Re: aic (adaptec 152x) still not supported in -current?

1999-01-18 Thread Warner Losh
In message <199901190613.paa06...@chandra.eatell.msr.prug.or.jp> NAKAGAWA Yoshihisa writes: : Adaptec SlimSCSI is major PC-Card SCSI-IF, it is based on : aic6360. Now, aic not supported yet, so Note-PC user can't use any : PC-Card SCSI-IF. I'd love to see the aic supported, mostly for my notebo

Re: make release produces unbootable boot floppies, no boot loader, no /kernel

1999-01-18 Thread Mike Smith
> On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 09:52:26PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Hi ! Bad news, make release still produces non bootable floppies. > > > I cvsupped yesterday evening at 8pm and did a make world and > > > make release > > > > > > Now I tried the boot.flp image from the ftp subdir in /R/

Re: make release produces unbootable boot floppies, no boot loader, no /kernel

1999-01-18 Thread Andreas Klemm
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 09:52:26PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > Hi ! Bad news, make release still produces non bootable floppies. > > I cvsupped yesterday evening at 8pm and did a make world and > > make release > > > > Now I tried the boot.flp image from the ftp subdir in /R/ > > > > Fi

Re: aic (adaptec 152x) still not supported in -current?

1999-01-18 Thread NAKAGAWA Yoshihisa
> If you want SCSI support any time soon, I would suggest getting a supported > card. An ISA Advansys card might be a good, cheap substitute for your > 6360/6260 board. Adaptec SlimSCSI is major PC-Card SCSI-IF, it is based on aic6360. Now, aic not supported yet, so Note-PC user can't use any PC

Re: Disk Geometry Patch. Could someone test this on -current.

1999-01-18 Thread Andrew Sherrod
Appears the diff didn't get attached. Here it is. Sorry! ---Andrew Sherrod wrote: > > > As I now have upgraded at last, I tested the 3.0 > version of the patch. It does appear to make the > system recognize the proper disk geometry where the > standard wd.c does not report the proper size. >

Re: Disk Geometry Patch. Could someone test this on -current.

1999-01-18 Thread Andrew Sherrod
As I now have upgraded at last, I tested the 3.0 version of the patch. It does appear to make the system recognize the proper disk geometry where the standard wd.c does not report the proper size. Attached is the diff and 2 dmesgs, before and after. (Sorry for the length of the dmesg, haven't com

Re: make release produces unbootable boot floppies, no boot loader, no /kernel

1999-01-18 Thread Mike Smith
> Hi ! Bad news, make release still produces non bootable floppies. > I cvsupped yesterday evening at 8pm and did a make world and > make release > > Now I tried the boot.flp image from the ftp subdir in /R/ > > First error message > No /boot/loader > Then the typical "boot banner"

make release produces unbootable boot floppies, no boot loader, no /kernel

1999-01-18 Thread Andreas Klemm
Hi ! Bad news, make release still produces non bootable floppies. I cvsupped yesterday evening at 8pm and did a make world and make release Now I tried the boot.flp image from the ftp subdir in /R/ First error message No /boot/loader Then the typical "boot banner" 2nd error messa

Re: RELNOTES.TXT

1999-01-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Ken Krebs wrote... > > In /usr/src/release/texts/RELNOTES.TXT it lists the following for > supported adaptec controllers: > > Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers > Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers > Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode. > Adaptec 274X/284X/

Re: RELNOTES.TXT

1999-01-18 Thread NAKAGAWA Yoshihisa
> As far as I know, I don't think the 2920 is supported since it's not a > standard adaptec card (it was bought from another company) Old 2920, AHA-2920A is using Future Domain chip. Newer 2920, AHA-2920C? is using adaptec chip. But I don't test yet. And, 2910 is using adaptec chip, too. This car

Re: aic (adaptec 152x) still not supported in -current?

1999-01-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Peter Mutsaers wrote... > Hello, > > When CAM was integrated someone reported that the aic driver was not > ready yet for CAM, but that "Brian Beattie is > working on it". Right. > At the moment, looking in LINT, it looks like aic still isn't > supported. Is that true? Does anyone know whether

Re: FrontPage Extensions

1999-01-18 Thread Terry Lambert
For what it's worth, the FP security issues are very well documented by ReadyToRun Software's site (these are the folks who do the UNIX ports for Microsoft). They also keep both BSDI 2.1 and 3.0 binaries available, and they know about FreeBSD (it's mentioned in the FAQ as an unsupported platform;

Re: Build Errors in -current

1999-01-18 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Annelise Anderson: > But I still got an error much later with texinfo, so apparently > this is only partly fixed. Weird. After fixing netstat, my "make buildworld" succeeded w/o any problem... -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- robe...@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD k

Re: The removal of MT_RTABLE

1999-01-18 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to p...@originative.co.uk: > The removal of MT_RTABLE by fenner in rev 1.32 of /sys/sys/mbuf.h has > broken the build of the tree in netstat. It may have broken other net > apps that I haven't hit yet. Already fixed. If you're not subscribed to cvs-all, please do... -- Ollivier ROBERT -

Re: linuxthreads, gimp 1.1+, dies

1999-01-18 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 br...@worldcontrol.com wrote: > I running gimp -unstable (CVS 1/17/1998) and FreeBSD -current > (1/17/1998) with > > CFLAGS= -O2 -m486 -pipe -DCOMPAT_LINUX_THREADS -DVM_STACK > COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe -DCOMPAT_LINUX_THREADS -DVM_STACK > > and linuxthreads port from http://lt.tar.

linuxthreads, gimp 1.1+, dies

1999-01-18 Thread brian
I running gimp -unstable (CVS 1/17/1998) and FreeBSD -current (1/17/1998) with CFLAGS= -O2 -m486 -pipe -DCOMPAT_LINUX_THREADS -DVM_STACK COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe -DCOMPAT_LINUX_THREADS -DVM_STACK and linuxthreads port from http://lt.tar.com. recompiled glib, gtk+ and gimp which works fine reasonably

Re: how to update the system from the master machine

1999-01-18 Thread Annelise Anderson
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Chan Yiu Wah wrote: > Hello, > > I have two system. One is P233 (master) and the other is a dual P90. > How can I update the dual P90 system from the P233 (master) system. > Is there anyone can share your experience with me. Thanks. > > clarence I have used dump and re

Re: kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > >If the system is simply low on memory, kmem_malloc() will block. > > > > > >So malloc() will generally not return NULL even in low memory > > > situations > > >unless the KVM map fills up, which isn't supposed to happen but can in > > >c

Re: kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Brian Feldman
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: > >Look at the void () functions that call malloc/MALLOC. Also, commit the > >attached patch; it was OKed by Bruce to disallow this, but he seems to forget > >to commit it. > > It is queued behind 10-100 other patches. > > >--- src/sys/kern/vfs_syscalls.c.

19990112-SNAP: no /usr/libexec/ld.so

1999-01-18 Thread David Wolfskill
Making use of a hint from Mike Smith (re: "two-floppy boot"), I tried upgrading a box here that had been running an older level of -CURRENT to the 19990112-SNAP. Died while copying data (I think it was ports) with a SIGSEGV; no recent corefiles were on the system, and I didn't think it was worthwh

Re: kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Mike Smith
> >If the system is simply low on memory, kmem_malloc() will block. > > > >So malloc() will generally not return NULL even in low memory situations > >unless the KVM map fills up, which isn't supposed to happen but can in > >certain severe circumstances. Callers should therefore ch

Re: Re2: kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Mike Smith
> > Because you shouldn't panic unless there's no alternative. Panicking > > on resource starvation is just totally lame. > > Ahem: > uipc_mbuf.c: unmodified, readonly: line 268 of 945 [28%] > panic("Out of mbuf clusters"); > uipc_mbuf.c: unmodified, readonly: line 296 of

Re: kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Bruce Evans
>Look at the void () functions that call malloc/MALLOC. Also, commit the >attached patch; it was OKed by Bruce to disallow this, but he seems to forget >to commit it. It is queued behind 10-100 other patches. >--- src/sys/kern/vfs_syscalls.c.orig Fri Dec 25 22:27:21 1998 >+++ src/sys/kern/vfs_s

Re: kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Mike Smith
> On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > So malloc() will generally not return NULL even in low memory > > > > situations > > > > unless the KVM map fills up, which isn't supposed to happen but can > > > > in > > > > certain severe circumstances. Callers should therefore c

Re: kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Bruce Evans
>> Of course not. It is fundamental that malloc(..., M_WAITOK) either >> succeeds or panics. Most callers depend on this and don't check for >> success. The others are bogus. > >actually it turns out to be true.. Actually not. >see other email from matt. See my corrections to that mail. Bruc

Re: kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Bruce Evans
>It looks like malloc() can return NULL if the kmem_malloc() fails. Not for the M_WAITOK case. >kmem_malloc() can only fail in the M_WAITOK case if the KVM map is full. kmem_malloc() panics in this case (except for map == mb_map; the mbuf allocator has special handling for this problem).

Re: kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: > >There was some talk about the fact that malloc(..M_CANWAIT) > >can now return with a failure. > > You mean M_WAITOK. yes.. a braino.. (I corrected in later mail) > > >Is that true? > > Of course not. It is fundamental that malloc(..., M_WAITOK) eit

Re: kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Peter Dufault
> > why not just put it in a loop and block on lbolt? > > (or call panic) > > Because you shouldn't panic unless there's no alternative. Panicking > on resource starvation is just totally lame. We haven't used up the kernel name space yet. This sort of fundamental change should be enabled by a

Sync card users. need testers..

1999-01-18 Thread Julian Elischer
Whistle is preparing to submit it's synchronous protocols suppoort framework, but to make it usable we'd like to be able to release it with support for the sr and ar sync cards (and maybe even the third (cx) if I can get to it). However as we have NONE of those cards I'll need people to help test

Re2: kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > So malloc() will generally not return NULL even in low memory > > > situations > > > unless the KVM map fills up, which isn't supposed to happen but can in > > > certain severe circumstances. Callers should therefore check for > > > NULL.

Re: kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Bruce Evans
>There was some talk about the fact that malloc(..M_CANWAIT) >can now return with a failure. You mean M_WAITOK. >Is that true? Of course not. It is fundamental that malloc(..., M_WAITOK) either succeeds or panics. Most callers depend on this and don't check for success. The others are bogus.

Re: kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > So malloc() will generally not return NULL even in low memory > > > situations > > > unless the KVM map fills up, which isn't supposed to happen but can in > > > certain severe circumstances. Callers should therefore check for > > > NULL.

Re: kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Mike Smith
> > So malloc() will generally not return NULL even in low memory situations > > unless the KVM map fills up, which isn't supposed to happen but can in > > certain severe circumstances. Callers should therefore check for NULL. > > why not just put it in a loop and block on lbolt? > (o

Re: kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Mike Smith
> > > There was some talk about the fact that malloc(..M_CANWAIT) > oops M_WAITOK.. > > > > can now return with a failure. Is that true? > > > > Yes; it's necessary to do this to allow some chance of avoiding > > deadlock. > > I can't find this in the archives.. can you remember > a keyword th

Re: kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :> > There was some talk about the fact that malloc(..M_CANWAIT) > :> > can now return with a failure. Is that true? > :> > :> Yes; it's necessary to do this to allow some chance of avoiding > :> deadlock. > : > :Ouch! Is everything in src-sys already

Re: kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Here at whistle we are trying to remember about a conversation > > regarding malloc that occured recently. Maybe others can help. > > > > There was some talk about the fact that malloc(..M_CANWAIT) oops M_WAITOK.. > > can now return with a failur

Re: kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> > There was some talk about the fact that malloc(..M_CANWAIT) :> > can now return with a failure. Is that true? :> :> Yes; it's necessary to do this to allow some chance of avoiding :> deadlock. : :Ouch! Is everything in src-sys already checking the return value of an M_WAITOK? : : Brian Feld

Re: kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Here at whistle we are trying to remember about a conversation > > > > regarding malloc that occured recently. Maybe others can help. > > > > > > > > There was some talk about the fact that mal

Re: kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Mike Smith
> On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > > Here at whistle we are trying to remember about a conversation > > > regarding malloc that occured recently. Maybe others can help. > > > > > > There was some talk about the fact that malloc(..M_CANWAIT) > > > can now return with a failure.

Re: kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Here at whistle we are trying to remember about a conversation > > regarding malloc that occured recently. Maybe others can help. > > > > There was some talk about the fact that malloc(..M_CANWAIT) > > can now return with a failure. Is that true? >

Re: kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Mike Smith
> > Here at whistle we are trying to remember about a conversation > regarding malloc that occured recently. Maybe others can help. > > There was some talk about the fact that malloc(..M_CANWAIT) > can now return with a failure. Is that true? Yes; it's necessary to do this to allow some chance o

RELNOTES.TXT

1999-01-18 Thread Ken Krebs
In /usr/src/release/texts/RELNOTES.TXT it lists the following for supported adaptec controllers: Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode. Adaptec 274X/284X/2920/2940/2950/3940/3950 (Narrow/Wi

oops on last mail..(malloc)

1999-01-18 Thread Julian Elischer
Of course I meant M_WAITOK not M_CANWAIT julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

kernel malloc and M_CANWAIT

1999-01-18 Thread Julian Elischer
Here at whistle we are trying to remember about a conversation regarding malloc that occured recently. Maybe others can help. There was some talk about the fact that malloc(..M_CANWAIT) can now return with a failure. Is that true? who has their finger on that particular button? julian (p.s. sti

aic (adaptec 152x) still not supported in -current?

1999-01-18 Thread Peter Mutsaers
Hello, When CAM was integrated someone reported that the aic driver was not ready yet for CAM, but that "Brian Beattie is working on it". At the moment, looking in LINT, it looks like aic still isn't supported. Is that true? Does anyone know whether it will be? Thanks, -- Peter Mutsaers | Ab

make release & vn

1999-01-18 Thread Christian Kuhtz
Hey gang: Should I worry about these messages on the console when doing a make release? vn0: raw partition size != slice size vn0: start 0, end 2879, size 2880 vn0: start 0, end 5759, size 5760 vn0: truncating raw partition vn0: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn't entirely within the slic

build failure on dec axp

1999-01-18 Thread Gary Palmer
cc -O -pipe -I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/include -c /usr/src/usr.bin/netstat/uni x.c /usr/src/usr.bin/netstat/mbuf.c:71: `MT_RTABLE' undeclared here (not in a functi on) /usr/src/usr.bin/netstat/mbuf.c:71: initializer element for `mbtypes[4].mt_type' is not constant Gary -- Gary Palmer

Re: NFS problem found - pleaes try this patch.

1999-01-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
A. Yes, I see. I will unapply my patch and apply this one and test it. I'm not sure what the use of having m->valid and m->clean bits are at all if we have to munge them like this. Perhaps we should change these vm_page_t to a byte range in -4.0. I think we also nee

Re: New boot blocks + serial hardware handshaking?

1999-01-18 Thread Robert Nordier
Josef Karthauser wrote: > We're having trouble using the new boot loader code and '-h' in > boot.config. It appears that unless the terminal is connected to > the serial port a machine doesn't reboot properly. My guess is > that the new boot serial code is defaulting to hardware handshaking > on

Re: ATM LANE support

1999-01-18 Thread Chris Steva
Unfortunately in practice at the desktop level there are a mix of hosts that run on ATM or ethernet. As is the case here where we use LANE to integrate both in to a single network. Chris >ATM LANE is evil. Why do you want it? > >On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 06:58:24PM -0500, Chris Steva wrote: >> I

New boot blocks + serial hardware handshaking?

1999-01-18 Thread Josef Karthauser
We're having trouble using the new boot loader code and '-h' in boot.config. It appears that unless the terminal is connected to the serial port a machine doesn't reboot properly. My guess is that the new boot serial code is defaulting to hardware handshaking on the serial terminal line, whereas

Re: NFS problem found - pleaes try this patch.

1999-01-18 Thread Luoqi Chen
The check is correct and should be there, the B_CACHE bit was cleared because I made a mistake when setting the valid bit in the vm page. Index: vfs_bio.c === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/kern/vfs_bio.c,v retrieving revision 1.192 dif

Re: NFS problem found - pleaes try this patch.

1999-01-18 Thread Chris Timmons
Good work! I have to run at the moment but it looks like you nailed this one. Your explanation coincides perfectly with the symptoms. Thanks! -Chris On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Ok, I believe I have found the bug. Please test the patch included below. > I was able t

Broken make world

1999-01-18 Thread Charlie ROOT
I got the following when trying a new make world (1-17-99): cc -O -pipe -I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/include -c /usr/src/usr.bin/netstat/if.c cc -O -pipe -I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/include -c /usr/src/usr.bin/netstat/inet.c cc -O -pipe -I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/include -c /usr/src/usr.bin/

NFS problem found - pleaes try this patch.

1999-01-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
::On the server I downgraded vfs_bio.c to rev 1.187 & rebooted; no luck. I ::then installed the same kernel (with the downgraded vfs_bio.c) to the ::client. Bingo. With both NFS client & server machine running rev 1.187, ::... ::-Chris : :Hmm. r1.88 are Luoqi's fixes to the handling of misa

The removal of MT_RTABLE

1999-01-18 Thread paul
The removal of MT_RTABLE by fenner in rev 1.32 of /sys/sys/mbuf.h has broken the build of the tree in netstat. It may have broken other net apps that I haven't hit yet. There's also a new coding style that I've not come across before being used in this file, it's based on commenting out lines by c

RE: SurfChina.com - Search Engine for China

1999-01-18 Thread Markus Döhr
[snip] > Dear friend, > > Do you ever wonder where to find information about China? > Well, wonder no > more. Come check out SurfChina.com [snap] just wondering if anyone else receives this post about 10 times...? -- Markus Doehr IT Admin AUBI Bau

SurfChina.com - Search Engine for China

1999-01-18 Thread Surf China
Dear friend, Do you ever wonder where to find information about China? Well, wonder no more. Come check out SurfChina.com (http://www.surfchina.com), the BEST SEARCH ENGINE for China. SurfChina.com's database consists of thousands of China, Chinese related web sites, all sites are carefully cate

netstat prints shifted if_obytes values?

1999-01-18 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, Is the following behaviour from netstat expected under CURRENT? input (xl0) output packets errs bytespackets errs bytes colls 2 0390 0 0 0 0 4 0264 0 0

Re: Problems with new IDE's & -current

1999-01-18 Thread Karl Pielorz
Andrew Atrens wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > Karl, > > Let's see your (dmesg) probe messages ... :) they may shed some light on > what's happening. I don't claim to be an expert on wd.c but from what I > can tell it seems that controller and drive capabilities are pro

Re: how to update the system from the master machine

1999-01-18 Thread Gianmarco Giovannelli
At 09.44 18/01/99 +0100, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: >At 16.22 18/01/99 +0800, you wrote: >I usually have a box ("server") which make the make world process, the >others ("clients") only install what the server did :-) > >Let's say in advance that I do it _only_ if server and clients run the same

Build Errors in -current

1999-01-18 Thread Annelise Anderson
With sources as of about 10 p.m. PST, I got an error in /usr/src/usr.bin/netstat/mbuf.c:71, which was easy to fix. But I still got an error much later with texinfo, so apparently this is only partly fixed. Annelise To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cur

Re: how to update the system from the master machine

1999-01-18 Thread Gianmarco Giovannelli
At 16.22 18/01/99 +0800, you wrote: >Hello, > >I have two system. One is P233 (master) and the other is a dual P90. >How can I update the dual P90 system from the P233 (master) system. >Is there anyone can share your experience with me. Thanks. > >clarence I usually have a box ("server") which

how to update the system from the master machine

1999-01-18 Thread Chan Yiu Wah
Hello, I have two system. One is P233 (master) and the other is a dual P90. How can I update the dual P90 system from the P233 (master) system. Is there anyone can share your experience with me. Thanks. clarence To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-curr

make world error upto src-cur.3710

1999-01-18 Thread Chan Yiu Wah
Hello, I tried to make world (src-cur.3710) todya and found the following error. Can anyone tell me how to solve it. thanks. Clarence === Error === In file included from /usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl/perl.h:2081, from DynaLoader.xs:107: /usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr

Re: NFS: likely problem is vfs_bio.c rev 1.188

1999-01-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On the server I downgraded vfs_bio.c to rev 1.187 & rebooted; no luck. I :then installed the same kernel (with the downgraded vfs_bio.c) to the :client. Bingo. With both NFS client & server machine running rev 1.187, :the problem so far as building XFree86-contrib from an NFS mounted :/usr/port