Re: KSE kernel comparissons

2001-08-28 Thread Terry Lambert
Not to put too fine of a point on it, and hopefully, this won't be taken as a personal attack, but... [ Mr. X ] wrote: [ Mr. W ] wrote: As I recall, *total* functionality of the subsystems wasn't promised for 5.0-R, but the infrastructure *was* promised. I expect you are reponding to my

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-28 Thread Terry Lambert
David O'Brien wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:48:21PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: I don't WANT to commit without more testing and more support for the other platforms. However I need support from the people DOING those platforms to go further. For $500-$600 I can put you on a 500MHz

new KSE patches

2001-08-28 Thread Julian Elischer
as current moves we need to keep up (or it doesn't patch) I just put up a new patch which includes Peter's Alpha stuff Note nwfs is not yet converted.. coment it out of any config files. (also NCP it runs on, and SMBFS) -- ++ __ _ __ | __--_|\

Re: fxp SCB timeout problems [FIX]

2001-08-28 Thread Terry Lambert
Mike Tancsa wrote: What's being lost here, when it is disabled, instead of being handled as the card manufacturer expects the OS to handle it? From my perspective, negative functionality is being lost. There is a nice comment in the source code explaining what it is... [ ... actual

Re: Ia64 and ALPHA (+arm, sparc?) kernel developers:

2001-08-28 Thread Terry Lambert
John Baldwin wrote: halted CPU 0 halt code = 2 kernel stack not valid halt PC = fc553020 You overflowed your kernel stack. You can use srm to dump the memory at that address (I can't remember the stupid SRM syntax for the life of me though) and wade through it looking for

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-28 Thread Julian Elischer
Terry Lambert wrote: David O'Brien wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:48:21PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: I don't WANT to commit without more testing and more support for the other platforms. However I need support from the people DOING those platforms to go further. For

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-28 Thread Terry Lambert
Garance A Drosihn wrote: I would very much like to see the KSE work in 5.0, but I still would rather delay that for a later release instead of delaying 5.0 for another three or four months. What about the fact that the KSE work was agreed to be committed if finished in August at the Usenix

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-28 Thread Terry Lambert
Julian Elischer wrote: I don't WANT to commit without more testing and more support for the other platforms. However I need support from the people DOING those platforms to go further. For $500-$600 I can put you on a 500MHz 21164 Alpha. I've invested $2500 from my own pocket

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/cardbus cardbus.c cardbus_cis.ccardbus_cis.h cardbusvar.h src/sys/dev/pccard card_if.m pccard.c pccardvar.hsrc/sys/dev/pccbb pccbb.c pccbbvar.h src/sys/sys rman.h

2001-08-28 Thread Michael Reifenberger
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Jonathan Chen wrote: ... The fix I committed this morning should get around these issues. Please tell me if you run into any more problems. This works (now) for supported card like my ep0 (3COM...) but reboots for unsupported cards like my sandisk-smartmedia etc.. Is this

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/cardbus cardbus.c cardbus_cis.c cardbus_cis.h cardbusvar.h src/sys/dev/pccard card_if.m pccard.c pccardvar.h src/sys/dev/pccbb pccbb.c pccbbvar.h src/sys/sys rman.h

2001-08-28 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 12:07:10PM +0200, Michael Reifenberger wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Jonathan Chen wrote: ... The fix I committed this morning should get around these issues. Please tell me if you run into any more problems. This works (now) for supported card like my ep0 (3COM...)

Re: Ia64 and ALPHA (+arm, sparc?) kernel developers:

2001-08-28 Thread Peter Wemm
Terry Lambert wrote: John Baldwin wrote: halted CPU 0 halt code = 2 kernel stack not valid halt PC = fc553020 You overflowed your kernel stack. You can use srm to dump the memory at that address (I can't remember the stupid SRM syntax for the life of me though)

Unconnected files problem

2001-08-28 Thread Ollivier Robert
I have a script that generates index for all my mail messages (using glimpse). Sometimes, the disk is full because it has some rather big temporary files (and I have a lot of mail). It seems that we may have a softupdate-related (that's a guess from me) problem because some of these temporaty

Re: Ia64 and ALPHA (+arm, sparc?) kernel developers:

2001-08-28 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Peter Wemm writes: Actually, this was the result of not correctly setting up the new argument to the fork trampoline code. We now have a fully viable Alpha + KSE kernel as of about 5 minutes ago: Excellent. Thank you, Peter. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-28 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
FreeBSD is going to be left in the dust unless both the SMPng *AND* KSE projects are integrated into 5.0. I care about having a system that works well and does what I ask of it. What the Linux horde is doing is of little concern to me, and I suspect the same goes for a number of other

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-28 Thread Joseph Mallett
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:34:06AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: Just to get this out in the public: I for one think 5.x has enough changes in it and would like for KSE to be postponed to 6.0-current and 6.0-release. I I definitely agree about this, 5.x is going to be enough of a major change as

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-28 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
I have one system that I've been maintaining/updating since the 2.X days and I feel it's time to nuke it and start over. +1 for a non-smp system and SMP system. That said, I think the value of having both KSE and SMPng in 5.0 is HUGE and I think there is probably a large

Re: Headsup! KSE believers should show up!

2001-08-28 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
Well, I for one can test it on an alpha (I'm borrowing from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) as soon as my DSL gets installed ;-) Ken On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 5:09 PM -0700 8/27/01, Darryl Okahata wrote: Is there some reason why KSE couldn't be integrated ASAP *AFTER* 5.0 is

Re: fxp SCB timeout problems [FIX]

2001-08-28 Thread Brad Huntting
From my perspective, negative functionality is being lost. There is a nice comment in the source code explaining what it is... * Enable workarounds for certain chip revision deficiencies. * * Systems based on the ICH2/ICH2-M chip from Intel have a defect

Re: fxp SCB timeout problems [FIX]

2001-08-28 Thread Jonathan Lemon
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 09:32:22AM -0600, Brad Huntting wrote: From my perspective, negative functionality is being lost. There is a nice comment in the source code explaining what it is... * Enable workarounds for certain chip revision deficiencies. *

News + call for testers regarding KSE + future inclusion of SMPng...

2001-08-28 Thread Sean Chittenden
Seriously, is there any reason to hold to a time line at the expense of some very important and very fundamental enhancements to FreeBSD? I suppose that's something for -core to talk about/discuss, but I bet that if a poll was put on the homepage of FreeBSD.org (hint hint) asking

More SIG4s during make world

2001-08-28 Thread Brian Somers
Hi, Just a quick note to say that my -current box has started dropping cores during make world again. I have a kernel from August 11 that works ok, and had one from August 18 that was causing sig 4 at random places. I accidently overwrote my Aug 18 kernel.old, but Aug 25, 27 and 28 are

Re: make world broken in -current

2001-08-28 Thread Jim Pirzyk
On Monday 27 August 2001 05:58 pm, David O'Brien wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 11:10:55AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Compiling sources cvs'ed this morning (Aug 27th), I get this error: cd /auto/roy/dist/pub/FreeBSD/CURRENT/src/usr.bin/file; make build-tools make: don't know how to

Re: More SIG4s during make world

2001-08-28 Thread Matt Dillon
:Hi, : :Just a quick note to say that my -current box has started dropping :cores during make world again. : :I have a kernel from August 11 that works ok, and had one from August :18 that was causing sig 4 at random places. I accidently overwrote :my Aug 18 kernel.old, but Aug 25, 27 and 28

My Recommended Development/Testing environment for -current

2001-08-28 Thread Matt Dillon
I'm posting this as an aid to everyone doing freebsd-current development and testing and may not realize how easy it is to setup a development environment. The number one thing is: Don't put the CVS tree or source code on the -current box itself, except for testing purposes.

Addendum to recommended dev/test env for -current

2001-08-28 Thread Matt Dillon
Oh, two addendums. /FreeBSD in my example is a big parition on my -stable box, not sitting on the root partition obviously. I recommend at least 3 GB. In my case I actually have the CVS tree itself, a broken-out -current source tree, a broken-out -stable source tree, NetBSD

Re: My Recommended Development/Testing environment for -current

2001-08-28 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: I'm posting this as an aid to everyone doing freebsd-current development and testing and may not realize how easy it is to setup a development environment. I found this very helpful Matt, thank you. I would only add one thing that I do in

Re: My Recommended Development/Testing environment for -current

2001-08-28 Thread Sean Chittenden
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:14:29AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:14:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: My Recommended Development/Testing environment for

Re: My Recommended Development/Testing environment for -current

2001-08-28 Thread The Anarcat
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: [snip of diskless comments] You wouldn't happen to have sample configs around, wouldn't you? :) I will say though, on the subject of NFS, that one of the things that I'm almost annoyed enough with to

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/cardbus cardbus.c cardbus_cis.ccardbus_cis.h cardbusvar.h src/sys/dev/pccard card_if.m pccard.c pccardvar.hsrc/sys/dev/pccbb pccbb.c pccbbvar.h src/sys/sys rman.h

2001-08-28 Thread Michael Reifenberger
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Jonathan Chen wrote: ... No, that is not by intention, nor can I tell what is wrong. I've tried sticking in unknown cards without ill effect. What would be helpful is if you supplied at least the panic message, and a backtrace when the panic occues. Or if this is a

linux threads and fclose lock problem

2001-08-28 Thread Jeff Fellin
The following test program hangs on current from 8/20/2001. The program hangs in the fprintf to the function testThread(), instead of running to completion. If the call in main to fclose() of an unrelated file descriptor is removed the program runs to completion. From tracing code, it appears

Re: My Recommended Development/Testing environment for -current

2001-08-28 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, The Anarcat wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: [snip of diskless comments] You wouldn't happen to have sample configs around, wouldn't you? :) Am-utils (the contrib source for our amd) has been kicking around

RE: My Recommended Development/Testing environment for -current

2001-08-28 Thread John Baldwin
On 28-Aug-01 Matt Dillon wrote: I'm posting this as an aid to everyone doing freebsd-current development and testing and may not realize how easy it is to setup a development environment. Nice stuff and close to what I do (I just share a development sys tree over NFS now). One

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/cardbus cardbus.c cardbus_cis.c cardbus_cis.h cardbusvar.h src/sys/dev/pccard card_if.m pccard.c pccardvar.h src/sys/dev/pccbb pccbb.c pccbbvar.h src/sys/sys rman.h

2001-08-28 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:05:30AM +0200, Michael Reifenberger wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Jonathan Chen wrote: ... No, that is not by intention, nor can I tell what is wrong. I've tried sticking in unknown cards without ill effect. What would be helpful is if you supplied at least the

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-28 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, David O'Brien wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:17:01AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: For $500-$600 I can put you on a 500MHz 21164 Alpha. I've invested $2500 from my own pocket in Alpha hardware, so others with nice Bay Area saleries can

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-28 Thread Terry Lambert
David O'Brien wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:17:01AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: For $500-$600 I can put you on a 500MHz 21164 Alpha. I've invested $2500 from my own pocket in Alpha hardware, so others with nice Bay Area saleries can too. :-)

openbios

2001-08-28 Thread aaron
Hi! I have been wondering if fbsd people would like to move into the openbios.org direction? Well, at least I for myself would _dream_ of booting my laptop and have X running in 10 seconds :)) I am asking because AFAIK the openbios guys replace the standard bios calls with their own code

Re: openbios

2001-08-28 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010828 15:37] wrote: Hi! I have been wondering if fbsd people would like to move into the openbios.org direction? Well, at least I for myself would _dream_ of booting my laptop and have X running in 10 seconds :)) I am asking because AFAIK the openbios guys

Re: openbios

2001-08-28 Thread aaron
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010828 15:37] wrote: Hi! I have been wondering if fbsd people would like to move into the openbios.org direction? Well, at least I for myself would _dream_ of booting my laptop and have X running in 10 seconds

Re: openbios

2001-08-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:21:38PM +0200, aaron wrote: yes, but AFAIK they will replace standard BIOS calls with their own abstraction layer/calls. Now if fbsd uses some well known BIOS calls which differ in the openbios abstraction layer then it wont run. so the question boils down to: is

Re: openbios

2001-08-28 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010828 16:19] wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010828 15:37] wrote: I have been wondering if fbsd people would like to move into the openbios.org direction? Well, at least I for myself would _dream_ of

Re: Ia64 and ALPHA (+arm, sparc?) kernel developers:

2001-08-28 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 11:04:39PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: It has been pointed out that the stumbling block is ~10 lines of Akpha assembly language code that Julian is asking that someone familiar with the Alpha write. Julian is not an Alpha assembly language guru. In order to make

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-28 Thread Julian Elischer
Joseph Mallett wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:34:06AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: Just to get this out in the public: I for one think 5.x has enough changes in it and would like for KSE to be postponed to 6.0-current and 6.0-release. I I definitely agree about this, 5.x is going to

Re: News + call for testers regarding KSE + future inclusion of SMPng...

2001-08-28 Thread Julian Elischer
Sean Chittenden wrote: Seriously, is there any reason to hold to a time line at the expense of some very important and very fundamental enhancements to FreeBSD? I suppose that's something for -core to talk about/discuss, but I bet that if a poll was put on the homepage of

Re: News + call for testers regarding KSE + future inclusion of SMPng...

2001-08-28 Thread Sean Chittenden
remember , that this is not KSE threading, just milestone 2 (run with current logic, with a broken up proc structure) lots of distance to go yet... Yup... but mozilla's been posting mile stones for years to get interest. Seems like KSE and SMPng are good candidates for the same PR.

diskcheckd

2001-08-28 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
What are the current plans for diskcheckd in src? I have it ported in sysutils/diskcheckd with minor testing needed. -- David W. Chapman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raintree Network Services, Inc. www.inethouston.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD Committer www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-28 Thread Joseph Mallett
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 09:55:13AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: Joseph Mallett wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:34:06AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: Just to get this out in the public: I for one think 5.x has enough changes in it and would like for KSE to be postponed to 6.0-current

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-28 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:17:01AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: For $500-$600 I can put you on a 500MHz 21164 Alpha. I've invested $2500 from my own pocket in Alpha hardware, so others with nice Bay Area saleries can too. :-) Remember that Julian is

Re: linux threads and fclose lock problem

2001-08-28 Thread Tor . Egge
The following test program hangs on current from 8/20/2001. The program hangs in the fprintf to the function testThread(), instead of running to completion. If the call in main to fclose() of an unrelated file descriptor is removed the program runs to completion. From tracing code, it

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/cardbus cardbus.c cardbus_cis.c cardbus_cis.h cardbusvar.h src/sys/dev/pccard card_if.m pccard.c pccardvar.h src/sys/dev/pccbb pccbb.c pccbbvar.h src/sys/sys rman.h

2001-08-28 Thread Warner Losh
In message 20010828120317.U1205-10@nihil Michael Reifenberger writes: : This works (now) for supported card like my ep0 (3COM...) but reboots for : unsupported cards like my sandisk-smartmedia etc.. Is this by intention? Well, that should work, but ata hasn't been NEWCARDified yet. Warner

removal of diskcheckd.conf breaks mergemaster

2001-08-28 Thread Wesley Morgan
Subject says it all. /usr/src/etc/Makefile still refers to diskcheckd.conf... -- _ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ Wesley N Morgan _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ __ | _ \._ \ |) |

testing KSE

2001-08-28 Thread Julian Elischer
Because we have not patched any non kernel items in the patch A make world in a source tee with the KSE changes in it's kernel directories will fail. You need to do build the kernel outside of the tree you will "make buildworld" in so that the build tree is untouched. Oherwise it will not

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