Re: Bursting at the seams (was: Heh heh, humorous lockup)

1999-07-07 Thread Julian Elischer
we already use the gs register for SMP now.. what about the fs register? I vaguely remember that the different segments could be used to achieve this (%fs points to user space or something) julian On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: :Why not put the kernel in a different address

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now works under New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-07 Thread Julian Elischer
uh... [phaser.whistle.com] 536 man 9 finetimer No entry for finetimer in section 9 of the manual On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Seigo Tanimura wrote: Another idea has come to my mind... pca(4) currently uses acquire_timer0(), which changes the timer frequency directly, breaking finetimer(9). I

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now works under New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-07 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Seigo Tanimura wrote: On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 19:06:48 -0700 (PDT), Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: julian uh... julian [phaser.whistle.com] 536 man 9 finetimer julian No entry for finetimer in section 9 of the manual Sorry, finetimer(9) is the new timer

Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU?

1999-07-12 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:28:04 +0200, Martin Cracauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm going to work on FreeBSD's floating point support, but I need to test my changes on systems using the FPU emulators (non-GPL and GPL). I suggested about half a

Re: LOCK overheads (was Re: objtrm problem probably found)

1999-07-19 Thread Julian Elischer
A bit late, but some more data points. 90MHz Pentium, FreeBSD 2.2.7 mode 0 60.80 ns/loop nproc=1 lcks=EMPTY mode 1 91.13 ns/loop nproc=1 lcks=no mode 2 91.11 ns/loop nproc=2 lcks=no mode 3 242.59 ns/loop nproc=1 lcks=yes mode 4 242.69 ns/loop nproc=2 lcks=yes mode 5 586.27 ns/loop

Re: HEADS UP: at_shutdown going away

1999-08-19 Thread Julian Elischer
there was external code at TRW but I don't know if it is still in use.. We have uses of it here at whistle too. (that's why I wrote it..) but I guess I can handle them... why the change? If you re-aranged the arguments you'd have EVENTHANDLER_REGISTER == at_shutdown_pri. :-) what are the

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Julian Elischer
oh THAT screen... quite a giggle.. On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: Hi, Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about STABLE), and corrected some inconsistencies. I added also binary

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-22 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bruce Evans writes: Hmmm, I know this is your code, but are you sure? 8-). My understanding of dkmodslice() and friends is that they manipulate dev_t entries, but don't actually initialise them. Since the

Re: Sync(8) doesn't have any effect on softupdates-enabled filesystem

1999-08-22 Thread Julian Elischer
yes and no. the sync wheel indicates buffers to wrrite in an order that will probably ensure that early dependencies are satisfied before later ones, however even after being written, a buffer might have remaining unsatisfied dependencies that required that teh on disk and in momory version

Alpha/PC98/ i4b patches

1999-08-24 Thread Julian Elischer
I've been moving devfs forward to match PHK's latest changes, however there are some files I cannot test. These effect the ISDN stack, the alpha port and the PC98 code. If you can test these, apply the patch file found at http://www.freebsd.org/~julian/ and let me know if it breaks

Re: -current kernel problems (spec_getpages vm_fault)

1999-08-26 Thread Julian Elischer
fixed earlier today... On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, John W. DeBoskey wrote: Hi, Following up my own mail on sig 11 problems, I beleive the problem is kernel related. Running a kernel with sources current as of 11:30am EST, I get the following during a make world: spec_getpages: I/O read

Re: -current kernel problems (spec_getpages vm_fault)

1999-08-26 Thread Julian Elischer
swapping on a vn device? the 'size' and 'resid' of 0 looks suspicious. a fix was just committed to teh vn code that may fix this if that's your problem. On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, John W. DeBoskey wrote: Hi, Following up my own mail on sig 11 problems, I beleive the problem is kernel

Re: -current kernel problems (spec_getpages vm_fault)

1999-08-26 Thread Julian Elischer
I am positive that I just saw a checkin from phk that initialised the initial default transfer size. On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: :swapping on a vn device? :the 'size' and 'resid' of 0 looks suspicious. : :a fix was just committed to teh vn code that may fix this if that's

Re: -current kernel problems (spec_getpages vm_fault)

1999-08-26 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: The size and resid of 0 is because it decides to use a sectorsize of zero due to the si_bsize fields being empty. yes, but didn't I just see you commit a fix for that? In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jul ian Elischer writes: swapping on a

Re: -current kernel problems (spec_getpages vm_fault)

1999-08-26 Thread Julian Elischer
Ah my mistake, it was ccd. I remembered vn. I guess vinum, vn, and ccd need all have the correct bisize code.. On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, John W. DeBoskey wrote: which would be this commit... phk 1999/08/26 07:46:11 PDT Modified files: sys/dev/ccd ccd.c Log:

Re: HEADS UP

1999-08-30 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: I've just committed the revised TCP timer code. There are some user visible changes: User visible TCP timers are now in units of the system clock (10ms for the i386), not those of the slowtimeout (500ms). So if you have

Re: HEADS UP

1999-08-30 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: On Aug 08, 1999 at 11:36:30PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Lemon writes: I've just committed the revised TCP timer code. There are some user visible changes: User visible TCP timers are now

Re: spec_getpages error in current kernel from last night

1999-09-03 Thread Julian Elischer
As Poul says.. first thing.. do a cvsup now and try a very modern kernel. if that fails we'll have some more things to try by then. (my workstation just croaked so I'm busy rerouting around the problem) julian On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Rob Snow wrote: basil# uname -a FreeBSD basil.dympna.com

ccd diffs for perusal.

1999-09-08 Thread Julian Elischer
After comments from Phk and Matt.. Particularly I'm looking for someone with a ccd and knowledge of it to look at these patches, (not big) and see if they do anything of interest.. The theory is to inherrit the blocksizes of the underlying devices up to the ccd device. I don't have a ccd array

Re: An FS question perhaps... non blocking I/O.

1999-09-09 Thread Julian Elischer
The Posix AIO calls that john implememted are the best way of doing this. On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: Hi, please redirect to the appropriate forum if appropriate. There is one thing i don't completely understand with non-blocking FS operation. Is there any way to

Newbus/bus/space info at FBSDcon?

1999-09-14 Thread Julian Elischer
yo guys, are we going to have a lecture on this new-bus/bus-space/new-config/etc/etc. at the FreeBSDcon? This stuff is pretty hard to digest in one hit and it would be great if there was some introductory talk to get us headded int eh right direction.. julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: More benchmarking stuff...

1999-09-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 17), Brad Knowles said: At 8:05 AM -0700 1999/9/17, Thomas Dean wrote: Are the files deleted before they are actually written to disk? Good question. I don't know the answer. I know that the process is to create

Re: More benchmarking stuff...

1999-09-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: : files sitting in unflushed disk caches and you reboot, those files are : lost. Softupdated just guarantees that the disk will be in a stable : state after a crash, not that all data written before the crash will be : available. : : :Soft

Re: request for review, patch to specfs to fix EOF condition alignmentwith buffer

1999-09-22 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: This is a request for a review. This patch fixes a bug in specfs It is a bit over-commented, and returns wrong error codes for EOF. This is certainly not over commented in my opinion. I wish more people would comment as much as Matt does.

Re: panic: free vnode isn't

1999-10-02 Thread Julian Elischer
sft updates? is it possible the filesystem got totally full? (that combination prooduces a bug that kirk is looking at...) julian On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Bob Bishop wrote: Hi, panic: free vnode isn't with yesterday's kernel (cvsup Fri Oct 1 04:02:32 BST 1999), on an SMP system early on

Re: installworld broken from R/O /usr/obj

1999-10-10 Thread Julian Elischer
that fix was applied by me about 5 minutes ago.. On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote: Bruce Evans writes: W`hile installworld is being discussed, I wanted to get this out there: Since rev 1.13 of usr.bin/make/arch.c, I've been seing a problem with ELF archive

Re: The eventual fate of BLOCK devices.

1999-10-12 Thread Julian Elischer
If you are going to respond to this. do it to 'freebsd-arch' only I've redirected my resonse there.. don't respond to this one.. On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Kirk McKusick wrote: I would like to take a step back from the debate for a moment and ask the bigger question: How many real-world

Re: QIC ft0 driver support in 4.0-CURRENT gone?

1999-10-15 Thread Julian Elischer
the driver could come back if someone who HAD such a device were to adopt it.. On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, jack wrote: Today Mike Smith wrote: Sorry if I ask a FAQ, Don't be sorry, don't do it. Search the mailing list archives. It might help if HARDWARE.TXT (both -current and

Re: -current crash

1999-10-17 Thread Julian Elischer
the vinum module looks to have been the problem.. not ethat you had stack elements at 0xc101exxx vinum starts at 0c1011000, On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Michael Reifenberger wrote: On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Bernd Walter wrote: ... What kind of modules were you running? (nullum)(root)# kldstat Id Refs

Small HEADS UP!

1999-10-21 Thread Julian Elischer
i.e. only for those with small heads.. I just checked in a relatively large set of new files and a few patches. The are the 'Netgraph' link layer networking infrastructure. They SHOULDN'T cause problems if not compiled in, but As I write a "make world" is proceding but has not finished

Re: Make world this morning

1999-10-21 Thread Julian Elischer
re-sup On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Edwin Culp wrote: I just saw my log file from this mornings make world. ed cc -O -pipe -DLIBC_RCS -DSYSLIBC_RCS -I/usr/src/lib/libc/include -D__DBINTERFACE_PRIVATE -DPOSIX_MISTAKE -I/usr/src/lib/libc/../libc/locale -DBROKEN_DES -DYP

Re: CVSUP ?

1999-10-23 Thread Julian Elischer
It's hosed. There are several emails in -hackers on this. so we're just waiting for a human to go fix it. On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Mike Tancsa wrote: Is there something up with the cvsup servers or is my repository hosed? I havent seen any updates in over a day. How do I go about checking if

Re: trek73

1999-10-23 Thread Julian Elischer
a port? On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: I found a copy of the C version of trek73 in my Amiga archives. This is the trek73 originally written in HP-2000 Basic that was rewritten by Dave Pare and Chris Williams in C and seriously enhanced by a bunch of people

Re: CSS authentication for DVD-ROMs

1999-10-26 Thread Julian Elischer
Anything we can get towards working DVD is good. On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Syam Gadde wrote: [...] Basically, my modifications follow the publicly available Mt. Fuji spec for Multimedia Devices (SFF8090), and allow a user-level program (such as css-auth above) to do the nasty work, using ioctls

Discussions starting on -arch.

1999-10-31 Thread Julian Elischer
I am going to try host the following discussions on -arch over the next week. 1/ which direction (maybe multiple) are we going with threads. 2/ SMP. how to go about it from here.. 3/ In what ways should the VFS and the filesystems be changed/cleaned-up 4/ what about posix extensions such

Re: Discussions starting on -arch.

1999-10-31 Thread Julian Elischer
yes it is a possibility.. see terry's thread model (coming up soon). (at least lurk) On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Amancio Hasty wrote: I am not that really interested on threads.. Is there a possibility of having an async call gate for which the kernel can do the scheduling whether be for a

Re: Discussions starting on -arch.

1999-10-31 Thread Julian Elischer
p.s. this should not be in -current but in -arch On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

OOps broke make world..

1999-01-03 Thread Julian Elischer
I've broken 'make world' because I forgot theat netstat has promiscuous fingers in places it shouldn't 'QUICK FIX:' copy old /usr/src/sys/netgraph/ng_socketvar.h from before I deleted it. then netstat should recompile.. I will fix it as soon as I get to my source tree. julian To

Old KLD bug..

1999-11-06 Thread Julian Elischer
If I have a KLD module that has a registered dependency on some other module, then when I load the forst module it will load the second. this is all well and good but it ALWYA loads it, even when it's already in the kernel.. if kldstat can see it, then surely the loading modules should be able

Re: Old KLD bug..

1999-11-06 Thread Julian Elischer
Yes. See my posts previously on making the distinction between 'file' and 'module'. You've just acquired some new programming talent there; I'm sure I could dope out enough of what was worked out last time we talked about this to give her something to work on. 8) As if she doesn't

Wine under -current. patches.. comments?

1999-11-14 Thread Julian Elischer
The latest port of wine references PR 14652 for patches to make -current work. some of these ptches are however in areas I don't understand. In particular signals, register contexts, etc. There is reference to a patch of luoqi's as well as other comments. Some of the patches are simply to newer

Re: PATCH for testing

1999-11-17 Thread Julian Elischer
since the environment is supposed to be part of the address space it is ssupposed to be private.. On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Oliver Fromme wrote: Adam Wight wrote in list.freebsd-current: x I like the -e option when I'm root and trying to debug things. I x think that peter's fix seems to be

Re: Make world breakage in netgraph

1999-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
hmm archie seems to have missed something. I'll look and see wht he's left out he just got called away while committing. On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: === libnetgraph cc -nostdinc -O -pipe -g -Wall -O2 -Werror -I/usr/src.freefall/sys

Re: Make world breakage in netgraph

1999-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
try add this to ng_async.h I just committed this. It's in archie's tree but not the checked in version. /* Configuration for this node */ struct ng_async_cfg { u_char enabled;/* Turn encoding on/off */ -- u_char acfcomp;/* Address/control field

Re: dd and gzip'd files

1999-11-21 Thread Julian Elischer
It appears to have worked. I guess the output block size of 16k is key for floppies, then. The conv=osync does the padding. I use 18K (one cylinder) but any multiple of 9k should work well. No, the block size requirement for floppies is 512 bytes, as it is for almost any device.

Re: Threads and my new job.

1999-11-24 Thread Julian Elischer
Firstly there is some threads discussion going on in -arch so I'm going to really reply to this over there.. This is just redirector mail julian On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Jason Evans wrote: Walnut Creek has hired me as a full time employee to work primarily on improving and expanding FreeBSD's

Which is the truth? (sycalls and traps)

1999-11-25 Thread Julian Elischer
in src/lib/libc/i386/SYS.h we see: #ifdef __ELF__ #define KERNCALLint $0x80 /* Faster */ #else #define KERNCALLLCALL(7,0) /* The old way */ #endif and in /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s we see: /* * Call gate entry for syscall. * The intersegment call has been

State of Alpha support and Oracle.

1999-11-27 Thread Julian Elischer
I am not sure of thw state of things but if someone wanted to run Oracle-8 and had an idea in their mind that they'd like to run it in an Alpha, tehn teh following questions would need to be answered (and I dont know the answers) 1/ does FreeBSD-alpha support SMB 2/ is there a binary version of

Re: Which is the truth? (sycalls and traps)

1999-11-28 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: (should be in -arch) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: repeatable crash in -current (softupdates, NFS)

1999-11-29 Thread Julian Elischer
makeoptions DEBUG="-g" Easier option.. config -g To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

trigraph in IPV6?

1999-11-30 Thread Julian Elischer
../../netinet6/in6.c: warning: 1 trigraph(s) encountered haven't seen one of THOSE for a while To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

kernel: -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 ??

1999-11-30 Thread Julian Elischer
When did this come in? (I have been seeing it for a while but.. I thought this was to save space on the bootblocks, not the entire kernel?) Do we really want shorts being pushed onto the stack as shorts? (This is what this implies) Julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

where to get -current pkgs?

2002-10-17 Thread Julian Elischer
What is the most 'up-to-date' place to find precompiled pkgs for -current? Specifically Mozilla but also others.. (I've looked around a bit but most -current places don't have packages...) Probably i should know this.. but I don't... Julian (rebuilding his machine) To Unsubscribe: send

Re: burncd/cdcontrol

2002-10-26 Thread Julian Elischer
what would it take to allow burncd to work on SCSI devices.? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

possible kernel build breakage.

2002-10-26 Thread Julian Elischer
I'm about to do a make world so it's possible a gcc change I've not yet picked up may fix this, but in the meanwhile, I can't compile a kernel because of: ref3# make cc -c -O -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith

Re: burncd/cdcontrol

2002-10-26 Thread Julian Elischer
. On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Nate Lawson wrote: On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: what would it take to allow burncd to work on SCSI devices.? You got it backwards -- is atapicam complete enough to work reliably with cdrecord? There's no reason for us to replicate a more feature-complete

Re: possible kernel build breakage.

2002-10-26 Thread Julian Elischer
This could do with a note in UPDATING, No? On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Juli Mallett wrote: You need a recompile of GCC. This change was made to accomodate the POSIX %z by renaming the DDB %z to %y, and GCC had to be made aware. * De: Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Data: 2002-10-26

Re: burncd/cdcontrol

2002-10-27 Thread Julian Elischer
there is a set of patches for it that Ken Merry pointed out to me. http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~warly/files/cdrtools/ however it is not complete support. Joerg Schilling has a vesion with full DVD support and it's his right to ask for money for it. I may end up buying some licences from him

Re: Kernel breakage?

2002-10-27 Thread Julian Elischer
I got caught by this too you need to do your kernel build in a make buildkernel after doing a make buildworld, so that it uses the newly compiled compiler. should be in UPDATING. On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Josef Karthauser wrote: Is this me? cc1: warnings being treated as errors

-current marcketting name?

2002-11-01 Thread Julian Elischer
SO ok, we need a good marketting name for 5.0.. Off the top of my head FreeBSD 5.0 banana :-) slug, monkey, heffalump, peach, blender... :-) blackjack (It's a gamble) tahoe, reno amd vegas are gone, but silver city is up for grabs :-) p.s. while the names suggested are humourous I am very

Re: Netgraph and KQUEUE(2)

2002-11-05 Thread Julian Elischer
It's not a bad idea. On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: Dear Hackers, I would like to get some feedback on the idea i have. Basically i would like Netgraph system to send kevents whenever something happens. For example: 1) node X of type Y was created/destroyed 2) hook X was

Re: Netgraph and KQUEUE(2)

2002-11-05 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: Archie Cobbs wrote: Maksim Yevmenkin writes: I would like to get some feedback on the idea i have. Basically i would like Netgraph system to send kevents whenever something happens. For example: 1) node X of type Y was

Re: Netgraph and KQUEUE(2)

2002-11-06 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: : 1) Device driver in Netgraph node. When hardware is :activated new Netgraph node is created and new :kevent sent. devd (or something like devd) listens :for these events and does something (loads firmware, :activates device, etc.)

Re: Netgraph and KQUEUE(2)

2002-11-06 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : : On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: : : : 1) Device driver in Netgraph node. When hardware is : :activated new Netgraph node is created

Re: Why is my -current system Hard Locking?

2002-11-06 Thread Julian Elischer
CTLALTESC on the keyboard still will make the console go to the debugger, even when console is on another device (e.g. serial port) if that doesn't help, then I have no idea.. On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Joel M. Baldwin wrote: No change, the system is still Hard Locking. It did it 4 times

Re: Kernel not booting....Immediate crash

2002-11-07 Thread Julian Elischer
Are the modules also new? On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Sidcarter wrote: Hi Folks, I just did a cvsup and installed a kernel. I have been trying this from the past few days with the same error. I am copying this by hand, since it crashes immediately after loading the modules. The error message is

I'm mostly off email

2002-11-08 Thread Julian Elischer
My normal server is offline. Anything sent to me in the last day or so will be in a queue waiting for it to come back online... meanwhile, I have undiverted my freebsd mail and am reading it on hub.. So if you are waiting for me to respond to something you sent today... contact me again.

Re: getting rid of devfs...

2002-11-08 Thread Julian Elischer
Ok here are some thought about devfs 1/ devices are coming and going and becoming more portable 2/ disk partitioning schemes are also multiplying 3/ devices such as usb or bluetooth nets can be configured in arbitray ways 4/ there are more than 256 types of device in the world. With these in

First cut at sysinstall 64bit changes

2002-11-15 Thread Julian Elischer
Here is a set of patches that alowed me to at least make a 1.5TB partition on my raid set. I am willing to bet that it breaks other platforms as I haven't even compiled them but it's mainly mechanical editing. is there a Mr sysinstall these days? The set I posted for 4.7++ is different from

Sign fixes for disklabel(8)

2002-11-15 Thread Julian Elischer
Here are the diffs to allow disklabel to correctly create partitions 1TB (up to 2TB is useful with UFS2) pending a different partitionning scheme. It also allows you to correctly make smaller partitions beyond 1TB which is nice if you don't want to waste 800GB on an array :-) permission to

Re: Sign fixes for disklabel(8)

2002-11-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Nate Lawson wrote: On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Tim Robbins wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 03:59:25PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: Here are the diffs to allow disklabel to correctly create partitions 1TB (up to 2TB is useful with UFS2) pending a different

Re: Sign fixes for disklabel(8)

2002-11-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: (patches not copied) also two now unneeded occurrences of (unsigned)v replaced by v To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: Sign fixes for disklabel(8)

2002-11-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Bruce Evans wrote: On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Tim Robbins wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 03:59:25PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: Here are the diffs to allow disklabel to correctly create partitions 1TB (up to 2TB is useful with UFS2) pending a different

Re: Sign fixes for disklabel(8)

2002-11-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Bruce Evans wrote: On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Nate Lawson wrote: In the overflow case, strtoul returns ULONG_MAX. Or if you're interested in catching invalid characters, use endptr. I'm not that interested in catching

Re: sparc64 tinderbox failure

2002-11-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Mike Barcroft wrote: -- Kernel build for GENERIC started on Sun Nov 17 20:01:33 GMT 2002 -- === ipfilter

Re: sparc64 tinderbox failure

2002-11-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Jake Burkholder wrote: Apparently, On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 12:23:20PM -0800, Julian Elischer said words to the effect of; On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Mike Barcroft wrote: -- Kernel build

Re: Warning messages emitted by disklabel -r

2002-11-18 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Vallo Kallaste wrote: Hi Just did the following: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1k count=512 #remove old stuff fdisk -I da1#cover the entire disk with one da1s1 slice fdisk da1 #check what's put there disklabel -rw da1s1 auto#install virgin

Re: Warning messages emitted by disklabel -r

2002-11-18 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Vallo Kallaste wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:23:14AM -0800, Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what are the warnings? what version of disklabel.c? Here's script output: Script started on Mon Nov 18 21:46:07 2002 [...] sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD

Re: Warning messages emitted by disklabel -r

2002-11-18 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Vallo Kallaste wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:00:37PM -0800, Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] In pre-geom days we had a realhack (TM) that would fiddle the label if you read it direct from the disk. In other words it fixed it to always look

Re: Lost disklabel

2002-11-20 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Garance A Drosihn wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:19:11AM -0600, Patrick Hartling wrote: but disklabel(8) won't even let me try to make a new one. If I run 'disklabel -e da3s1', I get an error saying ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Inappropriate ioctl for device. Running

Re: buildkernel broken at bluetooth?

2002-11-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, walt wrote: mkdep -f .depend -a -nostdinc -I../../../../netgraph/bluetooth/include -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -I- -I../../../../netgraph/bluetooth/include -I. -I@ -I@/dev -I@/../include -I/usr/obj/usr/local/mnt/src/i386/usr/include

installworld fell over

2002-11-21 Thread Julian Elischer
here: -- Installing everything.. -- cd /usr/src; make -f Makefile.inc1 install === share/info === include creating osreldate.h from newvers.sh setvar PARAMFILE

Re: installworld fell over

2002-11-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:25:44AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: here: -- Installing everything.. -- cd /usr/src

Re: Searching for users of netncp and nwfs to help debug5.0problems

2002-11-21 Thread Julian Elischer
As the person who broke it I'd like to help.. The problem was that it referenced teh proc structure all over the place in several different ways, and it was not obvious, without knowing the protocol which should become thread references and which should stay proc references. On Fri, 22 Nov 2002,

Re: mbuf header bloat ?

2002-11-24 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: As you eloquently state, there are a number of tradeoffs involved. On a 64-bit platform, 99% of users are paying 40 bytes/pkt for something that they will never use. On x86, 99.99% of users are paying 20 bytes/pkt for a feature they will never

Re: mbuf header bloat ?

2002-11-24 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: If we're going to nitpick the mbuf system, a much, much worse problem is that you cannot allocate an mbuf chain w/o holding Giant, which stems from the mbuf system eventually calling kmem_malloc(). This effectively prevents any network driver

Re: Update to UFS2 Superblock Format

2002-11-24 Thread Julian Elischer
I do have one question re: UFS2, not specifically about this change however.. I notice that the fields of the disk structure are signed. Wouldn;t it make more sence at this early stage to declare them as unsigned? For example take this snippet from struct fs int64_t fs_size;

Re: Update to UFS2 Superblock Format

2002-11-25 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Kirk McKusick wrote: Some of these fields could usefully be made unsigned others not (for example fs_pendingblocks and fs_pendinginodes). So just going through and making everything unsigned is not the right approach. I will make a pass through and consider changing

Re: Update to UFS2 Superblock Format

2002-11-26 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Kirk McKusick wrote: Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 01:08:30 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kirk McKusick [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Re: Searching for users of netncp and nwfs to help debug 5.0 problems

2002-11-26 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Nate Lawson wrote: On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Hiten Pandya wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:10:50PM +0100, Martijn Pronk wrote the words in effect of: In file included from /home/src/sys/netncp/ncp_conn.c:46: /home/src/sys/netncp/ncp_conn.h:174: field `nc_lock' has

Re: [PATCH] Searching for users of netncp and nwfs to help debug5.0 problems

2002-11-26 Thread Julian Elischer
some comments: firstly: ncp_conn_locklist(int flags, struct proc *p) { ! struct thread *td = TAILQ_FIRST(p-p_threads); /* XXX */ ! ! return lockmgr(listlock, flags | LK_CANRECURSE, 0, td); } can't you use unidifs? :-) ok there is a Macro to find the first thread

Re: [PATCH] Searching for users of netncp and nwfs to help debug5.0problems

2002-11-26 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: Uh, how exactly is that less obnoxious, given it's the same code with a different name and an obnoxious inline instead of a macro? 8-). it's shorter .. You can always get from a thread to a single process but the reverse always presents

Re: [PATCH] Searching for users of netncp and nwfs to help

2002-11-26 Thread Julian Elischer
debug5.0problems In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: The answer is that the code doesn't care what thread; it would prefer to not have

Re: mbuf header bloat ?

2002-11-27 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Robert Watson wrote: I'd like to continue to explore options for reducing the number of memory allocations to extend storage on mbufs. One idea I've been tossing around is adopting Jeff Roberson's extension model used in struct proc and related structures. I've

Re: mbuf header bloat ?

2002-11-27 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Bosko Milekic wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:56:33AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Robert Watson wrote: I'd like to continue to explore options for reducing the number of memory allocations to extend storage on mbufs. One idea I've been

Re: mbuf header bloat ?

2002-11-27 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Bosko Milekic wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:51:27PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: true.. if it has a 'size' argument it would do what I was thinkng about.. We actually do have that in the new m_getm(). If you do a m_getm() it allows you to specify 'size

Re: Update to UFS2 Superblock Format

2002-11-30 Thread Julian Elischer
isn't it about time we got away from puting the bootblocks in a filesystem partition? Here, all these planets^H^H^H^H^H^Hblocks are yours, to do as you please, except the first 16 blocks.. attempt no landing there (or however it went).. (Appologies to Mr. Clark). On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Kirk

Re: Linux mode is not enabled help

2002-12-01 Thread Julian Elischer
that is because there is no curproc in -current. your modulke is compiled for 4.x On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, suken woo wrote: absolute path still dont work.the system log seams that link_elf: symbol gd_curproc undefined To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: ksetest program cause the system crash!

2002-12-02 Thread Julian Elischer
I have seen a differnt problem. I have found it and will try fix it today. On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, kai ouyang wrote: From: Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will try duplicate your test tomorrow. Oh, yesterday, I updated my 'Current' box by cvsup. This is the newest I have tested! First, run

Re: Linux mode is not enabled

2002-12-02 Thread Julian Elischer
what does 'dmesg|tail' show? On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, suken woo wrote: after cvsup'd recent,the Linux emulator was disabled.rebuild it , get the same error: Linux mode is not enabled. Loading linux kernel module now... kldload: can't load linux: No such file or directory The linux kernel

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