinclude , 138except failure to open 139.Ar filename 140produces a fatal error. 141.It Sy options Xo 142.Ar option_name Op , Ar option_name=value Op ... 143.Xc 144Specifies (or sets) the option, or comma-separated list of options, 145.Ar option_name . 146Some options expect to be assigned a value, which may be an integer, 147a double-quoted word, a bare word, or an empty string 148.Pq Qq . 149.Pp 150.Em Note : 151Options that are not defined by device definition files are passed to 152the compile process as 153.Fl D 154flags to the C compiler. 155.It Sy makeoptions Xo 156.Ar name=value 157.Xc 158Defines a 159.Xr make 1 160macro 161.Ar name 162with the value 163.Ar value 164in the kernel Makefile. 165.It Sy maxusers Xo 166.Ar integer 167.Xc 168Set the maxusers variable in the kernel. 169.It Sy no Xo 170.Ar keyword Ar name Op Ar arguments Op ... 171.Xc 172For the 173.Xr config 1 174.Ar keywords 175file-system, makeoptions, options, and pseudo-device, 176.Ar no 177removes the file-system, makeoption, options, or pseudo-device, 178.Ar name . 179This is useful when a kernel configuration file includes another which 180has undesired options. 181.Pp 182For example, a local configuration file that wanted the kitchen sink, but 183not COMPAT_09 or bridging, might be: 184.Bd -literal -offset indent 185include "arch/i386/conf/GENERIC" 186no options COMPAT_09 187no pseudo-device bridge 188.Ed 189.It Sy pseudo-device Xo 190.Ar name 191.Op Ar N 192.Xc 193Includes support for the pseudo-device 194.Ar name . 195Some pseudo-devices can have multiple or 196.Ar N 197instances. 198.El 199.Ss Compatibility Options 200.Bl -ohang 201.It Cd options COMPAT_09 202Enable binary compatibility with 203.Nx 0.9 . 204This enables support for 20516-bit user, group, and process IDs (following revisions support 20632-bit identifiers). 207It also allows the use of the deprecated 208.Xr getdomainname 3 , 209.Xr setdomainname 3 , 210and 211.Xr uname 3 212syscalls. 213This option also allows using numeric file system identifiers rather 214than strings. 215Post 216.Nx 0.9 217versions use string identifiers. 218.It Cd options COMPAT_10 219Enable binary compatibility with 220.Nx 1.0 . 221This option allows the use of the file system name of 222.Dq ufs 223as an alias for 224.Dq ffs . 225The name 226.Dq ffs 227should be used post 1.0 in 228.Pa /etc/fstab 229and other files. 230It also adds old syscalls for the 231.At V 232shared memory interface. 233This was changed post 1.0 to work on 64-bit architectures. 234This option also enables 235.Dq sgtty 236compatibility, without which programs using the old interface produce 237an 238.Dq inappropriate ioctl 239error, and 240.Pa /dev/io 241only works when this option is set in the kernel, 242see 243.Xr io 4 244on ports that support it. 245.It Cd options COMPAT_11 246Enable binary compatibility with 247.Nx 1.1 . 248This allows binaries running on the i386 port to gain direct access to 249the io ports by opening 250.Pa /dev/io 251read/write. 252This functionality was replaced by 253.Xr i386_iopl 2 254post 1.1. 255On the 256.Tn Atari 257port, the location of the disk label was moved after 1.1. 258When the 259.Em COMPAT_11 260option is set, the kernel will read (pre) 1.1 style disk labels as a 261last resort. 262When a disklabel is re-written, the old style label will be replaced 263with a post 1.1 style label. 264This also enables the 265.Em EXEC_ELF_NOTELESS 266option. 267.It Cd options COMPAT_12 268Enable binary compatibility with 269.Nx 1.2 . 270This allows the use of old syscalls for 271.Fn reboot 272and 273.Fn swapon . 274The syscall numbers were changed post 1.2 to add functionality to the 275.Xr reboot 2 276syscall, and the new 277.Xr swapctl 2 278interface was introduced. 279This also enables the 280.Em EXEC_ELF_NOTELESS 281option. 282.It Cd options COMPAT_13 283Enable binary compatibility with 284.Nx 1.3 . 285This allows the use of old syscalls for 286.Fn sigaltstack , 287and also enables the old 288.Xr swapctl 2 289command 290.Dv SWAP_STATS 291(now called 292.Dv SWAP_OSTATS ) , 293which does not include the 294.Fa se_path 295member of 296.Va struct swapent . 297.It Cd options COMPAT_14 298Enable binary compatibility with 299.Nx 1.4 . 300This allows some old 301.Xr ioctl 2 302on 303.Xr wscons 4 304to be performed, and allows the 305.Dv NFSSVC_BIOD 306mode of the 307.Xr nfssvc 2 308system call to be used for compatibility with the deprecated nfsiod program. 309.It Cd options COMPAT_16 310Enable binary compatibility with 311.Nx 1.6 . 312This allows the use of old signal trampoline code which has been deprecated 313with the addition of 314.Xr siginfo 2 . 315.It Cd options COMPAT_20 316Enable binary compatibility with 317.Nx 2.0 . 318This allows the use of old syscalls for 319.Fn statfs 320and 321.Fn fstatfs , 322which has been deprecated with the addition of the 323.Xr statvfs 2 324family of system calls. 325.It Cd options COMPAT_43 326Enables compatibility with 327.Bx 4.3 . 328This adds an old syscall for 329.Xr lseek 2 . 330It also adds the ioctls for 331.Dv TIOCGETP 332and 333.Dv TIOCSETP . 334The return values for 335.Xr getpid 2 , 336.Xr getgid 2 , 337and 338.Xr getuid 2 339syscalls are modified as well, to return the parent's PID and 340UID as well as the current process's. 341It also enables the deprecated 342.Dv NTTYDISC 343terminal line discipline. 344It also provides backwards compatibility with 345.Dq old 346SIOC[GS]IF{ADDR,DSTADDR,BRDADDR,NETMASK} interface ioctls, including 347binary compatibility with code written before the introduction of the 348sa_len field in sockaddrs. 349It also enables 350support for some older pre 351.Bx 4.4 352socket calls. 353.It Cd options COMPAT_BSDPTY 354This option is currenty on by default and enables the pty multiplexor 355.Xr ptm 4 356and 357.Xr ptmx 4 358to find and use ptys named 359.Pa /dev/ptyXX 360(master) and 361.Pa /dev/ttyXX 362(slave). 363Eventually this option will become optional as ptyfs based pseudo-ttys become 364the default, see 365.Xr mount_ptyfs 8 . 366.It Cd options COMPAT_SVR4 367On those architectures that support it, this enables binary 368compatibility with 369.At V.4 370applications built for the same architecture. 371This currently includes the i386, m68k, and sparc ports. 372.It Cd options COMPAT_LINUX 373On those architectures that support it, this enables binary 374compatibility with Linux ELF and 375.Xr a.out 5 376applications built for the same architecture. 377This currently includes the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, mips, and powerpc 378ports. 379.It Cd options COMPAT_SUNOS 380On those architectures that support it, this enables binary 381compatibility with 382.Tn SunOS 4.1 383applications built for the same architecture. 384This currently includes the sparc, sparc64 and most or all m68k ports. 385Note that the sparc64 requires the 386.Em COMPAT_NETBSD32 387option for 64-bit kernels, in addition to this option. 388.It Cd options COMPAT_ULTRIX 389On those architectures that support it, this enables binary 390compatibility with 391.Tn ULTRIX 392applications built for the same architecture. 393This currently is limited to the pmax. 394The functionality of this option is unknown. 395.It Cd options COMPAT_DARWIN 396On those architectures that support it, this enables binary compatibility with 397.Tn Darwin 398applications built for the same architecture. 399This feature is highly experimental, it requires COMPAT_MACH and 400EXEC_MACHO and it is currently limited to i386 and powerpc ports of 401.Nx . 402.It Cd options COMPAT_FREEBSD 403On those architectures that support it, this enables binary 404compatibility with 405.Fx 406applications built for the same architecture. 407At the moment this is limited to the i386 port. 408.It Cd options COMPAT_HPUX 409On those architectures that support it, this enables binary 410compatibility with 411.Tn HP/UX 412applications built for the same architecture. 413This is limited to the hp300 port, and has some known bugs. 414A limited set of programs do work. 415.It Cd options COMPAT_IBCS2 416On those architectures that support it, this enables binary 417compatibility with iBCS2 or SVR3 applications built for the same architecture. 418This is currently limited to the i386 and vax ports. 419.It Cd options COMPAT_IRIX 420On those architectures that support it, this enables binary 421compatibility with IRIX o32 binaries built for the same architecture. 422This feature is experimental, and it is currently limited to 423the sgimips port. 424.It Cd options COMPAT_MACH 425On those architectures that support it, this enables the emulation of 426Mach kernel traps for binaries built for the same architecture. 427This feature is highly experimental and it is currently 428limited to the i386 and powerpc ports of 429.Nx . 430.It Cd options COMPAT_OSF1 431On those architectures that support it, this enables binary 432compatibility with 433.Tn Digital 434.Ux 435.Po 436formerly 437.Tn OSF/1 438.Pc 439applications built for the same architecture. 440This is currently limited to the alpha port. 441.It Cd options COMPAT_NOMID 442Enable compatibility with 443.Xr a.out 5 444executables that lack a machine ID. 445This includes 446.Nx 0.8 Ns 's 447ZMAGIC format, and 386BSD and BSDI's 448QMAGIC, NMAGIC, and OMAGIC 449.Xr a.out 5 450formats. 451.It Cd options COMPAT_NETBSD32 452On those architectures that support it, this enables binary 453compatibility with 32-bit applications built for the same architecture. 454This is currently limited to the amd64 and sparc64 ports, and only 455applicable for 64-bit kernels. 456.It Cd options COMPAT_SVR4_32 457On those architectures that support it, this enables binary 458compatibility with 32-bit SVR4 applications built for the same architecture. 459This is currently limited to the sparc64 port, and only applicable for 46064-bit kernels. 461.It Cd options COMPAT_AOUT_M68K 462On m68k architectures which have switched to ELF, 463this enables binary compatibility with 464.Nx Ns Tn /m68k 465.Xr a.out 5 466executables on 467.Nx Ns Tn /m68k 468ELF kernels. 469This handles alignment incompatibility of m68k ABI between 470a.out and ELF which causes the structure padding differences. 471Currently only some system calls which use 472.Va struct stat 473are adjusted and some binaries which use 474.Xr sysctl 3 475to retrieve network details would not work properly. 476.It Cd options EXEC_MACHO 477On those architectures that support it, this adds support for running 478Mach-O executables. 479This is currently limited to the i386 and powerpc ports of 480.Nx . 481.It Cd options EXEC_ELF_NOTELESS 482Run unidentified ELF binaries as 483.Nx 484binaries. 485This might be needed for very old 486.Nx 487ELF binaries on some archs. 488These old binaries didn't contain an appropriate 489.Li .note.netbsd.ident 490section, and thus can't be identified by the kernel as 491.Nx 492binaries otherwise. 493Beware - if this option is on, the kernel would run 494.Em any 495unknown ELF binaries as if they were 496.Nx 497binaries. 498.It Cd options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORE 499Includes kernel support for the standard C library 500.Pq libc 501functions that implement semaphores as specified in 502.St -p1003.1-96 . 503.El 504.Ss Debugging Options 505.Bl -ohang 506.It Cd options DDB 507Compiles in a kernel debugger for diagnosing kernel problems. 508See 509.Xr ddb 4 510for details. 511.Em NOTE : 512not available on all architectures. 513.It Cd options DDB_FROMCONSOLE=integer 514If set to non-zero, DDB may be entered by sending a break on a serial 515console or by a special key sequence on a graphics console. 516A value of "0" ignores console breaks or key sequences. 517If not explicitly specified, the default value is "1". 518Note that this sets the value of the 519.Em ddb.fromconsole 520.Xr sysctl 3 521variable which may be changed at run time -- see 522.Xr sysctl 8 523for details. 524.It Cd options DDB_HISTORY_SIZE=integer 525If this is non-zero, enable history editing in the kernel debugger 526and set the size of the history to this value. 527.It Cd options DDB_ONPANIC 528If set to non-zero, DDB will be entered upon kernel panic. 529The default if not specified is "1". 530Note that this sets the value of the 531.Em ddb.onpanic 532.Xr sysctl 3 533variable which may be changed at run time -- see 534.Xr sysctl 8 535for details. 536.It Cd options DDB_BREAK_CHAR=integer 537This option overrides using break to enter the kernel debugger 538on the serial console. 539The value given is the ascii value to be used instead. 540This is currently only supported by the com driver. 541.It Cd options KGDB 542Compiles in a remote kernel debugger stub for diagnosing kernel problems 543using the 544.Dq remote target 545feature of gdb. 546See 547.Xr gdb 1 548for details. 549.Em NOTE : 550not available on all architectures. 551.It Cd options KGDB_DEV 552Device number 553.Po 554as a 555.Dv dev_t 556.Pc 557of kgdb device. 558.It Cd options KGDB_DEVADDR 559Memory address of kgdb device. 560.It Cd options KGDB_DEVMODE 561Permissions of kgdb device. 562.It Cd options KGDB_DEVNAME 563Device name of kgdb device. 564.It Cd options KGDB_DEVRATE 565Baud rate of kgdb device. 566.It Cd makeoptions DEBUG="-g" 567The 568.Fl g 569flag causes 570.Pa netbsd.gdb 571to be built in addition to 572.Pa netbsd . 573.Pa netbsd.gdb 574is useful for debugging kernel crash dumps with gdb. 575See 576.Xr gdb 1 577for details. 578This also turns on 579.Em options DEBUG 580(which see). 581.It Cd options DEBUG 582Turns on miscellaneous kernel debugging. 583Since options are turned into preprocessor defines (see above), 584.Em options DEBUG 585is equivalent to doing a 586.Em #define DEBUG 587throughout the kernel. 588Much of the kernel has 589.Em #ifdef DEBUG 590conditionalized debugging code. 591Note that many parts of the kernel (typically device drivers) include their own 592.Em #ifdef XXX_DEBUG 593conditionals instead. 594This option also turns on certain other options, 595which may decrease system performance. 596.It Cd options DIAGNOSTIC 597Adds code to the kernel that does internal consistency checks. 598This code will cause the kernel to panic if corruption of internal data 599structures is detected. 600These checks can decrease performance up to 15%. 601.It Cd options KSTACK_CHECK_MAGIC 602Check kernel stack usage and panic if stack overflow is detected. 603This check is performance sensitive because it scans stack on each context 604switch. 605.It Cd options KTRACE 606Add hooks for the system call tracing facility, which allows users to 607watch the system call invocation behavior of processes. 608See 609.Xr ktrace 1 610for details. 611.It Cd options MSGBUFSIZE=integer 612This option sets the size of the kernel message buffer. 613This buffer holds the kernel output of 614.Fn printf 615when not (yet) read by 616.Xr syslogd 8 . 617This is particularly useful when the system has crashed and you wish to lookup 618the kernel output from just before the crash. 619Also, since the autoconfig output becomes more and more verbose, 620it sometimes happens that the message buffer overflows before 621.Xr syslogd 8 622was able to read it. 623Note that not all systems are capable of obtaining a variable sized message 624buffer. 625There are also some systems on which memory contents are not preserved 626across reboots. 627.It Cd options MALLOCLOG 628Enables an event log for 629.Xr malloc 9 . 630Useful for tracking down 631.Dq Data modified on freelist 632and 633.Dq multiple free 634problems. 635.It Cd options MALLOCLOGSIZE=integer 636Defines the number of entries in the malloc log. 637Default is 100000 entries. 638.It Cd options SYSTRACE 639Add hooks for the system call policy facility. 640See 641.Xr systrace 1 642for details. 643.It Cd options UVMHIST 644Enables the UVM history logs, which create in-memory traces of 645various UVM activities. 646These logs can be displayed be calling 647.Fn uvmhist_dump 648or 649.Fn uvm_hist 650with appropriate arguments from DDB. 651See the kernel source file sys/uvm/uvm_stat.c for details. 652.It Cd options UVMHIST_PRINT 653Prints the UVM history logs on the system console as entries are added. 654Note that the output is 655.Em extremely 656voluminous, so this option is really only useful for debugging 657the very earliest parts of kernel initialization. 658.El 659.Ss File Systems 660.Bl -ohang 661.It Cd file-system FFS 662Includes code implementing the Berkeley Fast File System 663.Em ( FFS ) . 664Most machines need this if they are not running diskless. 665.It Cd file-system EXT2FS 666Includes code implementing the Second Extended File System 667.Em ( EXT2FS ) , 668revision 0 and revision 1 with the 669.Em filetype 670and 671.Em sparse_super 672options. 673This is the most commonly used file system on the Linux operating system, 674and is provided here for compatibility. 675Some of the specific features of 676.Em EXT2FS 677like the "behavior on errors" are not implemented. 678This file system can't be used with UID or GID greater than 65535. 679See 680.Xr mount_ext2fs 8 681for details. 682.It Cd file-system LFS 683.Bq Em EXPERIMENTAL 684Include the Log-structured File System 685.Em ( LFS ) . 686See 687.Xr mount_lfs 8 688and 689.Xr newfs_lfs 8 690for details. 691.It Cd file-system MFS 692Include the Memory File System 693.Em ( MFS ) . 694This file system stores files in swappable memory, and produces 695notable performance improvements when it is used as the file store 696for 697.Pa /tmp 698and similar file systems. 699See 700.Xr mount_mfs 8 701for details. 702.It Cd file-system NFS 703Include the client side of the Network File System 704.Pq Tn NFS 705remote file sharing protocol. 706Although the bulk of the code implementing 707.Tn NFS 708is kernel based, several user level daemons are needed for it to work. 709See 710.Xr mount_nfs 8 711for details. 712.It Cd file-system CD9660 713Includes code for the 714.Tn ISO 7159660 + Rock Ridge file system, which is the standard file system on many 716.Tn CD-ROM 717discs. 718Useful primarily if you have a 719.Tn CD-ROM 720drive. 721See 722.Xr mount_cd9660 8 723for details. 724.It Cd file-system MSDOSFS 725Includes the 726.Tn MS-DOS 727FAT file system, which is reportedly still used 728by unfortunate people who have not heard about 729.Nx . 730Also implements the 731.Tn Windows 95 732extensions to the same, which permit the use of longer, mixed case 733file names. 734See 735.Xr mount_msdos 8 736and 737.Xr fsck_msdos 8 738for details. 739.It Cd file-system NTFS 740.Bq Em EXPERIMENTAL 741Includes code for the 742.Tn Microsoft Windows NT 743file system. 744See 745.Xr mount_ntfs 8 746for details. 747.It Cd file-system FDESC 748Includes code for a file system, conventionally mounted on 749.Pa /dev/fd , 750which permits access to the per-process file descriptor space via 751special files in the file system. 752See 753.Xr mount_fdesc 8 754for details. 755Note that this facility is redundant, and thus unneeded on most 756.Nx 757systems, since the 758.Xr fd 4 759pseudo-device driver already provides identical functionality. 760On most 761.Nx 762systems, instances of 763.Xr fd 4 764are mknoded under 765.Pa /dev/fd/ 766and on 767.Pa /dev/stdin , 768.Pa /dev/stdout , 769and 770.Pa /dev/stderr . 771.It Cd file-system KERNFS 772Includes code which permits the mounting of a special file system 773(normally mounted on 774.Pa /kern ) 775in which files representing various kernel variables and parameters 776may be found. 777See 778.Xr mount_kernfs 8 779for details. 780.It Cd file-system NULLFS 781Includes code for a loopback file system. 782This permits portions of the file hierarchy to be re-mounted in other places. 783The code really exists to provide an example of a stackable file system layer. 784See 785.Xr mount_null 8 786for details. 787.It Cd file-system OVERLAY 788Includes code for a file system filter. 789This permits the overlay file system to intercept all access to an underlying 790file system. 791This file system is intended to serve as an example of a stacking file 792system which has a need to interpose itself between an underlying file 793system and all other access. 794See 795.Xr mount_overlay 8 796for details. 797.It Cd file-system PORTAL 798.Bq Em EXPERIMENTAL 799Includes the portal file system. 800This permits interesting tricks like opening 801.Tn TCP 802sockets by opening files in the file system. 803The portal file system is conventionally mounted on 804.Pa /p 805and is partially implemented by a special daemon. 806See 807.Xr mount_portal 8 808for details. 809.It Cd file-system PROCFS 810Includes code for a special file system (conventionally mounted on 811.Pa /proc ) 812in which the process space becomes visible in the file system. 813Among 814other things, the memory spaces of processes running on the system are 815visible as files, and signals may be sent to processes by writing to 816.Pa ctl 817files in the procfs namespace. 818See 819.Xr mount_procfs 8 820for details. 821.It Cd file-system UMAPFS 822Includes a loopback file system in which user and group IDs may be 823remapped -- this can be useful when mounting alien file systems with 824different UIDs and GIDs than the local system. 825See 826.Xr mount_umap 8 827for details. 828.It Cd file-system UNION 829.Bq Em EXPERIMENTAL 830Includes code for the union file system, which permits directories to 831be mounted on top of each other in such a way that both file systems 832remain visible -- this permits tricks like allowing writing (and the 833deleting of files) on a read-only file system like a 834.Tn CD-ROM 835by mounting a local writable file system on top of the read-only file system. 836See 837.Xr mount_union 8 838for details. 839.It Cd file-system CODA 840.Bq Em EXPERIMENTAL 841Includes code for the Coda file system. 842Coda is a distributed file system like NFS and AFS. 843It is freely available, like NFS, but it functions much like AFS in being a 844.Dq stateful 845file system. 846Both Coda and AFS cache files on your local machine to improve performance. 847Then Coda goes a step further than AFS by letting you access the cached 848files when there is no available network, viz. disconnected laptops and 849network outages. 850In Coda, both the client and server are outside the kernel which makes 851them easier to experiment with. 852Coda is available for several UNIX and non-UNIX platforms. 853See http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu for more details. 854.Em NOTE : 855You also need to enable the pseudo-device, vcoda, for the Coda 856file system to work. 857.It Cd file-system SMBFS 858.Bq Em EXPERIMENTAL 859Includes code for the SMB/CIFS file system. 860See 861.Xr mount_smbfs 8 862for details. 863.Em NOTE : 864You also need to enable the pseudo-device, nsmb, for the SMB 865file system to work. 866.It Cd file-system PTYFS 867.Bq Em EXPERIMENTAL 868Includes code for a special file system (normally mounted on 869.Pa /dev/pts ) 870in which pseudo-terminal slave devices become visible in the file system. 871See 872.Xr mount_ptyfs 8 873for details. 874.El 875.Ss File System Options 876.Bl -ohang 877.It Cd options ROOTFS_MAGICLINKS 878Enables the expansion of special strings 879.Po 880beginning with 881.Dq @ 882.Pc 883when traversing symbolic links on the root file system. 884See 885.Xr symlink 7 886for a list of supported strings. 887Note that this option only controls the enabling of this feature when 888the root file system is first mounted by the kernel at boot-up. 889This feature can still be manipulated with the 890.Xr mount 8 891command regardless of the setting of this option. 892.It Cd options NFSSERVER 893Include the server side of the 894.Em NFS 895(Network File System) remote file sharing protocol. 896Although the bulk of the code implementing 897.Em NFS 898is kernel based, several user level daemons are needed for it to 899work. 900See 901.Xr mountd 8 902and 903.Xr nfsd 8 904for details. 905.It Cd options QUOTA 906Enables kernel support for file system quotas. 907See 908.Xr quotaon 8 , 909.Xr edquota 8 , 910and 911.Xr quota 1 912for details. 913Note that quotas only work on 914.Dq ffs 915file systems, although 916.Xr rpc.rquotad 8 917permits them to be accessed over 918.Em NFS . 919.It Cd options FFS_EI 920Enable ``Endian-Independent'' FFS support. 921This allows a system to mount an FFS file system created for another 922architecture, at a small performance cost for all FFS file systems. 923See also 924.Xr newfs 8 , 925.Xr fsck_ffs 8 , 926.Xr dumpfs 8 927for file system byte order status and manipulation. 928.It Cd options NVNODE=integer 929This option sets the size of the cache used by the name-to-inode translation 930routines, (a.k.a. the 931.Fn namei 932cache, though called by many other names in the kernel source). 933By default, this cache has 934.Dv NPROC 935(set as 20 + 16 * MAXUSERS) * (80 + NPROC / 8) entries. 936A reasonable way to derive a value of 937.Dv NVNODE , 938should you notice a large number of namei cache misses with a tool such as 939.Xr systat 1 , 940is to examine your system's current computed value with 941.Xr sysctl 8 , 942(which calls this parameter "kern.maxvnodes") and to increase this value 943until either the namei cache hit rate improves or it is determined that 944your system does not benefit substantially from an increase in the size of 945the namei cache. 946.It Cd options NAMECACHE_ENTER_REVERSE 947Causes the namei cache to always enter a reverse mapping (vnode -\*[Gt] name) 948as well as a normal one. 949Normally, this is already done for directory vnodes, to speed up the getcwd 950operation. 951This option will cause longer hash chains in the reverse cache, and thus 952slow down getcwd somewhat. 953However, it does make vnode -\*[Gt] path translations possible in some cases. 954For now, only useful if strict /proc/#/maps emulation for Linux binaries is 955required. 956.It Cd options EXT2FS_SYSTEM_FLAGS 957This option changes the behavior of the APPEND and IMMUTABLE flags 958for a file on an 959.Em EXT2FS 960file system. 961Without this option, the superuser or owner of the file can 962set and clear them. 963With this option, only the superuser can set them, and 964they can't be cleared if the securelevel is greater than 0. 965See also 966.Xr chflags 1 . 967.It Cd options NFS_BOOT_BOOTP 968Enable use of the BOOTP protocol (RFCs 951 and 1048) to get configuration 969information if NFS is used to mount the root file system. 970See 971.Xr diskless 8 972for details. 973.It Cd options NFS_BOOT_DHCP 974Same as 975.Dq NFS_BOOT_BOOTP , 976but use the DHCP extensions to the 977BOOTP protocol (RFC 1541). 978.It Cd options NFS_BOOT_BOOTP_REQFILE 979Specifies the string sent in the bp_file field of the BOOTP / DHCP 980request packet. 981.It Cd options NFS_BOOT_BOOTPARAM 982Enable use of the BOOTPARAM protocol, consisting of RARP and 983BOOTPARAM RPC, to get configuration information if NFS 984is used to mount the root file system. 985See 986.Xr diskless 8 987for details. 988.It Cd options NFS_BOOT_RWSIZE=value 989Set the initial NFS read and write sizes for diskless-boot requests. 990The normal default is 8Kbytes. 991This option provides a way to lower the value (e.g., to 1024 bytes) 992as a workaround for buggy network interface cards or boot PROMs. 993Once booted, the read and write request sizes can be increased by 994remounting the file system. 995See 996.Xr mount_nfs 8 997for details. 998.It Cd options NFS_V2_ONLY 999Reduce the size of the NFS client code by omitting code that's only required 1000for NFSv3 and NQNFS support, leaving only that code required to use NFSv2 1001servers. 1002.It Cd options SOFTDEP 1003Enable kernel support for soft-dependencies in FFS filesystems. 1004Softdep improves write performance by aggregating and properly 1005ordering disk metadata writes, achieving near-asynchronous write 1006performance while maintaining the filesystem consistency of 1007synchronous writes. 1008Soft-dependencies are enabled on a per-mount basis. 1009See 1010.Xr mount 8 1011for details. 1012.It Cd options UFS_DIRHASH 1013Increase lookup performance by maintaining in-core hash tables 1014for large directories. 1015.El 1016.Ss Buffer queue strategy options 1017The following options enable alternative buffer queue strategies. 1018.Bl -ohang 1019.It Cd options BUFQ_READPRIO 1020Enable experimental buffer queue strategy for disk I/O. 1021In the default strategy, outstanding disk requests are ordered by 1022sector number and sent to the disk, regardless of whether the 1023operation is a read or write; this option gives priority to issuing 1024read requests over write requests. 1025Although requests may therefore be issued out of sector-order, causing 1026more seeks and thus lower overall throughput, interactive system 1027responsiveness under heavy disk I/O load may be improved, as processes 1028blocking on disk reads are serviced sooner (file writes typically 1029don't cause applications to block). 1030The performance effect varies greatly depending on the hardware, drive 1031firmware, filesystem configuration, workload, and desired performance 1032trade-off. 1033Systems using drive write-cache (most modern IDE disks, by default) 1034are unlikely to benefit and may well suffer; such disks acknowledge 1035writes very quickly, and optimise them internally according to 1036physical layout. 1037Giving these disks as many requests to work with as possible (the 1038standard strategy) will typically produce the best results, especially 1039if the drive has a large cache; the drive will silently complete 1040writes from cache as it seeks for reads. 1041Disks that support a large number of concurrent tagged requests (SCSI 1042disks and many hardware RAID controllers) expose this internal 1043scheduling with tagged responses, and don't block for reads; such 1044disks may not see a noticable difference with either strategy. 1045However, if IDE disks are run with write-cache disabled for safety, 1046writes are not acknowledged until actually completed, and only one 1047request can be outstanding; a large number of small writes in one 1048locality can keep the disk busy, starving reads elsewhere on the disk. 1049Such systems are likely to see the most benefit from this option. 1050Finally, the performance interaction of this option with ffs soft 1051dependencies can be subtle, as that mechanism can drastically alter 1052the workload for filesystem metadata writes. 1053.It Cd options BUFQ_PRIOCSCAN 1054Enable another experimental buffer queue strategy for disk I/O, 1055Per-priority cyclical scan. 1056.It Cd options NEW_BUFQ_STRATEGY 1057Synonym of 1058.Em BUFQ_READPRIO . 1059.El 1060.Ss Miscellaneous Options 1061.Bl -ohang 1062.It Cd options LKM 1063Enable loadable kernel modules. 1064See 1065.Xr lkm 4 1066for details. 1067.Em NOTE : 1068not available on all architectures. 1069.It Cd options INSECURE 1070Hardwires the kernel security level at -1. 1071This means that the system 1072always runs in secure level 0 mode, even when running multiuser. 1073See the manual page for 1074.Xr init 8 1075for details on the implications of this. 1076The kernel secure level may manipulated by the superuser by altering the 1077.Em kern.securelevel 1078.Xr sysctl 3 1079variable (the secure level may only be lowered by a call from process ID 1, 1080i.e. 1081.Xr init 8 ) . 1082See also 1083.Xr sysctl 8 1084and 1085.Xr sysctl 3 . 1086.It Cd options MEMORY_DISK_DYNAMIC 1087This options makes the 1088.Xr md 4 1089.Tn RAM 1090disk size dynamically sized. 1091.It Cd options MEMORY_DISK_HOOKS 1092This option allows for some machine dependent functions to be called when 1093the 1094.Xr md 4 1095.Tn RAM 1096disk driver is configured. 1097This can result in automatically loading a 1098.Tn RAM 1099disk from floppy on open (among other things). 1100.It Cd options MEMORY_DISK_IS_ROOT 1101Forces the 1102.Xr md 4 1103.Tn RAM 1104disk to be the root device. 1105This can only be overridden when 1106the kernel is booted in the 'ask-for-root' mode. 1107.It Cd options MEMORY_DISK_ROOT_SIZE=integer 1108Allocates the given number of 512 byte blocks as memory for the 1109.Xr md 4 1110.Tn RAM 1111disk, to be populated with 1112.Xr mdsetimage 8 . 1113.It Cd options MEMORY_DISK_SERVER=0 1114Do not include the interface to a userland memory disk server process. 1115Per default, this options is set to 1, including the support code. 1116Useful for install media kernels. 1117.It Cd options VNODE_OP_NOINLINE 1118Do not inline the 1119.Fn VOP_* 1120calls in the kernel. 1121On i386 GENERIC, this saves 36k of kernel text. 1122Useful for install media kernels, small memory systems and embedded systems. 1123.It Cd options VND_COMPRESSION 1124Enables the 1125.Xr vnd 4 1126driver to also handle compressed images. See 1127.Xr vndcompress 1 , 1128.Xr vnd 4 1129and 1130.Xr vnconfig 8 1131for more information. 1132.It Cd options MALLOC_NOINLINE 1133Time critical fixed size memory allocation is performed with 1134.Fn MALLOC 1135and 1136.Fn FREE . 1137Normally these expand to inline code, but with 1138.Em MALLOC_NOINLINE 1139these call the normal 1140.Fn malloc 1141and 1142.Fn free 1143functions. 1144Useful for install media kernels, small memory systems and embedded systems. 1145.It Cd options HZ=integer 1146On ports that support it, set the system clock frequency (see 1147.Xr hz 9 ) 1148to the supplied value. 1149Handle with care. 1150.It Cd options NTP 1151Turns on in-kernel precision timekeeping support used by software 1152implementing 1153.Em NTP 1154(Network Time Protocol, RFC 1305). 1155The 1156.Em NTP 1157option adds an in-kernel Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) for normal 1158.Em NTP 1159operation, and a Frequency-Locked Loop (FLL) for intermittently-connected 1160operation. 1161.Xr ntpd 8 1162will employ a user-level PLL when kernel support is unavailable, 1163but the in-kernel version has lower latency and more precision, and 1164so typically keeps much better time. 1165The interface to the kernel 1166.Em NTP 1167support is provided by the 1168.Xr ntp_adjtime 2 1169and 1170.Xr ntp_gettime 2 1171system calls, which are intended for use by 1172.Xr ntpd 8 1173and are enabled by the option. 1174On systems with sub-microsecond resolution timers, or where (HZ / 100000) 1175is not an integer, the 1176.Em NTP 1177option also enables extended-precision arithmetic to keep track of 1178fractional clock ticks at NTP time-format precision. 1179.It Cd options PPS_SYNC 1180This option enables a kernel serial line discipline for receiving time 1181phase signals from an external reference clock such as a radio clock. 1182(The 1183.Em NTP 1184option (which see) must be on if the 1185.Em PPS_SYNC 1186option is used.) 1187Some reference clocks generate a Pulse Per Second (PPS) signal in 1188phase with their time source. 1189The 1190.Em PPS 1191line discipline receives this signal on either the data leads 1192or the DCD control lead of a serial port. 1193.Em NTP 1194uses the PPS signal to discipline the local clock oscillator to a high 1195degree of precision (typically less than 50 microseconds in time and 11960.1 ppm in accuracy). 1197.Em PPS 1198can also generate a serial output pulse when the system receives a PPS 1199interrupt. 1200This can be used to measure the system interrupt latency and thus calibrate 1201.Em NTP 1202to account for it. 1203Using 1204.Em PPS 1205usually requires a 1206gadget box 1207to convert from TTL to RS-232 signal levels. 1208The gadget box and PPS are described in more detail in the HTML documentation 1209for 1210.Xr ntpd 8 1211in 1212.Pa /usr/share/doc/html/ntp . 1213.It Cd options NO_TSC_TIME 1214Don't use TSC microtime, even if available (i386 only). 1215Improves time behavior under VMware. 1216.It Cd options SETUIDSCRIPTS 1217Allows scripts with the setuid bit set to execute as the effective 1218user rather than the real user, just like binary executables. 1219.Pp 1220.Em NOTE : 1221Using this option will also enable 1222.Em options FDSCRIPTS 1223.It Cd options FDSCRIPTS 1224Allows execution of scripts with the execute bit set, but not the 1225read bit, by opening the file and passing the file descriptor to 1226the shell, rather than the filename. 1227.Pp 1228.Em NOTE : 1229Execute only (non-readable) scripts will have 1230.Va argv[0] 1231set to 1232.Pa /dev/fd/* . 1233What this option allows as far as security is 1234concerned, is the ability to safely ensure that the correct script 1235is run by the interpreter, as it is passed as an already open file. 1236.It Cd options PUCCN 1237Enables treating serial ports found on PCI boards 1238.Xr puc 4 1239as potential console devices. 1240The method for choosing such a console device is port dependent. 1241.It Cd options RTC_OFFSET=integer 1242The kernel (and typically the hardware battery backed-up clock on 1243those machines that have one) keeps time in 1244.Em UTC 1245(Universal Coordinated Time, once known as 1246.Em GMT , 1247or Greenwich Mean Time) 1248and not in the time of the local time zone. 1249The 1250.Em RTC_OFFSET 1251option is used on some ports (such as the i386) to tell the kernel 1252that the hardware clock is offset from 1253.Em UTC 1254by the specified number of minutes. 1255This is typically used when a machine boots several operating 1256systems and one of them wants the hardware clock to run in the 1257local time zone and not in 1258.Em UTC , 1259e.g. 1260.Em RTC_OFFSET=300 1261means 1262the hardware clock is set to US Eastern Time (300 minutes behind 1263.Em UTC ) , 1264and not 1265.Em UTC . 1266(Note: 1267.Em RTC_OFFSET 1268is used to initialize a kernel variable named 1269.Va rtc_offset 1270which is the source actually used to determine the clock offset, and 1271which may be accessed via the kern.rtc_offset sysctl variable. 1272See 1273.Xr sysctl 8 1274and 1275.Xr sysctl 3 1276for details. 1277Since the kernel clock is initialized from the hardware clock very 1278early in the boot process, it is not possible to meaningfully change 1279.Va rtc_offset 1280in system initialization scripts. 1281Changing this value currently may only be done at kernel compile 1282time or by patching the kernel and rebooting). 1283.Pp 1284.Em NOTE : 1285Unfortunately, in many cases where the hardware clock 1286is kept in local time, it is adjusted for Daylight Savings 1287Time; this means that attempting to use 1288.Em RTC_OFFSET 1289to let 1290.Nx 1291coexist with such an operating system, like Windows, 1292would necessitate changing 1293.Em RTC_OFFSET 1294twice a year. 1295As such, this solution is imperfect. 1296.It Cd options KMEMSTATS 1297The kernel memory allocator, 1298.Xr malloc 9 , 1299will keep statistics on its performance if this option is enabled. 1300Unfortunately, this option therefore essentially disables the 1301.Fn MALLOC 1302and 1303.Fn FREE 1304forms of the memory allocator, which are used to enhance the performance 1305of certain critical sections of code in the kernel. 1306This option therefore can lead to a significant decrease in the 1307performance of certain code in the kernel if enabled. 1308Examples of such code include the 1309.Fn namei 1310routine, the 1311.Xr ccd 4 1312driver, 1313and much of the networking code. 1314.It Cd options MAXUPRC=integer 1315Sets the soft 1316.Dv RLIMIT_NPROC 1317resource limit, which specifies the maximum number of simultaneous 1318processes a user is permitted to run, for process 0; 1319this value is inherited by its child processes. 1320It defaults to 1321.Em CHILD_MAX , 1322which is currently defined to be 160. 1323Setting 1324.Em MAXUPRC 1325to a value less than 1326.Em CHILD_MAX 1327is not permitted, as this would result in a violation of the semantics of 1328.St -p1003.1-90 . 1329.It Cd options NOFILE=integer 1330Sets the soft 1331.Dv RLIMIT_NOFILE 1332resource limit, which specifies the maximum number of open 1333file descriptors for each process; 1334this value is inherited by its child processes. 1335It defaults to 1336.Em OPEN_MAX , 1337which is currently defined to be 64. 1338.It Cd options MAXFILES=integer 1339Sets the default value of the 1340.Em kern.maxfiles 1341sysctl variable, which indicates the maximum number of files that may 1342be open in the system. 1343.It Cd options DEFCORENAME=string 1344Sets the default value of the 1345.Em kern.defcorename 1346sysctl variable, otherwise it is set to 1347.Nm %n.core . 1348See 1349.Xr sysctl 8 1350and 1351.Xr sysctl 3 1352for details. 1353.It Cd options RASOPS_CLIPPING 1354Enables clipping within the 1355.Nm rasops 1356raster-console output system. 1357.Em NOTE : 1358only available on architectures that use 1359.Nm rasops 1360for console output. 1361.It Cd options RASOPS_SMALL 1362Removes optimized character writing code from the 1363.Nm rasops 1364raster-console output system. 1365.Em NOTE : 1366only available on architectures that use 1367.Nm rasops 1368for console output. 1369.It Cd options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE 1370Embeds the kernel config file used to define the kernel in the kernel 1371binary itself. 1372The embedded data also includes any files directly included by the config 1373file itself, e.g. 1374.Pa GENERIC.local 1375or 1376.Pa std.$MACHINE . 1377The embedded config file can be extracted from the resulting kernel with 1378.Xr config 1 1379.Fl x , 1380or by the following command: 1381.Bd -literal -offset indent 1382strings netbsd | sed -n 's/^_CFG_//p' | unvis 1383.Ed 1384.It Cd options INCLUDE_JUST_CONFIG 1385Similar to the above option, but includes just the actual config file, 1386not any included files. 1387.It Cd options PIPE_SOCKETPAIR 1388Use slower, but smaller socketpair(2)-based pipe implementation instead 1389of default faster, but bigger one. 1390Primarily useful for installation kernels. 1391.It Cd options USERCONF 1392Compiles in the in-kernel device configuration manager. 1393See 1394.Xr userconf 4 1395for details. 1396.It Cd options PERFCTRS 1397Compiles in kernel support for CPU performance-monitoring counters. 1398See 1399.Xr pmc 1 1400for details. 1401.Em NOTE : 1402not available on all architectures. 1403.It Cd options XSERVER 1404Compiles in kernel support for 1405.Tn X11 1406on architectures that still use (or can use) the legacy 1407.Em pccons 1408console drivers rather than 1409.Xr wscons 4 . 1410These include bebox, i386, shark. 1411.It Cd options XSERVER_DDB 1412A supplement to XSERVER that adds support for entering 1413.Xr ddb 4 1414while in 1415.Tn X11 . 1416.El 1417.Ss Networking Options 1418.Bl -ohang 1419.It Cd options GATEWAY 1420Enables 1421.Em IPFORWARDING 1422(which see) 1423and (on most ports) increases the size of 1424.Em NMBCLUSTERS 1425(which see). 1426In general, 1427.Em GATEWAY 1428is used to indicate that a system should act as a router, and 1429.Em IPFORWARDING 1430is not invoked directly. 1431(Note that 1432.Em GATEWAY 1433has no impact on protocols other than 1434.Tn IP , 1435such as 1436.Tn CLNP 1437or 1438.Tn XNS ) . 1439.Em GATEWAY 1440option also compiles IPv4 fast forwarding code into the kernel. 1441.It Cd options ICMPPRINTFS 1442The 1443.Em ICMPPRINTFS 1444option will enable debugging information to be printed about 1445the 1446.Xr icmp 4 1447protocol. 1448.It Cd options IPFORWARDING=value 1449If 1450.Em value 1451is 1 this enables IP routing behavior. 1452If 1453.Em value 1454is 0 (the default), it disables it. 1455The 1456.Em GATEWAY 1457option sets this to 1 automatically. 1458With this option enabled, the machine will forward IP datagrams destined 1459for other machines between its interfaces. 1460Note that even without this option, the kernel will 1461still forward some packets (such as source routed packets) -- removing 1462.Em GATEWAY 1463and 1464.Em IPFORWARDING 1465is insufficient to stop all routing through a bastion host on a 1466firewall -- source routing is controlled independently. 1467To turn off source routing, use 1468.Em options IPFORWSRCRT=0 1469(which see). 1470Note that IP forwarding may be turned on and off independently of the 1471setting of the 1472.Em IPFORWARDING 1473option through the use of the 1474.Em net.inet.ip.forwarding 1475sysctl variable. 1476If 1477.Em net.inet.ip.forwarding 1478is 1, IP forwarding is on. 1479See 1480.Xr sysctl 8 1481and 1482.Xr sysctl 3 1483for details. 1484.It Cd options IPFORWSRCRT=value 1485If 1486.Em value 1487is set to zero, source routing of IP datagrams is turned off. 1488If 1489.Em value 1490is set to one (the default) or the option is absent, source routed IP 1491datagrams are forwarded by the machine. 1492Note that source routing of IP packets may be turned on and off 1493independently of the setting of the 1494.Em IPFORWSRCRT 1495option through the use of the 1496.Em net.inet.ip.forwsrcrt 1497sysctl variable. 1498If 1499.Em net.inet.ip.forwsrcrt 1500is 1, forwarding of source routed IP datagrams is on. 1501See 1502.Xr sysctl 8 1503and 1504.Xr sysctl 3 1505for details. 1506.It Cd options IFA_STATS 1507Tells the kernel to maintain per-address statistics on bytes sent 1508and received over (currently) internet and appletalk addresses. 1509.\"This can be a fairly expensive operation, so you probably want to 1510.\"keep this disabled. 1511The option is not recommended as it degrades system stability. 1512.It Cd options IFQ_MAXLEN=value 1513Increases the allowed size of the network interface packet queues. 1514The default queue size is 50 packets, and you do not normally need 1515to increase it. 1516.It Cd options MROUTING 1517Includes support for IP multicast routers. 1518You certainly want 1519.Em INET 1520with this. 1521Multicast routing is controlled by the 1522.Xr mrouted 8 1523daemon. 1524.It Cd options PIM 1525Includes support for Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) routing. 1526You need 1527.Em MROUTING 1528and 1529.Em INET 1530with this. 1531.It Cd options INET 1532Includes support for the 1533.Tn TCP/IP 1534protocol stack. 1535You almost certainly want this. 1536See 1537.Xr inet 4 1538for details. 1539.It Cd options INET6 1540Includes support for the 1541.Tn IPv6 1542protocol stack. 1543See 1544.Xr inet6 4 1545for details. 1546Unlike 1547.Em INET , 1548.Em INET6 1549enables multicast routing code as well. 1550This option requires 1551.Em INET 1552at this moment, but it should not. 1553.It Cd options ND6_DEBUG 1554The option sets the default value of net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_debug to 1, 1555for debugging IPv6 neighbor discovery protocol handling. 1556See 1557.Xr sysctl 3 1558for details. 1559.It Cd options IPSEC 1560Includes support for the 1561.Tn IPsec 1562protocol. 1563See 1564.Xr ipsec 4 1565for details. 1566.It Cd options IPSEC_DEBUG 1567Enables debugging code in 1568.Tn IPsec 1569stack. 1570See 1571.Xr ipsec 4 1572for details. 1573.It Cd options IPSEC_ESP 1574Includes support for 1575.Tn IPsec 1576.Tn ESP 1577protocol. 1578See 1579.Xr ipsec 4 1580for details. 1581.It Cd options IPSEC_NAT_T 1582Includes support for 1583.Tn IPsec 1584Network Address Translator traversal (NAT-T), as described in RFCs 3947 1585and 3948. 1586This feature might be patent-encumbered in some countries. 1587.It Cd options ALTQ 1588Enabled ALTQ (Alternate Queueing). 1589For simple rate-limiting, use 1590.Xr tbrconfig 8 1591to set up the interface transmission rate. 1592To use queueing disciplines, their appropriate kernel options should also 1593be defined (documented below). 1594Queueing disciplines are managed by 1595.Xr altqd 8 . 1596See 1597.Xr altq 9 1598for details. 1599.It Cd options ALTQ_HFSC 1600Include support for ALTQ-implemented HFSC (Hierarchical Fair Service Curve) 1601module. 1602HFSC supports both link-sharing and guaranteed real-time services. 1603HFSC employs a service curve based QoS model, and its unique feature 1604is an ability to decouple delay and bandwidth allocation. 1605Requires 1606.Em ALTQ_RED 1607to use the RED queueing discipline on HFSC classes, or 1608.Em ALTQ_RIO 1609to use the RIO queueing discipline on HFSC classes. 1610This option assumes 1611.Em ALTQ . 1612.It Cd options ALTQ_PRIQ 1613Include support for ALTQ-implemented PRIQ (Priority Queueing). 1614PRIQ implements a simple priority-based queueing discipline. 1615A higher priority class is always served first. 1616Requires 1617.Em ALTQ_RED 1618to use the RED queueing discipline on HFSC classes, or 1619.Em ALTQ_RIO 1620to use the RIO queueing discipline on HFSC classes. 1621This option assumes 1622.Em ALTQ . 1623.It Cd options ALTQ_WFQ 1624Include support for ALTQ-implemented WFQ (Weighted Fair Queueing). 1625WFQ implements a weighted-round robin scheduler for a set of queues. 1626A weight can be assigned to each queue to give a different proportion 1627of the link capacity. 1628A hash function is used to map a flow to one of a set of queues. 1629This option assumes 1630.Em ALTQ . 1631.It Cd options ALTQ_FIFOQ 1632Include support for ALTQ-implemented FIFO queueing. 1633FIFOQ is a simple drop-tail FIFO (First In, First Out) queueing discipline. 1634This option assumes 1635.Em ALTQ . 1636.It Cd options ALTQ_RIO 1637Include support for ALTQ-implemented RIO (RED with In/Out). 1638The original RIO has 2 sets of RED parameters; one for in-profile 1639packets and the other for out-of-profile packets. 1640At the ingress of the network, profile meters tag packets as IN or 1641OUT based on contracted profiles for customers. 1642Inside the network, IN packets receive preferential treatment by 1643the RIO dropper. 1644ALTQ/RIO has 3 drop precedence levels defined for the Assured Forwarding 1645PHB of DiffServ (RFC 2597). 1646This option assumes 1647.Em ALTQ . 1648.It Cd options ALTQ_BLUE 1649Include support for ALTQ-implemented Blue buffer management. 1650Blue is another active buffer management mechanism. 1651This option assumes 1652.Em ALTQ . 1653.It Cd options ALTQ_FLOWVALVE 1654Include support for ALTQ-implemented Flowvalve. 1655Flowvalve is a simple implementation of a RED penalty box that identifies 1656and punishes misbehaving flows. 1657This option requires 1658.Em ALTQ_RED 1659and assumes 1660.Em ALTQ . 1661.It Cd options ALTQ_CDNR 1662Include support for ALTQ-implemented CDNR (diffserv traffic conditioner) 1663packet marking/manipulation. 1664Traffic conditioners are components to meter, mark, or drop incoming 1665packets according to some rules. 1666As opposed to queueing disciplines, traffic conditioners handle incoming 1667packets at an input interface. 1668This option assumes 1669.Em ALTQ . 1670.It Cd options ALTQ_NOPCC 1671Disables use of processor cycle counter to measure time in ALTQ. 1672This option should be defined for a non-Pentium i386 CPU which does not 1673have TSC, SMP (per-CPU counters are not in sync), or power management 1674which affects processor cycle counter. 1675This option assumes 1676.Em ALTQ . 1677.It Cd options ALTQ_IPSEC 1678Include support for IPsec in IPv4 ALTQ. 1679This option assumes 1680.Em ALTQ . 1681.It Cd options ALTQ_JOBS 1682Undocumented at this time. 1683.It Cd options ALTQ_AFMAP 1684Include support for an undocumented ALTQ feature that is used to map an IP 1685flow to an ATM VC (Virtual Circuit). 1686This option assumes 1687.Em ALTQ . 1688.It Cd options ALTQ_LOCALQ 1689Include support for ALTQ-implemented local queues. 1690Its practical use is undefined. 1691Assumes 1692.Em ALTQ . 1693.It Cd options SUBNETSARELOCAL 1694Sets default value for net.inet.ip.subnetsarelocal variable, which 1695controls whether non-directly-connected subnets of connected networks 1696are considered "local" for purposes of choosing the MSS for a TCP 1697connection. 1698This is mostly present for historic reasons and completely irrelevant if 1699you enable Path MTU discovery. 1700.It Cd options HOSTZEROBROADCAST 1701Sets default value for net.inet.ip.hostzerobroadcast variable, which 1702controls whether the zeroth host address of each connected subnet is 1703also considered a broadcast address. 1704Default value is "1", for compatibility with old systems; if this is 1705set to zero on all hosts on a subnet, you should be able to fit an extra 1706host per subnet on the 1707".0" address. 1708.It Cd options MCLSHIFT=value 1709This option is the base-2 logarithm of the size of mbuf clusters. 1710The 1711.Bx 1712networking stack keeps network packets in a linked 1713list, or chain, of kernel buffer objects called mbufs. 1714The system provides larger mbuf clusters as an optimization for 1715large packets, instead of using long chains for large packets. 1716The mbuf cluster size, 1717or 1718.Em MCLBYTES , 1719must be a power of two, and is computed as two raised to the power 1720.Em MCLSHIFT . 1721On systems with Ethernet network adaptors, 1722.Em MCLSHIFT 1723is often set to 11, giving 2048-byte mbuf clusters, large enough to 1724hold a 1500-byte 1725.Tn Ethernet 1726frame in a single cluster. 1727Systems with network interfaces supporting larger frame sizes like 1728.Tn ATM , 1729.Tn FDDI , 1730or 1731.Tn HIPPI 1732may perform better with 1733.Em MCLSHIFT 1734set to 12 or 13, giving mbuf cluster sizes of 4096 and 8192 bytes, 1735respectively. 1736.It Cd options NS 1737Include support for the 1738.Tn Xerox 1739.Tn XNS 1740protocol stack. 1741See 1742.Xr ns 4 1743for details. 1744.It Cd options ISO,TPIP 1745Include support for the ubiquitous 1746.Tn OSI 1747protocol stack. 1748See 1749.Xr iso 4 1750for details. 1751This option assumes 1752.Em INET . 1753.It Cd options EON 1754Include support for tunneling 1755.Tn OSI 1756protocols over 1757.Tn IP . 1758Known to be broken, or at least very fragile, and undocumented. 1759.It Cd options CCITT,LLC,HDLC 1760Include support for the 1761.Tn CCITT 1762(nee 1763.Tn ITU-TSS ) 1764.Tn X.25 1765protocol stack. 1766The state of this code is currently unknown, and probably contains bugs. 1767This option assumes 1768.Em INET . 1769.It Cd options NETATALK 1770Include support for the 1771.Tn AppleTalk 1772protocol stack. 1773The kernel provides provision for the 1774.Em Datagram Delivery Protocol 1775(DDP), providing SOCK_DGRAM support and 1776.Tn AppleTalk 1777routing. 1778This stack is used by the 1779.Em NETATALK 1780package, which adds support for 1781.Tn AppleTalk 1782server services via user libraries and applications. 1783.It Cd options IPNOPRIVPORTS 1784Normally, only root can bind a socket descriptor to a so-called 1785.Dq privileged 1786.Tn TCP 1787port, that is, a port number in the range 0-1023. 1788This option eliminates those checks from the kernel. 1789This can be useful if there is a desire to allow daemons without 1790privileges to bind those ports, e.g., on firewalls. 1791The security tradeoffs in doing this are subtle. 1792This option should only be used by experts. 1793.It Cd options TCP_COMPAT_42 1794.Tn TCP 1795bug compatibility with 1796.Bx 4.2 . 1797In 1798.Bx 4.2 , 1799.Tn TCP 1800sequence numbers were 32-bit signed values. 1801Modern implementations of TCP use unsigned values. 1802This option clamps the initial sequence number to start in 1803the range 2^31 rather than the full unsigned range of 2^32. 1804Also, under 1805.Bx 4.2 , 1806keepalive packets must contain at least one byte or else 1807the remote end would not respond. 1808.It Cd options TCP_DEBUG 1809Record the last 1810.Em TCP_NDEBUG 1811TCP packets with SO_DEBUG set, and decode to the console if 1812.Em tcpconsdebug 1813is set. 1814.It Cd options TCP_NDEBUG 1815Number of packets to record for 1816.Em TCP_DEBUG . 1817Defaults to 100. 1818.It Cd options TCP_SENDSPACE=value 1819.It Cd options TCP_RECVSPACE=value 1820These options set the max TCP window size to other sizes than the default. 1821The TCP window sizes can be altered via 1822.Xr sysctl 8 1823as well. 1824.It Cd options TCP_INIT_WIN=value 1825This option sets the initial TCP window size for non-local connections, 1826which is used when the transmission starts. 1827The default size is 1, but if the machine should act more aggressively, 1828the initial size can be set to some other value. 1829The initial TCP window size can be set via 1830.Xr sysctl 8 1831as well. 1832.It Cd options PFIL_HOOKS 1833This option turns on the packet filter interface hooks. 1834See 1835.Xr pfil 9 1836for details. 1837This option assumes 1838.Em INET . 1839.It Cd options IPFILTER_LOG 1840This option, in conjunction with 1841.Em pseudo-device ipfilter , 1842enables logging of IP packets using ip-filter. 1843.It Cd options IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK 1844This option sets the default policy of ip-filter. 1845If it is set, ip-filter will block packets by default. 1846.It Cd options BRIDGE_IPF 1847This option causes 1848.Em bridge 1849devices to use the IP and/or IPv6 filtering hooks, forming 1850a link-layer filter that uses protocol-layer rules. 1851This option assumes the presence of 1852.Em pseudo-device ipfilter . 1853.It Cd options MBUFTRACE 1854This option can help track down mbuf leaks. 1855When enabled, mbufs are tagged with the devices and protocols using them, 1856which slightly decreases network performance. 1857This additional information can be viewed with 1858.Xr netstat 1 : 1859.Dl Ic netstat Fl mssv 1860Not all devices or protocols support this option. 1861.El 1862.Ss Sysctl Related Options 1863.Bl -ohang 1864.It Cd options SYSCTL_DISALLOW_CREATE 1865Disallows the creation or deletion of nodes from the sysctl tree, as 1866well as the assigning of descriptions to nodes that lack them, by any 1867process. 1868These operations are still available to kernel sub-systems, including 1869loadable kernel modules. 1870.It Cd options SYSCTL_DISALLOW_KWRITE 1871Prevents processes from adding nodes to the sysctl tree that make 1872existing kernel memory areas writeable. 1873Sections of kernel memory can still be read and new nodes that own 1874their own data may still be writeable. 1875.It Cd options SYSCTL_DEBUG_SETUP 1876Causes the SYSCTL_SETUP routines to print a brief message when they 1877are invoked. 1878This is merely meant as an aid in determining the order in which 1879sections of the tree are created. 1880.It Cd options SYSCTL_DEBUG_CREATE 1881Prints a message each time 1882.Fn sysctl_create , 1883the function that adds nodes to the tree, is called. 1884.It Cd options SYSCTL_INCLUDE_DESCR 1885Causes the kernel to include short, human readable descriptions for 1886nodes in the sysctl tree. 1887The descriptions can be retrieved programmatically (see 1888.Xr sysctl 3 ) , 1889or by the sysctl binary itself (see 1890.Xr sysctl 8 ) . 1891The descriptions are meant to give an indication of the purpose and/or 1892effects of a given node's value, not replace the documentation for the 1893given subsystem as a whole. 1894.El 1895.Ss System V IPC Options 1896.Bl -ohang 1897.It Cd options SYSVMSG 1898Includes support for 1899.At V 1900style message queues. 1901See 1902.Xr msgctl 2 , 1903.Xr msgget 2 , 1904.Xr msgrcv 2 , 1905.Xr msgsnd 2 . 1906.It Cd options SYSVSEM 1907Includes support for 1908.At V 1909style semaphores. 1910See 1911.Xr semctl 2 , 1912.Xr semget 2 , 1913.Xr semop 2 . 1914.It Cd options SEMMNI=value 1915Sets the number of 1916.At V 1917style semaphore identifiers. 1918The GENERIC config file for your port will have the default. 1919.It Cd options SEMMNS=value 1920Sets the number of 1921.At V 1922style semaphores in the system. 1923The GENERIC config file for your port will have the default. 1924.It Cd options SEMUME=value 1925Sets the maximum number of undo entries per process for 1926.At V 1927style semaphores. 1928The GENERIC config file for your port will have the default. 1929.It Cd options SEMMNU=value 1930Sets the number of undo structures in the system for 1931.At V 1932style semaphores. 1933The GENERIC config file for your port will have the default. 1934.It Cd options SYSVSHM 1935Includes support for 1936.At V 1937style shared memory. 1938See 1939.Xr shmat 2 , 1940.Xr shmctl 2 , 1941.Xr shmdt 2 , 1942.Xr shmget 2 . 1943.It Cd options SHMMAXPGS=value 1944Sets the maximum number of 1945.At V 1946style shared memory pages that are available through the 1947.Xr shmget 2 1948system call. 1949Default value is 1024 on most ports. 1950See 1951.Pa /usr/include/machine/vmparam.h 1952for the default. 1953.El 1954.Ss VM Related Options 1955.Bl -ohang 1956.It Cd options NMBCLUSTERS=value 1957The number of mbuf clusters the kernel supports. 1958Mbuf clusters are MCLBYTES in size (usually 2k). 1959This is used to compute the size of the kernel VM map 1960.Em mb_map , 1961which maps mbuf clusters. 1962Default on most ports is 1024 (2048 with 1963.Dq options GATEWAY 1964). 1965See 1966.Pa /usr/include/machine/param.h 1967for exact default information. 1968Increase this value if you get 1969.Dq mclpool limit reached 1970messages. 1971.It Cd options NKMEMPAGES=value 1972.It Cd options NKMEMPAGES_MIN=value 1973.It Cd options NKMEMPAGES_MAX=value 1974Size of kernel VM map 1975.Em kmem_map , 1976in PAGE_SIZE-sized chunks (the VM page size; this value may be read 1977from the 1978.Xr sysctl 8 1979variable 1980.Em hw.pagesize 1981). 1982This VM map is used to map the kernel malloc arena. 1983The kernel attempts to auto-size this map based on the amount of 1984physical memory in the system. 1985Platform-specific code may place bounds on this computed size, 1986which may be viewed with the 1987.Xr sysctl 8 1988variable 1989.Em vm.nkmempages . 1990See 1991.Pa /usr/include/machine/param.h 1992for the default upper and lower bounds. 1993The related options 1994.Sq NKMEMPAGES_MIN 1995and 1996.Sq NKMEMPAGES_MAX 1997allow the bounds to be overridden in the kernel configuration file. 1998These options are provided in the event the computed value is 1999insufficient resulting in an 2000.Dq out of space in kmem_map 2001panic. 2002.It Cd options SB_MAX=value 2003Sets the max size in bytes that a socket buffer is allowed to occupy. 2004The default is 256k, but sometimes it needs to be increased, for example 2005when using large TCP windows. 2006This option can be changed via 2007.Xr sysctl 8 2008as well. 2009.It Cd options SOMAXKVA=value 2010Sets the maximum size of kernel virtual memory that the socket buffers 2011are allowed to use. 2012The default is 16MB, but in situations where for example large TCP 2013windows are used this value must also be increased. 2014This option can be changed via 2015.Xr sysctl 8 2016as well. 2017.It Cd options BUFCACHE=value 2018Size of the buffer cache as a percentage of total available 2019.Tn RAM . 2020Ignored if BUFPAGES is also specified. 2021.It Cd options NBUF=value 2022Sets the number of buffer headers available, i.e., the number of 2023open files that may have a buffer cache entry. 2024Each buffer header 2025requires MAXBSIZE (machine dependent, but usually 65536) bytes. 2026The default value is machine dependent, but is usually equal to the 2027value of BUFPAGES. 2028If an architecture dependent VM_MAX_KERNEL_BUF constant is defined 2029then NBUF may be reduced at run time so that the storage allocated 2030for buffer headers doesn't exceed that limit. 2031.It Cd options BUFPAGES=value 2032These options set the number of pages available for the buffer cache. 2033Their default value is a machine dependent value, often calculated as 2034between 5% and 10% of total available 2035.Tn RAM . 2036.It Cd options MAXTSIZ=bytes 2037Sets the maximum size limit of a process' text segment. 2038See 2039.Pa /usr/include/machine/vmparam.h 2040for the port-specific default. 2041.It Cd options DFLDSIZ=bytes 2042Sets the default size limit of a process' data segment, the value that 2043will be returned as the soft limit for 2044.Dv RLIMIT_DATA 2045(as returned by 2046.Xr getrlimit 2 ) . 2047See 2048.Pa /usr/include/machine/vmparam.h 2049for the port-specific default. 2050.It Cd options MAXDSIZ=bytes 2051Sets the maximum size limit of a process' data segment, the value that 2052will be returned as the hard limit for 2053.Dv RLIMIT_DATA 2054(as returned by 2055.Xr getrlimit 2 ) . 2056See 2057.Pa /usr/include/machine/vmparam.h 2058for the port-specific default. 2059.It Cd options DFLSSIZ=bytes 2060Sets the default size limit of a process' stack segment, the value that 2061will be returned as the soft limit for 2062.Dv RLIMIT_STACK 2063(as returned by 2064.Xr getrlimit 2 ) . 2065See 2066.Pa /usr/include/machine/vmparam.h 2067for the port-specific default. 2068.It Cd options MAXSSIZ=bytes 2069Sets the maximum size limit of a process' stack segment, the value that 2070will be returned as the hard limit for 2071.Dv RLIMIT_STACK 2072(as returned by 2073.Xr getrlimit 2 ) . 2074See 2075.Pa /usr/include/machine/vmparam.h 2076for the port-specific default. 2077.It Cd options DUMP_ON_PANIC=integer 2078Defaults to one. 2079If set to zero, the kernel will not dump to the dump device when 2080it panics, though dumps can still be forced via 2081.Xr ddb 4 2082with the 2083.Dq sync 2084command. 2085Note that this sets the value of the 2086.Em kern.dump_on_panic 2087.Xr sysctl 3 2088variable which may be changed at run time -- see 2089.Xr sysctl 8 2090for details. 2091.It Cd options USE_TOPDOWN_VM 2092User space memory allocations (as made by 2093.Xr mmap 2 ) 2094will be arranged in a 2095.Dq top down 2096fashion instead of the traditional 2097.Dq upwards from MAXDSIZ \+ vm_daddr 2098method. 2099This includes the placement of 2100.Xr ld.so 1 . 2101Arranging memory in this manner allows either (or both of) the heap or 2102.Xr mmap 2 2103allocated space to grow larger than traditionally possible. 2104This option is not available on all ports, but is instead expected to be 2105offered on a port-by-port basis, after which some ports will commit to 2106using it by default. 2107See the files 2108.Pa /usr/include/uvm/uvm_param.h 2109for some implementation details, and 2110.Pa /usr/include/machine/vmparam.h 2111for port specific details including availability. 2112.El 2113.Ss amiga-specific Options 2114.Bl -ohang 2115.It Cd options BB060STUPIDROM 2116When the bootloader (which passes 2117.Tn AmigaOS 2118.Tn ROM 2119information) claims we have a 68060 2120.Tn CPU 2121without 2122.Tn FPU , 2123go look into the Processor Configuration Register (PCR) to find out. 2124You need this with 2125.Tn Amiga 2126.Tn ROM Ns s 2127up to (at least) V40.xxx (OS3.1), 2128when you boot via the bootblocks and don't have a DraCo. 2129.It Cd options IOBZCLOCK=frequency 2130The IOBlix boards come with two different serial master clocks: older ones 2131use 24 MHz, newer ones use 22.1184 MHz. 2132The driver normally assumes the latter. 2133If your board uses 24 MHz, you can recompile your kernel with 2134options IOBZCLOCK=24000000 2135or patch the kernel variable 2136.Tn iobzclock 2137to the same value. 2138.It Cd options LIMITMEM=value 2139If there, limit the part of the first memory bank used by 2140.Nx 2141to value megabytes. 2142Default is unlimited. 2143.It Cd options NKPTADD=addvalue 2144.It Cd options NKPTADDSHIFT=shiftvalue 2145The 2146.Tn CPU 2147specific 2148.Tn MMU 2149table for the kernel is pre-allocated at kernel startup time. 2150Part of it is scaled with 2151.Va maxproc , 2152to have enough room to hold the user program 2153.Tn MMU 2154tables; the second part is a fixed amount for the kernel itself. 2155.Pp 2156The third part accounts for the size of the file buffer cache. 2157Its size is either 2158.Dv NKPTADD 2159pages (if defined) or memory size in bytes divided by two to 2160the power of 2161.Dv NKPTADDSHIFT . 2162The default is undefined 2163.Dv NKPTADD 2164and 2165.Dv NKPTADDSHIFT=24 , 2166allowing for 16 buffers per megabyte of main memory (while 2167a GENERIC kernel allocates about half of that). 2168When you get "can't get KPT page" panics, you should increase 2169.Dv NKPTADD 2170(if defined), or decrease 2171.Dv NKPTADDSHIFT 2172by one. 2173.It Cd options P5PPC68KBOARD 2174Add special support for Phase5 mixed 68k+PPC boards. 2175Currently, this only affects rebooting from 2176.Nx 2177and is only needed on 68040+PPC, not on 217868060+PPC; without this, affected machines will hang after 2179.Nx 2180has shut 2181down and will only restart after a keyboard reset or a power cycle. 2182.El 2183.Ss arm32-specific Options 2184.Bl -ohang 2185.It Cd options FRENCH_KBD 2186Include translation for French keyboards when using 2187.Em pccons 2188on a Shark. 2189.It Cd options FINNISH_KBD 2190Include translation for Finnish keyboards when using 2191.Em pccons 2192on a Shark. 2193.It Cd options GERMAN_KBD 2194Include translation for German keyboards when using 2195.Em pccons 2196on a Shark. 2197.It Cd options NORWEGIAN_KBD 2198Include translation for French keyboards when using 2199.Em pccons 2200on a Shark. 2201.El 2202.Ss atari-specific Options 2203.Bl -ohang 2204.It Cd options DISKLABEL_AHDI 2205Include support for AHDI (native Atari) disklabels. 2206.It Cd options DISKLABEL_NBDA 2207Include support for 2208.Nx Ns Tn /atari 2209labels. 2210If you don't set this option, it will be set automatically. 2211.Nx Ns Tn /atari 2212will not work without it. 2213.It Cd options FALCON_SCSI 2214Include support for the 5380-SCSI configuration as found on the Falcon. 2215.It Cd options RELOC_KERNEL 2216If set, the kernel will relocate itself to TT-RAM, if possible. 2217This will give you a slightly faster system. 2218.Em Beware 2219that on some TT030 systems, 2220the system will frequently dump with MMU-faults with this option enabled. 2221.It Cd options SERCONSOLE 2222Allow the modem1-port to act as the system-console. 2223A carrier should be active on modem1 during system boot to active 2224the console functionality. 2225.It Cd options TT_SCSI 2226Include support for the 5380-SCSI configuration as found on the TT030 2227and Hades. 2228.El 2229.Ss i386-specific Options 2230.Bl -ohang 2231.It Cd options I386_CPU,I486_CPU,I586_CPU,I686_CPU 2232Include support for a particular class of 2233.Tn CPU 2234.Po 2235.Tn i386 , 2236.Tn i486 , 2237.Tn Pentium , 2238or 2239.Tn Pentium Pro 2240.Pc . 2241If the appropriate class for your 2242.Tn CPU 2243is not configured, the kernel will use the highest class available 2244that will work. 2245In general, using the correct 2246.Tn CPU 2247class will result in the best performance. 2248At least one of these options must be present. 2249.It Cd options ENHANCED_SPEEDSTEP 2250Include support for the 2251.Tn Enhanced SpeedStep Technology 2252present in newer 2253.Tn CPU Ns s . 2254.It Cd options EST_FREQ_USERWRITE 2255Allow any user to change the frequency of an 2256.Tn Enhanced SpeedStep Technology 2257capable 2258.Tn CPU . 2259.It Cd options CPURESET_DELAY=value 2260Specifies the time (in millisecond) to wait before doing a hardware reset 2261in the last phase of a reboot. 2262This gives the user a chance to see error messages from the shutdown 2263operations (like NFS unmounts, buffer cache flush, etc ...). 2264Setting this to 0 will disable the delay. 2265Default is 2 seconds. 2266.It Cd options MATH_EMULATE 2267Include the floating point emulator. 2268This is useful only for 2269.Tn CPU Ns s 2270that lack an 2271internal Floating Point Unit 2272.Pq Tn FPU 2273or co-processor. 2274.It Cd options VM86 2275Include support for virtual 8086 mode, used by 2276.Tn DOS 2277emulators and X servers to run BIOS code, e.g., for some VESA routines. 2278.It Cd options USER_LDT 2279Include i386-specific system calls for modifying the local descriptor table, 2280used by Windows emulators. 2281.It Cd options REALBASEMEM=integer 2282Overrides the base memory size passed in from the boot block. 2283(Value given in kilobytes.) 2284Use this option only if the boot block reports the size incorrectly. 2285(Note that some 2286.Tn BIOS Ns es 2287put the extended 2288.Tn BIOS 2289data area at the top of base memory, and therefore report a smaller 2290base memory size to prevent programs overwriting it. 2291This is correct behavior, and you should not use the 2292.Em REALBASEMEM 2293option to access this memory). 2294.It Cd options REALEXTMEM=integer 2295Overrides the extended memory size passed in from the boot block. 2296(Value given in kilobytes. 2297Extended memory does not include the first megabyte.) 2298Use this option only if the boot block reports the size incorrectly. 2299.It Cd options FRENCH_KBD,FINNISH_KBD,GERMAN_KBD,NORWEGIAN_KBD 2300Select a non-US keyboard layout for the 2301.Em pccons 2302console driver. 2303.It Cd options CYRIX_CACHE_WORKS 2304Relevant only to the Cyrix 486DLC CPU. 2305This option is used to turn on the cache in hold-flush mode. 2306It is not turned on by default because it is known to have problems in 2307certain motherboard implementations. 2308.It Cd options CYRIX_CACHE_REALLY_WORKS 2309Relevant only to the Cyrix 486DLC CPU. 2310This option is used to turn on the cache in write-back mode. 2311It is not turned on by default because it is known to have problems in 2312certain motherboard implementations. 2313In order for this option to take effect, option 2314.Em CYRIX_CACHE_WORKS 2315must also be specified. 2316.It Cd options PCIBIOS 2317Enable support for initializing the 2318.Tn PCI 2319bus using information from the 2320.Tn BIOS . 2321See 2322.Xr pcibios 4 2323for details. 2324.It Cd options KSTACK_CHECK_DR0 2325Detect kernel stack overflow using DR0 register. 2326This option uses DR0 register exclusively so you can't use DR0 register for 2327other purpose (e.g., hardware breakpoint) if you turn this on. 2328.It Cd options MTRR 2329Include support for accessing MTRR registers from user-space. 2330See 2331.Xr i386_get_mtrr 2 . 2332.It Cd options BEEP_ONHALT 2333Make the system speaker emit several beeps when it is completely safe to 2334power down the computer after a 2335.Xr halt 8 2336command. 2337Requires 2338.Xr sysbeep 4 2339support. 2340.It Cd options BEEP_ONHALT_COUNT=times 2341Number of times to beep the speaker when 2342.Cd options BEEP_ONHALT 2343is enabled. 2344Defaults to 3. 2345.It Cd options BEEP_ONHALT_PITCH=hz 2346The tone frequency used when 2347.Cd options BEEP_ONHALT 2348option, in hertz. 2349Defaults to 1500. 2350.It Cd options BEEP_ONHALT_PERIOD=msecs 2351The duration of each beep when 2352.Cd options BEEP_ONHALT 2353is enabled, in milliseconds. 2354Defaults to 250. 2355.El 2356.Ss isa-specific Options 2357Options specific to 2358.Xr isa 4 2359busses. 2360.Bl -ohang 2361.It Cd options PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOBASE=address, PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOSIZE=size 2362Control the section of IO bus space used for PCMCIA bus space mapping. 2363Ideally the probed defaults are satisfactory, however in practice 2364that is not always the case. 2365See 2366.Xr pcmcia 4 2367for details. 2368.It Cd options PCIC_ISA_INTR_ALLOC_MASK=mask 2369Controls the allowable interrupts that may be used for 2370.Tn PCMCIA 2371devices. 2372This mask is a logical-or of power-of-2s of allowable interrupts: 2373.Bd -literal -offset 04n 2374.Em "IRQ Val IRQ Val IRQ Val IRQ Val" 2375 0 0x0001 4 0x0010 8 0x0100 12 0x1000 2376 1 0x0002 5 0x0020 9 0x0200 13 0x2000 2377 2 0x0004 6 0x0040 10 0x0400 14 0x4000 2378 3 0x0008 7 0x0080 11 0x0800 15 0x8000 2379.Ed 2380.It Cd options PCKBC_CNATTACH_SELFTEST 2381Perform a self test of the keyboard controller before attaching it as a 2382console. 2383This might be necessary on machines where we boot on cold iron, and 2384pckbc refuses to talk until we request a self test. 2385Currently only the netwinder port uses it. 2386.It Cd options PCKBD_CNATTACH_MAY_FAIL 2387If this option is set the PS/2 keyboard will not be used as the console 2388if it cannot be found during boot. 2389This allows other keyboards, like USB, to be the console keyboard. 2390.It Cd options PCKBD_LAYOUT=layout 2391Sets the default keyboard layout, see 2392.Xr pckbd 4 . 2393.El 2394.Ss m68k-specific Options 2395.Bl -ohang 2396.It Cd options FPU_EMULATE 2397Include support for MC68881/MC68882 emulator. 2398.It Cd options FPSP 2399Include support for 68040 floating point. 2400.It Cd options M68020,M68030,M68040,M68060 2401Include support for a specific 2402.Tn CPU , 2403at least one (the one you are using) should be specified. 2404.It Cd options M060SP 2405Include software support for 68060. 2406This provides emulation of unimplemented 2407integer instructions as well as emulation of unimplemented floating point 2408instructions and data types and software support for floating point traps. 2409.El 2410.Ss powerpc-specific Options 2411.Bl -ohang 2412.It Cd options PMAP_MEMLIMIT=value 2413Limit the amount of memory seen by the kernel to 2414.Ar value 2415bytes (OEA only). 2416.El 2417.Ss sparc-specific Options 2418.Bl -ohang 2419.It Cd options AUDIO_DEBUG 2420Enable simple event debugging of the logging of the 2421.Xr audio 4 2422device. 2423.It Cd options BLINK 2424Enable blinking of LED. 2425Blink rate is full cycle every N seconds for 2426N \*[Lt] then current load average. 2427See 2428.Xr getloadavg 3 . 2429.\" .It Cd options COLORFONT_CACHE 2430.\" What does this do? 2431.It Cd options COUNT_SW_LEFTOVERS 2432Count how many times the sw SCSI device has left 3, 2, 1 and 0 in the 2433sw_3_leftover, sw_2_leftover, sw_1_leftover, and sw_0_leftover 2434variables accessible from 2435.Xr ddb 4 . 2436See 2437.Xr sw 4 . 2438.It Cd options DEBUG_ALIGN 2439Adds debugging messages calls when user-requested alignment fault 2440handling happens. 2441.It Cd options DEBUG_EMUL 2442Adds debugging messages calls for emulated floating point and 2443alignment fixing operations. 2444.It Cd options DEBUG_SVR4 2445Prints registers messages calls for emulated SVR4 getcontext and 2446setcontext operations. 2447See 2448.Em options COMPAT_SVR4 . 2449.It Cd options EXTREME_DEBUG 2450Adds debugging functions callable from 2451.Xr ddb 4 . 2452The debug_pagetables, test_region and print_fe_map 2453functions print information about page tables for the SUN4M 2454platforms only. 2455.It Cd options EXTREME_EXTREME_DEBUG 2456Adds extra info to 2457.Em options EXTREME_DEBUG . 2458.It Cd options FPU_CONTEXT 2459Make 2460.Em options COMPAT_SVR4 2461getcontext and setcontext include floating point registers. 2462.It Cd options MAGMA_DEBUG 2463Adds debugging messages to the 2464.Xr magma 4 2465device. 2466.It Cd options RASTERCONS_FULLSCREEN 2467Use the entire screen for the console. 2468.It Cd options RASTERCONS_SMALLFONT 2469Use the Fixed font on the console, instead of the normal font. 2470.It Cd options SUN4 2471Support sun4 class machines. 2472.It Cd options SUN4C 2473Support sun4c class machines. 2474.It Cd options SUN4M 2475Support sun4m class machines. 2476.It Cd options SUN4_MMU3L 2477.\" XXX ??? 2478Enable support for sun4 3-level MMU machines. 2479.It Cd options V9 2480Enable SPARC V9 assembler in 2481.Xr ddb 4 . 2482.El 2483.Ss sparc64-specific Options 2484.Bl -ohang 2485.It Cd options AUDIO_DEBUG 2486Enable simple event debugging of the logging of the 2487.Xr audio 4 2488device. 2489.It Cd options BLINK 2490Enable blinking of LED. 2491Blink rate is full cycle every N seconds for 2492N \*[Lt] then current load average. 2493See 2494.Xr getloadavg 3 . 2495.El 2496.Ss x68k-specific Options 2497.Bl -ohang 2498.It Cd options EXTENDED_MEMORY 2499Include support for extended memory, e.g., TS-6BE16 and 060turbo on-board. 2500.It Cd options JUPITER 2501Include support for Jupiter-X MPU accelerator 2502.It Cd options ZSCONSOLE,ZSCN_SPEED=value 2503Use the built-in serial port as the system-console. 2504Speed is specified in bps, defaults to 9600. 2505.It Cd options ITE_KERNEL_ATTR=value 2506Set the kernel message attribute for ITE. 2507Value, an integer, is a logical or of the following values: 2508.Bl -tag -width 4n -compact -offset indent 2509.It 1 2510color inversed 2511.It 2 2512underlined 2513.It 4 2514bolded 2515.El 2516.El 2517.\" The following requests should be uncommented and used where appropriate. 2518.\" .Sh FILES 2519.\" .Sh EXAMPLES 2520.Sh SEE ALSO 2521.Xr config 1 , 2522.Xr gdb 1 , 2523.Xr ktrace 1 , 2524.Xr pmc 1 , 2525.Xr quota 1 , 2526.Xr vndcompress 1 , 2527.Xr gettimeofday 2 , 2528.Xr i386_get_mtrr 2 , 2529.Xr i386_iopl 2 , 2530.Xr msgctl 2 , 2531.Xr msgget 2 , 2532.Xr msgrcv 2 , 2533.Xr msgsnd 2 , 2534.Xr ntp_adjtime 2 , 2535.Xr ntp_gettime 2 , 2536.Xr semctl 2 , 2537.Xr semget 2 , 2538.Xr semop 2 , 2539.Xr shmat 2 , 2540.Xr shmctl 2 , 2541.Xr shmdt 2 , 2542.Xr shmget 2 , 2543.Xr sysctl 3 , 2544.Xr apm 4 , 2545.Xr ddb 4 , 2546.Xr inet 4 , 2547.Xr iso 4 , 2548.Xr lkm 4 , 2549.Xr md 4 , 2550.Xr ns 4 , 2551.Xr pcibios 4 , 2552.Xr pcmcia 4 , 2553.Xr ppp 4 , 2554.Xr userconf 4 , 2555.Xr vnd 4 , 2556.Xr wscons 4 , 2557.Xr edquota 8 , 2558.Xr init 8 , 2559.Xr mdsetimage 8 , 2560.Xr mount_cd9660 8 , 2561.Xr mount_fdesc 8 , 2562.Xr mount_kernfs 8 , 2563.Xr mount_lfs 8 , 2564.Xr mount_mfs 8 , 2565.Xr mount_msdos 8 , 2566.Xr mount_nfs 8 , 2567.Xr mount_ntfs 8 , 2568.Xr mount_null 8 , 2569.Xr mount_portal 8 , 2570.Xr mount_procfs 8 , 2571.Xr mount_umap 8 , 2572.Xr mount_union 8 , 2573.Xr mrouted 8 , 2574.Xr newfs_lfs 8 , 2575.Xr ntpd 8 , 2576.Xr quotaon 8 , 2577.Xr rpc.rquotad 8 , 2578.Xr sysctl 8 2579.Sh HISTORY 2580The 2581.Nm 2582man page first appeared in 2583.Nx 1.3 . 2584.Sh BUGS 2585The 2586.Em EON 2587option should be a pseudo-device, and is also very fragile. 2588