VMWare/Virtualbox virtio network drivers?
Hi all, Am wondering if anyone has done drivers the these sorts of network interfaces that are offered by VMWare & Virtual box. I know that on some Linux VMs I run, performance went from 20MB/s to 30MB/s to an NFS server which I swicthed to the virtio network interfaces. Stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Best GB Nic for 8.2?
Hi all, Am currently using an onboard GB nic, on my main fileserver (8.2 64bit, AMD, 8GB mem) which is seen as nfe0 (Nvidia, basically). Is there a better one available? I have a one lane PCIe slot and any number of PCI slots available. Stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Mapping /dev/gptid numbers to /dev/adXpY
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 25/07/2011, at 11:03, Stephen Hocking wrote: >> Now this is all very interesting, but I would like to be able to map >> that back to a /dev/adXpY device entry, so when I offline them I can >> then go to the appropriate physical disk. I thought that gpart show -r >> might help, but the numbers emitted from that don't match up. Looking >> at the major/minor numbers of the devices don't help either. Does >> anyone have an idea? > > > If you run 'gpart list' you will see a list of device names and UUIDs. > > Mapping it by hand is a bit tedious though.. > Both Test Rat & Daniel pointed me towards gpart list. The gpart man page doesn't seem to mention the list command, which is probably why I missed it. Anyways, now all I have to do is label my hotswap drawers properly Stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Mapping /dev/gptid numbers to /dev/adXpY
Hi all, After shuffling some disks around in a ZFS array (moving them to a hot-swap cabinet) I am now seeing gptid numbers when doing a zpool status: zpool status schtuff pool: schtuff state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 5h57m with 0 errors on Wed Jul 20 17:05:29 2011 config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM schtuff ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 ad8p1 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/13aed7e6-9ca8-11e0-99f1-001a4d9c179c ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/15c300de-9ca8-11e0-99f1-001a4d9c179c ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors Now this is all very interesting, but I would like to be able to map that back to a /dev/adXpY device entry, so when I offline them I can then go to the appropriate physical disk. I thought that gpart show -r might help, but the numbers emitted from that don't match up. Looking at the major/minor numbers of the devices don't help either. Does anyone have an idea? Stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Building kernels broken under AMD64 Releng 8
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:19 AM, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: > Garrett Cooper writes: > : On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Stephen Hocking > : wrote: > : > Hi all, > : > > : > Am noticing the following when attempting to build a kernel: > : > > : > [r...@blurfl /usr/src]# make buildkernel > : > > : > -- > : >>>> Kernel build for GENERIC started on Tue Apr 27 07:53:29 EST 2010 > : > -- > : > ===> GENERIC > : > mkdir -p /usr/obj/src/FreeBSD/STABLE/src/sys > : > > : > -- > : >>>> stage 1: configuring the kernel > : > -- > : > cd /src/FreeBSD/STABLE/src/sys/amd64/conf; > : > > PATH=/usr/obj/src/FreeBSD/STABLE/sr/tmp/legacy/usr/sbin:/usr/obj/src/FreeBSD/STABLE/src/tmp/legacy/usr/bin:/usr/ob/src/FreeBSD/STABLE/src/tmp/legacy/usr/games:/usr/obj/src/FreeBSD/STABLE/src/tm/usr/sbin:/usr/obj/src/FreeBSD/STABLE/src/tmp/usr/bin:/usr/obj/src/FreeBSD/STABE/src/tmp/usr/games:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin > : > config -d /usr/obj/src/FreeSD/STABLE/src/sys/GENERIC > : > /src/FreeBSD/STABLE/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC > : > ../../conf/options.amd64: Duplicate option COMPAT_FREEBSD32. > : > *** Error code 1 > : > > : > Stop in /src/FreeBSD/STABLE/src. > : > *** Error code 1 > : > > : > Stop in /src/FreeBSD/STABLE/src. > : > > : > > : > Any clues? I believe it's related to the COMPAT_IA32 option being > : > replaced (I haven't built a kernel since the beginning of the month). > : > : This was reported approximately a week ago and Warner (imp@) was > : made aware of the problem, and fixed the issue in a later revision of > : 8-STABLE I think. Please see: > : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-all/2010-April/022969.html > : for more details. > > You always have to rebuild world before rebuilding the kernel. You > often can get away with not doing that, but not aways. > > I'm adding a safety belt to config, and that should be done soon. > OK, thanks - wasn't immediately clear. Now, one should usually do an installkernel prior to an installworld, in case system calls change, is this correct? Stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Building kernels broken under AMD64 Releng 8
Hi all, Am noticing the following when attempting to build a kernel: [r...@blurfl /usr/src]# make buildkernel -- >>> Kernel build for GENERIC started on Tue Apr 27 07:53:29 EST 2010 -- ===> GENERIC mkdir -p /usr/obj/src/FreeBSD/STABLE/src/sys -- >>> stage 1: configuring the kernel -- cd /src/FreeBSD/STABLE/src/sys/amd64/conf; PATH=/usr/obj/src/FreeBSD/STABLE/sr/tmp/legacy/usr/sbin:/usr/obj/src/FreeBSD/STABLE/src/tmp/legacy/usr/bin:/usr/ob/src/FreeBSD/STABLE/src/tmp/legacy/usr/games:/usr/obj/src/FreeBSD/STABLE/src/tm/usr/sbin:/usr/obj/src/FreeBSD/STABLE/src/tmp/usr/bin:/usr/obj/src/FreeBSD/STABE/src/tmp/usr/games:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin config -d /usr/obj/src/FreeSD/STABLE/src/sys/GENERIC /src/FreeBSD/STABLE/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC ../../conf/options.amd64: Duplicate option COMPAT_FREEBSD32. *** Error code 1 Stop in /src/FreeBSD/STABLE/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /src/FreeBSD/STABLE/src. Any clues? I believe it's related to the COMPAT_IA32 option being replaced (I haven't built a kernel since the beginning of the month). Stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Decent 3D acceleration in 64bit mode?
Hi, Given that Nvidia aren't offering a driver for their cards for 64bit FreeBSD, is anyone else having success using another (preferably PCI-E) card with 3D acceleration? Stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
FreeBSD & Hot pluggable disks (SATA?)
Hi, Have been looking at FreeNAS (http://www.freenas.org/) and thinking about the iSCSI portion of it. At the moment the box requires you to shutdown when a disk fails in order to replace it. Is this a feature of the GEOM RAID stuff? Is it possible (assuming suitable hardware) to have hot-pluggable disks under the control of GEOM? Stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Multiple Bootable FreeBSD partitions?
All, I'm looking at creating multiple versions of FreeBSD on the one disk - sharing perhaps one or two filesystems, but with totally separate /, /usr and /var. Does anyone have a quick way to do this from a clean install? I've done this under a number of OS's, but can't think how to do it with FreeBSD. Stephen -- "Opiates are the religion of the masses." - David Cameron Staples ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Vendors of multi-port PCI ethernet cards?
All, Does anyone know where I can lay my hands on one of those 4 port ethernet cards that used to be around a while back? Stephen -- "Opiates are the religion of the masses." - David Cameron Staples ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Making one's own wireless base station
've bought a Linksys PCI wireless card, and am looking to make my own base station. Does anyone know (once I have the right drivers installed) what to do next? I assume that I can assign the network interface its own IP (it'll have a subnet all of its very own), run a dhcp server on it and hand out addresses. Do I have to do any thing else to get it going? What would I use to set ESSIDs and passords? Stephen - -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Which archiver handles the ICE format?
I'm wanting to extract data files off the original Quake 1 CD. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
GLide3 CVS - building & patching
I've almost built the glide3 from sourceforge's CVS, and intend to make a port of it sometime (it's required for the latest DRI stuff) - has anyone else done this? This later version is also necessary for the voodoo 4 & 5, plus a few things in the headers have changed over time, which the DRI CVS tree seems to need. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
GDB Displaying all vars in a stack frame.
Is there some simple one-liner command that allows me to display the values of all the variables within the current stack frame? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Embarrassing CVS question.
Say I have a cvs tree all nicely unpacked et cetera. How do I find out what tags are available - I ask this becuase I want to check out a second source tree (for 4.2 stable) in addition to current. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
16 port 10/100 hubs/switches.
I just went out & bought a D-Link 10/100 switch. There was another 16 port 10/100 switch on sale by netgear, for twice the price. Now I've established that they're both switches (as opposed to hubs) and the three machines I current have connected to it have sucessfully negotiated 100Mbs full-duplex (speed is great!). Is there any reasons why I should've considered the netgear unit? I didn't see anything on the box (after a rather cursory perusal) on it about managability, SNMP et cetera. Stephen PS - Anyone going to SC2000? -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Getting Linux NIS to work with FreeBSD NIS servers
The UNSECURE option in /var/yp/Makefile is the answer - thanks muchly! Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Getting Linux NIS to work with FreeBSD NIS servers
The Linux box appears toknow about the users, it just cant get the passwords right - something tickles my mind about DES vs MD5, is this the case, and how do I convert my MD5 passwords if needed? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Converting Sun Automounter maps
I've stumbling into the wonderful world of auto-mounting, and trying to convert some maps from a Sun box to the FreeBSD format. I have amd.conf set up OK as per the man page, but keep on getting errors when changing into the relevant directorys (like amd can't find an appropriate match). Has anyone been down this path? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Running natd on more than one interface...
I have a home network that talks to the world-at-large using natd to do the address translation on my gateway machine. However, I've just started tunneling (over an encrypted link) to another place using the tun interface. I'd like to have it translated as well. Has anyone tried running natd on more than one interface? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: What's the best PCMCIA Ethernet card?
> Odd. The sn card is my main card these days and I've not seen any NFS > performance issues. Maybe you have an interrupt problem? > > I use the Megahertz XJ10BT, btw. Which card are you using? I was > doing NFS last night on it with little hassle on a -current kernel > from last night. The card's a "Megahertz (CC10BT/2)", according to pccardd. I had to manually put the IRQ in the /etc/pccard.conf file. The kernel code is from the PRE_SMPng tag. Hmmm - I kind of suspect interrupt issues. The dmesg is as follows, the card doesn't seem to load up if I dont have a "device sn" in the config file. I'm not sure why it's not seen when loaded as a module. I do have "COMPAT_OLDISA" and "COMPAT_OLDPCI" defined in there (don't ask, I think I was planning on using the old sound drivers at one stage). This may be why interrupts are being dropped. Stephen Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Fri Sep 8 21:48:55 CDT 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/wanderer Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz Timecounter "TSC" frequency 132632202 Hz CPU: Pentium/P54C (132.63-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x52c Stepping = 12 Features=0x1bf real memory = 151126016 (147584K bytes) avail memory = 143417344 (140056K bytes) pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum Preloaded elf kernel "kernel.ko" at 0xc036a000. Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 pci0: at 4.0 isa0: on motherboard ata0 at port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 irq 14 on isa0 ata1 at port 0x170-0x177,0x376 irq 15 on isa0 atkbdc0: at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 pcic0: at port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd irq 10 on isa0 pcic0: management irq 10 pccard0: on pcic0 pccard1: on pcic0 pcm0: at port 0x530-0x537 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0xa100 on isa0 ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port plip0: on ppbus0 ppi0: on ppbus0 sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 pccard: card inserted, slot 0 ata1-slave: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr ata1-slave: identify failed ad0: 2067MB [4200/16/63] at ata0-master using BIOSPIO acd0: CDROM at ata1-master using BIOSPIO Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a sn1 at port 0x240-0x24f irq 11 slot 0 on pccard0 sn1: SMC91C94 UTP MAC address 00:00:86:16:b7:e5 module_register: module isa/sn already exists! Module isa/sn failed to register: 17 module_register: module pccard/sn already exists! Module pccard/sn failed to register: 17 The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California
Re: What's the best PCMCIA Ethernet card?
> > > Hi, I'd just like to say that I dont think non cardbus cards are capable > > of doing more than 10bt speeds even if it talks 100bt. I have not met one > > that did and I assume it is a limit of the pcmcia design. Just warning > > you not to waste your money on one if you get near 10bt speeds already. > > My main reason for wanting to replace the wretched thing is that it keeps on hanging when doing lots of writes under NFS (when it's a client), even when the write size is reduced to 2k. Everyone's currently banging away at the new SMP code, so rather than plague Bill Paul with requests about the if_sn driver, I'm thinking of just getting a more reliable card. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
What's the best PCMCIA Ethernet card?
Preferably 10/100. This old Megahertz CC10BT doesn't seem to be terribly quick. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Anyone tried StarOffice 5.2 yet?
Just tried it - seems to work fine, although the soffice script needs one small mod to take account of the fact that test is /bin/test. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Anyone tried StarOffice 5.2 yet?
Hopefully some industrious soul will update the port... Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
VPNs and FreeBSD
Has anyone done this yet? I've just acquired this shiny new cable modem and would like to have secure access to my place of work (even though they're only 10 minutes walk away!) Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Using the boot loader to set maximum memory size?
Is there any chance of extending the loader so that it can set the memory size, rather than hard coding it into the kernel config file? This would be quite useful for testing things which like a large amount of memory set aside exclusively for hardware's use (I'm thinking of Utah-GLX's DMA buffers for G400 cards here). Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Proper voltages for K6-2 500MHz unit?
The technical doco that I have from AMD's website only covers CPUs up to 475MHz, and they're at 2.4V. Would it be safe to assume that the 500MHz units are the same? I know that the 400MHz units were at 2.2V (some at 4x100, mine at 6x66). I take it that they'll be at 5x100MHz FSB, some 400MHz parts were 6x66, as I discovered after buying one rather cheaply. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Glide source available
Go look at http://linux.3dfx.com/open_source It's availabe for Voodoo 1, 2, & 3 cards. Register level specs too! I'm utterly freaked out. Stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: I was accepted to LokiHack '99 at Atlanta Linux Showcase
I would like to point out that they use the SDL library for many of their products. We have this in our ports section, but it does have a bug in that we get a threads crash when doing sound & video simultaneously. The aliens demo displays this fault rather well. Sometimes it works, other times it doesn't, there's something timing related. I suspect something needs to be protected by a mutex somewhere. Stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa (fwd)
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ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa (fwd)
We've had a group (including representatives from LSB, Mesa, Metro Link, NVIDIA, PTC, Precision Insight, SGI, XFree86, and Xi Graphics) working on a proposal for standardizing X11 OpenGL/Mesa ABI and SDK issues on Linux. The purpose is to allow applications to build against any implementation following this standard and the resulting binaries to run against any other implementation; this interoperability will be increasingly important as the amount of 3D activity on Linux grows and the variety of drivers increases even further. The "0.9" draft of the proposal can be found at http://reality.sgi.com/opengl/linux/linuxbase.html A mailing list has been created for further discussion and finalization of this proposal. We're unable to follow discussions in all the forums where this announcement is being made, so if you want to have an effect, please join this mailing list. We particularly solicit participation by ISVs writing OpenGL-based applications on Linux, IHVs writing OpenGL drivers on Linux, and Linux distributions. To initially subscribe to the list, send a message with body subscribe oglbase-discuss to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. To participate in the list after you've subscribed, send messages to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. To unsubscribe to the list, send a message containing the body unsubscribe oglbase-discuss to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jon Leech (For the Linux/OpenGL Base working group) SGI - FAQ and OpenGL Resources at: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hills/9956/OpenGL -- Author: Jon Leech INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (619) 538-5051 FAX: (619) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB OPENGL-GAMEDEV-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California
StarOffice giveaway of source code
Now that Sun is apparently planning to give away the source to StarOffice, I wonder when the first port to FreeBSD will happen? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
StarOffice giveaway of source code
Now that Sun is apparently planning to give away the source to StarOffice, I wonder when the first port to FreeBSD will happen? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Threaded X libraries
I'm attempting to build the X11 libs with the thread safety stuff (I beleive Linux can already be built like this) and have discovered when linking that we don't have the getpwnam_r & getpwuid_r functions in out libc_r. Is anyone planning on adding these? Stephen It's all part of my plan to make SDL (Sam Lantinga's Simple Direct Media Layer) work. It dies quite frequently when starting sound & graphics in some of the test apps. I am suspicious that it requires a threadsafe libX11. -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Threaded X libraries
I'm attempting to build the X11 libs with the thread safety stuff (I beleive Linux can already be built like this) and have discovered when linking that we don't have the getpwnam_r & getpwuid_r functions in out libc_r. Is anyone planning on adding these? Stephen It's all part of my plan to make SDL (Sam Lantinga's Simple Direct Media Layer) work. It dies quite frequently when starting sound & graphics in some of the test apps. I am suspicious that it requires a threadsafe libX11. -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #576
> > Stephen > Well, I was going to try to roll my own for this, but it's always nice to > know someone's already done it for me. :) I'm gone though for the next > couple weeks though, so that'll be a nice thing to get back home to. Many > thanks! > > Where will I be able to get it? > > -Joe > Well, it's not ready yet. I'll be putting it in as a PR once I've finished. Probably it'll be released to the multimedia group first as a test. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #576
> > Stephen > Well, I was going to try to roll my own for this, but it's always nice to > know someone's already done it for me. :) I'm gone though for the next > couple weeks though, so that'll be a nice thing to get back home to. Many > thanks! > > Where will I be able to get it? > > -Joe > Well, it's not ready yet. I'll be putting it in as a PR once I've finished. Probably it'll be released to the multimedia group first as a test. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #576
> > I believe the joystick driver in FreeBSD could probably be redone, to support > all the non-standard joysticks that many people (like me :) have. Having > just recently converted to FreeBSD from Linux, though, I don't know the best > way to go about it. Here are some ideas (sorry if my terminology is wrong): > > (1) Redefine the core joystick code as a controller, and then have all the > different joystick types ride on top of it, like: > > controller joy0at isa? port IO_GAME # Serves joystick port 0x201 > #device jan0at joy0 # Analog joystick > device jgpp0 at joy0 # Gravis GamePad Pro > etc... > This would also allow for modules to be used for all the different > joystick > types, I think. > > (2) Have a monolithic joystick driver, with options to pick the proper type: > > device joy0at isa? port IO_GAME # Just like it is now > options JOY_ANALOG > options JOY_GRAVIS > etc... > > I also believe it should use the Linux joystick's device interface, so that > folks that have already written their games to use the Linux joysticks can > work > in FreeBSD with minor effort. > > Any help or comments are appreciated. > I'm partway through porting Vojtech's Linux joystick code to FreeBSD, as a series of loadable modules. There is the main module (which is mostly converted, although some of the Linuxisms are a bit hard to come up with an equivalent to, even with the Linux device drivers book) and a seperate module for each of the different hardware devices. You'll kldload the main module first, then the device specific module, which'll call a joystick registration routine to make itself known. You've just spurred me into action and I hope to get the main module finished this weekend. The recent chatter about allowing kldload to give modules arguments is very interesting, as it would allow one to specify port addresses and the like. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #576
> > I believe the joystick driver in FreeBSD could probably be redone, to support > all the non-standard joysticks that many people (like me :) have. Having > just recently converted to FreeBSD from Linux, though, I don't know the best > way to go about it. Here are some ideas (sorry if my terminology is wrong): > > (1) Redefine the core joystick code as a controller, and then have all the > different joystick types ride on top of it, like: > > controller joy0at isa? port IO_GAME # Serves joystick port 0x201 > #device jan0at joy0 # Analog joystick > device jgpp0 at joy0 # Gravis GamePad Pro > etc... > This would also allow for modules to be used for all the different joystick > types, I think. > > (2) Have a monolithic joystick driver, with options to pick the proper type: > > device joy0at isa? port IO_GAME # Just like it is now > options JOY_ANALOG > options JOY_GRAVIS > etc... > > I also believe it should use the Linux joystick's device interface, so that > folks that have already written their games to use the Linux joysticks can work > in FreeBSD with minor effort. > > Any help or comments are appreciated. > I'm partway through porting Vojtech's Linux joystick code to FreeBSD, as a series of loadable modules. There is the main module (which is mostly converted, although some of the Linuxisms are a bit hard to come up with an equivalent to, even with the Linux device drivers book) and a seperate module for each of the different hardware devices. You'll kldload the main module first, then the device specific module, which'll call a joystick registration routine to make itself known. You've just spurred me into action and I hope to get the main module finished this weekend. The recent chatter about allowing kldload to give modules arguments is very interesting, as it would allow one to specify port addresses and the like. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum
> Did you try 'disklabel -w da0 auto'? Yup - it also complained. > No, it would cause a higher I/O load. Vinum doesn't transfer entire > stripes, it transfers what you ask for. With a large stripe size, the > chances are higher that you can perform the transfer with only a > single I/O. Even if I'm using really large reads? > > > I'm seeing 4.4MB/s if I read from an individual disk, but only about > > 5.6MB/s when reading from the striped volume. > > How many concurrent processes? Remember that striping doesn't buy you > anything with a single process. You might like to try rawio > (ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/rawio.tar.gz) and see what that tells you. OK, I was just using good ol' dd, with dd if=/cfs/foo of=/dev/null bs=2m > > > Looking at the systat display, the 8k fs blocks do seem to be > > clustered into larger requests, so I'm not too worried about the FS > > block size. What have people observed with trying larger FS block > > sizes? > > I don't know if anybody has tried larger FS blocks than 8 kB. I once > created a file system with 256 kB blocks (just to see if it could be > done). I also tried 512 kB blocks, but newfs died of an overflow. > I'd expect that you would see a marked drop in performance, assuming > that it would work at all. > OK. The minimum data size read from these files tends to be about 10k. I'll have to try this all with a real app. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum
> Did you try 'disklabel -w da0 auto'? Yup - it also complained. > No, it would cause a higher I/O load. Vinum doesn't transfer entire > stripes, it transfers what you ask for. With a large stripe size, the > chances are higher that you can perform the transfer with only a > single I/O. Even if I'm using really large reads? > > > I'm seeing 4.4MB/s if I read from an individual disk, but only about > > 5.6MB/s when reading from the striped volume. > > How many concurrent processes? Remember that striping doesn't buy you > anything with a single process. You might like to try rawio > (ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/rawio.tar.gz) and see what that tells you. OK, I was just using good ol' dd, with dd if=/cfs/foo of=/dev/null bs=2m > > > Looking at the systat display, the 8k fs blocks do seem to be > > clustered into larger requests, so I'm not too worried about the FS > > block size. What have people observed with trying larger FS block > > sizes? > > I don't know if anybody has tried larger FS blocks than 8 kB. I once > created a file system with 256 kB blocks (just to see if it could be > done). I also tried 512 kB blocks, but newfs died of an overflow. > I'd expect that you would see a marked drop in performance, assuming > that it would work at all. > OK. The minimum data size read from these files tends to be about 10k. I'll have to try this all with a real app. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum
The people who I work for were about to junk a bunch of 6 year old disks when I snaffled them. Among them were 4 DEC DSP5400S (3.8GB each), with a nice external case. These disks had been doing duty on a boat carrying out seismic surveys, attached to misc. Sun workstations. These are typical of their vintage - full height 5 1/4" drives fast narrow SCSI2, and noisy as all blazes. I have them hooked up to a NCR810, as one striped FS (it's just for experiments, not valuable data). fdisking them was easy, but disklabelling them was a royal pain. I ended up editing the /etc/disktab file to add an appropriate label and running "disklabel -w -B /dev/rda0c DSP5400S" which still gives an error message, but appears to install the label. I only found out that it installed the label by accident, wasting a bunch of time in the process. I created a striped volume across the 4 drives with the default stripe size of 256K. I read the rather interesting discussion within the man pages about the optimal stripe size and have a couple of queries. Firstly, the type of traffic that this 13.9GB filesystem will see will be mainly sequential reading and writing of large files. There will only be a few files (~2-30), each several gigs. (I'm fooling around with the seismic software at home, and typcal surveys can results in files many gigs in size). Given that FreeBSD breaks I/Os down into 64k chunks, would having a 64k stripe size give more parallelism? I'm seeing 4.4MB/s if I read from an individual disk, but only about 5.6MB/s when reading from the striped volume. Looking at the systat display, the 8k fs blocks do seem to be clustered into larger requests, so I'm not too worried about the FS block size. What have people observed with trying larger FS block sizes? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum
The people who I work for were about to junk a bunch of 6 year old disks when I snaffled them. Among them were 4 DEC DSP5400S (3.8GB each), with a nice external case. These disks had been doing duty on a boat carrying out seismic surveys, attached to misc. Sun workstations. These are typical of their vintage - full height 5 1/4" drives fast narrow SCSI2, and noisy as all blazes. I have them hooked up to a NCR810, as one striped FS (it's just for experiments, not valuable data). fdisking them was easy, but disklabelling them was a royal pain. I ended up editing the /etc/disktab file to add an appropriate label and running "disklabel -w -B /dev/rda0c DSP5400S" which still gives an error message, but appears to install the label. I only found out that it installed the label by accident, wasting a bunch of time in the process. I created a striped volume across the 4 drives with the default stripe size of 256K. I read the rather interesting discussion within the man pages about the optimal stripe size and have a couple of queries. Firstly, the type of traffic that this 13.9GB filesystem will see will be mainly sequential reading and writing of large files. There will only be a few files (~2-30), each several gigs. (I'm fooling around with the seismic software at home, and typcal surveys can results in files many gigs in size). Given that FreeBSD breaks I/Os down into 64k chunks, would having a 64k stripe size give more parallelism? I'm seeing 4.4MB/s if I read from an individual disk, but only about 5.6MB/s when reading from the striped volume. Looking at the systat display, the 8k fs blocks do seem to be clustered into larger requests, so I'm not too worried about the FS block size. What have people observed with trying larger FS block sizes? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Unpacking Debian packages on FreeBSD
I'd like to grope around inside a .deb file, which has been created on a debian Linux box. Do we have any nifty tools for this, like rpm2cpio? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Unpacking Debian packages on FreeBSD
I'd like to grope around inside a .deb file, which has been created on a debian Linux box. Do we have any nifty tools for this, like rpm2cpio? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Setting up a firewall with dynamic IPs
Thanks for every one's help - I now have it working nicely. It's amazing what you discover when RTFMing. Oddly enough, running nmap with the Christmas tree scan (after I've allowed only smtp & ssh to be connected to) gives the following - # ./nmap -v -v -sX foo Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor (fyo...@dhp.com, www.insecure.org/nmap/) Host foo.bar.com (123.45.67.89) appears to be up ... good. Initiating FIN,NULL, UDP, or Xmas stealth scan against foo.bar.com (123.45.67.89) The UDP or stealth FIN/NULL/XMAS scan took 64 seconds to scan 1483 ports. Interesting ports on foo.bar.com (123.45.67.89): PortState Protocol Service 13 opentcpdaytime 21 opentcpftp 22 opentcpssh 23 opentcptelnet 25 opentcpsmtp 37 opentcptime 53 opentcpdomain 80 opentcphttp 111 opentcpsunrpc 119 opentcpnntp 513 opentcplogin 514 opentcpshell 1017opentcpunknown 1018opentcpunknown 1019opentcpunknown 1020opentcpunknown 1021opentcpunknown 1022opentcpunknown 1023opentcpunknown 2049opentcpnfs Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 64 seconds Any attempt to connect to the ports listed above (apart from ssh & smtp) just hangs. I take it that this is expected behaiviour of the firewall accepting the connection and then ahnging onto it in order to slow attackers down? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Setting up a firewall with dynamic IPs
Thanks for every one's help - I now have it working nicely. It's amazing what you discover when RTFMing. Oddly enough, running nmap with the Christmas tree scan (after I've allowed only smtp & ssh to be connected to) gives the following - # ./nmap -v -v -sX foo Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor ([EMAIL PROTECTED], www.insecure.org/nmap/) Host foo.bar.com (123.45.67.89) appears to be up ... good. Initiating FIN,NULL, UDP, or Xmas stealth scan against foo.bar.com (123.45.67.89) The UDP or stealth FIN/NULL/XMAS scan took 64 seconds to scan 1483 ports. Interesting ports on foo.bar.com (123.45.67.89): PortState Protocol Service 13 opentcpdaytime 21 opentcpftp 22 opentcpssh 23 opentcptelnet 25 opentcpsmtp 37 opentcptime 53 opentcpdomain 80 opentcphttp 111 opentcpsunrpc 119 opentcpnntp 513 opentcplogin 514 opentcpshell 1017opentcpunknown 1018opentcpunknown 1019opentcpunknown 1020opentcpunknown 1021opentcpunknown 1022opentcpunknown 1023opentcpunknown 2049opentcpnfs Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 64 seconds Any attempt to connect to the ports listed above (apart from ssh & smtp) just hangs. I take it that this is expected behaiviour of the firewall accepting the connection and then ahnging onto it in order to slow attackers down? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Setting up a firewall with dynamic IPs
I was checking out the firewall setup in /etc/rc.firewall, and noticed that the simple example relied on a fixed IP address for the external interface. I don't know ahead of time what IP address is going to be allocated to me before I dial up. Would it be possible to specify an interface (tun0) rather than an IP address? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Setting up a firewall with dynamic IPs
I was checking out the firewall setup in /etc/rc.firewall, and noticed that the simple example relied on a fixed IP address for the external interface. I don't know ahead of time what IP address is going to be allocated to me before I dial up. Would it be possible to specify an interface (tun0) rather than an IP address? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: SDL port done yet?
> On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > Basically the entire SDL library works now on my FreeBSD-3.2-STABLE box > ... (as that is where I have the main developer pf the SDL-librray do the > porting) > > The only problem is that the pthread_cancel functions are not in our > pthread implementation yet > Hmm. Has he merged the changes into the SDL codebase yet? (what is it, 0.9.13). Is anyone doing anything about the pthread_cancel calls? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
SDL port done yet?
A while ago, someone mentioned that they were partway through a port of the Simple DirectMedia Layer. Has this been completed? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Finding out what function an interrupt is tied to..
I'm having some problems since when the newbus code went in, in that my sound card doesn't seem to be interrupting anymore (PAS16, Voxware drivers). So what I'd like to do is look at the kernel and see if an interrupt actually has a function associated with it, and if it's being masked out. Any ideas? Of course, this would have to happen just as I learnt to rip my music CD's into mp3s. Stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
> Since this is right now a glide specific project perhaps a piecemeal > approach to implementing this shim is appropriate. The little I've looked > at the glide libs shows; freebsd's nm can show all the important > symbol info (externs) and our ldd can show the share object dependencies. That's exactly what I'm doing. Unfortunately, ldd spits the dummy. I think I'll be using code based on objcopy for modification of symbol names and dependent libraries. > > How goes it with a native /dev/3dfx? > Not as well as I'd like. It follows the structure of Daryll Strauss'es code OK, but when glide is initialising, after getting the number of cards, it tries to pass a structure for some I/O which has some garbage values in it. I don't know if the structure is packed differently or what. Most frustrating. If I can beat this shim into shape, then we can have hardware accelerated OpenGL while I tinker with the device driver. Grrr. Have a Voodoo 1 myself. Am also waiting for someone else to do the mtrr code for AMD K6-2s. Stephen > -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
I'm hunting around for a list of entry points in both Linux & FreeBSD's libc. I want to find out what linux libc entry points are not found within the BSD libc, and what entry points that are common have different arguments be they just different or things of the same name with different definitions. This is so a shim library can be developed allowing the use of Linux libraries liked into FreeBSD binaries. I am anticipating that perhaps the Linux lib may have to be altered in some way (changing the name of an external reference where it clashes with a FreeBSD libc call of the same name with varying arguments, or mapping external variables onto their FreeBSD equivalents). It'll make the use of certain recalcitrant third party libs a bunch easier. Stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Munging ELF binaries and libraries.
Has anyone written any tools that allow one to a) Change the names of external symbols referenced by a library or exported out of a library. b) Add to the list of shared objects that this library needs in order to run, so that a runtime linker will drag them in as well when a binary linked with this shared library is run. The reason for the above is that I'm planning on tweaking various linux-only ELF libs so that when they're linked into a FreeBSD binary, a shim library will be automagically dragged in as well. This will allow FreeBSD users to happily create binaries that use 3dfx's glide library, for instance. Can you say hardware accelerated OpenGL? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
SGI to release XFS under Open Source license
Some of you may already know this - I'm wondering about the pain involved in fitting it to our architecture. Journaling. Hmmm. http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,36807,00.html?owv -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Mosix now available under GPL
http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/txt_distribution.html Now, who's going to port it to FreeBSD? STephen PS - my Seismic software code would love this -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Wonder what ftp.cdrom.com's utilisation's like now?
With the release of q3test for windows and the latest Linux release, it does seem to be getting hammered. It hit the 5000 user limit when I looked at it. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
