Re: Problems with twa

2008-12-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Giulio Ferro wrote: I've installed a 3ware 9500 sata controller with 4 1TB disks in raid 5. Apart from the usual wrong geometry warning the starting configuration is ok: I create a single partition with the default labels plus a /usr/home label with takes most of the disk space (about 2.7TB).

Problems with twa

2008-12-08 Thread Giulio Ferro
I've installed a 3ware 9500 sata controller with 4 1TB disks in raid 5. Apart from the usual wrong geometry warning the starting configuration is ok: I create a single partition with the default labels plus a /usr/home label with takes most of the disk space (about 2.7TB). When I reboot the

Re: usb keyboard dying at loader prompt

2008-12-08 Thread Andriy Gapon
[forwarded to the lists] on 28/11/2008 15:48 Luigi Rizzo said the following: just as a test, can you check if /boot/loader from 6.2 (or sometime before jan.2008 - e.g. you could take one from a 6.3 CD) which you can also find at

MAXFILES in subr_param.c

2008-12-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Hi, I'm looking at kern/subr_param.c: 72 #ifndef MAXFILES 73 #define MAXFILES (maxproc * 2) 74 #endif Shouldn't this be at least maxproc*3, for stdin,out,err for every proc? Also, it looks like MAXFILES is used only once, and in a bit funny way: 238 maxfiles = MAXFILES; 239

Re: crypto(9) choose another driver if we cannot open a session on it

2008-12-08 Thread Philip Paeps
On 2008-12-07 22:45:51 (+0100), Patrick Lamaizière [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote a small patch to allow the crypto framework to choose another cryptographic driver if we cannot open a session on the driver. Very cool. :-) I've been hacking on this too, mainly to get rid of the code

Re: Why safe using msleep with timeout=0 but not tsleep?

2008-12-08 Thread John Baldwin
On Sunday 07 December 2008 02:00:30 pm Marius Nünnerich wrote: See subject. Interesting commit: http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revisionrevision=77059 Lost wakeups. If you have code like so that doesn't use any locks: int flag; void foo(void) { flag = 1;

Enhancing cdboot [patch for review]

2008-12-08 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Hi, Below please find patch that enhances cdboot with two compile-time options: 1. CDBOOT_SILENT. When this option is set, the cdboot doesn't produce any messages except Loading, please wait... and it also passes RBX_MUTE flag to the next stage to silence it as well. This is intended for custom

Enhancing cdboot [patch for review]

2008-12-08 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Hi, Below please find patch that enhances cdboot with two compile-time options: 1. CDBOOT_SILENT. When this option is set, the cdboot doesn't produce any messages except Loading, please wait... and it also passes RBX_MUTE flag to the next stage to silence it as well. This is intended for

Re: Why safe using msleep with timeout=0 but not tsleep?

2008-12-08 Thread Marius Nünnerich
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:17 PM, John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 07 December 2008 02:00:30 pm Marius Nünnerich wrote: See subject. Interesting commit: http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revisionrevision=77059 Lost wakeups. If you have code like so that doesn't use any

Re: Enhancing cdboot [patch for review]

2008-12-08 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 02:40:41PM -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote: Hi, Below please find patch that enhances cdboot with two compile-time options: ... Any comments/suggestions are appreciated. If there are no objections I would like to commit the change. The long-term goal is to make

Re: Enhancing cdboot [patch for review]

2008-12-08 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Luigi Rizzo wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 02:40:41PM -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote: Hi, Below please find patch that enhances cdboot with two compile-time options: ... Any comments/suggestions are appreciated. If there are no objections I would like to commit the change. The long-term goal is

Re: Enhancing cdboot [patch for review]

2008-12-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:29:04 -0800, Maxim Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luigi Rizzo wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 02:40:41PM -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote: Hi, Below please find patch that enhances cdboot with two compile-time options: ... Any comments/suggestions are appreciated. If there

Re: Enhancing cdboot [patch for review]

2008-12-08 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 04:29:04PM -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote: Luigi Rizzo wrote: ... 4. another nitpick -- the value you pass in %si to the MBR does not seem to point to anything useful. As discussed about boot0.S and the followup in the mailing lists, there seems to be no standard

Re: Enhancing cdboot [patch for review]

2008-12-08 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Luigi Rizzo wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 04:29:04PM -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote: Luigi Rizzo wrote: ... 4. another nitpick -- the value you pass in %si to the MBR does not seem to point to anything useful. As discussed about boot0.S and the followup in the mailing lists, there seems to