As we don't currently support MSI(X) interrupts, it could be an issue
to boot on some newer hardware. NVMe devices support polling mode
where the driver actively polls for completion instead of waiting for
an interrupt.
Differentiate GUI applications in man pages with icons.
This is the revert of the revert commit, now that the icon processing
was fixed in 89c0f84a28.
Revert: dae298e9df
Original: 74238d0aba
Co-authored-by: electrikmilk <brandonjordan124@gmail.com>
Aplay's documentation is updated to reflect the new -s flag.
Additionally, "sound" has been replaced by "audio", reflecting the
application name. (It's also a more general term in my opinion, but
that's debatable.)
The URLs of the form `help://man/<section>/<page>` link to another help
page inside the help application. All previous relative page links are
replaced by this new form. This doesn't change any behavior but it looks
much nicer :^)
Note that man doesn't handle these new links, but the previous relative
links didn't work either.
Through links in the help page, the user can directly launch the app
whose help page is currently viewed. The idea for this feature came up
in the discussion of #11557
(https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/11557#issuecomment-1004830728
). The intention is that the user can simply open the app they are
currently trying to understand, and play around with it, learn by doing,
or follow along with any guide that may be present in the help page. It
feels very great :^)
This utility helps to dump the physical memory space from /dev/mem.
It supports both read(2) and mmap(2) on it so we could use mmap(2) for
fast dumping of the memory, or read(2) when we need to read unaligned
physical regions.
This allows forcing the use of only the framebuffer set up by the
bootloader and skips instantiating devices for any other graphics
cards that may be present.
This feature was introduced in version 4.17 of the Linux kernel, and
while it's not specified by POSIX, I think it will be a nice addition to
our system.
MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE provides a less error-prone alternative to
MAP_FIXED: while regular fixed mappings would cause any intersecting
ranges to be unmapped, MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE returns EEXIST instead. This
ensures that we don't corrupt our process's address space if something
is already at the requested address.
Note that the more portable way to do this is to use regular
MAP_ANONYMOUS, and check afterwards whether the returned address matches
what we wanted. This, however, has a large performance impact on
programs like Wine which try to reserve large portions of the address
space at once, as the non-matching addresses have to be unmapped
separately.
The document describes the implications of enabling and disabling that
option on the ability to enable SMP mode, and describes the requirements
for enabling IOAPIC mode even without enabling SMP mode.
