On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 09:25:37PM +0200, Guido van Rooij wrote:
How about adding a hint to the hint driver itself. E.g.
SYNOPSIS
device isa
device ata
hint "hintsfile"# see hint(4)
I don't think this is enough. If I botch my hints file enough (and
lets say I
Michael Wlliams wrote:
I'm catching up on email, sorry if this was answered... are you talking
OBP/Forth
on Suns? Try
ok sifting foo
to get a list of words with foo in them (kinda like grep foo). Try
ok see foo
to see the details of the word (if you get forth this will help.)
If
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 06:32:47PM -0500, Mike Pritchard wrote:
SYNOPSIS
device isa
device ata0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14
device ata1 at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15
Should this become:
SYNOPSIS
device isa
device ata
hint.ata.0.at="isa"
Mike Pritchard wrote:
I just noticed that this change has now made a lot of the section 4
man pages out of date.
What is the best way to represent these changes in the man pages?
A good example is ata(4). Currently it reads like this:
SYNOPSIS
device isa
device ata0 at isa?
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 04:18:29PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
change *ALL* "device foo0 at isa? port blah etc" to "device foo" - see
GENERIC for examples. All the 'at ? port ?' stuff is handled by
the new /boot/device.hints
See GENERIC - if you use a static limited device (eg: fe, aha,
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
This thread is long, so maybe I missed something.. Can we have the *.hints
file loadable as a module of some special type (like kernel.conf), and
searched for during configuration like userconfig did?
Funny you got
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writes:
: That's fine. However, this practically makes using /boot/loader
: mandatory. I still wonder if having some in-kernel interpreter wouldn't
: give us more choice, with exactly the same functionality. Of course, it
: would have to be run
Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
That's fine. However, this practically makes using /boot/loader
mandatory. I still wonder if having some in-kernel interpreter wouldn't
give us more choice, with exactly the same functionality. Of course, it
would have to be run before any probing starts...
If you
Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
This thread is long, so maybe I missed something.. Can we have the *.hints
file loadable as a module of some special type (like kernel.conf), and
searched for during configuration like userconfig did?
Funny you got no reply.
This is not necessary. If you copy said
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Peter Wemm wrote:
Chia-liang Kao wrote:
Hi,
Is there anyway to put the device.hint stuff into kernel nevertheless?
My diskless box fetches the kernel would know nothing about things reside
in device.hint.
That is what the hints directive is for.
you could
Hi,
Is there anyway to put the device.hint stuff into kernel nevertheless?
My diskless box fetches the kernel would know nothing about things reside
in device.hint.
Cheers,
CLK
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Chia-liang Kao wrote:
Hi,
Is there anyway to put the device.hint stuff into kernel nevertheless?
My diskless box fetches the kernel would know nothing about things reside
in device.hint.
That is what the hints directive is for.
you could create a file "diskless.hints" and add the line to
On 13-Jun-00 Peter Wemm wrote:
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Hi!
I was able to build and boot, starting from a February -CURRENT but there
are some oddities.
1. I had to disable linux emulation, as it caused system hangup
Yes I followed the hint on rebranding from src/UPDATING
2. My system seems to have a problem with fsck
I had to use the old
Alexander Langer wrote:
c) is much more interesting: With the new kernel my syscons scrolling
stopped working. However, this could also be jake's fault, I'll ask
him.
Still works like a charm here. Maybe problem is elsewhere?
-Maxim
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Another way to reboot the system is
vidcontrol 80x50
Regards,
Marc
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On 15 Jun, Marc van Woerkom wrote:
3. in the boot loader I miss the list of commands,
? (i hope this was the command) just yields a number
I also see this.
5. Here are the dmesg differences between the February and the new
kernel. Could you explain the unassigned resources messages
On 15 Jun, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
c) is much more interesting: With the new kernel my syscons scrolling
stopped working. However, this could also be jake's fault, I'll ask
him.
Still works like a charm here. Maybe problem is elsewhere?
I have the same problem as Alexander, nut it only
4. I thought I put just the sym driver in the kernel, why do I
see ncr? (see next item)
Now it is back to using sym.
Possibly some configuration mistake by me.
Regards,
Marc
PS Here is the diff..
-FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #15: Thu Jun 15 00:25:51 CEST 2000
+FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #16:
Uh, 'help' doesn't give you a list of commands I believe.
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Mike Smith wrote:
On 15 Jun, Marc van Woerkom wrote:
3. in the boot loader I miss the list of commands,
? (i hope this was the command) just yields a number
I also see this.
The use of ? was
Uh, 'help' doesn't give you a list of commands I believe.
Damn, it doesn't either. 'help' is the same as 'help help'.
Suggestions for a better replacement for ? 'commands'?
--
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,
Uh, 'help' doesn't give you a list of commands I believe.
According to loader(8) it means:
? Same as ``help index''.
I did not try yet if that one works correctly.
Regards,
Marc
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Uh, 'help' doesn't give you a list of commands I believe.
Damn, it doesn't either. 'help' is the same as 'help help'.
Suggestions for a better replacement for ? 'commands'?
Just change unadorned help to say 'help help' to get a list.
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Peter Wemm wrote:
# update /boot/loader.conf
cd src/sys/boot; make obj depend all install
Of course, it would be just my luck that there is a loader bug right now,
and this command will throw you into the fire. ;-( If your loader
complains about not being version 0.3+ or later and aborting,
At 01:20 AM 6/14/2000 -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
Peter Wemm wrote:
# update /boot/loader.conf
cd src/sys/boot; make obj depend all install
Of course, it would be just my luck that there is a loader bug right now,
and this command will throw you into the fire. ;-( If your loader
complains about
Peter Wemm wrote:
The only change in /boot is /boot/defaults/loader.conf:
diff -r1.26 -r1.27
24c24
loader_conf_files="/boot/loader.conf /boot/loader.conf.local"
---
loader_conf_files="/boot/device.hints /boot/loader.conf /boot/loader.conf.local"
ie: /boot/device.hints is searched
Hello Peter!
I just have things running. I see that the kernel boots _much_ faster
now. I don't know, if you wanted that or if this is a nice
side-effect.
However, a few comments, which might be of interest. Some of those are
probably planned by you already.
a) the device.hints file: It will
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An old version 51 config(8) will
# I cannot stress this enough: **SAVE A WORKING /kernel**
cp /kernel /kernel.works
Save a working /modules and /boot as well.
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