Re: genuine cpu I386_CPU kernel support

2009-09-23 Thread Rui Paulo
On 22 Sep 2009, at 19:03, Nate Eldredge wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, John Baldwin wrote: My comment is to just use 4.x (seriously). A true 386 is going to be quite slow and the overhead of many things added that work well on newer processors is going to be very painful on a 386 (probably

Re: genuine cpu I386_CPU kernel support

2009-09-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Rui Paulo wrote: On 22 Sep 2009, at 19:03, Nate Eldredge wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, John Baldwin wrote: My comment is to just use 4.x (seriously). A true 386 is going to be quite slow and the overhead of many things added that work well on newer processors is going to be

Re: genuine cpu I386_CPU kernel support

2009-09-23 Thread Rui Paulo
On 23 Sep 2009, at 16:54, Julian H. Stacey wrote: 4.11 fell out of security support some while back, but http://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html only lists what's still in, not what fell out when. Right, but IIRC there were some folks patch 4-STABLE after the security officer

Re: genuine cpu I386_CPU kernel support

2009-09-23 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 23 September 2009 11:54:34 am Julian H. Stacey wrote: Rui Paulo wrote: On 22 Sep 2009, at 19:03, Nate Eldredge wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, John Baldwin wrote: My comment is to just use 4.x (seriously). A true 386 is going to be quite slow and the overhead of

Re: genuine cpu I386_CPU kernel support

2009-09-23 Thread Julian Elischer
John Baldwin wrote: On Wednesday 23 September 2009 11:54:34 am Julian H. Stacey wrote: Rui Paulo wrote: On 22 Sep 2009, at 19:03, Nate Eldredge wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, John Baldwin wrote: My comment is to just use 4.x (seriously). A true 386 is going to be quite slow and the overhead

Re: genuine cpu I386_CPU kernel support

2009-09-23 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 23 September 2009 1:21:59 pm Julian Elischer wrote: John Baldwin wrote: On Wednesday 23 September 2009 11:54:34 am Julian H. Stacey wrote: Rui Paulo wrote: On 22 Sep 2009, at 19:03, Nate Eldredge wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, John Baldwin wrote: My comment is to just use

Re: genuine cpu I386_CPU kernel support

2009-09-23 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, John Baldwin wrote: On Wednesday 23 September 2009 1:21:59 pm Julian Elischer wrote: John Baldwin wrote: Other things added since then assume at least a 486. Not having cmpxchg is a bit of a killer. I think a 386 can assume non-SMP in which case that can be simulated

Adding support for the Intel SS4000-E NAS aka the EM-7210

2009-09-23 Thread Tom Judge
Hi, Sorry for the cross post but i didn't get any bites on arm@ so I am gonna try my luck here. I am trying to add support for the Intel SS4000-E/EM7210 to FreeBSD, I have copied all of the files for the EP80219 as this seems to be what the board is based on, and modified the interrupt

Re: genuine cpu I386_CPU kernel support

2009-09-23 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 05:54:34PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: 4.11 fell out of security support some while back, but http://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html only lists what's still in, not what fell out when. Then see http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/schedule/milestones.html.

USB Device identification in dmesg and usbconfig

2009-09-23 Thread Tom Judge
Hi, I have been working on getting at least some support for the Function (F1-12) keys on my MS Natural 4000 keyboard. Here is the original PR on the subject: usb/116947. My patch can be found here: http://svn.tomjudge.com/freebsd/patches/ms-natural-4000/usb-natural4000.patch and I have

Re: USB Device identification in dmesg and usbconfig

2009-09-23 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:44:54 + Tom Judge t...@tomjudge.com wrote: Hi, I have been working on getting at least some support for the Function (F1-12) keys on my MS Natural 4000 keyboard. Here is the original PR on the subject: usb/116947. My patch can be found here: