HardenedBSD/RELNOTES
Christos Margiolis 25723d6636 sound: Retire unit.*
The unit.* code is largely obsolete and imposes limits that are no
longer needed nowadays.

- Capping the maximum allowed soundcards in a given machine. By default,
  the limit is 512 (snd_max_u() in unit.c), and the maximum possible is
  2048 (SND_UNIT_UMAX in unit.h). It can also be tuned through the
  hw.snd.maxunit loader(8) tunable. Even though these limits are large
  enough that they should never cause problems, there is no need for
  this limit to exist in the first place.
- Capping the available device/channel types. By default, this is 32
  (snd_max_d() in unit.c). However, these types are pre-defined in
  pcm/sound.h (see SND_DEV_*), so the cap is unnecessary when we know
  that their number is constant.
- Capping the number of channels per-device. By default, the limit 1024
  (snd_max_c() in unit.c). This is probably the most problematic of the
  limits mentioned, because this limit can never be reached, as the
  maximum is hard-capped at either hw.snd.maxautovchans (16 by default),
  or SND_MAXHWCHAN and SND_MAXVCHANS.

These limtits are encoded in masks (see SND_U_MASK, SND_D_MASK,
SND_C_MASK in unit.h) and are used to construct a bitfield of the form
[dsp_unit, type, channel_unit] in snd_mkunit() which is assigned to
pcm_channel->unit.

This patch gets rid of everything unit.*-related and makes a slightly
different use of the "unit" field to only contain the channel unit
number. The channel type is stored in a new pcm_channel->type field, and
the DSP unit number need not be stored at all, since we can fetch it
from device_get_unit(pcm_channel->dev). This change has the effect that
we no longer need to impose caps on the number of soundcards,
device/channel types and per-device channels. As a result the code is
noticeably simplified and more readable.

Apart from the fact that the hw.snd.maxunit loader(8) tunable is also
retired as a side-effect of this patch, sound(4)'s behavior remains the
same.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	1 week
Reviewed by:	dev_submerge.ch
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D44912
2024-04-28 21:48:24 +02:00

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Release notes for FreeBSD 15.0.
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8fef193e14e2:
As a side-effect of retiring the unit.* code in sound(4), the
hw.snd.maxunit loader(8) tunable is also retired.
6d5ce2bb6344:
The default value of the nfs_reserved_port_only rc.conf(5) setting has
changed. The FreeBSD NFS server now requires the source port of
requests to be in the privileged port range (i.e., <= 1023), which
generally requires the client to have elevated privileges on their local
system. The previous behavior can be restored by setting
nfs_reserved_port_only=NO in rc.conf.
aea973501b19:
ktrace(2) will now record detailed information about capability mode
violations. The kdump(1) utility has been updated to display such
information.
f32a6403d346:
One True Awk updated to 2nd Edition. See https://awk.dev for details
on the additions. Unicode and CSVs (Comma Separated Values) are now
supported.
fe86d923f83f:
usbconfig(8) now reads the descriptions of the usb vendor and products
from usb.ids when available, similarly to what pciconf(8) does.
4347ef60501f:
The powerd(8) utility is now enabled in /etc/rc.conf by default on
images for the arm64 Raspberry Pi's (arm64-aarch64-RPI img files).
This prevents the CPU clock from running slow all the time.
0b49e504a32d:
rc.d/jail now supports the legacy variable jail_${jailname}_zfs_dataset
to allow unmaintained jail managers like ezjail to make use of this
feature (simply rename jail_${jailname}_zfs_datasets in the ezjail
config to jail_${jailname}_zfs_dataset.
e0dfe185cbca:
jail(8) now support zfs.dataset to add a list of ZFS datasets to a
jail.
61174ad88e33:
newsyslog(8) now supports specifying a global compression method directly
at the beginning of the newsyslog.conf file, which will make newsyslog(8)
to behave like the corresponding option was passed to the newly added
'-c' option. For example:
<compress> none
906748d208d3:
newsyslog(8) now accepts a new option, '-c' which overrides all historical
compression flags by treating their meaning as "treat the file as compressible"
rather than "compress the file with that specific method."
The following choices are available:
* none: Do not compress, regardless of flag.
* legacy: Historical behavior (J=bzip2, X=xz, Y=zstd, Z=gzip).
* bzip2, xz, zstd, gzip: apply the specified compression method.
We plan to change the default to 'none' in FreeBSD 15.0.
1a878807006c:
This commit added some statistics collection to the NFS-over-TLS
code in the NFS server so that sysadmins can moditor usage.
The statistics are available via the kern.rpc.tls.* sysctls.
7c5146da1286:
Mountd has been modified to use strunvis(3) to decode directory
names in exports(5) file(s). This allows special characters,
such as blanks, to be embedded in the directory name(s).
"vis -M" may be used to encode such directory name(s).
c5359e2af5ab:
bhyve(8) has a new network backend, "slirp", which makes use of the
libslirp package to provide a userspace network stack. This backend
makes it possible to access the guest network from the host without
requiring any extra network configuration on the host.
bb830e346bd5:
Set the IUTF8 flag by default in tty(4).
128f63cedc14 and 9e589b093857 added proper UTF-8 backspacing handling
in the tty(4) driver, which is enabled by setting the new IUTF8 flag
through stty(1). Since the default locale is UTF-8, enable IUTF8 by
default.
ff01d71e48d4:
dialog(1) has been replaced by bsddialog(1)
41582f28ddf7:
FreeBSD 15.0 will not include support for 32-bit platforms.
However, 64-bit systems will still be able to run older 32-bit
binaries.
Support for executing 32-bit binaries on 64-bit platforms via
COMPAT_FREEBSD32 will remain supported for at least the
stable/15 and stable/16 branches.
Support for compiling individual 32-bit applications via
`cc -m32` will also be supported for at least the stable/15
branch which includes suitable headers in /usr/include and
libraries in /usr/lib32.
Support for 32-bit platforms in ports for 15.0 and later
releases is also deprecated, and these future releases may not
include binary packages for 32-bit platforms or support for
building 32-bit applications from ports.
stable/14 and earlier branches will retain existing 32-bit
kernel and world support. Ports will retain existing support
for building ports and packages for 32-bit systems on stable/14
and earlier branches as long as those branches are supported
by the ports system. However, all 32-bit platforms are Tier-2
or Tier-3 and support for individual ports should be expected
to degrade as upstreams deprecate 32-bit platforms.
With the current support schedule, stable/14 will be EOLed 5
years after the release of 14.0. The EOL of stable/14 would
mark the end of support for 32-bit platforms including source
releases, pre-built packages, and support for building
applications from ports. Given an estimated release date of
October 2023 for 14.0, support for 32-bit platforms would end
in October 2028.
The project may choose to alter this approach when 15.0 is
released by extending some level of 32-bit support for one or
more platforms in 15.0 or later. Users should use the
stable/14 branch to migrate off of 32-bit platforms.