Re: [gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

2018-03-21 Thread Corbin Bird 
On 03/21/2018 03:20 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote:

> On 03/21/2018 04:44 PM, Corbin Bird wrote:
>
>> Curious ... you cannot use 'FreeDOS' even as a bootable cdrom?
>> Its very easy to open the image, tuck in two files and one new
>> directory, then close and burn the image.
> I have not figured out where to place them on the iso so that they are
> accessible nor alternatively how to load the drivers and mount a cdrom.
> Do you know how?
.
Okay. Refresh complete.

This should work if 16bit support / BIOS PAL is in good order on the
target system.

The 'FreeDOS' install cd is bootable.
It loads a 'generic' cdrom driver automatically.

Write down the flash commands EXACTLY as spec'd in the LSI docs.

Use 'isomaster' for a GUI ISO image utility. Very convenient. It's in
the Gentoo repository.

Get this file ( FreeDOS v1.1 source )
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/fd11src.iso

create a directory on your HD, call it 'firmware'
place all the needed LSI files in it.
Example HBA && files ( LSI 2004 / 9211-41 )
-- 2114IR.BIN
-- 2114IT.BIN
-- MPTSAS2.ROM
-- SAS2FLSH.EXE


Open the image ( fd11src.iso ) with ISO Master.
Bottom Widow of ISO Master. 2 dirs showing. double-click FREEDOS.
Top Window, find your firmware dir, highlight it, click the 'add to the
ISO' button
Save (as) the ISO to 'lsiboot' somewhere on you HD.
Exit ISO Master.
burn 'lisboot.iso' to cd.
boot the cdrom

choose the following options ( in order ) :
Install to C: Drive
C
2
English
press the [Enter] key
Run FreeDOS from CD-ROM

Command Prompt will show [ F:\ ]
cd firmware [Enter]

let the sas2flsh'ing commence.

Corbin

[gentoo-user] Re: LuaKit Browser and HTML5 video playback

2018-03-21 Thread James Stevenson 
I've solved this problem. In case anyone ever runs into anything similar
both qutebrowser and luakit require specific gstreamer plugins for each
html5 video type. The media-libs/gst-plugins-meta package was not
sufficient as it only contained a collection of audio plugins.
Best,
James

Re: [gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

2018-03-21 Thread Andrea Conti 
> Jesus christ it is 2018 and they still want us to use dos to flash
> hardware >:'[

While DOS is usually the recommended environment for flashing hardware,
in my experience the most reliable option for (cross)flashing LSI SAS2
controllers is the EFI version of sas2flash. Specifically, on some
recent motherboards the DOS version of sas2flash will simply refuse to
start with obscure hardware initialization errors.

If you can build a FreeDOS image with little effort, it might be worth a
try; just be warned that it's not a guaranteed way to success and that
your time might be better spent by looking for a board with UEFI
firmware that you can borrow for the ten minutes needed to flash the card.

And no, I don't like UEFI either, but I do think it's a useful tool for
the job at hand.

HTH,
Andrea

Re: [gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

2018-03-21 Thread Corbin Bird 
On 03/21/2018 03:20 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote:

> On 03/21/2018 04:44 PM, Corbin Bird wrote:
>
>> Curious ... you cannot use 'FreeDOS' even as a bootable cdrom?
>> Its very easy to open the image, tuck in two files and one new
>> directory, then close and burn the image.
> I have not figured out where to place them on the iso so that they are
> accessible nor alternatively how to load the drivers and mount a cdrom.
> Do you know how?
>
.
I've done it in the past.
Give me an hour to refresh the memory / retest the process / write the
process down.

Corbin

Re: [gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

2018-03-21 Thread taii...@gmx.com 
On 03/21/2018 04:44 PM, Corbin Bird wrote:

> Curious ... you cannot use 'FreeDOS' even as a bootable cdrom?
> Its very easy to open the image, tuck in two files and one new
> directory, then close and burn the image.
I have not figured out where to place them on the iso so that they are
accessible nor alternatively how to load the drivers and mount a cdrom.
Do you know how?


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A new AMD CPU weakness?

2018-03-21 Thread taii...@gmx.com 
On 03/21/2018 11:55 AM, R0b0t1 wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 4:40 PM, taii...@gmx.com  wrote:
>> On 03/18/2018 05:33 PM, R0b0t1 wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 4:24 PM, taii...@gmx.com  wrote:
 Everyone please remember this is simply an exploit to obtain data off of
 AMD's version of ME which is a DRM mechanism added for hollywood and it
 requires physical access to reprogram the firmware thus this exploit has
 zero impact on anyone who doesn't profit off of DRM.

>>> Except if it's anything like the Intel ME exploit, physical access can
>>> be faked using a compromized USB device.
>> You mean the skylake debug port?
 ME/PSP are evil - don't buy computers that have them - you have choices!
>>> No we don't.
>> Yes we do.
>> TALOS 2? g505s laptop? kgpe-d16? novena?
>>
>> I play new games at max settings on a pre-PSP AMD system KGPE-D16 where I
>> have installed a libre firmware for the board and the BMC via the recent
>> OpenBMC port (the facebook version of OpenBMCless features than the IBM
>> version but still quite nice)
>>
>> The TALOS 2 costs less than a brand new xeon system with similar performance
>> and it has better features such as IBM's OpenBMC, PCI-e 4.0, SMT4 etc.
>> The stars have aligned and given us a libre firmware server/workstation that
>> is brand new and very very fast.
>>
> The x86 parts are slowly going out of stock to the point where they
> are expensive *when* I have found them.
There are still a few sites selling the KGPE-D16 brand new for the
original MSRP of $415, and you can obtain a used CPU from ebay for a
reasonable price that is capable of having two people maxing out the
latest games on a dual gaming VM setup.
> The TALOS 2 is the cheapest POWER system available, but is still many 
> thousands of dollars more
> than a consumer computer (though much higher performance).
Trying to sell libre computers that compete with grandmas $499 dell is
an impossible proposition - competing in the professional workstation
market is however practical and attainable.
> ARM based computers are not comparable in performance to common consumer
> systems. Self hosting on a performant ARM processor is not a
> reasonable proposition. High dollar ARM servers have closed
> motherboard firmware.
>
> Sure, if you devote all of a good salary's disposable income to a
> mostly open hardware computer you can buy one. Most people don't make
> that much.
The idea behind the TALOS 2 is that you spend $2.5K (plus case, ram,
etc) on a computer every 5-10 years rather than $500-$1K on a computer
every year or two.
High performance costs real money, otherwise you can buy one of the
older libre laptops, a kgpe-d16 with a cheap $10 CPU etc.

The Talos 2 is entirely owner controlled, it has libre firmware for the
board and BMC plus various documentation is available even if you aren't
a member of the OpenPOWER foundation.
The only firmware required is for the broadcom nic but there is a
project to remove that and it is behind the IOMMU - this was viewed as
better than supporting intel by purchasing their NIC ASICs.
https://git.raptorcs.com/git/ in case you want to examine some code
https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Category:Documentation the currently
available public documentation
> The bigger issue than that is all main manufacturers do not
> want to remove their backdoors, and so ever so slowly, there will come
> to be absolutely no choice at all, even for inordinate amounts of
> money.
Yeah, but IBM is luckily becoming more open rather than less open and
they also accept input from the smaller members of the OpenPOWER foundation.
POWER is the way forward for the high performance sector and IBM's only
real way of differentiating themselves is being owner controlled, sure
POWER is faster than x86 for the same price and it has more threads per
core and more cores per CPU but a compelling reason is needed for the
average business to take the time to port their software.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

2018-03-21 Thread Corbin Bird 
On 03/20/2018 02:02 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote:
> On 03/19/2018 08:02 PM, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote:
>> A virtual machine is useful largely because it isolates the VM from the real 
>> hardware, therefore it's not likely you can update firmware from a VM (you 
>> really shouldn't be able to).
> Actually you can update firmware from a VM, I have done it many times
> on many different PCI-e cards and I already updated the IR mode
> firmware to the latest version in a linux VM (but you need DOS to go
> IR>IT)
>
> It is part of the reason as to why SR-IOV was created besides the
> performance benefits you also get security benefits with restricted
> registers and the inability to flash a malicious firmware from a guest
> if you attach a VF to the VM instead of the PF.
>
> I don't have any UEFI machines as I hate UEFI (all my machines run
> coreboot with the grub payload)
>> The reason they still want us to upgrade with dos is it's a lowest common 
>> denominator, i.e. every one has it or can get it (freedos).  it also helps 
>> that it's a minimal enviroment.
>>
>> In any case, I suggest you run a REAL freedos on a Real machine, so that you 
>> can update real not virtual firmware.  i.e. no Virtual Machine.
> The issue is not being able to use linux as well and having a bare
> metal freedos won't help my disk driver issue there still won't be a
> way to load the files.
.
Curious ... you cannot use 'FreeDOS' even as a bootable cdrom?
Its very easy to open the image, tuck in two files and one new
directory, then close and burn the image.

FreeDOS comes with a 'generic' PATA / SATA driver for cdrom drives.

Correction :
(but you need DOS to go IR>IT) ---> the EFI Shell also can do it.

Corbin

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync: mkstemp - failed: Permission denied (13)

2018-03-21 Thread thelma 
On 03/21/2018 12:12 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
[snip
> 
> mount -t cifs gid=1001,uid=1001 -o username=,password=  
> //10.10.0.9/Images /home/thelma/mnt/Images 
> mount: only root can use "--options" option
> 
> Is there a way to mount windows-7 partition as user? Windows-7 runs in
> VirtualBox
> This way the owner of the mounted directory/files would be thelma:thelma
> (not root:root)

This command works:
mount -t cifs -o username=,password=  //10.10.0.9/Images 
/home/thelma/mnt/Images 

When I add:
gid=1001, uid=1001 
it does not  work

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync: mkstemp - failed: Permission denied (13)

2018-03-21 Thread thelma 
On 03/21/2018 11:36 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:[snip]
>> rsync -av --delete /Monday/Images/O/OSMANFathia2946/
>> thelma@10.10.0.6:/Monday/Images/O/OSMANFathia2946/ sending incremental
>> file list rsync: failed to set times on
>> "/Monday/Images/O/OSMANFathia2946/.": Operation not permitted (1) ./
>> OSMANFathia6463.pdf
>
> ...you are writing to the destination computer as thelma. You need to use
> a user that can write to the destination directories.
The reason I'm running backup script as user as I mount windows-7
partition to backup some file and I use "--options" with mount command.

So when directory is mounted the owner is root.
When I try to run this command as user:

mount -t cifs gid=1001,uid=1001 -o username=,password=
//10.10.0.9/Images /home/thelma/mnt/Images
mount: only root can use "--options" option

Is there a way to mount windows-7 partition as user? Windows-7 runs in
VirtualBox
This way the owner of the mounted directory/files would be thelma:thelma
(not root:root)

>> Destination dir:
>> ll Monday/Images/O/OSMANFathia2946/
>> total 252
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44943 Jul 22  2013 OSMANFathia1567.pdf
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42493 Jul 30  2013 OSMANFathia1601.pdf
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 49640 Nov  7  2014 OSMANFathia2822.pdf
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 56028 Mar 11  2015 OSMANFathia3268.pdf
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 54155 Oct 19  2015 OSMANFathia3862.pdf
>
> This shows the permissions of  files  within the directory but not the
> directory itself, use ls -ld
ls -al -id /home/thelma/Monday/Images/O/OSMANFathia2946/
34210401 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 21 11:22
/home/thelma/Monday/Images/O/OSMANFathia2946/

When I change recursively: chown thelma:thelma -r directory; I was able
to copy all the file correctly.

--
Thelma

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync: mkstemp - failed: Permission denied (13)

2018-03-21 Thread Neil Bothwick 
On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:10:03 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:

> I'm trying rsync directory (daily backups) and on some files I get
> "Permission denied" from rsync: (I'm running the rsync as root)

Maybe so, but...
 
> rsync -av --delete /Monday/Images/O/OSMANFathia2946/
> thelma@10.10.0.6:/Monday/Images/O/OSMANFathia2946/ sending incremental
> file list rsync: failed to set times on
> "/Monday/Images/O/OSMANFathia2946/.": Operation not permitted (1) ./
> OSMANFathia6463.pdf

...you are writing to the destination computer as thelma. You need to use
a user that can write to the destination directories.

> Destination dir:
> ll Monday/Images/O/OSMANFathia2946/
> total 252
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44943 Jul 22  2013 OSMANFathia1567.pdf
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42493 Jul 30  2013 OSMANFathia1601.pdf
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 49640 Nov  7  2014 OSMANFathia2822.pdf
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 56028 Mar 11  2015 OSMANFathia3268.pdf
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 54155 Oct 19  2015 OSMANFathia3862.pdf

This shows the permissions of  files  within the directory but not the
directory itself, use ls -ld


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If it isn't broken, I can fix it.


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[gentoo-user] rsync: mkstemp - failed: Permission denied (13)

2018-03-21 Thread thelma 
I'm trying rsync directory (daily backups) and on some files I get "Permission 
denied" from rsync:
(I'm running the rsync as root)

rsync -av --delete /Monday/Images/O/OSMANFathia2946/ 
thelma@10.10.0.6:/Monday/Images/O/OSMANFathia2946/
sending incremental file list
rsync: failed to set times on "/Monday/Images/O/OSMANFathia2946/.": Operation 
not permitted (1)
./
OSMANFathia6463.pdf
rsync: mkstemp "/Monday/Images/O/OSMANFathia2946/.OSMANFathia6463.pdf.lasI73" 
failed: Permission denied (13)

Source dir:
ll Monday/Images/O/OSMANFathia2946/
total 324
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44943 Jul 22  2013 OSMANFathia1567.pdf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42493 Jul 30  2013 OSMANFathia1601.pdf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 49640 Nov  7  2014 OSMANFathia2822.pdf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 56028 Mar 11  2015 OSMANFathia3268.pdf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 54155 Oct 19  2015 OSMANFathia3862.pdf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 54939 Mar 14 15:31 OSMANFathia6463.pdf

Destination dir:
ll Monday/Images/O/OSMANFathia2946/
total 252
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44943 Jul 22  2013 OSMANFathia1567.pdf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42493 Jul 30  2013 OSMANFathia1601.pdf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 49640 Nov  7  2014 OSMANFathia2822.pdf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 56028 Mar 11  2015 OSMANFathia3268.pdf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 54155 Oct 19  2015 OSMANFathia3862.pdf

Last file rsync can not copy to dest. dir.
Sub-directory permission are OK as "rsync" could copy the file 
"OSMANFathia3862.pdf" from Tusday to Firday but not Monday dir.

Destination dir Tuesday to Friday look the same:
ll /Tuesday/Images/O/OSMANFathia2946/
total 308
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44943 Jul 22  2013 OSMANFathia1567.pdf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42493 Jul 30  2013 OSMANFathia1601.pdf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 49640 Nov  7  2014 OSMANFathia2822.pdf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 56028 Mar 11  2015 OSMANFathia3268.pdf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 54155 Oct 19  2015 OSMANFathia3862.pdf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 54939 Mar 14 15:31 OSMANFathia6463.pdf

-- 
Thelma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A new AMD CPU weakness?

2018-03-21 Thread R0b0t1 
On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 4:40 PM, taii...@gmx.com  wrote:
> On 03/18/2018 05:33 PM, R0b0t1 wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 4:24 PM, taii...@gmx.com  wrote:
>>>
>>> Everyone please remember this is simply an exploit to obtain data off of
>>> AMD's version of ME which is a DRM mechanism added for hollywood and it
>>> requires physical access to reprogram the firmware thus this exploit has
>>> zero impact on anyone who doesn't profit off of DRM.
>>>
>> Except if it's anything like the Intel ME exploit, physical access can
>> be faked using a compromized USB device.
>
> You mean the skylake debug port?
>>>
>>> ME/PSP are evil - don't buy computers that have them - you have choices!
>>
>> No we don't.
>
> Yes we do.
> TALOS 2? g505s laptop? kgpe-d16? novena?
>
> I play new games at max settings on a pre-PSP AMD system KGPE-D16 where I
> have installed a libre firmware for the board and the BMC via the recent
> OpenBMC port (the facebook version of OpenBMCless features than the IBM
> version but still quite nice)
>
> The TALOS 2 costs less than a brand new xeon system with similar performance
> and it has better features such as IBM's OpenBMC, PCI-e 4.0, SMT4 etc.
> The stars have aligned and given us a libre firmware server/workstation that
> is brand new and very very fast.
>

The x86 parts are slowly going out of stock to the point where they
are expensive *when* I have found them. The TALOS 2 is the cheapest
POWER system available, but is still many thousands of dollars more
than a consumer computer (though much higher performance). ARM based
computers are not comparable in performance to common consumer
systems. Self hosting on a performant ARM processor is not a
reasonable proposition. High dollar ARM servers have closed
motherboard firmware.

Sure, if you devote all of a good salary's disposable income to a
mostly open hardware computer you can buy one. Most people don't make
that much. The bigger issue than that is all main manufacturers do not
want to remove their backdoors, and so ever so slowly, there will come
to be absolutely no choice at all, even for inordinate amounts of
money.

[gentoo-user] LuaKit Browser and HTML5 video playback

2018-03-21 Thread James Stevenson 
Hello all,
Does anyone here know how luakit (webkit browser) accesses video codecs?
I'm just trying it out and I've been really enjoying it but anything
HTML5 (mp4, ogg, webm) in video form does not load.
luakit uses gstreamer as a backend and I've used the gstreamer flag
during compilation. I installed media-libs/gst-plugins-meta after
installation. I'm out of ideas at this point aside from recompiling
luakit which would take a couple of hours.
---
Output of `emerge -pv`:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R] net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.18.6:4/37::gentoo  USE="X egl
geolocation gstreamer introspection jit libnotify opengl spell webgl
(-aqua) -coverage -doc -gles2 -gnome-keyring -nsplugin {-test} -wayland"
---
Best wishes,
James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A new AMD CPU weakness?

2018-03-21 Thread Adam Carter 
https://community.amd.com/community/amd-corporate/blog/2018/03/20/initial-amd-technical-assessment-of-cts-labs-research

tl:dr bios updates to come