Re: Cardbus woes

2000-12-14 Thread Mike Smith
With the recent slaughter^Wrework of the PCI code, my hack to allocate resources for unattached PCI devices in pci_probe_nomatch() no longer works. The updated patch can be found at http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/cardbus.hack.patch. I have a set of working patches at

Re: Cardbus woes

2000-12-14 Thread Mike Smith
I have a set of working patches at http://ziplok.dyndns.org/msmith/pci.diff which handle resource reservation, making your hack unnecessary. They're not ready for commit yet, but they're known to work (assuming you get this message 8). Cool, my hack is all b0rked

Re: PCI-PCI Bridge Problems

2000-12-13 Thread Mike Smith
From: Michael Harnois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 6:31 AM On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 05:02:59 -0800, Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'll keep working on this one; things will go a lot faster if I can get my hands on a system

Re: PCI-PCI Bridge Problems

2000-12-12 Thread Mike Smith
with the code, I'd be more than happy to point you at a few things worth checking out. Regards, Mike -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships

Re: PCI-PCI Bridge Problems

2000-12-12 Thread Mike Smith
going on. Sorry about this. Regards, Mike -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr

/usr/local vs. /usr/pkg

2000-12-12 Thread Mike Meyer
it goes on / or /usr is actually a minor issue. I want packages installed on /usr. If the standard winds up being /opt, I'll just symlink /opt to /usr/opt, and forget it. Likewise, if the standard is /usr/opt, you can symlink /usr/opt to your file system on /opt, and forget it. mike To Unsubscribe:

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/pci isa_pci.c

2000-12-11 Thread Mike Smith
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 03:15:19AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: msmith 2000/12/10 03:15:19 PST Modified files: sys/dev/pci isa_pci.c Log: The ICH2 reports itself as a PCI:ISA bridge, so don't special-case it here. On a related(?) note, my 810 (ICH

PCI power states (was Re: fxp driver not reset after Windows reboot? )

2000-12-11 Thread Mike Smith
); pci_enable_io(dev, SYS_RES_IOPORT | SYS_RES_MEMORY); pci_set_powerstate(dev, PCI_POWERSTATE_D0); Consider the above a request for review on the matter. Regards, Mike -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also

Re: /usr/local abuse

2000-12-11 Thread Mike Meyer
David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:33:33PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: The thing is, the package system has grown into something more than that. It really is vendor-supplied and vendor-supported third party software, and part of the distribution. I can back

Re: Applix problems (Was: /usr/local abuse)

2000-12-11 Thread Mike Meyer
David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 08:14:47AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: The problem is that the shared libraries aren't getting found when I run the applix binary after a reboot. Why do you say that? Where is the error message?? I say that because 1

Re: PCI power states (was Re: fxp driver not reset after Windows reboot? )

2000-12-11 Thread Mike Smith
pci_enable_busmaster(dev); pci_enable_io(dev, SYS_RES_IOPORT | SYS_RES_MEMORY); pci_set_powerstate(dev, PCI_POWERSTATE_D0); Consider the above a request for review on the matter. Shouldn't that be: pci_enable_io(dev, SYS_RES_IOPORT | SYS_RES_MEMORY);

Re: Applix problems (Was: /usr/local abuse)

2000-12-11 Thread Mike Meyer
David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 05:24:19PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: At that point, you're running VistaSource's software, so they should give you the details. Then I'll just back out of trying to help figure out why many others can run it outside of /usr

Re: [current] Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-11 Thread Mike Meyer
W, pkg_add (at least) honors the environment variable PKG_DBDIR to set the location of the ports metadata directory. Is there some reason you can't just set that to /usr/local/etc/db/pkg or some such? Final comment - I wish more ports developers *would* set PREFIX. mike To Unsubscribe:

Applix problems (Was: /usr/local abuse)

2000-12-11 Thread Mike Meyer
David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:42:37PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: On the other hand, Applixware Office ships a precompiled package for /usr/local, and doesn't like being installed anywhere else. Which means I've got a couple of hundred megabytes being

Re: /usr/local misuse (Was: Confusing error messages from shell image activation)

2000-12-10 Thread Mike Meyer
Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Meyer writes: : I know. Unfortunately, support for PREFIX seems to draw more lip : service than actual service. Actually, which ports, specically, doesn't this work with? I've installed several ports with PREFIX defined

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-10 Thread Mike Meyer
Daniel C. Sobral [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: Mike Meyer wrote: Rant second: FreeBSD *violates* years of traditions with it's treatment of /usr/local. /usr/local is for *local* things, not add-on software packages! Coopting /usr/local for non-local software creates needless complexity

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-10 Thread Mike Meyer
Garrett Wollman [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 09:37:53 -0600 (CST), Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: However, FreeBSD is still the only vendor distribution I know of that installs software in /usr/local. That's the problem - software that comes from the vendor doesn't

/usr/local abuse

2000-12-10 Thread Mike Meyer
Joe Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: Mike Meyer writes: If memory serves (and it may not at this remove), /usr/local/bin wasn't on my path until I started using VAXen, meaning there were few or no packages installing in /usr/local on v6 v7 on the 11s. If you remember v6 and v7

Re: Package installation location

2000-12-10 Thread Mike Meyer
ing "local" things are pointed directly at /usr/local; none of them check LOCALBASE. All of these would be solved if the FreeBSD took a lesson from their peers. Most of them could be solved without changing the default value for LOCALBASE - if people wanted them solved. mike

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-10 Thread Mike Meyer
Nat Lanza [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Whether or not it's part of FreeBSD is immaterial. It's part of the distribution that comes from FreeBSD, and is treated differentlyh from locally installed software (whether written locally or by a third party

Re: Package installation location

2000-12-10 Thread Mike Meyer
Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 01:02:09PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: The problem is that *it doesn't work*. Well, not very well. Part of it is that it's only given lip service: the porters handbook says "make your ports PREFIX clean"; portlint does

Re: /usr/local abuse

2000-12-10 Thread Mike Meyer
Joe Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: Mike Meyer writes: Sure, the software in ports/packages aren't part of FreeBSD. Using that to claim they should have the same status or treatment as locally written or maintained software is a rationalization. You are simply wrong in your

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-10 Thread Mike Meyer
t decision. That this is the case says a lot about the implementation of that design, none of it good. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: /usr/local abuse

2000-12-10 Thread Mike Meyer
)) is thus completely justified. Do you understandy why NetBSD's Packages install in /usr/pkg ? What is your position behind that? I have no problem with /usr/pkg. I personally do not see the need for it. I have been arguing with Mike over his historic characterization of /usr/local

PREFIX clean vs. LOCALBASE clean (Was: Package installation location)

2000-12-10 Thread Mike Meyer
scripts provided by FreeBSD in /root add /usr/local/bin, *not* $(LOCALBASE)/bin. So such runtime dependencies don't break for users, but do for root - which means they are more likely to be noticed if they are build dependencies than if they are run dependencies. mike To Un

Re: /usr/local abuse

2000-12-10 Thread Mike Meyer
en I asked, no one with the commit bit actually runs systems using PREFIX that way. Providing an untested "solution" isn't a good thing. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: PREFIX clean vs. LOCALBASE clean (Was: Package installation location)

2000-12-10 Thread Mike Meyer
David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 02:19:12PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: I intend "LOCALBASE clean" to mean "all files installed by other ports are looked for in the LOCALBASE tree". If all ports are PREFIX clean, you will have that.

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-10 Thread Mike Meyer
what *packages* are, not what /usr/local was used for. By your own admission, /usr/local wasn't used on v7. So the discussion should turn to when BSD started seeing prebuilt vendor packages to install in /usr/local. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-10 Thread Mike Meyer
Andrew Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 12:31:10PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: Not /usr/local - that's for locally maintained software. I'd rather it go on /usr, so I don't like /opt. When I got to choose, I chose /usr/opt. But anything other than /usr/local on /usr

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-10 Thread Mike Meyer
another some of us want - quite legitimately - want to treat those two things differently, and packages using a directory name that has an established use makes that difficult. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

/usr/local abuse

2000-12-10 Thread Mike Meyer
differently, and packages using a directory name that has an established use makes that difficult. Not true. You can change the source to point to '/usr/mike-likes-it-here', and it *should* work. If it doesn't, then it's borken. :) True. I can also go through and fix everything in FreeBSD

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-10 Thread Mike Meyer
ytes being backup up for no good reason :-(. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

/usr/local abuse

2000-12-10 Thread Mike Meyer
do with them. That's not true for FreeBSD packages. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-09 Thread Mike Meyer
complexity and confusion, which of course leads to needless pain. All of which has nothing to do with the question of whether we want to continue giving error messages that are wrong, or commit this patch and provide ones that are actually informative. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

/usr/local misuse (Was: Confusing error messages from shell image activation)

2000-12-09 Thread Mike Meyer
fixed. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant,email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: /usr/local misuse (Was: Confusing error messages from shell image activation)

2000-12-09 Thread Mike Meyer
David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 01:59:51PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: I know. Unfortunately, support for PREFIX seems to draw more lip service than actual service. I disagree. If one of the ports I maintain isn't PREFIX-clean, let me know and it _will_

Re: ffs_valloc: dup alloc panics with stable/current

2000-12-08 Thread Mike Smith
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 03:44:28AM +0200, Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland - wrote: sense = 3 asc = 11 asq = 0 This is not so bad but 5-30 minutes after this command system will always panic. Are you surprised? The system is complaining that it's having intermittent difficulty accessing

Re: ffs_valloc: dup alloc panics with stable/current

2000-12-08 Thread Mike Smith
We got old Mylex DAC960PD-Ultra-raid-adapter and have tried to use it with FreeBSD 4.2-stable and 5.0-current. Adapter is configured with three luns 5+5*9G, 8+8*9G (raid5) and 1+1*2G (mirrored boot disk). All 9G disks are quite old Seagate Barracuda 9 disks ST19171W. System is working quite

Re: __asm help..

2000-12-08 Thread Mike Smith
I'm trying to write some experimental mutex operations similar to those in -current, but to do differnt things (e.g. a read/write lock) however, I am having some problems with the __asm stuff. Julian; Wheels were invented around 1500BC. We don't need to go through all that again. -- ...

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica acpi.c acpi_button.c acpi_ec.c acpi_isa.c acpi_lid.c acpi_pcib.c acpi_processor.c acpi_resource.c acpi_thermal.c acpi_timer.c acpiio.h acpivar.h

2000-12-08 Thread Mike Smith
Modified files: sys/dev/acpica acpi.c acpi_button.c acpi_ec.c acpi_isa.c acpi_lid.c acpi_pcib.c acpi_processor.c acpi_resource.c acpi_thermal.c acpi_timer.c acpiio.h acpivar.h Log: - Convert a

Re: growfs(8) for FreeBSD

2000-12-08 Thread Mike Smith
So you can use it either with hardware RAID controllers which allow for non destructive extending of the size of existing volumes at the end(!). Cool. We support the FlexRAID Virtual Sizing stuff on the AMI controllers already, and I bet that the Mylex MORE stuff would work too. *

Re: ffs_valloc: dup alloc panics with stable/current

2000-12-08 Thread Mike Smith
This is not so bad but 5-30 minutes after this command system will always panic. cd /uu ; dump 0buf 126 - /w | restore xbf 126 - mode = 0100644, inum = 720391, fs = /uu panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc This looks like memory or PCI data corruption. You don't say how

Re: __asm help..

2000-12-08 Thread Mike Smith
Since all I WANT to do is pushf disable intr fiddle popf (chache hit) I am annoyed by the fact that I have all those extra bus cycles going on. I can live with it for development but it still annoys me. You haven't yet explained how you plan to disable interrupts on the other

Re: write(2) returns error saying read only filesystem when trying to write to a partition

2000-12-07 Thread Mike Smith
CC: to -current as that's what I'm running. "John W. De Boskey" wrote: Hi, I can't answer your questions directly, but you might want to checkout the sources to newfs (/usr/src/sbin/newfs/newfs.c or http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/newfs/newfs.c?annotate=1.31

Re: write(2) returns error saying read only filesystem when trying to write to a partition

2000-12-07 Thread Mike Smith
Mike Smith wrote: The program works on Compaq True64 UNIX v 4.0d It also works on Solaris 7 (only tested sparc). So it seems FreeBSD is broken here. FreeBSD just behaves differently. If you want to write to the whole disk, open the whole-disk device, not the 'c' partition

Re: PNA?

2000-12-06 Thread Mike Smith
Do we support any of the PNA 2.0 cards (10 Mb net over telephone line)? E.G. 3com 3c410, or D-Link DHN-520? No; as far as I'm aware they're all using the Broadcom MAC, and Broadcom refuse to give us documentation. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals

Re: USB related commit leads to hung systems if USB-IRQ=Disabled in BIOS

2000-12-06 Thread Mike Smith
In my bios I have PnPOS=NO, USB-IRQ=Disabled. The commit below results in a PCI interrupt storm and a terminally wedged system right after interrupts are enabled. This would be a bug in the UHCI or OHCI driver then. You can avoid it by not running the driver. Poul-Henning | nsayer

Re: USB related commit leads to hung systems if USB-IRQ=Disabled in BIOS

2000-12-06 Thread Mike Smith
In my bios I have PnPOS=NO, USB-IRQ=Disabled. The commit below results in a PCI interrupt storm and a terminally wedged system right after interrupts are enabled. This would be a bug in the UHCI or OHCI driver then. You can avoid it by not running the driver. I should have

Re: USB related commit leads to hung systems if USB-IRQ=Disabled in BIOS

2000-12-06 Thread Mike Smith
I should have mentioned; you can probably also avoid it by letting your BIOS give the USB controller an IRQ, since it'll almost certainly also perform whatever initialisation the driver is currently missing out on. Right, that is what I did once I realized that this particular commit was

Re: PNA?

2000-12-06 Thread Mike Smith
Mike Smith wrote: Do we support any of the PNA 2.0 cards (10 Mb net over telephone line)? E.G. 3com 3c410, or D-Link DHN-520? No; as far as I'm aware they're all using the Broadcom MAC, and Broadcom refuse to give us documentation. I don't know whether their chips support

Re: USB modem?

2000-12-01 Thread Mike Meyer
involved. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant,email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

PnP OS = ?

2000-12-01 Thread Mike Smith
I have the modem in the office, not at home. And of course there is that tricky part where Windows wants my BIOS set to PNP OS=YES and FreeBSD wants it set to NO. but well :-) we can survive that for the moment. Can you expand on what actually goes wrong if you boot -current with it set to

Re: your mail

2000-11-30 Thread Mike Meyer
David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 07:41:14PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: Hmm - what's the stupidity? I have a test machine running both -current and -stable Do you have the two FreeBSD installations on the same disk? If so, I'd love to hear how you did it. I

Re: USB modem?

2000-11-30 Thread Mike Meyer
, ...), and you use it just like a tty line tied to an external modem. mike -- Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant,email for rates. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: your mail

2000-11-30 Thread Mike Meyer
k that had this on it one day started thumping, turning it into a rather large paperweight... FWIW, my system running both -current and -stable off of one disk uses grub for booting, not booteasy. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-curre

Re: your mail

2000-11-29 Thread Mike Meyer
the stupidity? I have a test machine running both -current and -stable (and NetBSD-current, Solaris, Linux, and last and least Win98), and haven't encountered any problems with it. mike -- Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD

Re: Patch for current on LCA based alphas

2000-11-28 Thread Mike Eldridge
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 02:42:52PM -0600, Mike Eldridge wrote: On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Bernd Walter wrote: LCA systems doesn't like probing after PCI slot 19. Probing slot 20 panics the system. The following patch made it into single user mode

Re: Patch for current on LCA based alphas

2000-11-27 Thread Mike Eldridge
and I need to update the world before further testing. Hmm, what exactly happens when slot 20 is probed? I remember my problems with my Multia were related to PCI interrupts. It would spit out "dec_axppci_33_intr_map: bad interrupt pin 192" about 50 or so times and then pa

Re: page coloring

2000-11-23 Thread Mike Smith
Isn't the page coloring algoritm in _vm_page_list_find totally bogus? No, it's not. The comment is, however, misplaced. It describes the behavior of an inline function in vm_page.h, and not the function it precedes. Hrm. My comment was based on John Dyson's own observations on its

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-11-23 Thread Mike Meyer
Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: * Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001122 22:41] wrote: Could I get some feedback on URL: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=22755 ? It's just a one-line kernel patch with some attendant updates in the kernel and libc, but it makes dealing

Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-11-22 Thread Mike Meyer
:-(. Thanx, mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Getting at cardbus CIS data from inside drivers

2000-11-21 Thread Mike Smith
That's what I mean. You call this, and it will remap the CIS (if it has been unmapped), walk it for you and pass you a pointer to each CIS entry one at a time to the function you specify. Warner I'd rather have a seek/read interface than have a callback. Let's be realistic; the right

Re: Getting at cardbus CIS data from inside drivers

2000-11-21 Thread Mike Smith
IIRC, and I haven't looked it up, the CIS entries that would be problematical have two next pointers. One is for the next function, while the other is for the first entry specific to this function. The driver code could look at the CIS entry to tell what to do, and if it was the wrong

Re: Getting at cardbus CIS data from inside drivers

2000-11-21 Thread Mike Smith
: Let's be realistic; the right way to do this is going to be to use the : ivar interface; cardbus_get_cistuple(dev, index) just like all the other : PCI bus accessor functions. PCI will just need to pass the request : through to its parent, assuming its parent is a cardbus bridge, or

Re: Getting at cardbus CIS data from inside drivers

2000-11-21 Thread Mike Smith
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Smith writes: : No; the CIS parser should know which function it's being called on behalf : of, and simply elide the tuples that don't relate to that function. This isn't always the right thing to do. At least in the 16-bit world, there are drivers

Re: Getting at cardbus CIS data from inside drivers

2000-11-21 Thread Mike Smith
function its own CIS chain. These CIS chains can live in configuration space, in memory space or the expansion ROM (which I assume is the same thing as the ROM BAR on function 0, but maybe I'm mistaken) and the bridge is responsible for properlly mapping the last two. The config space

Re: CURRENT is freezing again ...

2000-11-17 Thread Mike Smith
: You can also short IOCHK to ground to get an NMI which kicks you into : the debugger, even in an interrupt context. : : Bad news for you warner: On a too large sample of my newer : motherboards this doesn't work anymore :-( There's also a pci signal that you can either pull up or pull

Re: PXE build?

2000-11-15 Thread Mike Smith
Does anyone know of any current issues with PXE? Some ROMs out there are pretty bad. I've searched the mailing lists and I don't see any mention of a problem similar to mine. I'm running FreeBSD-CURRENT from 2000 09 15 on a server. The client has an Intel 21143 based ethernet card that

Re: Bad commit?

2000-11-15 Thread Mike Smith
As near as I can tell on my laptop, the following change causes panics with kernel page faults. With it, my laptop panics every time on boot (although in slightly different places for my two different kernels) and without it I'm rock solid. Has anybody else seen this? Yes; I think it's

Typo in secure/lib/libcrypto/Makefile

2000-11-14 Thread Mike Heffner
/Makefile 2000/11/14 22:12:02 1.27 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $FreeBSD: src/secure/lib/libcrypto/Makefile,v 1.26 2000/11/13 +.# $FreeBSD: src/secure/lib/libcrypto/Makefile,v 1.27 2000/11/14 22:12 ^ A period before the comment somehow crept into the commit. -- Mike Heffner [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ISA PnP resource allocation

2000-11-10 Thread Mike Smith
Now that someone has implementented resource alignment in the resource allocator, someone could review and integrate the attached patch. This looks fine to me. I assume you'd want the same changes applied to aligning memory regions? Background: I do have an old system with several PnP

Re: savecore broken because kern.bootfile is set wrong

2000-11-10 Thread Mike Smith
Something actually was changed at some point perhaps? On i386, kernelname is dug out of bootinfo and copied (in assembler). On alpha: p = getenv("kernelname"); if (p) strncpy(kernelname, p, sizeof(kernelname) - 1); Did the loader used to set

Re: Interrupt allocation

2000-11-09 Thread Mike Smith
Timesharing requires co-operation from both device and bus, but this is a completely different issue. No drivers currently support timesharing. `sio' at a minimum probably should, as it was the motivating example for adding that feature. (My laptop has three PnP sio ports: an internal

Re: vx driver patch

2000-11-09 Thread Mike Smith
At one (gross) time in history, Alphas included an x86 emulator in ROM to facilitate this (and other BIOS POST initialization stuff, mostly). They still do. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because

Re: unwanteed halt powerdown under -current (linuxerator?)

2000-11-03 Thread Mike Smith
Hi, executing /compat/linux/bin/rpm issues a halt and powerdown under -current an my TECRA8000. Is it just me? No. You don't have the Linux module loaded. There's a Linux system call which (alarmingly) maps to shutdown-and-poweroff if run as a FreeBSD binary. -- ... every activity

Re: unwanteed halt powerdown under -current (linuxerator?)

2000-11-03 Thread Mike Smith
Hi, Hi, executing /compat/linux/bin/rpm issues a halt and powerdown under -current an my TECRA8000. Is it just me? No. You don't have the Linux module loaded. There's a Linux system call which (alarmingly) maps to shutdown-and-poweroff if run as a FreeBSD binary. Not really.

/dev/random thoughts

2000-10-30 Thread Mike Meyer
meone from shotting themselves in the foot by, for instance, creating ssh host keys using the low-quality /dev/random. There are certainly others. Just some thoughts, possibly useful, probably not - but I thought worth sharing. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: Need help to boot (was : -current hangs during boot)

2000-10-30 Thread Mike Smith
I had my first CVSup-ed source tre d/loaded today. It compiled correctly (make buildworld) and installed correctly (make installworld). But on rebooting the box, the loader fails to find a bootable kernel. It seems my loader.conf got trashed somewhere ... I get the list of the / partition,

Re: platform byte order macros?

2000-10-27 Thread Mike Smith
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 09:49:57PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: [...] NetBSD supports the ntohl family on constants, but only on some arches (at least in last year's version). It takes fancier macros to support constants. This gives an excuse to change the inline functions back to

Re: platform byte order macros?

2000-10-27 Thread Mike Smith
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 07:34:06AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 09:49:57PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: [...] NetBSD supports the ntohl family on constants, but only on some arches (at least in last year's version). It takes fancier macros to support

Re: new rc.network6 and rc.firewall6

2000-10-25 Thread Mike Meyer
convention, so that it can be used for the script's stop command :-). Now, which process do I need to create a pidfile for to get my ipfw config reloaded? mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: new rc.network6 and rc.firewall6

2000-10-25 Thread Mike Meyer
probably a better way to organize the subroutines, but that's the general idea. The next step is to get ports authors to start using /etc/rc.setup or whatever it gets called :-). mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: src/release/Makefile patch so cdrom will autoboot

2000-10-25 Thread Mike Smith
Don't want to step on toes.. Someone please commit. I believe we need to 'load /kernel' no matter what... it's the 'read' that's in question. Allows a cdrom to autoboot. Actually, the kernel should be autoloaded anyway, but you appear to be right here. patch also located at

Re: new rc.network6 and rc.firewall6

2000-10-24 Thread Mike Meyer
istency ports should be tweaked to use have the same provides/requires setup, and use rc.subr instead of the homegrown hacks. Which brings up the real downside of doing this - you have to parse rc.subr and rc.conf for *every* one of those scripts. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: new rc.network6 and rc.firewall6

2000-10-24 Thread Mike Meyer
but they get little enough use that I'd rather use the vendor's API and let it be wasteful. After all, if they got a lot of use, having different interface wouldn't be a problem. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: make release breakage on today's -current

2000-10-24 Thread Mike Smith
will I'm sure there are better things to disable, like MFS, SYSV*, will P1003_P1B and friends, and ICMP_BANDLIM. MFS is required; don't forget we have mfsroot.flp :-) The name is historical; we use md(4) not MFS. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his

Re: new rc.network6 and rc.firewall6

2000-10-24 Thread Mike Meyer
the same knobs whenever possible. I'm in the midst of trying to install NetBSD so I can look at this. If no one else steps forward to do it, I can put together a patch. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: smp instability

2000-10-24 Thread Mike Meyer
much good this will do since you'll still be running an SMP kernel. Please let us know how that works. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: /boot partition?

2000-10-15 Thread Mike Meyer
as /boot after the system comes up. BTW, kudos to the FreeBSD install team. Much as the FreeBSD install may be maligned, it's much more intuitive, flexible and in general better than what Sun is doing with for Solaris 8. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: /boot partition?

2000-10-14 Thread Mike Meyer
Maxim Sobolev writes: "Michael C . Wu" wrote: On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:22:20AM -0500, Mike Meyer scribbled: | Just curious - now that the kernel has moved into /boot/kernel/kernel, | does anyone know how well would it work to put /boot in it's own | partition (possibly i

system lockups in -current - during boot.

2000-10-14 Thread Mike Meyer
later, doing nothing but tapping return every so often. I don't get enough response to start a debugger in either case. The best data I can contribute is a dmesg from the same hardware booting -stable. Suggestions? Pointers? Fixes? mike Oct 14 23:27:24 eve /kernel: Copyright (c) 1992

/boot partition?

2000-10-13 Thread Mike Meyer
Just curious - now that the kernel has moved into /boot/kernel/kernel, does anyone know how well would it work to put /boot in it's own partition (possibly in it's own slice)? Thanx, mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-cu

Upgrading -stable - -current, boot failure?

2000-10-11 Thread Mike Meyer
h *no* boot messages), I get a prompt from init. Since the same sources build and boot properly elsewhere, I assume I've missed a step. I normally run mergemaster after installworld and rebooting singleuser. Could someone provide the clue I've not got? thanx, mike To Unsubscribe:

video mpeg broken?

2000-10-10 Thread Mike Meyer
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Re: video mpeg broken?

2000-10-10 Thread Mike Meyer
s -current (as of Saturday), XFree86-4.0.1, Diamond Viper 550, SDL-1.1.5, SMPEG-0.4.0. Thanx, mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Recent kernels won't boot

2000-10-09 Thread Mike Smith
That was it. Is the 4MB kernel size limit documented anywhere? I don't know :-) I luckily noticed this by a lot of trials. I'm not aware of any 4MB limit on kernel size (and I ought to be if there is one 8). Can you run the details past me? (I've regularly booted much larger kernels

Latest ACPI megapatch update

2000-10-08 Thread Mike Smith
http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/acpica-bsd-20001008.tar.gz New in this patch: - Fixes for the EC code (error handling) - Fixes for power/sleep button handling (should work for both control method and fixed buttons) - Host:PCI bridges are now detected and attached using ACPI rather

re: sio problems?

2000-10-08 Thread Mike Meyer
attila! writes: on Sat, 7 Oct 2000 20:03:12 -0500 (CDT), Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I recently got my digital camera back out, and started pulling the old pictures from it. I noticed something I hadn't ever seen before - silo overflows from the sio port. At the moment, I'm

Re: current.freebsd.org

2000-10-08 Thread Mike Smith
Yea, guess so, but I cant help but notice this started after the buyout by BSDI Uh, folks, releng4 is hosted at (and donated by) Yahoo, and BSDi have exactly *nothing* to do with its availability or otherwise. Before making absurd allegations like this, please apply a few neurons to

Latest ACPICA megapatch now up

2000-10-07 Thread Mike Smith
http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/acpica-bsd-20001007.tar.gz This includes: - ACPI as PnP enumerator for ISA (there are issues here, and this doesn't disable the "real" PnPBIOS code yet, so you will get duplicates on some machines). - Power/Sleep button code (Iwasaki-san) - Improved

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