Re: pipe read returning EAGAIN

2016-02-17 Thread David Laight
t for pipes is somehow returning 'readable' when no data is available. Of course there might be some uninitialised memory lurking. David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: Bad sleep time resolution of nanosleep(2)

2016-01-14 Thread David Laight
t the minumum sleep time is met. Otherwise the sleep will be too short if called just before s tick. David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: schizophrenic GCC versions in -current?

2015-09-16 Thread David Laight
e other object files. That ensures the version (and build date) is always correct. David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: Help needed with a stubborn Gateway box!

2015-03-27 Thread David Laight
USB? you might find the bios will boot a cd image written to a usb memory stick. David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: firefox eats threads

2015-03-18 Thread David Laight
wide' limits (even processes for root) could be usefully replaced my checks against free kva, swap and physical memory. The problem is picking the values. Look at what MAXYSERS does :-) David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: gpt booting status?

2014-12-30 Thread David Laight
to find /boot. David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: 4k sector disks

2014-10-01 Thread David Laight
the boot code doesn't have enough memory for very large blocks. David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: cpuctl panic(!)

2014-07-24 Thread David Laight
is buggy - is that bare metal? David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: USB 3.0 status in NetBSD-current?

2014-06-16 Thread David Laight
segment must happen at the end of a USB packet. David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: gcc48, drmkms issues with i386

2014-04-23 Thread David Laight
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:45:27PM +0900, Masao Uebayashi wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 3:40 AM, David Laight da...@l8s.co.uk wrote: On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 09:10:42AM -0500, John D. Baker wrote: On Wed, 9 Apr 2014, John D. Baker wrote: disk, the last part of the display actually looked

Re: gcc48, drmkms issues with i386

2014-04-10 Thread David Laight
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Re: gcc48, drmkms issues with i386

2014-04-09 Thread David Laight
to real_to_prot. If that were done the /boot code itself could probably be linked with a virtual base address of 1MB and run with virtual == physical removing the confusing offset. David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: fontconfig/freetype2 breaks amd64 build on netbsd-5/i386 host

2014-03-26 Thread David Laight
a working build, but since a .so is being generated it ought to contain the .pico versions. I wonder how that is supposed to happen? Maybe a parallel make happened to leave the wrong file lurking? David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: Recent new atf test failures

2014-03-26 Thread David Laight
it to be faster than the table lookup and 5th degree polynomial. Intel claim these functions are monatonic, I bet the polynomial version isn't. David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: Recent new atf test failures

2014-03-26 Thread David Laight
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 02:57:15PM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, David Laight wrote: Actually, I wonder, have you rebuilt qemu since jeorg changed the default x87 precision to 80bits? That might be the difference between your tests and gson's tests (which only show some

Re: fontconfig/freetype2 breaks amd64 build on netbsd-5/i386 host

2014-03-25 Thread David Laight
file from the library and feed it through 'objdump -dr' to find the relocation (and to see if it looks like PIC code at all). David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: i386 and amd64 AVX support

2014-03-12 Thread David Laight
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 08:51:06PM +, Alexander Nasonov wrote: David Laight wrote: I've committed code to the amd64 and i386 kernels that enables AVX for userspace. In particular the high ymm registers should be saved on context switches. Any additional testing would be welcome

Re: posix_memalign conflict between /usr/include files

2014-03-08 Thread David Laight
on a function with a C interface. David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: Porting DTrace to ARM

2014-03-06 Thread David Laight
/opensolaris.c is a good place to assign, I think. Using 'void *' causes problems with knowing which pointer is valid for a given call. There is no problem using 'struct foo *' without the contents of 'struct foo' being visible. David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

i386 and amd64 AVX support

2014-02-26 Thread David Laight
another 2k from the kernel stack might cause problems! David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: Build break for port-hppa

2014-02-26 Thread David Laight
architecture ? David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: 6.99.32: panic when starting X

2014-02-23 Thread David Laight
.) David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: 6.99.32: panic when starting X

2014-02-23 Thread David Laight
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 10:26:21PM +, David Laight wrote: On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 09:56:55PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote: On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 10:34:32AM +, Nick Hudson wrote: On 02/23/14 09:41, Thomas Klausner wrote: Also, x/i in ddb/crash that address and show registers

Re: updates to ls(1), output, and Emacs dired mode

2014-02-22 Thread David Laight
| more giving a different result to ls. ls | more implies ls -1 | more. I'm not sure you can actually get the terminal output into a file (without using something like script). David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: amd64 build broken - npx.h not marked obsolete

2014-02-13 Thread David Laight
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Re: Dozens of new test failures on amd64!

2014-02-12 Thread David Laight
. David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: Another 6.99.31 amd64 panic

2014-02-11 Thread David Laight
code is probbaly correct. Try 'objdump -d /netbsd' and sort out which function it is in. David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: Automated report: NetBSD-current/i386 build failure

2014-02-11 Thread David Laight
the build.sh output follows: File is obsolete or flist is out of date ? -- ./usr/include/x86/fpu.h = end of 1 extra files === Gah, I forgot that would creep into the i386 build already. I'll add it it. David -- David

Re: Re: compat linux exec arguments weirdness

2014-02-09 Thread David Laight
be fixed now, please update and give it a try. Works! Thanks very much, you can close the PR as far as I'm concerned. And now on to that firefox 27 compile error . :-) If that is the one to do with fxsave64, I've commited a fix. David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: kernel crashes because crypto unloading?

2014-01-19 Thread David Laight
. David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: bootxx_ffsv1 compilation failure on amd64

2014-01-16 Thread David Laight
higher would require a low memory 'bouce' buffer. David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: evtchn_do_event: handler...didn't lower ipl (Was: Re: xl or xm for xen)

2013-12-05 Thread David Laight
() (and then hardclock()) must return with the ipl higher. I'd have thought that acquiring a mutex would increase the count. So a count of -1 would indicate and extra release. Or does this counter have silly values? David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

Re: ld.elf_so i386 memcpy corruption - calligrawords hangs

2013-10-17 Thread David Laight
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Re: link problems

2013-10-11 Thread David Laight
want a DT_NEEDED entry for libtemcap.so whether or not the program directly references anything in libtermcap.so. David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk