Re: Pre-filled RAM disk.

2017-09-20 Thread Jon Brawn
On Sep 20, 2017, at 10:35 PM, Ian Lepore <i...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 21:23 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 9:16 PM, Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:50 PM, Jon Brawn <j..

Pre-filled RAM disk.

2017-09-20 Thread Jon Brawn
Wotcha! I work for Arm for my sins, and in my spare time I’ve been playing with FreeBSD. In my day job I work with the CPU core validation team, and one of the things we do is take the hardware design of a new core and run it on a machine called an emulator. This emulator isn’t the same thing

Re: Intel CPU design flaw - FreeBSD affected? Information from Arm

2018-01-04 Thread Jon Brawn
Wotcha! My employer, Arm, have made the following website available to help with deciding what to do about this security issue. http://www.arm.com/security-update Note: I am not writing here as a representative of Arm, and cannot provide further

Re: USB stack

2018-01-07 Thread Jon Brawn
> On Jan 7, 2018, at 5:44 PM, Jon Brawn <j...@brawn.org> wrote: > > >> On Jan 6, 2018, at 10:18 PM, blubee blubeeme <gurenc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 12:11 PM, Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote: >> >>&g

Re: USB stack

2018-01-07 Thread Jon Brawn
> On Jan 6, 2018, at 10:18 PM, blubee blubeeme wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 12:11 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 8:56 PM, blubee blubeeme >> wrote: >> >>> I ask does FreeBSD usb stack actually

Re: Programmatically cache line

2018-01-04 Thread Jon Brawn
> On Jan 4, 2018, at 4:03 AM, David Chisnall wrote: > > On 3 Jan 2018, at 22:12, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> >> On 01/03/18 13:37, Ed Schouten wrote: >>> 2018-01-01 11:36 GMT+01:00 Konstantin Belousov : >>> On x86, the

INTRNG

2018-02-22 Thread Jon Brawn
Wotcha Gang! In my travels through the arm64 GENERIC config file I came across the option ‘INTRNG’, and wondered what it was: INTeRrupt Next Generation? INTeger Random Number Generator? IN TRaiNinG? INTerrupt Random Number Generator? INdependent TRaiNinG? So, please put me out of my misery,

lock order reversal

2018-02-25 Thread Jon Brawn
Wotcha! So, I’ve been using FreeBSD 12-CURRENT at various svn releases for a while now, and I get quite a few “lock order reversal” dumps. The one I’ve got on my screen at the moment is for ufs / bufwait / ufs: root@brax:/usr/src/stand # lock order reversal: 1st 0xfd0003ec17e8 ufs (ufs) @