On Tue Jun 9 17:20:12 EDT 2009, ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
I've just pushed out kernel sources and binaries to incorporate
Aki's mtrr and vesa changes. The combination makes monitor=vesa
run quite a bit faster; we saw a factor of three speed improvement
in one case.
What got three
Hi!
I've brought up a wiki for Inferno, at http://inferno.makesad.us
(tcp!inferno.makesad.us!wiki for Acme users). Its running wikifs on
Inferno, appropriately enough.
I'm importing content from the old canto.hopto.org Inferno wiki, as we
speak. In the next few days, I should have all of it
Now, how do I test, benchmark and, or profile this radeon driver against
a generic one?
IIRC, there was a port of some of xscreensaver's hacks to Plan 9. The
munch hack and hyperglenda should get a good bit faster. They might
have something to measure resulting fps-es. Also, watch the CPU load
As I understand, the sb600 series has the RS480 IGP, which is a
stripped-down r300 (missing some TnL h/w, vertex shaders). The 2D
parts of the Linux radeonfb look pretty similar between the r300 and
the rs480, so I'd go with yes.
No idea about anything newer... I can take a look if people are
Hi,
I've updated Philippe Anel's Radeon driver to work on a current
version of Plan 9. It compiles and should work, but I haven't been
able to test it on real hardware.
http://grex.org/~vsrinivas/radeon/
Take care,
-- vs
Devlimit / Rlimit is less than ideal - the resource limits aren't
adaptive to program needs and to resource availability. They would be
describing resources that user programs have very little visible
control over (kernel resources), except by changing their syscall mix
or giving up a segment or
i really need to write a driver for integratede modern intel or ati
graphics.
There is an ati radeon driver for the r100-r300 (at least) by Philippe
Anel, iirc.
It also builds against the Inferno native kernel, but there is no user
program to drive it (set modes, etc) yet.
-- vs
Hi,
extract from the fossil paper:
The block cache uses soft updates [1] to ensure that the on-disk file
system is always self-consistent. Thus there is no halt console
command and no need to check a file system that was shut down without
halting.
Fossil does have a halt command and does
Hi,
I'm running Plan 9 on a machine with a GeForce2 MX200. I've tried to
run Inferno in p9, but anything graphical draws painfully slowly
(several seconds to paint the white rectangle while Charon is
starting).
Is there any reason this might be happening? If its related to
Inferno's /dev/draw,
The CPU doesn't support PATs, sorry.
It does have MTRR support though, wasn't there a patch to support
Write-combining for the framebuffer region using them instead?
FWIW, native graphics applications (including Hyperglenda) are very fast...
-- vs
if you're after the historical progression of how the
structure of the kernel evolved, the file server kernel
is much more interesting.
Any bits in particular? Any reason why?
-- vs
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 07:07:48PM +0100, Uriel wrote:
Oh, glad that somebody found my partial git port useful, I might give
it another push some time.
Having a git/hg repo of the plan9 history is something I have been
thinking about for a while, really cool that you got something going
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 07:07:48PM +0100, Uriel wrote:
Oh, glad that somebody found my partial git port useful, I might give
it another push some time.
Having a git/hg repo of the plan9 history is something I have been
thinking about for a while, really cool that you got something going
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 04:31:32PM +, matt wrote:
i may be wrong here but http://9fans.net/archive/2008/10/99 may be
suggesting why these problems are occuring.
if i'm correct, i feel compeled to say: what's the problem with using
old threads that discuss the same issue?
iru
while
Hi,
Is the program Vidi (presented at IWP9) available any place? I have been
searching for a copy for some time but have never happened to run across
it...
Thanks,
-- vs
Hi,
When I use venti/copy from plan 9 port to try to copy certain archives between
two venti servers, I get the following error:
vcopy: reading block (type 16): read
asked for got
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 08:48:33AM -0800, Russ Cox wrote:
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Venkatesh Srinivas m...@acm.jhu.edu wrote:
vcopy: reading block (type 16):
read asked for got
Hi,
When running vac from Plan 9 port, against a venti running on Unix, we get
these errors:
... lots of vac -v output ...
cache block 501: type 8 score lots of zeros1f6 iostate 1 addr 502 ref 0
nlock 1
cache block 502: type 8 score lots of zeros1f7 iostate 1 addr 503 ref 0
nlock 1
cache
Hi,
The contrib index mentions that daily changelogs for Plan 9 are in
sources/extra/changes, but those haven't been updated since early 2007.
Is there any preferred way to get changelogs / diffs these days?
Also, in sources/patch, there are patches neither in applied/ or sorry/.
Are these
Hi,
Did the driver-writing workshop that was talked about months ago happen at
IWP9?
If so, is there video?
Thanks,
-- vs
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 11:22:49PM +0100, David du Colombier wrote:
Hello,
I tried to use my IBM ThinkCentre S50 as a Plan 9 terminal,
but I discovered a really strange problem.
When I boot my terminal using PXE, rio is running fine, but the
cursor does not appear. The mouse is useable, but
Hi,
Do bugs we run into in v9fs get posted here? Or to the kernel bugzilla?
Or filed with our distributor kernel?
Thanks,
-- vs
Hi,
I have a server running Inferno, exporting its namespace and playing the
full Inferno authentication game. I'd like to be able to mount this
under Plan 9.
Would it be possible for me to run an Inferno locally, mount its
factotum at /mnt/factotum on the Plan 9 host, make sure that the
Hi,
A history question for some Plan 9 people - was any of the Plan 9 or
Inferno work done at the Holmdel Bell Labs site? Or was it all at Murray Hill?
Thanks,
--vs
Hi,
I've been having some trouble with vacfs and 9pfuse. I can mount a root
score, I can read files fine.
If I Control-C any I/O operations, though, vacfs just 'goes away', Linux
complains about the transport endpoint being disconnected.
Also, running 'find' causes problems - after
As far as interfaces go, mmap() is pretty tragic - the underlying
translation structures can express more interesting things, some of
which are even worth doing.
There have even been OSes that let userland apps play with their address
spaces in far more interesting ways - KeyKOS and EROS come to
Works impressively well here. Even snarf/paste between host and 9vx is
working.
Did only the 9 kernel need modifications or did the applications
binaries need to be recompiled as well?
--vs
I've tried with both qcow2 and raw; raw takes longer to get to a crash,
but still reliably crashes. Strangely, connecting to qemu with gdb
before Plan 9 starts reduces the crash rate a lot, but it might just be
because the world is noticeably slower...
--vs
Hi,
I'm attempting to set up venti from p9p here, but am having difficult
start it.
The Venti has a data log of 1.4 TB across four arena partitions and 44GB
in indexes across four index partitions. All the
fmtarena/fmtisect/fmtindex commands suceeded without incident, but when I
try to start
Hi,
I have a ~5GB Venti which had run for some time with one 256MB Index
Section; recently, the Index Section became corrupted. The Arenas are
intact. I was using plan9port's Venti.
Is it possible for me to reconstruct the index section? If so, how? Will
the Venti be able to run without it? If
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