Re: Undocumented tape devices in pax(1)

2000-05-08 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS SPS Perth
The Pyramid series of machines used to have block tape devices, such that one was able to boot a repair kernel and ro root fs off the 1600bpi reel-to-reel deck. Not unaturally, one was discouraged from doing a recursive find on that fs. Stephen (who used to have thoughts of doing the

DEVFS - what's happening with it?

2000-04-26 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS SPS Perth
Haven't seen any discussion for quite some time. The Linux people seem to be getting into a lather about it as well. Rehashing the issues like device persistence, et cetera. Is anyone doodling around with a sysctlfs? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS

Netscape 6 Linux pre-release, got it going.

2000-04-10 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS SPS Perth
It needed the libjpeg libgtk rpms from the RedHat 6.1 CD (perhaps these could be added to Linux_base?) and a whole lot of memory, but otherwise wasn't too bad. Rather slow in some circumstances, but I hope that's owing to a bunch of debug code being in place. Stephen -- The views

Versions of gas that support 3dnow!?

2000-04-07 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS SPS Perth
I've been following the GLX stuff for Matrox G400s and noticed that there's now a version of gas that supports 3dnow! instructions without bugs. It's one of the snapshots by H.J. Lu - 2.9.5.0.34, found at ftp://ftp.varesearch.com/pub/support/hjl/binutils/ Any chance of this making its way

Latest kernel hangs on mounting /dev/ad0a

2000-03-29 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS SPS Perth
As at cvs-cur.6207 -- 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

Updating examples /usr/share/examples/ld

2000-03-25 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS SPS Perth
Can someone please update the examples in /usr/share/examples/kld? It's a bit confusing when it doesn't even compile. Stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Crash on current at cvs-cur.6182

2000-03-21 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS SPS Perth
The back trace reads ... #0 boot (howto=260) at ../../kern/kern_shutdown.c:304 #1 0xc013d7e5 in panic (fmt=0xc0273514 "from debugger") at ../../kern/kern_shutdown.c:554 #2 0xc01265bd in db_panic (addr=-1071292651, have_addr=0, count=-1, modif=0xc5ec6ce4 "") at