Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread A. Wilcox
all the people who are upset at FreeBSD becoming the next OS X (you must have hardware *this* *new* to run!) should start putting more effort in to keeping the old hardware alive and working in the processes defined by FreeBSD. Make proposals, participate and communicate on MLs (instead of just complain)

Re: FreeBSD 12 PowerPC won’t boot at all.

2018-10-08 Thread A. Wilcox
s this beta8 or an earlier revision? There's been some (small, but good) work on powerpc[,64] in the 12 release cycle so I'm just wondering if hopefully it might work better on a more recent snapshot. --arw -- A. Wilcox (awilfox) Open-source programmer (C, C++, Python) https://code.foxkit.

Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver

2018-05-22 Thread A. Wilcox
t;> ... >>> .endif >>> >>> to enable/disable drm2? > > With such long-time support offered by 11- branch, why hamper development > of 12 by lugging around old, hard to maintain code that is relevant for > only legacy hardware? > it makes me giggle that people still think non-amd64 is "legacy". i386 is alive and well - new chips are being fabbed based on the 586 design with pci-e slots; not to mention things like the Talos and AmigaOne for PowerPC. --arw -- A. Wilcox (awilfox) Open-source programmer (C, C++, Python) https://code.foxkit.us/u/awilfox/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: From LLVM: I got a note that LLVM plans to remove PPC64's V1 abi support; I'm asked about what support there is for the PPC64 little-endian/V2 abi (see forwarded message)

2018-03-28 Thread A. Wilcox
at some later date. -Nathan > -- A. Wilcox (awilfox) Open-source programmer (C, C++, Python) https://code.foxkit.us/u/awilfox/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Skylake/Kabylake Intel Bug?

2017-06-25 Thread A. Wilcox
m besides OCaml actually manage to get GCC to generate the insn pattern that is needed, and I don't have a Skylake or Kaby Lake CPU to test with anyway. Fun little hardware bug. Hope this helps you, --arw -- A. Wilcox (awilfox) Open-source programmer (C, C++, Python) https://code.foxkit.us/u/awilfox/

Re: PowerMac G5 and KMS

2017-03-02 Thread A. Wilcox
NV30/NV40/NV50 cards if you want OpenGL for now. As I have a PowerBook G4 with a RV350, which obviously cannot be replaced as it is a laptop, that should change soon hopefully. Best, --arw -- A. Wilcox (awilfox) Open-source programmer (C, C++, Python) https://code.foxkit.us/u/awilfox/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: ISO image: where is the CLANG compiler?

2017-01-22 Thread A. Wilcox
l at least 8.x days). Everything else I have to say, I have said before: Forwarded Message Received: (qmail 20810 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2016 21:08:51 - Subject: Re: FreeBSD-11.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso is too big for my 700MB CD-r To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: A. W

Re: Enabling NUMA in BIOS stop booting FreeBSD

2016-12-14 Thread A. Wilcox
oo... Debian usually runs older kernels, so more likely to not have a workaround. Best solution: new mainboard vendor, until Supermicro works out their dumb firmware and makes it less dumb. :( --arw -- A. Wilcox (awilfox) Open-source programmer (C, C++, Python) https://code.foxkit.us/u/awilfox/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Enabling NUMA in BIOS stop booting FreeBSD

2016-12-12 Thread A. Wilcox
"Frob" basically means "mess with". So apply patch, test kernel, reboot, change NUMA option, reboot again, see if it works, and so on. Basically repeat your test with the NUMA=on interleave=on, NUMA=off interleave=on, etc etc. hth, --arw -- A. Wilcox (awilfox) Open-sourc

Re: Mac OS X on bhyve

2016-12-09 Thread A. Wilcox
On 09/12/16 02:16, Matthias Gamsjager wrote: > On 9 December 2016 at 04:16, A. Wilcox <awil...@wilcox-tech.com> wrote: >> If you do have the proper type of Mac OS X that can be virtualised >> legally on PC hardware, you still need the SMC to be emulated. That >> wil

Re: Mac OS X on bhyve (was: Is there possible run a MacOS X binary)

2016-12-08 Thread A. Wilcox
PC, MIPS, and SPARC (via OpenBoot). I've also seen it running on a few ARM SoCs. I don't think I've ever seen a conformant implementation for x86. All Intel Macs use EFI 1.10 with Apple extensions. hth, --arw -- A. Wilcox (awilfox) Open-source programmer (C, C++, Python) https://code.foxkit.us/

Re: Optimising generated rules for SAT solving (5/12 are duplicates)

2016-11-29 Thread A. Wilcox
'New pull request'. > 5. Fill in the form. > Or you could just, I don't know, email the diff as a patch using git send-email like normal people instead of using GitHub's walled garden. That way, people without GitHub accounts can still comment on it. Just my 2¢. --arw -- A. Wilcox (awilfo

Re: FreeBSD-11.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso is too big for my 700MB CD-r

2016-07-12 Thread A. Wilcox
he newest. Beyond that, there are security issues with allowing servers to boot off of any random USB device that an admin has lying around. Most will be configured by good admins to not do such a thing. In summary: NAK NAK NAK. USB is not a solution. Bringing down the bloat on disc1 or returnin

Re: FreeBsd MCA Panic Crash !!

2016-01-04 Thread Anna Wilcox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 04/01/16 04:34, shahzaibcb wrote: > Hi, > > We've switched to FreeBSD recently to accomodate large video storage as we > are running video streaming website. So the job of the FreeBSD is to > transcode the uploaded videos using ffmpeg and serve

i386 port no longer bootable on non-SSE CPUs

2015-02-20 Thread Andrew Wilcox
which part of this commit is causing it. Best, Andrew -- Andrew Wilcox, C/C++/Python developer, kernel hacker Blog: http://blog.foxkit.us/ WWW: http://foxkit.us/ GitHub: https://github.com/awilfox ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http

RE: drm2 regression: backlight adjustment on ivybridge no longer works

2015-02-01 Thread Andrew Wilcox
0 7 13 20 27 33 40 47 53 60 67 73 80 87 93 100 What revision of -CURRENT are you running? What is the outcome of trying the patch posted Saturday morning (UTC) from Elizabeth Myers (message ID 54cc5311.9070...@interlinked.me)? Andrew -- Andrew Wilcox, C/C++/Python developer, kernel hacker Blog

RE: drm2 regression: backlight adjustment on ivybridge no longer works

2015-01-27 Thread Andrew Wilcox
the firmware of my laptop 0s memory on EFI boot. I have uploaded a diff here that I believe may fix this. Please test and let me know: http://foxkit.us/FreeBSD/i915-uninitialised-var-fix.diff Best, Andrew -- Andrew Wilcox, C/C++/Python developer, kernel hacker Blog: http://blog.foxkit.us

RE: drm2 regression: backlight adjustment on ivybridge no longer works

2015-01-27 Thread Andrew Wilcox
kernel? (This shouldn't be necessary, but I am trying to gather all details.) Let's start there and see if we can pin down a cause. Best, Andrew -- Andrew Wilcox, C/C++/Python developer, kernel hacker Blog: http://blog.foxkit.us/ WWW: http://foxkit.us/ GitHub: https://github.com/awilfox

RE: drm2 regression: backlight adjustment on ivybridge no longer works

2015-01-26 Thread Andrew Wilcox
to build on FreeBSD. It also has better granularity (the stepping is 2-3). If there is anything I can do/run to aide in debugging why it works for me but not others, let me know. Best, Andrew -- Andrew Wilcox, C/C++/Python developer, kernel hacker Blog: http://blog.foxkit.us/ WWW: http

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to use the NEW pf syntax.

2012-11-20 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Nov 20, 2012 9:44 AM, Mark Martinec mark.martinec+free...@ijs.si wrote: Paul Webster wrote: I am aware this is a much discussed subject since the upgrade of PF, I believe the final decision was that too many users are used to the old style pf and an upgrade to the new syntax would cause