Re: gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc.

2010-09-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 9/17/10 4:45 PM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: Hi. My company was in need for functionality similar to nextboot(8), but on boot loader level, so we can have two partitions we boot from where one is known to be good and the other is used for upgrades. We upgrade by dd(1)ing entire partition imag

gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc.

2010-09-17 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
Hi. My company was in need for functionality similar to nextboot(8), but on boot loader level, so we can have two partitions we boot from where one is known to be good and the other is used for upgrades. We upgrade by dd(1)ing entire partition image onto unused partition, we mark it as try-to-boot

Re: Extend ktrace/kdump output

2010-09-17 Thread Norberto Lopes
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 09:55:26PM +0200, Norberto Lopes wrote: >> Hi. >> I've been taking a look at ktrace and kdump in order to get (1) familiar >> with the sources and (2) to finally try to give back something to the >> community. >>

Re: Extend ktrace/kdump output

2010-09-17 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 09:55:26PM +0200, Norberto Lopes wrote: > Hi. > I've been taking a look at ktrace and kdump in order to get (1) familiar with > the sources and (2) to finally try to give back something to the community. > > So far from what I've seen, and after reading this thread > http

Extend ktrace/kdump output

2010-09-17 Thread Norberto Lopes
Hi. I've been taking a look at ktrace and kdump in order to get (1) familiar with the sources and (2) to finally try to give back something to the community. So far from what I've seen, and after reading this thread http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2006-April/005107.html it seems

Re: tun(4) in -CURRENT: No buffer space available - race condition patch

2010-09-17 Thread Marcin Cieslak
>> John Baldwin wrote: > Oh, yes. I've updated the patch to remove D_NEEDGIANT. So far (last 24 hours) my tun(4) with your patch was very stable. I am updating it to remove D_NEEDGIANT. Thank you! //Marcin ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Multiple hpet messages during boot

2010-09-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 17/09/2010 18:36 M. Warner Losh said the following: > > so is there support for the following: Aye. > Index: subr_bus.c > === > --- subr_bus.c(revision 212791) > +++ subr_bus.c(working copy) > @@ -3996,9 +3996,11

Regarding pciids

2010-09-17 Thread Alex Dupre
I created hackish scripts to generate pci_vendors file from Boemler and Mares (pciids.sf.net) lists. I haven't found the Hart list. The results of the scripts are here: http://www.alexdupre.com/pci_vendors/mares.txt http://www.alexdupre.com/pci_vendors/boemler.txt http://www.alexdupre.com/pci_ven

Re: Multiple hpet messages during boot

2010-09-17 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <20100917055953.gf1...@pluto.vnode.local> Joel Dahl writes: : On 16-09-2010 8:28, John Baldwin wrote: : > On Wednesday, September 15, 2010 2:32:33 am Joel Dahl wrote: : > > I noticed this during boot (HEAD from yesterday): : > > : > > hpet0: [FILTER] : > > hpet0: [FILTER]

Re: Multiple hpet messages during boot

2010-09-17 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <201009160828.35520@freebsd.org> John Baldwin writes: : On Wednesday, September 15, 2010 2:32:33 am Joel Dahl wrote: : > I noticed this during boot (HEAD from yesterday): : > : > hpet0: [FILTER] : > hpet0: [FILTER] : > hpet0: [FILTER] : > hpet0: [FILTER] : > hpet0: [FI

Re: CFT - Xen infrastructure and block I/O improvements

2010-09-17 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
On 9/17/2010 1:27 AM, Rui Paulo wrote: > On 17 Sep 2010, at 07:55, Rui Paulo wrote: > >> On 17 Sep 2010, at 02:44, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: >> >>> At Spectra Logic, we are using FreeBSD amd64 under Xen to serve storage >>> to other Xen domains. Over the past 9 months, we've made several changes >>>

Re: DHCP server in base

2010-09-17 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <4c91100c.5060...@freebsd.org> Doug Barton writes: : > Most of the code is there anyway, and it isn't evolving as fast as : > BIND. : : That is actually a more rational argument, even if I don't agree with : it. FWIW, part of the reason that I don't agree with it is that a

Re: Multiple hpet messages during boot

2010-09-17 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <4c911214.7060...@freebsd.org> Alexander Motin writes: : Joel Dahl wrote: : > I noticed this during boot (HEAD from yesterday): : > : > hpet0: [FILTER] : > hpet0: [FILTER] : > hpet0: [FILTER] : > hpet0: [FILTER] : > hpet0: [FILTER] : > hpet0: [FILTER] : > hpet0: [FILTER] :

Re: tun(4) in -CURRENT: No buffer space available - race condition patch

2010-09-17 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday, September 16, 2010 9:02:23 am Marcin Cieslak wrote: > Dnia 15.09.2010 John Baldwin napisał/a: > > On Monday, September 13, 2010 9:10:01 pm Marcin Cieslak wrote: > >> Output queue of tun(4) gets full after some time when sending lots of data. > >> I have been observing this on -CURRENT

amd64: VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE changed to 1

2010-09-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
[re-post, my address book was polluted with cu_rrr_ent@ entry, sorry] on 09/09/2010 11:01 Andriy Gapon said the following: > on 26/07/2010 19:07 Andriy Gapon said the following: >> >> Anyone knows any reason why VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE on amd64 should not be set to >> 1? >> I mean things potentially

Re: CFT - Xen infrastructure and block I/O improvements

2010-09-17 Thread Rui Paulo
On 17 Sep 2010, at 07:55, Rui Paulo wrote: > On 17 Sep 2010, at 02:44, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >> At Spectra Logic, we are using FreeBSD amd64 under Xen to serve storage >> to other Xen domains. Over the past 9 months, we've made several changes >> to FreeBSD's Xen support. These include: >>