SMP changes committed ... ?

2000-09-07 Thread The Hermit Hacker
I thought one of the SMP developers announced that it was now committed, yet I haven't seen any commit messages for it ... I'm running the newest patch, so am waiting for the commit messages before I actually do my next upgrade ... Did I mis-read a message from earlier today? thanks .. Marc

Re: SMP changes committed ... ?

2000-09-07 Thread Will Andrews
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:11:27AM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: I thought one of the SMP developers announced that it was now committed, yet I haven't seen any commit messages for it ... I'm running the newest patch, so am waiting for the commit messages before I actually do my next

Re: HPT370 to stable

2000-09-07 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Ryan Shannon wrote: Any idea how long it will be before the HPT370 support comes to stable? I'm fairly new to freebsd, so it might not be the wisest maneuver for me to CVSup to current :) It is in stable: |date: 2000/08/22 08:41:28; author: sos; state: Exp; lines: +105 -67 |MFC: |

Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ps print.c src/share/man/man9 mutex.9 Makefile src/usr.bin/top machine.c src/sys/alpha/alpha mp_machdep.c synch_machdep.c clock.c genassym.c interrupt.c ipl_funcs.c locore.s machdep.c mem.c pmap.c prom.c support.s swtch.s trap.c ...

2000-09-07 Thread Mike Meyer
Jason Evans writes: jasone 2000/09/06 18:33:03 PDT Modified files: bin/ps print.c [...] Nice try, but you didn't fool me. That's the SMP patch, even if the first change in the first modified file is a spelling fix in a comment in userland code! Nice to see it's

Re: USA_RESIDENT variable is no longer needed ?

2000-09-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote: IIRC, the only file that uses USA_RESIDENT is src/secure/lib/Makefile, and now it is gone away. Does this change imply that we are free from defining USA_RESIDENT when building the FreeBSD world ? I believe so - I'm going to go over the crypto

Re: HPT370 to stable

2000-09-07 Thread Ryan Shannon
*ahem* oops... Thanks. :) Is it still writing in ATA66 mode? Thanks again, Ryan On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Ryan Shannon wrote: Any idea how long it will be before the HPT370 support comes to stable? I'm fairly new to freebsd, so it might not be the wisest

Re: HPT370 to stable

2000-09-07 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Ryan Shannon wrote: *ahem* oops... Thanks. :) Is it still writing in ATA66 mode? Well, sortof, I havn't been able to make it go as fast as I want, even when using HPTs method, thats why it done like it is. However it does go faster than when using ATA66... I'm investigating this

Re: PERL 5.6

2000-09-07 Thread Mark Murray
Can anyoine give me an idea when Perl 5.6 will be merged from current into stable? Real Soon Now(tm). M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: USA_RESIDENT variable is no longer needed ?

2000-09-07 Thread Mark Murray
IIRC, the only file that uses USA_RESIDENT is src/secure/lib/Makefile, and now it is gone away. Does this change imply that we are free from defining USA_RESIDENT when building the FreeBSD world ? Moreover, can we also throw USA_RESIDENT variable away from ports ? I believe we can start

XFree86

2000-09-07 Thread Piotr WoŸniak
Hi, I have installed XFree86 and there is no XF86Setup. Have you any idea - why? I want to increase depth of color and modifing /etc/XF86Config has no result. How can I do it? Piotr Wozniak To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the

Re: uscanner driver

2000-09-07 Thread Nick Hibma
Did you check on the SANE home page whether your scanner is supported? This is a USB driver and a trivial driver at that, with no vendor specific code. So I won't be able to help. Nick I've quickly thrown together a driver for USB scanners. Unforunately, I don't have a scanner available

Re: SMP mega-commit complete

2000-09-07 Thread Motomichi Matsuzaki
At 6 Sep 2000 18:35:17 -0700, Jason Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you run into issues that appear related to the SMP changes, and they aren't listed as known issues, please bring them up on the -smp or -current mailing list. this breaks building GENERIC kernel. cc -c -O -pipe -Wall

Re: XFree86

2000-09-07 Thread Salvo Bartolotta
Original Message On 9/7/00, 10:51:14 AM, Piotr WoŸniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding XFree86: Hi, I have installed XFree86 and there is no XF86Setup. Have you any idea - why? I want to increase depth of color and modifing /etc/XF86Config has no result. How can I do it? Piotr

Re: XFree86

2000-09-07 Thread Mark Murray
Hi, I have installed XFree86 and there is no XF86Setup. Have you any idea - why? I want to increase depth of color and modifing /etc/XF86Config has no result. Tcl/Tk. Build X, clean it out. Build Tcl/Tk 8.2. Build X again. You'll have XF86Setup. BTW - there is no XF86Setup in XFree86-4

Re: XFree86

2000-09-07 Thread Salvo Bartolotta
Original Message On 9/7/00, 12:18:07 PM, Mark Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: XFree86 : Hi, I have installed XFree86 and there is no XF86Setup. Have you any idea - why? I want to increase depth of color and modifing /etc/XF86Config has no result. Tcl/Tk. Build X,

Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ps print.c src/share/man/man9 mutex.9 Makefile src/usr.bin/top machine.c src/sys/alpha/alpha mp_machdep.c synch_machdep.c clock.c genassym.c interrupt.c ipl_funcs.c locore.s machdep.c mem.c pmap.c prom.c support.s swtch.s trap.c ...

2000-09-07 Thread Nickolay Dudorov
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: jasone 2000/09/06 18:33:03 PDT Modified files: . 1.7 +39 -5 src/sys/i386/include/globals.h One of the changes is at line 107 : #define currentldt GLOBAL_LVALUE(currentldt, int) was changed to

Re: cold boot in -STABLE

2000-09-07 Thread Visigoth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: It's odd that you should send this STABLE-related report to the -current mailing list. :-) Yea, sorry, -current is where I am subscribed, as well as where I KNOW people pay attention ;) I'll

USER_LDT broken in current

2000-09-07 Thread John Hay
Hi, I got this error when trying to build a kernel with USER_LDT and -current source. Its not a problem because I'm not using it at the moment, I just thought I'll mention it. cc -c -O -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline

HEADS UP: linux module breaks current

2000-09-07 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, Just a warning to anyone wanting to try out SMPng -- make sure that you hdon't have ``linux_enable="YES"'' in /etc/rc.conf. I got a kernel trap when /etc/rc tried to load the linux module. I haven't had time to get a panic and backtrace to Marcel, but I thought I'd send this warning

Re: USA_RESIDENT variable is no longer needed ?

2000-09-07 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 00:23:22 -0700 (PDT), Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Moreover, can we also throw USA_RESIDENT variable away from ports ? Perhaps..I'm not immediately sure. This is almost certainly not the last patent issue we'll have to deal with. Unfortunately, it is probably the

call for testers: init securelevel patch

2000-09-07 Thread Paul Herman
Hi, Here is a patch which will allow init(8) (or rather, any process with PID 1) to lower the securelevel to 0 when going into single-user maintenence mode. This has no effect if securelevel is -1. Feedback welcome -- there may be security implications I'm not aware of. If this is well

Re: HEADS UP: linux module breaks current

2000-09-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: Just a warning to anyone wanting to try out SMPng -- make sure that you hdon't have ``linux_enable="YES"'' in /etc/rc.conf. I got a kernel trap when /etc/rc tried to load the linux module. I haven't had time to get a panic and backtrace to Marcel,

Re: SMP mega-commit complete

2000-09-07 Thread Wesley Morgan
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jason Evans wrote: A static tag, named PRE_SMPNG, was created at 18:00 PDT. The SMP patches have now been committed. Is it safe to follow src-sys from PRE_SMPNG and everything else as -current? -- _ __ ___ ___ ___ ___

Re: SMP mega-commit complete

2000-09-07 Thread Jason Evans
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:31:06PM -0400, Wesley Morgan wrote: On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jason Evans wrote: A static tag, named PRE_SMPNG, was created at 18:00 PDT. The SMP patches have now been committed. Is it safe to follow src-sys from PRE_SMPNG and everything else as -current? top and

Re: call for testers: init securelevel patch

2000-09-07 Thread Zach N. Heilig
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:33:20PM +0200, Paul Herman wrote: Here is a patch which will allow init(8) (or rather, any process with PID 1) to lower the securelevel to 0 when going into single-user maintenence mode. This has no effect if securelevel is -1. Feedback welcome -- there may be

Re: 'interrupt-level buffer overflows' for sio device?

2000-09-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Hermit Hacker writes: : sio1: 32 more interrupt-level buffer overflows (total 32) From the man page: sio%d: interrupt-level buffer overflow. Problem in the bottom half of the driver. This likely means that the bottom half of sio isn't running fast

Re: SMP mega-commit complete

2000-09-07 Thread John Baldwin
Jason Evans wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:31:06PM -0400, Wesley Morgan wrote: On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jason Evans wrote: A static tag, named PRE_SMPNG, was created at 18:00 PDT. The SMP patches have now been committed. Is it safe to follow src-sys from PRE_SMPNG and everything

Re: call for testers: init securelevel patch

2000-09-07 Thread Bruce Evans
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Zach N. Heilig wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:33:20PM +0200, Paul Herman wrote: Here is a patch which will allow init(8) (or rather, any process with PID 1) to lower the securelevel to 0 when going into single-user maintenence mode. This has no effect if

Re: call for testers: init securelevel patch

2000-09-07 Thread Paul Herman
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Zach N. Heilig wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:33:20PM +0200, Paul Herman wrote: Here is a patch which will allow init(8) (or rather, any process with PID 1) to lower the securelevel to 0 when going into single-user maintenence mode. This has no effect if

Re: 'interrupt-level buffer overflows' for sio device?

2000-09-07 Thread Chuck Paterson
FYI, this is very likely not caused by the heavy weight interrupt threads, but rather because the interrupt threads can't be run because the giant lock is held by a process running in the kernel. Once we get drivers to have their own locking and pulled out from under the giant lock this

Re: XFree86

2000-09-07 Thread John Toon
Mark Murray wrote: BTW - there is no XF86Setup in XFree86-4 yet. No, but there is xf86cfg, which is even better ;^) It correctly autodetected both my Monitor and Video card, meaning that I was able to get maximum performance out of both (proper Modelines). Though 1962x1440 is pushing it on

Re: SMP changes committed ... ?

2000-09-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 7 September 2000 at 3:11:27 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: I thought one of the SMP developers announced that it was now committed, yet I haven't seen any commit messages for it ... I'm running the newest patch, so am waiting for the commit messages before I actually do my

Re: SMP changes committed ... ?

2000-09-07 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 7 September 2000 at 3:11:27 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: I thought one of the SMP developers announced that it was now committed, yet I haven't seen any commit messages for it ... I'm running the newest patch, so am waiting for the

Re: SMP mega-commit complete

2000-09-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 7 September 2000 at 20:06:20 +0900, Motomichi Matsuzaki wrote: At 6 Sep 2000 18:35:17 -0700, Jason Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you run into issues that appear related to the SMP changes, and they aren't listed as known issues, please bring them up on the -smp or -current

microuptime() went backwards

2000-09-07 Thread Steve Ames
Just upgraded to -CURRENT as of about noon (EST) today. At reboot I got a lot of these: microuptime() went backwards (1.7682417 - 1.997434) I recall reading in -current earlier this week that someone was looking for victims getting this. What further information can I provide? -Steve To

Re: 'interrupt-level buffer overflows' for sio device?

2000-09-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 7 September 2000 at 17:00:15 -0600, Chuck Paterson wrote: FYI, this is very likely not caused by the heavy weight interrupt threads, but rather because the interrupt threads can't be run because the giant lock is held by a process running in the kernel. Once we get drivers

Re: microuptime() went backwards

2000-09-07 Thread John Baldwin
Steve Ames wrote: Just upgraded to -CURRENT as of about noon (EST) today. At reboot I got a lot of these: microuptime() went backwards (1.7682417 - 1.997434) I recall reading in -current earlier this week that someone was looking for victims getting this. What further information can I

Re: microuptime() went backwards

2000-09-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 7 September 2000 at 17:28:02 -0700, John Baldwin wrote: Steve Ames wrote: Just upgraded to -CURRENT as of about noon (EST) today. At reboot I got a lot of these: microuptime() went backwards (1.7682417 - 1.997434) I recall reading in -current earlier this week that someone

Re: microuptime() went backwards

2000-09-07 Thread John Baldwin
Greg Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 7 September 2000 at 17:28:02 -0700, John Baldwin wrote: Steve Ames wrote: Just upgraded to -CURRENT as of about noon (EST) today. At reboot I got a lot of these: microuptime() went backwards (1.7682417 - 1.997434) I recall reading in -current earlier

Re: 'interrupt-level buffer overflows' for sio device?

2000-09-07 Thread Bruce Evans
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Hermit Hacker writes: : sio1: 32 more interrupt-level buffer overflows (total 32) From the man page: sio%d: interrupt-level buffer overflow. Problem in the bottom half of the driver. This likely means

Re: microuptime() went backwards

2000-09-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 7 September 2000 at 17:48:06 -0700, John Baldwin wrote: Greg Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 7 September 2000 at 17:28:02 -0700, John Baldwin wrote: Steve Ames wrote: Just upgraded to -CURRENT as of about noon (EST) today. At reboot I got a lot of these: microuptime() went

world broken

2000-09-07 Thread Warner Losh
looks like the boot loader is killing -current. I have a patch, but it just cuts all the offending references. Comments? Warner cc -nostdlib -static -Ttext 0x0 -o loader.sym /usr/obj/home/imp/FreeBSD/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../btx/lib/crt0.o main.o conf.o bcache.o boot.o commands.o

Re: microuptime() went backwards

2000-09-07 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
The point I'm making is that we've had these problems before SMPng, and that you can't automatically assume that it's SMPng just because you get the messages. On the other hand, the 7 digits seem to be a pretty reliable signature. I'm getting this error while starting XFree86 4.0.1 on my

Re: 'interrupt-level buffer overflows' for sio device?

2000-09-07 Thread Warner Losh
Also, this is interrupt level overflows. We can run the fast interrupts fast enough to harvest characters from the hardware. What's not happening is that sio's bottom half isn't being run fast enough so the interrupt level buffers overflow. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: world broken

2000-09-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Smith writes: : : looks like the boot loader is killing -current. I have a patch, but : it just cuts all the offending references. : : Comments? : : rebuild/reinstall libstand. Sorry; should have HEADS-UPped that one. I can't reinstall libstand. I'm

Re: microuptime() went backwards

2000-09-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 7 September 2000 at 22:49:30 -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: The point I'm making is that we've had these problems before SMPng, and that you can't automatically assume that it's SMPng just because you get the messages. On the other hand, the 7 digits seem to be a pretty

Re: 'interrupt-level buffer overflows' for sio device?

2000-09-07 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Warner Losh wrote: Also, this is interrupt level overflows. We can run the fast interrupts fast enough to harvest characters from the hardware. What's not happening is that sio's bottom half isn't being run fast enough so the interrupt level buffers overflow. Okay, I'm

Re: 'interrupt-level buffer overflows' for sio device?

2000-09-07 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Hermit Hacker writes: : Okay, I'm a little confused here ... from what I'm reading/following, this : isn't a new problem ... or is it? If not, why has it suddenly manifested : itself with the new SMP code? It seems

docs on how to upgraded boot loader ...

2000-09-07 Thread The Hermit Hacker
How do I upgrade it 'with the new kernel', as the UPDATING file suggests? I've looked at the man pages for loader, and it doesn't suggest anything ... help? Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: [EMAIL

Re: 'interrupt-level buffer overflows' for sio device?

2000-09-07 Thread John Baldwin
Bruce Evans wrote: On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Hermit Hacker writes: : sio1: 32 more interrupt-level buffer overflows (total 32) From the man page: sio%d: interrupt-level buffer overflow. Problem in the bottom half of the

Re: 'interrupt-level buffer overflows' for sio device?

2000-09-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Baldwin writes: : My guess then is that we aren't scheduling the : soft interrupt to harvest the data in the top half from the bottom half. That's what I think as well. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current"

Re: microuptime() went backwards

2000-09-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 8 September 2000 at 0:18:07 -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 7 September 2000 at 22:49:30 -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: The point I'm making is that we've had these problems before SMPng, and that you can't automatically

Re: microuptime() went backwards

2000-09-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 7 September 2000 at 22:43:11 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: Sep 7 14:35:55 laptop /kernel: microuptime() went backwards (10412.355980 - 10412, -694583121)y this is bad.. right ? :-) Well, at any rate it looks very funny. If this is a laptop, try building a kernel without apm and

the ol' init securelevel thread

2000-09-07 Thread Paul Herman
Hi, [ Bcc'ed to -current ] Perhaps it was a mistake :) but I took up someone else's cause and started a thread on -current which now probably belongs on -hackers. So: What are the dangers of having init lower the securelevel to 0 when the system goes into single user? Looking at the