On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, John Cavan wrote:
I think you have it backwards here, given that Linux works one way and you
yeah, it was a patch for linux, but i wasn't thinking linux. there
are quite many os out there. and i don't think they're different
just because they have programmers with
Send me a small program (10s of lines) that shows the problem.
Installing a signal handler on SIGFPE should do the right thing.
Btw. I do think this is off-topic to linux-kernel,
Andreas
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FYI:
ksymoops 2.4.0 on i686 2.4.3-ac14. Options used
-V (default)
-k /proc/ksyms (default)
-l /proc/modules (default)
-o /lib/modules/2.4.3-ac14/ (default)
-m /boot/System.map-2.4.3-ac14 (default)
Warning: You did
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i wrote somewhere that it was my mistake to call it single-user when i
mean all user has the same root cap, and reduce user (account) to
profile.
Seen this way it makes a tad more sense:
1. you and your spouse share the computer
2. you have different shells, mail
Hi Padraig,
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Padraig Brady wrote:
2. Is tmpfs is basically swap and /tmp together in a ramdisk?
The advantage being you need to reserve less RAM for both
together than seperately?
tmpfs is ramfs+swap+limits. It is not using ramdisks and is not
related to them.
3.
Is it safe for me to use gcc 2.95.2 (release, the one
that is in slack 7.1 contrib) with kernel 2.2.18? I
was just wondering because gcc 2.95.2 compiles
programs that run much faster than egcs. Are there
any known issues with 2.2.18 or higher and gcc 2.95.2?
Please CC me directly in all
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:49:05PM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote:
A while ago, on linux-kernel, we had a discussion about
adding support for __initdata and __init in modules. Somebody
(whose name escapes me) had implemented it by essentially adding
a vmrealloc() facility in the kernel.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
You can break the whole power management problem down to here are the
levels of low-power provided by the hardware, here are the idleness
triggers that may be monitored. That's it, nothing more.
This is powerful enough to do all the things you could want a pm layer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i don't understand, that patch is configurable with 'n' as
default, marked dangerous. so somebody who turned on that
option must be know what he's doing, doesn't understand english,
or has a broken monitor.
This is a very marginal thing that very few people will want
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Andres Salomon wrote:
This is what I was told (it was only needed for secondary video
devices). From that, I would expect that all video devices would
need it, just in case they happened to be the second card. Am I
missing some subtlety in some of
Hello,
As the subject would imply, I've been having problems with 2.4.x. I have
my root partition (/dev/hda1) as reiserfs and also have another harddrive
with a reiserfs partition (/dev/hdc1). Several programs write (e.g. save
files to) /dev/hdc1, and I also store files there. Under 2.4.2,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
you could try using jffs2 on a RAM-simulated MTD partition. i think
that would work but i have not tried it..
It works. Most of the early testing and development was done on it. It
wouldn't give you dynamic sizing like ramfs though.
It would be nice to have a
== AJ Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 04:10:23PM +0100, Guest section DW
wrote:
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:52:54PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
Im running kernel 2.4.1, I have entries like /proc/ide/hda,
/proc/ide/ide0/hda etc
== Rogier Wolff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
William T Wilson wrote:
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Linus has spoken, and 2.4.x now requires swap = 2x RAM.
I think I missed this. What possible value does this have?
(Not even Sun, the original
Is there any way of issuing a PCI reset (safely) without rebooting? I am
developing a peripheral device (using a pci card with an FPGA and a plx9080
pci interface), and find that its local bus is prone to hanging up. It
would be nice if I could just reset the entire device via the PCI reset,
I have not tried it, but I would think that setting HZ to 1024
should make a big improvement in responsiveness.
Currently, the time slice allocated to a standard Linux
process is 5*HZ, or 50ms when HZ is 100. That means that you
will notice keystrokes being echoed slowly in X when
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Martin Dalecki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The attached patch is fixing georgeous backward compatibility
in the mount system command. It is removing two useless defines in
the kernel headers and finally doubles the number of possible
flags for the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ecrit :
Is there any way of issuing a PCI reset (safely) without rebooting? I am
No.
[...]
without having to go through the hassle of a reboot. Is this wishful
thinking?
Yes. Try to narrow the circunstances under which the device locks and avoid
them at
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Trond Myklebust wrote:
--- /mnt/3/linux-2.2.19/fs/nfs/dir.c Sun Mar 25 08:37:38 2001
+++ linux-2.2.19/fs/nfs/dir.c Thu Apr 5 14:37:59 2001
@@ -454,6 +454,9 @@
*/
static loff_t nfs_dir_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
{
+ /* Glibc 2.0
Why don't do a local RESET by writing in CNTRL register of the PLX9080 ?
(PLX datasheet page 79 bit 29 and 28 for reset and reload eeprom config)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
Is there any way of issuing a PCI reset (safely) without rebooting? I am
developing a peripheral device (using a pci
== Matthias Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Trond Myklebust wrote:
Please note that if glibc is checking this return value, it
will still screw up if file-f_pos 0x7fff, which can and
does happen against certain servers (particularly IRIX).
== Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi!
I was hoping to point out that in real life, most systems that
need to access large numbers of files are already designed to
do some kind of hashing, or at least to divide-and-conquer by
using multi-level directory
Le 08 Mar 2001 14:05:25 +0100, Goswin Brederlow a écrit :
I believe the 2xRAM rule comes from the OS's where ram was only buffer
for the swap. So with 1xRAM you had a running system with 1xRAM
memory, so nothing is gained by that much swap.
I think kernels 2.4.x came back to this behavior.
Xavier Bestel wrote:
[Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
Le 08 Mar 2001 14:05:25 +0100, Goswin Brederlow a _crit :
I believe the 2xRAM rule comes from the OS's where ram was only buffer
for the swap. So with 1xRAM you had a running system with 1xRAM
memory, so nothing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Yiping Chen wrote:
So, I have two question now,
1. how to determine whether your kernel support SMP?
Somebody taugh me that you can type uname -r, but it seems not
correct.
No, it's correct: the Red Hat RPM is build from the
Linus,
Currently __alloc_pages() does not allow PF_MEMALLOC tasks to free clean
inactive pages.
This is senseless --- if the allocation has __GFP_WAIT set, its ok to grab
the pagemap_lru_lock/pagecache_lock/etc.
I checked all possible codepaths after reclaim_page() and they are ok.
The
About 2 years ago, I bought a IBM 600E laptop with one
of the IBM branded Xircom CardBUS cards. It took me
about a month (with the help of a lot of people with
simular machines) to figure out why the card would be
recognized, and even connect to the network, but could
never get a IP address from
tmpfs is basically ramfs with limits.
... and swappable.
-hpa
Hmmm and what's shmfs? Precedessor of tmpfs?
I even cant remember which one I use for /tmp ;-)
-mirabilos
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you could try using jffs2 on a RAM-simulated MTD partition. i think
that would work but i have not tried it..
It works. Most of the early testing and development was done on it. It
wouldn't give you dynamic sizing like ramfs though.
It would be nice to have a version of ramfs which
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
The disk image, raw.bin, does NOT contain the image of the floppy.
Most of boot stuff added by lilo is missing. It will eventually
get there, but it's not there now, even though the floppy was
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I've gotten to the bottom of this problem, and you are correct that
klog is trashing the messages file for the oops.
Oh dear. That's quite a serious bug in klogd. It should never destroy the
original information, _especially_ if the System.map it's looking at
I have a important question about compile driver here, sometimes we install
RedHat Linux
When you boot the system , it will not include the kernel source, if we
don't have kernel source ,
whether can we compile the driver (NIC).
I am confused, beacuse we need include many kernel header file, if
*Now* the patch is available at
http://kernelnewbies.org/~phillips/htree/dx.testme-2.4.3-3
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Subba Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I am trying to add a process which is to be managed by init. I have added the
following entry to /etc/inittab
SV:2345:respawn:env - PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin svscan /service
/dev/null 2 dev/console
After saving, I execute the following
when you install redhat linux, you can select to install the
kernel-include and kernel-source
but I think the kernel include files come with redhat7 (i am not sure
about rh6) won't let you to compile a kernel module by using
/usr/include/linux (they ask you to use /usr/src/linux-xxx)
you can
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:08:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
how can the read in progress see a branch that we didn't spliced yet? We
fd = open(/dev/hda1, O_RDONLY);
read(fd, buf,
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:34:56AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:16:03AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
Quit being a naysayer. UNIX on a PDA is a wet dream.
What real value does it have, apart from the geek look at me, I'm using
bash value?
It means I can do
Ingo Oeser wrote:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:49:05PM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote:
A while ago, on linux-kernel, we had a discussion about
adding support for __initdata and __init in modules. Somebody
(whose name escapes me) had implemented it by essentially adding
a vmrealloc()
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
No. It livelocked on me with almost all active pages exausted.
Misspoke.. I didn't try the two mixed. Rik's patch livelocked me.
Interesting. The semantics of my patch are practically the same
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
If USB is disabled on a server works MB reboots hang in 2.2.x
In almost all cases a hang after Linux reboots the system and it not coming
back to the BIOS is a BIOS bug.
You can confirm this by asking the kernel to do a real bios reboot with
the
Problem :
install two Linux-system with a shared scsi-bus and storage on that shared
bus.
suppose :
system one : SCSI ID 7
system two : SCSI ID 6
shared disk : SCSI ID 4
By default, you can mount the disk on both system. This is normal
behavior, but
may impose data corruption.
To
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
Actually this is done quite often, even on mounted fs's:
hdparm -t /dev/hda
You would need either hdparm -t /dev/hdasomething or mounting the
whole /dev/hda.
Buffer cache for the disk is unrelated to buffer cache for parititions.
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To
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
No. It livelocked on me with almost all active pages exausted.
Misspoke.. I didn't try the two mixed. Rik's patch livelocked me.
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
tmpfs is basically ramfs with limits.
... and swappable.
-hpa
Hmmm and what's shmfs? Precedessor of tmpfs?
Yes.
I even cant remember which one I use for /tmp ;-)
You can mount tmpfs also with type shm for compatibility. Type shm
will
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:34:01AM +0200, Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote:
Hello yesterday i installed redhat6.2 on our little alpha server over here.
It's an Ruffian EV56 system, and a hand upgraded redhat to be able to cope
with 2.4.
I got an compile error that told me that pte_alloc was
Hi!
We already have lid support in the latest ACPI versions (not in the official
kernel yet.) You can download this code from
http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/downloads.htm .
It'd be great if you could focus your testing and patches on this code base
-- I think it's a lot
Hi!
I am attempting to write an init replacement that is capability-smart.
Though I'm pleased that prctl() lets me keep capabilities across a
setreuid(), maintaining caps over execve() seems impossible to do right.
I currently see a few options:
- use the CLOEXEC-pipe hack that
Hi!
I had a temporary disk failure (played with acpi too much). What
happened was that disk was not able to do anything for five minutes
or so. When disk recovered, linux happily overwrote all inodes it
could not read while disk was down with zeros - massive disk
corruption.
Hi!
Since when, did mobile phones == computers?
read the news! i'm programming nokia 9210 with c++, is that
computer enough?
Aah. I see. Where was this? I never saw it.
9210 has qwerty keyboard.
i bet if you programmed one, you'd wish you have posix
interface.
That may be
On Friday, April 27, 2001 02:40:50 AM -0700 jason
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ ouch ]
reiserfs_read_super: can't find reiserfs filesystem on dev 03:01
Invalid session # or type of track
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01
In case it's any help, I'm running Debian sid
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:35:45PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
Hola.
read the news! i'm programming nokia 9210 with c++, is that
computer enough?
Aah. I see. Where was this? I never saw it.
9210 has qwerty keyboard.
He said read the news. I've seen the 9110 and 9210's, I was
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:08:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Note that I think all these arguments are fairly bogus. Doing things like
dump on a live filesystem is stupid and dangerous (in my opinion it is
stupid and dangerous to use dump at _all_, but that's a whole 'nother
discussion in
I'm writing a device driver for a DSP card that requires some software
loaded onto the card for it to function, currently I'm copying the
software to the /dev node and the driver is doing the magic in it's
write() handler.
Can the driver pull the file from the filesystem if I were to pass the
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:23:57AM -0400, you [Alexander Viro] claimed:
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
Actually this is done quite often, even on mounted fs's:
hdparm -t /dev/hda
You would need either hdparm -t /dev/hdasomething or mounting the
whole /dev/hda.
On Friday, April 27, 2001 12:28:54 AM +0200 Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Okay, so what about following patch, followed by attempt to debug it?
[I'd really like to get patch it; killing user's data without good
reason seems evil to me, and this did quite a lot of damage to my
Hi!
And UNIX on a phone is pure overkill.
Quit being a naysayer. UNIX on a PDA is a wet dream.
http://www.agendacomputing.com/ (not that the reviews have been very kind)
Nor has an official product been released. Reviewing hardware
and software in open development model before it is
Hi!
What real value does it have, apart from the geek look at me, I'm using
bash value?
I don't really want to get into it at the moment, but imagine hacking
netfilter without lugging a laptop around. PDA's are sleek and cool,
and using UNIX on them lets you write shell scripts to
From: Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[snip]
Is there any other patches you recommend me to apply to my kernel?
specifically for the alpha (but of course ok for x86 kernels too) in
order against pre7:
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.4pre
Hi!
OK. time make bzImage. Of course, mine's really slow (and I will consider
myself publically humiliated if my only Linux machine is beaten on a kernel
compile by an iPAQ). I 'spose, if it only goes into suspend, the ability to
write uptime on it constitutes a walking penis extension
When you change the #define HZ setting in param.h, what effect does that
have on the CLOCKS_PER_SEC? Are you really going to get a different amount
of slice time or is the is there another kernel source file (timex.h) that
just puts you back anyway?
Dan
- Original Message -
From: Mike
Le 27 Apr 2001 15:28:04 +0100, Matt a écrit :
I'm writing a device driver for a DSP card that requires some software
loaded onto the card for it to function, currently I'm copying the
software to the /dev node and the driver is doing the magic in it's
write() handler.
Can the driver pull
Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] sez:
available for download? [Besides, anyone knows of vtech helio emulator
for linux? Only version I saw was windows...]
http://www.kernelconcepts.de/helio/helio-emulator-1.0.6b.tar.gz
Works slowly, but okay. Your X server must be set to 15 or 16bpp.
-
To
Thanks for all the replies!
Would anyone have any objections to me writing a
Documentation/ramdisks.txt or Documentation/filesystems/ram.txt
as this stuff is very hard to find info on?
Anyway seems like ramfs is the way to go with the limits patch
applied. I loose compression, but gain as
jason wrote:
Hello,
As the subject would imply, I've been having problems with 2.4.x. I have
my root partition (/dev/hda1) as reiserfs and also have another harddrive
with a reiserfs partition (/dev/hdc1). Several programs write (e.g. save
files to) /dev/hdc1, and I also store files
Hi Padraig,
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Padraig Brady wrote:
I don't have swap so don't need tmpfs, but could probably
use it anyway without a backing store?
Yes, it does not need backing store.
Anyway why was ramfs created if tmpfs existed, unless tmpfs requires
backing store? They both seem
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Padraig Brady wrote:
for a partition. If I understand correctly ramfs just points
to the file data which are pages in the cache marked not to be
It does not even do that - as of 2.4, the VFS in the kernel also knows how
to cache a filestructure itself. It's in the
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:30:16PM +, Subba Rao wrote:
I am trying to add a process which is to be managed by init. I have added the
following entry to /etc/inittab
SV:2345:respawn:env - PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin svscan /service
/dev/null 2 dev/console
After saving,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
btw I get my initial root filesystem from a compact flash that can be
accessed just like a hardisk. It's writeable also like a harddisk, but
we boot with it readonly, and only mount it rw if we want to save
config or whatever. We definitely wouldn't swap to it as it
We have tested the rawio and o_direct patches from Andrea Arcangeli
with great success, and wondered if they will be part of the next
kernel release, 2.4.4?
So far we have tested these patches on four different systems.
With the latest versions of these patches (rawio-6, o_direct-3)
all
On Friday, April 27, 2001 04:33:15 PM +0100 Tony Hoyle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Reiserfs doesn't cope well with crashes Under 2.4 I wouldn't
recommend using it on any kind of critical server - it seems to
progressively corrupt itself (I'm looking at the second reformat and
reinstall
I was wondering if anyone could tell me who is responsible for the patch I
have included? It fixes some issues with scanning the scsi bus,
specifically it reports luns higher than 8. I am just wondering if whoever
has created this if they have submitted it to be included in the mainstream
2.2.x
depmod -ae yields the following errors under 2.4.4-pre8
Any fix?
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.4-pre8/kernel/drivers/char/drm/i810.o
depmod: rwsem_down_write_failed
depmod: rwsem_wake
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 01:32:03PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
What it should do is change based on whether devfs is mounted
or not. It doesn't make *any* sense to have
/dev/ide/host0/foo/bar in your /proc/partitions entries if you
aren't mounting devfs. The
On Thursday 08 March 2001 13:42, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
== Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi!
I was hoping to point out that in real life, most systems that
need to access large numbers of files are already designed to
do some kind of hashing, or at
AJ Lewis writes:
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On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 01:32:03PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
What it should do is change based on whether devfs is mounted
Hi! I am newbie in this list! .. I'm Federico Edelman Anaya ... well! ..
I have a question ...
I need increase the FD (File Descriptors) ... I was change the value of
the FD in kernel 2.2.17:
/usr/include/bits/types.h:
#define __FD_SETSIZE1024- 4096
I think Andrea's rwsem-patches fix these, but i'm not sure. You might give
it a try, though.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Chua
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 18:11
To: Linux Kernel
Cc: Jeff Chua
Subject: 2.4.4-pre8 undefined
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
Actually this is done quite often, even on mounted fs's:
hdparm -t /dev/hda
Note that this one happens to be ok.
The buffer cache is virtual in the sense that /dev/hda is a completely
separate name-space from /dev/hda1, even if there is some
David Woodhouse wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
btw I get my initial root filesystem from a compact flash that can be
accessed just like a hardisk. It's writeable also like a harddisk, but
we boot with it readonly, and only mount it rw if we want to save
config or whatever. We
[ linux-kernel added back as a cc ]
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Neil Conway wrote:
I'm surprised that dump is deprecated (by you at least ;-)). What to
use instead for backups on machines that can't umount disks regularly?
Note that dump simply won't work reliably at all even in 2.4.x: the
How can I increase the FD in the Kernel 2.4.3?
echo 32768 /proc/sys/fs/file-max
See also http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html#limits.filehandles
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PS: This seems very strange. What if machine is so crashed so that it
can no longer shutdown properly. Will that mean that its CPU will
damage itself?
No, the ACPI standard requires CPUs to shut themselves down before
any damage would occur from overheading. Well, at least the 1.0b
version of
Disk capacity unclipping routines in ide.2.2.19.04092001.patch do not unclip
Seagate ST340824A.
I have to use the jumper on the drive to make system boot.
I tried setmax program and it is able to unclip the capacity,
kernel however does not.
I digged a little and I think the problem is that
Linus Torvalds wrote:
Dump was a stupid program in the first place. Leave it behind.
Not quite Linus - dump/restore are nice tools to create for example
automatic over network installation servers, i.e. efficient system
images
or such. tar/cpio and friends don't deal properly with
a. holes
# ./dklimits 1
Can open 1020 AF_LOCAL sockets with socketpair
Can open 0 AF_INET sockets with socketpair
Can open 1021 fds
Can open 1021 files
Can poll 1025 sockets
Can bind 1021 ephemeral ports
Dan Kegel wrote:
Federico Edelman Anaya wrote:
Yeah .. I put in /etc/sysctl.conf
Hi Alan,
Hi linux-kernel,
I just saw, that cat /proc/sys/fs/inode-nr gives negative values
for the second part.
559 -211555
or
174805 -3
I'm using 2.4.3-ac13.
I see this both on SMP and non-SMP, HIGHMEM and non-HIGHMEM, if
that matters.
The first value for the second example
Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Neil Conway wrote:
I'm surprised that dump is deprecated (by you at least ;-)). What to
use instead for backups on machines that can't umount disks regularly?
Note that dump simply won't work reliably at all even in 2.4.x: the buffer
cache
I have Abit VP6 (VIA 82c694x, 82c686b) running 2.2.19 and
ide.2.2.19.04092001.patch. When I enable
VIA82CXXX chipset support (EXPERIMENTAL) -- CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX
my machine hangs,
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Have you looked at free_pte()? I don't like that function, and it might
make a difference. There are several small nits with it:
snip
I _think_ the logic should be something along the lines of: freeing the
page amounts to a implied down-aging of
Matthias Andree wrote:
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
Your configuration seems impossible, somehow the config system allowed
you to set CONFIG_IP_NF_COMPAT_IPCHAINS without setting
CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK.
Just quick look at net/ipv4/netfilter/Config.in explains everything:
:
Evan Montgomery-Recht wrote:
About 2 years ago, I bought a IBM 600E laptop with one
of the IBM branded Xircom CardBUS cards. It took me
about a month (with the help of a lot of people with
simular machines) to figure out why the card would be
recognized, and even connect to the network,
Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
I know a few people that often do:
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdc1
e2fsck /dev/hdc1
to make an exact copy of a currently working system.
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Presumably this isn't a problem is the source disks are either unmounted or
mounted 'read-only' ?
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The above
I was wondering if having a make config option with 3 or 4 choices for
general performance settings would be an option for the kernel?
Like maybe the first question would read something like:
Configure Preset Performance Options? (Y/N) Y
Configure as Database Server (Y/N) N
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:02:17AM -0700, LA Walsh wrote:
Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
I know a few people that often do:
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdc1
e2fsck /dev/hdc1
to make an exact copy of a currently working system.
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Presumably this isn't a problem is the source
btw I get my initial root filesystem from a compact flash that can
be
accessed just like a hardisk. It's writeable also like a harddisk,
but
we boot with it readonly, and only mount it rw if we want to save
config or whatever. We definitely wouldn't swap to it as it has
limited
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
virgin pre7 +Rik
real11m44.088s
user7m57.720s
sys 0m36.420s
None of them make much difference.
Good, then I suppose we can put in the cleanup from my code, since
it makes the balancing a bit more predictable and should keep the
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:41:13PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
When I first started I compiled my linux kernels on a 386 dx with 8 mb ram
heh. I think a lot of the current PDAs are faster.
My pocket computer is 40MHz mips r3902, likely faster than your
386dx. That's 3 years old. Anything
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:52:19AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
Actually this is done quite often, even on mounted fs's:
hdparm -t /dev/hda
Note that this one happens to be ok.
The buffer cache is virtual in the sense that /dev/hda is
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
Rubbish. Whenever a higher-priority thread than the current
thread becomes runnable the current thread will get preempted,
regardless of whether its timeslices is over or not.
What about SCHED_YIELD and allocating during vm stress times?
Say
I have just tried to upgrade to kernel 2.4.3 and my home grown modules
won't compile e.g:
The offending line 27 is:
#include linux/sched.h
Could some kind kernel guru point to a source which explains the error of
my ways?
In file included from lm78.c:13:
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