Re: OpenBSD sdiff Question

2008-03-16 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 07:14:04PM -0400, Steven Kreuzer wrote: I achieve 100% compatability with the GNU version, I need to add -v/--version and the issue I ran into is that since this program would become part of the base os, what exactly should be displayed. I see no reason you need to be

Re: OpenBSD sdiff Question

2008-03-16 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 03:21:01PM -0700, Bert JW Regeer wrote: Even if BSD has no tradition to keep a separate program version, it is still very handy to be able to give this data to other developers if something is failing. $ ident failing-binary is the output that means something. A

Re: vkernel GSoC, some questions

2008-03-16 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 02:58:40PM +0200, Jordan Gordeev wrote: I am a student who considers applying for Google's Summer of Code programme. One of my ideas for a GSoC project has the following synopsis: Add virtual kernel (vkernel) support to FreeBSD for the i386 and amd64

Re: vkernel GSoC, some questions

2008-03-16 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
16.03.08, 09:30, David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Add virtual kernel (vkernel) support to FreeBSD for the i386 and amd64 architectures. The vkernel support in question is the one found in DragonFlyBSD. Not being up on DragonFlyBSD, can you better describe what vkernel is? vkernel is

Re: OpenBSD sdiff Question

2008-03-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 03:21:01PM -0700, Bert JW Regeer wrote: Even if BSD has no tradition to keep a separate program version, it is still very handy to be able to give this data to other developers if something is failing. Programs that don't have a -v or --version switch are frustrating to

Re: vkernel GSoC, some questions

2008-03-16 Thread Jeremy Messenger
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:30:25 -0500, David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 02:58:40PM +0200, Jordan Gordeev wrote: I am a student who considers applying for Google's Summer of Code programme. One of my ideas for a GSoC project has the following synopsis: Add

Re: vkernel GSoC, some questions

2008-03-16 Thread Jordan Gordeev
Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: 16.03.08, 09:30, David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Add virtual kernel (vkernel) support to FreeBSD for the i386 and amd64 architectures. The vkernel support in question is the one found in DragonFlyBSD. Not being up on DragonFlyBSD, can you better

Re: Synaptics Xorg driver for FreeBSD/amd64

2008-03-16 Thread Giulio Ferro
Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: Hi Eygene, I could only now test the new port and it works. Now it's just a matter of fine-tuning it (i.e. I'd like to increase the acceleration of the pointer) Thanks for the great job! ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

Re: vkernel GSoC, some questions

2008-03-16 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: 16.03.08, 09:30, David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Add virtual kernel (vkernel) support to FreeBSD for the i386 and amd64 architectures. The vkernel support in question is the one found in DragonFlyBSD. Not being up on DragonFlyBSD, can you

Re: vkernel GSoC, some questions

2008-03-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
Jordan Gordeev wrote: Hello! I am a student who considers applying for Google's Summer of Code programme. One of my ideas for a GSoC project has the following synopsis: Add virtual kernel (vkernel) support to FreeBSD for the i386 and amd64 architectures. The vkernel support in question

Re[2]: vkernel GSoC, some questions

2008-03-16 Thread Igor Shmukler
What's vkernel's or modern UML multithreaded performance compared to native? I have not been reading hackers in a long time and have no idea what's going on... Please excuse my butting in... Given the fact that there are not as many developers as needed, what would be a practical purpose of

Re: Failure to Project OOImpress

2008-03-16 Thread Paul B. Mahol
Dont hold me for this: but I remmeber that I read somewhere that if projector is connected before Xorg starts available resolutions to projector would be limited. So best is to disconnect and connect it again when Xorg is already running. Beware: I dont have experience with projectors with Xorg,

Re: Failure to Project OOImpress

2008-03-16 Thread Vince
I seem to recall I just had to play with xrandr to get an external monitor to work on my dell while my old Toshiba laptop used to need the function-f3 or f4 key pressing, but its not something i've done recently enough to remember the exact procedure for either. Vince Paul B. Mahol wrote:

Re: Re[2]: vkernel GSoC, some questions

2008-03-16 Thread Matthew Dillon
Basically DragonFly has a syscall API that allows a userland process to create and completely control any number of VM spaces, including the ability to pass execution control to a VM space and get it back, and control memory mappings within that VM space (and in the virtual

Re: Re[2]: vkernel GSoC, some questions

2008-03-16 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :Given the fact that there are not as many developers as needed, what would be a practical purpose of vkernel? : :UML is typically used to debug drivers and/or for hosting. Now that Linux about to have or already has container technology, hosting on UML makes little sense. The single

Re: vkernel GSoC, some questions

2008-03-16 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Finally, the way vkernels were implemented in dragonfly was *very* :disruptive to the kernel source (lots of function renaming etc), so it :is likely that this would also have to be completely reimplemented in a :FreeBSD port. :... :Kris Well, I don't think I would agree with your

Re: mpt driver: check raid status

2008-03-16 Thread Deomid Ryabkov
do sysctl -a | grep nonoptimal_volumes this should find an oid somewhere under mpt branch, and it should reflect the number of raid volumes in state other than optimal. in most cases this means that a disk has gone bad. Cristiano Deana wrote: Hi, I'm using a 7-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge

Re: vkernel GSoC, some questions

2008-03-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
Matthew Dillon wrote: :Finally, the way vkernels were implemented in dragonfly was *very* :disruptive to the kernel source (lots of function renaming etc), so it :is likely that this would also have to be completely reimplemented in a :FreeBSD port. :... :Kris Well, I don't think I would

Re: vkernel GSoC, some questions

2008-03-16 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 16/03/2008, Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another avenue to consider is the Linux KVM virtualization technology, which is seeing a high level of interest in the Linux community and sounds increasingly mature and well-exercised. It would also offer interesting migration

Re[4]: vkernel GSoC, some questions

2008-03-16 Thread Igor Shmukler
Matt, You sure won't argue that UML isolation is inherently better than one that can be provided by a hypervisor. If the performance is the same, what are you gaining? Hypervisor while slow, allows treating a complete OS with all applications as a black box. Why would I choose UML over a

Re: vkernel GSoC, some questions

2008-03-16 Thread Kip Macy
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Adrian Chadd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16/03/2008, Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another avenue to consider is the Linux KVM virtualization technology, which is seeing a high level of interest in the Linux community and sounds increasingly

Freebsd 7.0 on ASUS P4R8L - No Disks Found!

2008-03-16 Thread Eddie Parra
(Newbie) I have FreeBSD 6.3 working on my Asus AB-2800. I just attempted a fresh install of 7.0 and it couldn't find my disks - No Disks Found! The Motherboard Chipset is ATI RS300 / IXP200. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! ___