Re: MAKEDEV(8) manpage

2003-03-23 Thread Jarkko Santala
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Brueffer writes: > >now that MAKEDEV has been gone for a while, the manpages (alpha and i386) > >can be nuked as well, right? > > Right. Although it might be considered dragging old baggage around, would it

Re: make kernel bombs out

2003-03-23 Thread Brendan Hiley
Ahh, I missed that :) Thanks, Brendan. On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 14:27, Don wrote: > > I'm using source that was sync'd about 18 hours ago. > > Buildworld built properly and kernel looks like it's almost completely > > built then I get what is below. > > > > Any suggestions/ideas? > > This is the sec

Re: make kernel bombs out

2003-03-23 Thread Don
> I'm using source that was sync'd about 18 hours ago. > Buildworld built properly and kernel looks like it's almost completely > built then I get what is below. > > Any suggestions/ideas? > This is the second time it's bombed out like this and I CVSup'd and > rebuilt world inbetween the two attemp

make kernel bombs out

2003-03-23 Thread Brendan Hiley
Hi guys, I'm using source that was sync'd about 18 hours ago. Buildworld built properly and kernel looks like it's almost completely built then I get what is below. Any suggestions/ideas? This is the second time it's bombed out like this and I CVSup'd and rebuilt world inbetween the two attempts

Re: atomic_dec_and_test() in FreeBSD?

2003-03-23 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 06:37:17PM -0500, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > > APR makes use of a function in Linux called > atomic_dec_and_test which is described here: *snip* > Is there a way that I can use the existing > FreeBSD macros to achieve the equivalent of atomic_dec_and_test? Probably not a go

Re: "Just" building the lib part of world

2003-03-23 Thread David Leimbach
Thanks for all the helpful responses... :) On Sunday, March 23, 2003, at 01:38PM, M. Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >: Or even better would be just building libc. I have been working on my >: getp

atomic_dec_and_test() in FreeBSD?

2003-03-23 Thread Craig Rodrigues
Hi, I asked this question on freebsd-smp...I'm asking here in case anyone has any ideas. I am the port maintainer for the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library. APR makes use of a function in Linux called atomic_dec_and_test which is described here: http://kernelnewbies.org/documents/kdoc/kerne

Re: libm problem

2003-03-23 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Sunday 23 March 2003 20:22, Till Riedel wrote: > I think no one should simply use the sse2 stuff at the moment, > because you will notice problems too late. My > mp3s sounded horrible and gv didn't display pdf files correctly. > if there hadn't been libvorbis though that had a division by zero,

Re: ACPI problem: sio ports improperly attached with ACPI on IntelL440GX+

2003-03-23 Thread Bruce Evans
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Robert Watson wrote: > When I boot with ACPI, the following appears in dmesg: > > Mar 23 14:14:31 none kernel: sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 > Mar 23 14:14:31 none kernel: sio0: port may not be enabled > Mar 23 14:14:31 none kernel: sio0 port 0x3f8-0x3f

Re: "Just" building the lib part of world

2003-03-23 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Or even better would be just building libc. I have been working on my : getpwnam_r assignment... : examining implementations in both Darwin and NetBSD and started trying : to implement some of : this code fo

Re: libm problem

2003-03-23 Thread Julian St.
Am So, 2003-03-23 um 18.56 schrieb Bruce Cran: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 06:43:16PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > > Just out of curiousity, have you tried using -mfpmath=sse? I remember someone > > on this list claiming that the SSE fpa-code works much better than the i387 > > code whic

ACPI problem: sio ports improperly attached with ACPI on Intel L440GX+

2003-03-23 Thread Robert Watson
I'm attempting to use an Intel L440GX+ motherboard with 5.x, and am running into the following problem: when I boot without ACPI, the serial ports probe, attach, and work fine: Mar 23 14:21:56 none kernel: sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 Mar 23 14:21:56 none kernel: sio0: type

Re: libm problem

2003-03-23 Thread Till Riedel
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 07:39:06PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: Content-Description: signed data > Actually, when I said "better", I really meant "doesn't break -O(ptimized) > code" rather than "faster". :) ok, got you now. it is neither faster nor better. I tested it with e_pow.c. funnily tho

Re: libm problem

2003-03-23 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Sunday 23 March 2003 19:24, Till Riedel wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 06:43:16PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > Just out of curiousity, have you tried using -mfpmath=sse? I remember > > someone on this list claiming that the SSE fpa-code works much better > > than the i387 code which is

Re: libm problem

2003-03-23 Thread Till Riedel
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 06:43:16PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: Content-Description: signed data > On Sunday 23 March 2003 18:02, Till Riedel wrote: > > why not > > +_CPUCFLAGS = -march=pentium4 -mno-sse2 > > > > > choose, and in the case of pentium4 producing broken code the > > > obvious fall

Re: libm problem

2003-03-23 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 06:43:16PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > Just out of curiousity, have you tried using -mfpmath=sse? I remember someone > on this list claiming that the SSE fpa-code works much better than the i387 > code which is used by default (even with -march=pentium4). > I do

Re: libm problem

2003-03-23 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Sunday 23 March 2003 18:02, Till Riedel wrote: > why not > +_CPUCFLAGS = -march=pentium4 -mno-sse2 > > > choose, and in the case of pentium4 producing broken code the > > obvious fallback would be pentium3... > > above would be in fact the same because only the SSE2 code differs from > march=pen

Re: sem.ko and vfs_aio.ko modules not built by default

2003-03-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
I removed sem because people were nearly hostile about it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Freeze from pppd

2003-03-23 Thread Maxim Konovalov
Try a next patch. Index: if_ppp.c === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/net/if_ppp.c,v retrieving revision 1.90 diff -u -r1.90 if_ppp.c --- if_ppp.c4 Mar 2003 23:19:51 - 1.90 +++ if_ppp.c23 Mar 2003 17:05:28 - @@ -157

Re: libm problem

2003-03-23 Thread Till Riedel
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 07:08:08AM -0600, Anti wrote: > On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 23:41:14 -0800 > David Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thus spake Anti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 10:28:46 -0800 > > > Steve Kargl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Pentium 4 is definit

Re: sem.ko and vfs_aio.ko modules not built by default

2003-03-23 Thread Craig Rodrigues
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 11:14:28AM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > Sometimes, kernel modules will not be built by default because they are > unstable or experimental features that have not been adequately deployed > or tested. I know our AIO implementation has improved in quality a great > deal over

Re: Keyboard Problem

2003-03-23 Thread Gerald Mixa
Am Sonntag, 23. März 2003 17:20 schrieb Gerald Mixa: > Well I have the latest Version Installed, and the button does not work. > actually its the only one! I have the problme on freebsd 4.7,too. > Unfortuanatley your hint does not help on both machines :-( My keyboard section looks like that on

Re: Keyboard Problem

2003-03-23 Thread Gerald Mixa
Am Sonntag, 23. März 2003 16:47 schrieb Nuno Teixeira: > Hi, > > I have the same problem. To fix that disable XkbModel option. > > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "keyboard" > #Option "XkbModel" "pc104" > Option "XkbLayout" "pt" > E

Re: sem.ko and vfs_aio.ko modules not built by default

2003-03-23 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > I notice that with a recent -current, that the vfs_aio.ko and sem.ko > modules do not seem to be built by default. In the past, this was not > the case. > > Is it mandatory now to specify the kernel options: > options VFS_AIO > option

sem.ko and vfs_aio.ko modules not built by default

2003-03-23 Thread Craig Rodrigues
Hi, I notice that with a recent -current, that the vfs_aio.ko and sem.ko modules do not seem to be built by default. In the past, this was not the case. Is it mandatory now to specify the kernel options: options VFS_AIO options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES in order for these modules to be

Re: Keyboard Problem

2003-03-23 Thread Nuno Teixeira
Hi, I have the same problem. To fix that disable XkbModel option. Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" #Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "pt" EndSection I think that this problem was fixed in XFree86-Server-4

Re: Posix semaphore problem

2003-03-23 Thread Craig Rodrigues
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 01:55:03AM -0800, Hongbo Li wrote: > I just run a example program from the book unp2v2 > written W.Richard Stevens. The program includes a call > to sem_open. The compilation was ok. But when I run it > on FreeBSD 5-current(recent),the system print "Bad > system call (core d

Re: MAKEDEV(8) manpage

2003-03-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Brueffer writes: > >--4C6bbPZ6c/S1npyF >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Disposition: inline >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >Hi, > >now that MAKEDEV has been gone for a while, the manpages (alpha and i386) >can be nuked as

MAKEDEV(8) manpage

2003-03-23 Thread Christian Brueffer
Hi, now that MAKEDEV has been gone for a while, the manpages (alpha and i386) can be nuked as well, right? - Christian -- Christian Brueffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA

Re: "Just" building the lib part of world

2003-03-23 Thread David Leimbach
Whew... :) Me too unfortunately. I know basically what it takes to make a thread safe function... and I have found good implementations of getpwnam_r in other OSes and some not so good looking ones as well but I haven't really been able to integrate one into our current system which appears to

Re: "Just" building the lib part of world

2003-03-23 Thread Matthew Emmerton
Sorry, you're right. libc is where you want to be putting your code. (I'm suffering from multiple-OS-itis right now.) -- Matt - Original Message - From: "David Leimbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Matthew Emmerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003

Re: "Just" building the lib part of world

2003-03-23 Thread David Leimbach
Hmmm for some reason I thought that would be the simple answer... also at one point in time unistd.h gave me trouble when I didn't build libc under world. Is libc_r the correct place to put getpwnam_r anyway? My understanding is that just where the userland thread implementation goes. I never

Re: "Just" building the lib part of world

2003-03-23 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Or even better would be just building libc. I have been working on my > getpwnam_r assignment... > examining implementations in both Darwin and NetBSD and started trying > to implement some of > this code for FreeBSD... Its not anywhere even near

Re: "Just" building the lib part of world

2003-03-23 Thread Matthew Emmerton
- Original Message - From: "David Leimbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 8:29 AM Subject: "Just" building the lib part of world > Or even better would be just building libc. I have been working on my > getpwnam_r assignment... > examining im

"Just" building the lib part of world

2003-03-23 Thread David Leimbach
Or even better would be just building libc. I have been working on my getpwnam_r assignment... examining implementations in both Darwin and NetBSD and started trying to implement some of this code for FreeBSD... Its not anywhere even near the goal in sight as I am still learning the build syste

Re: libm problem

2003-03-23 Thread Anti
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 23:41:14 -0800 David Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus spake Anti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 10:28:46 -0800 > > Steve Kargl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Pentium 4 is definitely broken on 5.x. Perhaps, we should remove > > > the footshooting.

Keyboard Problem

2003-03-23 Thread Gerald Mixa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have got installed FreeBSD5.0-p4 and XFree4.3.0 on a Sony Vaio PCG-FX705. The ati Video Driver works with 1400x1050 and the mouse works as well. My problem is, that within X the XServer the button with the symbols for a "less" b, a "greater"

Posix semaphore problem

2003-03-23 Thread Hongbo Li
I just run a example program from the book unp2v2 written W.Richard Stevens. The program includes a call to sem_open. The compilation was ok. But when I run it on FreeBSD 5-current(recent),the system print "Bad system call (core dumped)". The program code : #include #include #include #include