Re: vx driver patch

2000-11-09 Thread Bruce Evans
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Matthew N. Dodd" writes: : On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Warner Losh wrote: : The cardbus code, for example, will or in the RF_SHAREABLE bit when : appropriate. : : Right, but the drivers that are consumers of the PCI or

Re: Reproduceable current kernel panic.

2000-11-09 Thread Clive Lin
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 02:29:40AM -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 04:13:37PM +0800, Clive Lin scribbled: | may panic because of several IPFIREWALL options. The panic message I could | tell is about trap 12, swi6: clock and page fault. And the machine hangs | solidly

Re: vx driver patch

2000-11-09 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Peter Wemm wrote: Do you want to know what is even funnier? One of my onboard ahc *PCI* controllers (7895 based I think) also responds to the EISA probes if I enable EISA. What machine and what does the output from the probe/attach look like? You'll fail the attach

Re: vx driver patch

2000-11-09 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
What machine and what does the output from the probe/attach look like? You'll fail the attach because the ID is not in the table of known EISA IDs. I forgot to mention that the probe will cause the aic78XX controller to get very upset as you end up referencing a register that should only be

Re: vx driver patch

2000-11-09 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: You'll fail the attach because the ID is not in the table of known EISA IDs. Joerg can probably give additional examples of this problem. This is one reason we don't probe all 15 slots yet. If we reserved the address space properly before doing the

Re: vx driver patch

2000-11-09 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
What about EISA/VL or EISA/PCI systems? What about them? PCI devices are supposed to be found via PCI configuration space access. Even in these machines where a PCI card can be falsly probed as an EISA card, the standard PCI configuration mechanism works to correctly find PCI devices. VL

help

2000-11-09 Thread Rafael Cruz
I'm trying to reinstall 486sx win 3.0 dos 6.2. I keep getting message error unable to control a20 line xms driver not installed please help. --- Rafael Cruz --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- EarthLink: It's your Internet. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Interrupt allocation

2000-11-09 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000 19:31:26 +1100 (EST), Bruce Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: - pci drivers "know" that pci interrupts are shareable and force RF_SHAREABLE. Is this required by the pci spec? Yes. - the isa compatibility code and pcvt force RF_SHAREABLE although isa irqs are rarely

Re: /etc/defaults/rc.conf

2000-11-09 Thread Mikel
Point taken, however; does it not allowe the services to be configured by such things as ip, and time period and offer yet better activity logging? With the approriate firewall setup the added layers are worth the trouble. Well enough b/w wasted on this for now. m Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:

Re: vx driver patch

2000-11-09 Thread Terry Lambert
Humm... I had wondered why that was there. Is there a way to detect VLB devices some other way? This is specific to the aha2842 and is the only way I know of detecting those boards. I thought that there was a tricky way, which involved doing the EISA non-destructive card identification,

Re: vx driver patch

2000-11-09 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: (I can't remember how, but the EISA BIOS knew not to treat these as EISA cards). Because the EISA Config Util. saves the config to the system NVRAM which the EISA BIOS reads to get the configuration. Using the EISA BIOS stuff might be the way to go.

Re: vx driver patch

2000-11-09 Thread Terry Lambert
What about EISA/VL or EISA/PCI systems? What about them? PCI devices are supposed to be found via PCI configuration space access. Even in these machines where a PCI card can be falsly probed as an EISA card, the standard PCI configuration mechanism works to correctly find PCI devices.

Re: vx driver patch

2000-11-09 Thread Terry Lambert
(I can't remember how, but the EISA BIOS knew not to treat these as EISA cards). Because the EISA Config Util. saves the config to the system NVRAM which the EISA BIOS reads to get the configuration. Yes, that was how, thanks for jogging my memory... Using the EISA BIOS stuff might be

Re: vx driver patch

2000-11-09 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
What about EISA/VL or EISA/PCI systems? What about them? PCI devices are supposed to be found via PCI configuration space access. Even in these machines where a PCI card can be falsly probed as an EISA card, the standard PCI configuration mechanism works to correctly find PCI devices.

Re: vx driver patch

2000-11-09 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
How do we use the EISA BIOS on an Alpha or an SGI though? I believe thorpej recently committed some code in NetBSD to do this on the Alpha. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: vx driver patch

2000-11-09 Thread Terry Lambert
As a backgrounder for other-than-Justin, Adaptec has a habit of making multipurpose ROMs that sit on different types of devices, so that they don't have to maintain multiple images. It's the EISA stuff in these ROMs that causes a non-EISA BIOS based EISA probe to incorrectly identify them

ISA PnP resource allocation

2000-11-09 Thread Daniel Rock
Now that someone has implementented resource alignment in the resource allocator, someone could review and integrate the attached patch. Background: I do have an old system with several PnP devices. Two of the request the following IO ports: first device: port range 0x100-0x3ff size=1 align=1

FreeBSD Foundation: Examples of FreeBSD as teaching aid/research plat

2000-11-09 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
As some of you may know, I'm working on a 501(c)3 (tax exempt/non-profit) determination for the FreeBSD Foundation. The IRS seems to be a little confused about the nature of FreeBSD and we're currenlty working on a response to an initial determination from the IRS that was not favorable. One

Re: FreeBSD Foundation: Examples of FreeBSD as teaching aid/researchplat

2000-11-09 Thread Donn Miller
I'm subscribed to -stable and not current, and yet I received this email. Do the lists get mixed up once in a while? - Donn On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: As some of you may know, I'm working on a 501(c)3 (tax exempt/non-profit) determination for the FreeBSD Foundation. The IRS

Re: FreeBSD Foundation: Examples of FreeBSD as teaching aid/research plat

2000-11-09 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
I'm subscribed to -stable and not current, and yet I received this email. Do the lists get mixed up once in a while? You're the victim of mh's dist command which I used to make this plea to several mailing lists. Unfortunately it looks like cross posting is disabled in majordomo (probably for

Re: vx driver patch

2000-11-09 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: At one (gross) time in history, Alphas included an x86 emulator in ROM to facilitate this (and other BIOS POST initialization stuff, mostly). Somehow I doubt I'll be able to make VM86 calls to BIOS interrupt services on the Alpha. -- | Matthew N. Dodd

Re: vx driver patch

2000-11-09 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Matthew N. Dodd" writes: : On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: : At one (gross) time in history, Alphas included an x86 emulator in ROM : to facilitate this (and other BIOS POST initialization stuff, mostly). : : Somehow I doubt I'll be able to make VM86

Re: Interrupt allocation

2000-11-09 Thread Mike Smith
Timesharing requires co-operation from both device and bus, but this is a completely different issue. No drivers currently support timesharing. `sio' at a minimum probably should, as it was the motivating example for adding that feature. (My laptop has three PnP sio ports: an internal

Re: vx driver patch

2000-11-09 Thread Mike Smith
At one (gross) time in history, Alphas included an x86 emulator in ROM to facilitate this (and other BIOS POST initialization stuff, mostly). They still do. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because

Some probs with kernel build

2000-11-09 Thread Szilveszter Adam
Hi everybody! I can see no one has reported these recently so I will... After I successfully made the buildworld, I proceeded to make buildkernel. However, the makedep did not go through. It is because Marcel introduced a new method of getting linux_sysent.c linux_syscall.h and linux_proto.h

Re: vx driver patch

2000-11-09 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Warner Losh wrote: I think you are right. Even if the emulator ws there, it was only used to run the ROM post code, not to be active any time after the boot to use at randomly... I looked at the NetBSD/Alpha EISA code. Looks like that does everything we'll need. -- |

Good Work Developers

2000-11-09 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I havn't said this for a while. However, I frequently think it. I just cvsup'd, make world, make and install a new kernel. All without a hitch. Good Work Developers. Thanks, tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: mergemaster and $FreeBSD$

2000-11-09 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Archie Cobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: even worse, mergemaster in some cases seems to be comparing only the $FreeBSD$ strings and incorrectly concluding that certain files don't need upgrading, when in fact they do. If the -s switch isn't specified, mergemaster compares id strings first, and

Re: mergemaster and $FreeBSD$

2000-11-09 Thread Tony Finch
Archie Cobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So.. what stuff in /home/cvs/CVSROOT can I change so that sources in freebsd/* get $FreeBSD$ substitution, but other sources get the normal $Id$ substitution? Surely someone has solved this already.. ? If you are using the FreeBSD version of CVS (which has

Re: mergemaster and $FreeBSD$

2000-11-09 Thread Archie Cobbs
Tony Finch writes: So.. what stuff in /home/cvs/CVSROOT can I change so that sources in freebsd/* get $FreeBSD$ substitution, but other sources get the normal $Id$ substitution? Surely someone has solved this already.. ? If you are using the FreeBSD version of CVS (which has been patched to

Re: FreeBSD Foundation: Examples of FreeBSD as teaching aid/research plat

2000-11-09 Thread Jim Mock
On Thu, 09 Nov 2000 at 13:26:09 -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: As some of you may know, I'm working on a 501(c)3 (tax exempt/non-profit) determination for the FreeBSD Foundation. The IRS seems to be a little confused about the nature of FreeBSD and we're currenlty working on a response to an