Re: config NO_F00F_HACK

1999-04-26 Thread Peter Wemm
Luoqi Chen wrote: On Sun, Apr 25, 1999, a.leidin...@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de wrote: Hi, =20 # ident LINT LINT: $Id: LINT,v 1.589 1999/04/24 21:45:44 peter Exp $ =20 with: option NO_F00F_HACK =20 # config WORK WORK:15: unknown option NO_F0F_HACK

Heads up! config(8) changes..

1999-04-24 Thread Peter Wemm
This shouldn't cause much in the way of trouble, but it will complain about old lint in your config files. That includes 'net/tty/bio/cam' mask indicators, and 'vector xxxintr' as well as some of the wierder workarounds for the poor 'options' parsing. So: things like: device sio1 at isa? tty

Re: Heads up! config(8) changes..

1999-04-24 Thread Peter Wemm
Chris Costello wrote: On Sat, Apr 24, 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: This shouldn't cause much in the way of trouble, but it will complain about old lint in your config files. That includes 'net/tty/bio/cam' mask indicators, and 'vector xxxintr' as well as some of the wierder workarounds

Re: nice little kernel task for somebody

1999-04-23 Thread Peter Wemm
Sean Eric Fagan wrote: Here's a thing I've missed a couple of times: I'd like to be able to see the limits for a process in /proc. At some point, I want to add an ioctl to get various process information (well, multiple ioctl's, I think); SysVr4 has a bunch, and that's what I'd model it

Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files)

1999-04-21 Thread Peter Wemm
Matthew Reimer wrote: Great work guys! It almost seems that -current is more stable than -stable! Matt Funny you should mention it. I've heard this from a number of people over the last week.. One has even suggested using a particular known-good 4.0 snapshot in preference to a 3.1-stable

Re: newbus and modem(s)

1999-04-20 Thread Peter Wemm
Doug Rabson wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: [..] Now what I'm curious about is how to handle the nexus and isa/eisa better so they don't need to explicitly name the children. On one hand it could look at the hints table to see all the 'at nexus?' declarations, but I think

Re: newbus and modem(s)

1999-04-19 Thread Peter Wemm
Doug Rabson wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Takanori Watanabe wrote: In message pine.bsf.4.05.9904190929070.85882-100...@herring.nlsystems.com , Do ug Rabson wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 takaw...@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp wrote: Simple Question. If there were

Re: new kernel and IPDIVERT

1999-04-19 Thread Peter Wemm
Brian Feldman wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Ilya Naumov wrote: i have compiled the latest kernel and encountered a problem with IPDIVERT. even with options IPDIVERT string in kernel config, kernel says the following: IP packet filtering initialized, divert disabled, rule-based

Re: newbus and modem(s)

1999-04-19 Thread Peter Wemm
Peter Wemm wrote: Doug Rabson wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Takanori Watanabe wrote: In message pine.bsf.4.05.9904190929070.85882-100...@herring.nlsystems.co m , Do ug Rabson wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 takaw...@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp wrote: Simple Question

Re: error building kernel

1999-04-19 Thread Peter Wemm
Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: I followed the instructions about NEXUS to rebuild my kernel, and it now it won't compile. It gets all the way through the compile, and then gives these errors. I'll bet you've got two 'psm0' lines in the config file.. All that config is doing now is basically

Re: newbus and isa auto irq

1999-04-19 Thread Peter Wemm
John Hay wrote: [..] Apr 19 19:22:28 orca /kernel.doug: ppc0: interrupting at irq 7 Apr 19 19:22:28 orca /kernel.doug: ed0 at port 0x280-0x29f on isa0 Apr 19 19:22:28 orca /kernel.doug: ed0: address 00:00:c0:1d:43:db, type SMC82 16/ SMC8216C (16 bit) Apr 19 19:22:28 orca /kernel.doug:

Re: HEADS UP!!!! Important instructions for -current users!

1999-04-18 Thread Peter Wemm
John Hay wrote: As of a few minutes ago, a minimal set of changes to bring the so-called 'new-bus' functionality to the i386 kernel in -current. It looks like the stat clock isn't started after this. I have tried a SMP and UNI kernel and both behave the same. Looking with vmstat -i and

Re: HEADS UP!!!! Important instructions for -current users!

1999-04-18 Thread Peter Wemm
Mark Murray wrote: John Hay wrote: As of a few minutes ago, a minimal set of changes to bring the so-called 'new-bus' functionality to the i386 kernel in -current. It looks like the stat clock isn't started after this. I have tried a SMP and UNI kernel and both behave the same.

Re: new-bus on ISA only machine

1999-04-18 Thread Peter Wemm
Valentin Shopov wrote: On ISA only machine, w/o controller pci0at nexus? in kernel config, after make depend: In file included from ../../i386/i386/nexus.c:74: ../../pci/pcivar.h:192: pci_if.h: No such file or directory In file included from ../../i386/i386/userconfig.c:132:

Re: new-bus breaks both sound drivers

1999-04-17 Thread Peter Wemm
Chris Piazza wrote: On 17-Apr-99 Brian Feldman wrote: Both sound drivers are broken with the new-bus code. My SB16, in the old driver, now gets recognized but sbxvi is never looked for. pcm0, the new driver, never initializes with the new code :( device pcm0 at isa? port? tty irq 5 drq

Re: Lastest ATA/ATAPI driver boots with kernel.debug only.

1999-04-17 Thread Peter Wemm
Matthew Thyer wrote: I've found that I need to disable my secondary IDE controller with the version 5 and 6 of the new ATAPI drivers. Just as a thought.. Is your kernel.debug leftover from an earlier build? Perhaps that's why it works and the current ones do not... Cheers, -Peter To

Re: boot kernel panic with the latest new-bus

1999-04-17 Thread Peter Wemm
Jose Gabriel Marcelino wrote: Hi, I'm getting kernel panics during boot with the latest kernel built today using new-bus. This broke both my custom kernel and today's GENERIC (with all the needed updates) on my machine. Booting with the old kernel works fine. From what I can see (and

Re: new-bus breaks both sound drivers

1999-04-17 Thread Peter Wemm
Brian Feldman wrote: On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: Chris Piazza wrote: On 17-Apr-99 Brian Feldman wrote: Both sound drivers are broken with the new-bus code. My SB16, in the ol d driver, now gets recognized but sbxvi is never looked for. pcm0, the ne w driver

HEADS UP!!!! Important instructions for -current users!

1999-04-16 Thread Peter Wemm
As of a few minutes ago, a minimal set of changes to bring the so-called 'new-bus' functionality to the i386 kernel in -current. This is a complete, from the ground up, change in the way the system boots and configures. For the most part, we've gone to a lot of trouble to make it work the way it

Re: HEADS UP!!!! Important instructions for -current users!

1999-04-16 Thread Peter Wemm
Chris Csanady wrote: As of a few minutes ago, a minimal set of changes to bring the so-called 'new-bus' functionality to the i386 kernel in -current. This seems to have broken disk wiring for me. Is there some necessary change in syntax that I am not aware of? I have the following scsi

Re: newconfig/new-bus

1999-04-13 Thread Peter Wemm
Rick Whitesel wrote: Hi: I should have been more clear. BSD driver interoperability is a seperate issue from Linux application interoperability but I think both are important. I don't want to get hopes up prematurely, but we think we might be able to emulate enough of the newconfig-style

Re: Netscape dumps core after XFree86 build

1999-04-12 Thread Peter Wemm
Kevin G. Eliuk wrote: On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Kevin G. Eliuk wrote: I installed linux-netscape-4.08 and it opens with bus error or signal 10. That should be without I've applied Bruce Evans's patch to egcs to work around (yet another)

About that 'new-bus' stuff.

1999-04-12 Thread Peter Wemm
As some have become aware, we have created a small sandbox repository alongside (but seperate to) the main FreeBSD sources. I've been asked a few times for info on what it is, so here's a quick summary. First, the background.. The original 386BSD and FreeBSD configuration interface was purely

Re: Libraries with library dependancies

1999-04-10 Thread Peter Wemm
Mark Murray wrote: Hi I've been helping somebody along with getting the new libcrypt going, and something has broken recently (post-egcs?), and I'm having a wee problem debugging it. Libcrypt uses routines out of libmd (MD[45]* and SHA*), and a while back (pre-egcs), it was possible to

Re: Libraries with library dependancies

1999-04-10 Thread Peter Wemm
Brian Feldman wrote: On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: Mark Murray wrote: Hi I've been helping somebody along with getting the new libcrypt going, and something has broken recently (post-egcs?), and I'm having a wee problem debugging it. Libcrypt uses routines out

Re: DES from source?

1999-04-07 Thread Peter Wemm
things above). Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm pe...@netplex.com.au Netplex Consulting No coffee, No workee! :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: egcs

1999-04-05 Thread Peter Wemm
David O'Brien wrote: What will become of f77 which is in src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/f77? This seems to be a good time to decide what will happen with Fortran in the base FreeBSD system. VERY good question. I have no opinion in the matter, but will follow the wishes of others (or Core, or

Re: rfork()

1999-03-21 Thread Peter Wemm
Matthew Dillon wrote: :Hence the NEW flag RFSTACK. Why would this be a bad thing? This would keep :the old behavior and allow much nicer new behavior. I didn't suggest :changing the old behavior. This would just greatly simplify things so all of I think Richard Seaman has it right: the

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-20 Thread Peter Wemm
Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Justin T. Gibbs wrote: In article 199903171205.naa25...@freebsd.dk you wrote: It seems David O'Brien wrote: Boot from an ata disk on major# 30, device name ad, plain and simple . Does this mean ata disks won't come under CAM/da ? Not if I

Re: panic: vfs_busy: unexpected lock failure

1999-03-18 Thread Peter Wemm
Matthew Dillon wrote: :On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 12:52:32PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: : A.. And if you make those AMD mounts normal nfs mounts it doesn't : fry? If so, then we have a bug in AMD somewhere. : :I tried the cp several times again on a regular NFS mount, to

Re: gcc

1999-02-28 Thread Peter Wemm
Warner Losh wrote: In message 20655.920182...@zippy.cdrom.com Jordan K. Hubbard writes: : I for one would love to see 2.8.1 or newer in the tree for my own, : selfish reasons. Many ports (new architectures) would benefit from : this. : : Is that to say that you prefer it over egcs

Re: problem during online register StarOffice 5.0

1999-02-21 Thread Peter Wemm
Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm pe...@netplex.com.au Netplex Consulting No coffee, No workee! :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: Even more interesting NFS problems..

1999-01-31 Thread Peter Wemm
Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: Why is it clearly broken? proto=tcp,vers=3 is what is in 3.0-RELEASE, Amd in 3.0 works for many. I won't defend that the new Amd works the best with us, but then neither did the old Amd. Erm, I haven't tried it between 3.0 and 3.0 boxes because all my test

Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-01-28 Thread Peter Wemm
Bruce Evans wrote: [..] Perhaps you could repeat it? style(9) is supposed to document KNF. It is not supposed to document best coding practices, julian's preferences or bde's preferences. style(9) is not KNF, and never was intended to be. It's a FreeBSD style guide that bears similarity to

Re: kdump/ktrace broken in -current

1999-01-26 Thread Peter Wemm
with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm pe...@netplex.com.au Netplex Consulting No coffee, No workee! :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: beginnings of a diskless boot sequence being committed

1999-01-25 Thread Peter Wemm
Luigi Rizzo wrote: [..] I haven't seen how you suggest to buildpopulate the MFS filesystems -- right now i use a rather crude method of putting all the stuff in a tgz archive on the server and expanding it at runtime on the client. I haven't solved the problem with passwords (i.e. i just copy

Re: kvm question

1999-01-24 Thread Peter Wemm
Archie Cobbs wrote: Julian Elischer writes: As soon as someone modifies sysctl to work with KLD modules that would be a reasonable suggestion On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: I ran into an interesting problem in the process of modifying netstat to understand the

Re: panic: found dirty cache page 0xf046f1c0

1999-01-23 Thread Peter Wemm
Matthew Dillon wrote: :It's definately happening still, sorry. :-( I recompiled a 100% static :kernel and have had three more explosions, usually after starting exmh. :(exmh takes 10 to 15MB of ram on this system due to my mailbox folder :sizes). : :However, a clue.. The SMP box that

Re: kvm question

1999-01-23 Thread Peter Wemm
a descriptor for any internal sysctl tables - at minimum it needs to know where in the heirarchy it needs to be attached. kern_linker.c can then look for it and attach it to the sysctl tree, once sysctl gets updated to allow dynamic extensions like that. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm pe

Re: panic: found dirty cache page 0xf046f1c0

1999-01-23 Thread Peter Wemm
at a different level. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm pe...@netplex.com.au Netplex Consulting No coffee, No workee! :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: panic: found dirty cache page 0xf046f1c0

1999-01-23 Thread Peter Wemm
Peter Wemm wrote: Matthew Dillon wrote: [..] Try changing the panic in vm/vm_page.c to a printf() ( I'll do that. BTW; what are the dangers of this? lost disk writes or corruption? Can we (as a workaround) push the page that we found back onto a dirty queue and try again after some

Re: panic: found dirty cache page 0xf046f1c0

1999-01-23 Thread Peter Wemm
Matthew Dillon wrote: [..] :Oh, one other thing that occurred to me.. Under 4.0-current, I regularly :(ie: within 30 seconds of boot) get if_de tranmitter underflows. My :console corruption was happening at the instant that de0 was being :configured with ifconfig. exmh is running to a

Re: panic: found dirty cache page 0xf046f1c0

1999-01-23 Thread Peter Wemm
Matthew Dillon wrote: :But that was a week ago, and it's a *busy* news server (that's not hitting :swap), I was just curious about the error messages from the de driver. : : -- Niels. The transmit underflow messages: de0: abnormal interrupt: transmit underflow (raising TX

Re: vinum read no longer works

1999-01-22 Thread Peter Wemm
Greg Lehey wrote: On Friday, 22 January 1999 at 9:23:48 -0800, Jake wrote: I can no longer bring up my vinum volume with the vinum read command: vinum read /dev/wd0s1e /dev/wd2s1f vinum read /dev/wd0s1e vinum read /dev/wd2s1f all come back with vinum: no drives Correct. As

Re: vinum read no longer works

1999-01-22 Thread Peter Wemm
Greg Lehey wrote: On Saturday, 23 January 1999 at 6:24:17 +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: Greg Lehey wrote: On Friday, 22 January 1999 at 9:23:48 -0800, Jake wrote: I can no longer bring up my vinum volume with the vinum read command: vinum read /dev/wd0s1e /dev/wd2s1f vinum read /dev

panic: found dirty cache page 0xf046f1c0

1999-01-22 Thread Peter Wemm
Dual p5-90 w/ 48M ram, doing a major cvs update/merge (which mostly got lost): panic: found dirty cache page 0xf046f1c0 mp_lock = 0101; cpuid = 1; lapic.id = 0100 Debugger(panic) Stopped at Debugger+0x37: movl$0,in_Debugger db trace Debugger(f01f1806) at Debugger+0x37

Re: panic: found dirty cache page 0xf046f1c0

1999-01-22 Thread Peter Wemm
Peter Wemm wrote: Dual p5-90 w/ 48M ram, doing a major cvs update/merge (which mostly got lost): panic: found dirty cache page 0xf046f1c0 mp_lock = 0101; cpuid = 1; lapic.id = 0100 Debugger(panic) Stopped at Debugger+0x37: movl$0,in_Debugger db trace This is possibly

Re: panic: found dirty cache page 0xf046f1c0

1999-01-22 Thread Peter Wemm
Matthew Dillon wrote: :Peter Wemm wrote: : Dual p5-90 w/ 48M ram, doing a major cvs update/merge (which mostly got : lost): : : panic: found dirty cache page 0xf046f1c0 :... : :This is possibly a false alarm.. Something wierd was happening. I cleaned :out the kernel and reconfigured

Re: Using LinuxThreads

1999-01-21 Thread Peter Wemm
Julian Elischer wrote: [..] I just realised however, that if we make them go away we break SMP right? No. I don't think the patches affect SMP one way or the other. If someone tries to run kernel threads of any kind (linuxthreads in emulation, linuxthread in FreeBSD native, any

Re: HEADS UP: another syscons update

1999-01-20 Thread Peter Wemm
Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 07:21:23 PST, John Polstra wrote: Is make clean really necessary? A make depend ought to be sufficient, I would think. I think that's an attempt to protect people who've upgraded from STABLE and haven't gotten used to ``config -r''? config

Re: HEADS UP: another syscons update

1999-01-20 Thread Peter Wemm
Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 00:29:54 +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: 'make depend' really does work, and is quite safe. Cleaning the tree should be a very rare requirement. Perhaps the chap sitting next to me and I are just unlucky. Between the two of us, we've needed to use

Re: KLD cannot load dependent modules

1999-01-19 Thread Peter Wemm
Doug Rabson wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: If I load a module A then try load a module B that requires a function in A it fails because it cannot find the symbol.. is this a known problem? (A real bummer if so) The module B needs to have A as a dependancy.

Re: PATCH for testing

1999-01-17 Thread Peter Wemm
Alex Zepeda wrote: On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Warner Losh wrote: In message Pine.BSF.4.10.9911182311590.338-10@localhost Alex Zepeda w rites: : ps -e w/out -U only shows variables for processes owned by that user, no? ps -ea. Then perhaps -a and -U should be disabled? *grin* I

HEADS UP: i386 a.out LKM support now an option..

1999-01-17 Thread Peter Wemm
As of a few minutes ago, I committed some changes that: 1: make the LKM code use the common VFS and syscall registration routines 2: make an 'options LKM' option. 3: build an 'lkm' loadable kld module This means that if you are still using an a.out kernel and are loading LKM's specifically, you

Re: Annoying messages on startup..

1999-01-17 Thread Peter Wemm
sth...@nethelp.no wrote: j...@zippy- dmesg|grep Freeing Freeing (NOT implemented) redirected ISA irq 11. Freeing (NOT implemented) redirected ISA irq 10. Nowhere near as annoying as tagged openings now xx. Agreed. They are confusing to those who don't know what it means. As for

Re: init runs with console as control terminal?

1999-01-16 Thread Peter Wemm
Luoqi Chen wrote: Since sometime last month, rc5des failed to start from my rc.local. I did a little investigation and it turned out that rc5des was started but later terminated by a SIGHUP. During its brief lifetime, /dev/console was its control terminal. Does anyone know what was going on?

Re: PATCH for testing

1999-01-16 Thread Peter Wemm
Sean Eric Fagan wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] m you write: I am all for removing -e, but I don't really like the idea of making it optional nor do I like the idea of trying to maintain the capability for the user's own processes - that simply makes the code even more

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