floppy driver unusable

2001-07-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
After Joerg's late-June round of brea^H^H^H^Hcommits to the floppy driver, I can no longer use my floppy drive. Any attempt to access the drive (with a known-good writeable floppy in it) simply hangs in physst state until I eject the disk, at which point it fails with a hard read error with No

Re: Interruptable hang starting init in today's -CURRENT

2001-07-07 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 6 Jul, David Wolfskill wrote: As N.Dudorov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) pointed out, what is happening is that the sysctl -a in /etc/rc (as part of the entropy harvesting) is failing to terminate. Whether with GENERIC or LAPTOP_30W, the last entry shown from sysctl -a is

No Subject

2001-07-07 Thread jacks
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Re: chgrp broken on alpha systems

2001-07-07 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 03:08:04PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: i386 type Alpha type clock_t unsigned long int We could make these the same (not sure why they aren't). ptrdiff_t int long size_tunsigned intunsigned long ssize_t

Re: chgrp broken on alpha systems

2001-07-07 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:37:43PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: On i386, 'gcc -fsyntax-only -Wall x.c' produces no error. On NetBSD/alpha (same compiler, really), this produces: x.c: In function `func': x.c:4: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size It'd be *really* nice if

Re: chgrp broken on alpha systems

2001-07-07 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 07:40:59AM -0700, Mark Peek wrote: I had the same idea last night. I modified my PowerPC cross-compiler port to produce an Alpha version. This is based on the lang/gcc295 port so it contains the FreeBSD patches for things like -Wformat. For sake of example, I only

Re: chgrp broken on alpha systems

2001-07-07 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, David O'Brien wrote: On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 03:08:04PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: i386 type Alpha type clock_t unsigned long int We could make these the same (not sure why they aren't). because on alpha long == 64 bits ptrdiff_t

Re: conficting cvs version numbers?

2001-07-07 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 11:52:05PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: I get version 1.15. When I look at the .c,v file in the cvs tree, it says HEAD is 1.16, but $Id says it is 1.15. We don't use $Id$ anymore. Do you mean $FreeBSD$? If so, please try to be more exact. Also try ``cvs status'' on the

Re: chgrp broken on alpha systems

2001-07-07 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:54:26AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, David O'Brien wrote: On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 03:08:04PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: i386 type Alpha type clock_t unsigned long int We could make these the same (not

Re: chgrp broken on alpha systems

2001-07-07 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, David O'Brien wrote: On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:54:26AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, David O'Brien wrote: On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 03:08:04PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: i386 type Alpha type clock_t unsigned long

Re: chgrp broken on alpha systems

2001-07-07 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 01:02:28PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, David O'Brien wrote: On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:54:26AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, David O'Brien wrote: On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 03:08:04PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:

Re: chgrp broken on alpha systems

2001-07-07 Thread Matthew Jacob
I don't know what clock_t is used for (kernel version of time_t?). But the general agreement was to leave time as a 32-bit value on the Alpha in order to match (1) FreeBSD/i386 and (2) OSF/1,Digital Unix,Tru64. okay, okay, end the thread... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: conficting cvs version numbers?

2001-07-07 Thread j mckitrick
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 12:00:19PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: | On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 11:52:05PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: | I get version 1.15. When I look at the .c,v file in the cvs tree, it says | HEAD is 1.16, but $Id says it is 1.15. | | We don't use $Id$ anymore. Do you mean

Re: conficting cvs version numbers?

2001-07-07 Thread Dima Dorfman
j mckitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 12:00:19PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: | On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 11:52:05PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: | I get version 1.15. When I look at the .c,v file in the cvs tree, it says | HEAD is 1.16, but $Id says it is 1.15. | | We

FreeBSD 4.1 to -current

2001-07-07 Thread Eckhard Kantz
Hi when upgrading a machine from FreeBSD 4.1 to -current I encountered some problems and I could only solve the first one: 1. defines HALT, PDWN, PASTE were missing in kbio.h (defined them) 2. when linking miniperl in stage 3 the function 'setproctitle' was missing 3. eelf_i386.o:

Re: chgrp broken on alpha systems

2001-07-07 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:59:27PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: People are making more and more mistakes that break the Alpha build. We will soon have two more arches. ...which won't really make much difference, as 99% of the difference in

how to read raw disks in vmware?

2001-07-07 Thread Julian Elischer
now that we've removed block devices, there must be a hack to allow us to read block devices from vmware. can someone tell me what it is? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: Lock of struct filedesc, file, pgrp, session and sigio

2001-07-07 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 04:42:49PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: I'm going to be giving this code some testing, not that you have to wait for me to finish, but it seems like no one has stepped forward to review this. I'd like to see it committed, so either go ahead or wait for my review if

Re: HEADS UP - more ACPI updates, CPU throttling

2001-07-07 Thread Mike Smith
I've committed another round of ACPI changes to -current. The major addition is CPU throttling support. This is implemented using ACPI, not any vendor-specific technology, so it should work on any platform that exports the relevant information. By default, the CPU will run at 100%

Re: chgrp broken on alpha systems

2001-07-07 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 07:13:20PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: Yes, people need to be more careful when enabling WARNS and not do it until they've positively tested it on alpha. OR build a 64-bit long (LP64) x86 gcc and test compile with that also. BDE found *lots* of 64-bit dirty code using

Re: Problems with ata probing twice.

2001-07-07 Thread Makoto MATSUSHITA
sos Well, sortof, the ata driver doesn't allow for sharing irq1415 sos since lots of boards doesn't work that way. However if you need sos it you can try to add the shared flag in the driver and see if sos it works on yours. Hmm, maybe I should make this tunable... It this patch OK? I've

Re: RFC: Kernel thread system nomenclature.

2001-07-07 Thread Julian Elischer
Daniel Eischen wrote: On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Daniel Eischen wrote: -proc- -thrgrp- -thr- -thrctx- interesting, though the thrctx maps most closely to a userland thread. there may be many

Re: Problems with ata probing twice.

2001-07-07 Thread Peter Wemm
Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Smith writes: : : sos Well, sortof, the ata driver doesn't allow for sharing irq1415 : sos since lots of boards doesn't work that way. However if you need : sos it you can try to add the shared flag in the driver and see if : sos

Re: Problems with ata probing twice.

2001-07-07 Thread Mike Smith
sos Well, sortof, the ata driver doesn't allow for sharing irq1415 sos since lots of boards doesn't work that way. However if you need sos it you can try to add the shared flag in the driver and see if sos it works on yours. Hmm, maybe I should make this tunable... It this patch OK?

Re: Problems with ata probing twice.

2001-07-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Smith writes: : : sos Well, sortof, the ata driver doesn't allow for sharing irq1415 : sos since lots of boards doesn't work that way. However if you need : sos it you can try to add the shared flag in the driver and see if : sos it works on yours. Hmm,

Re: chgrp broken on alpha systems

2001-07-07 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what clock_t is used for (kernel version of time_t?). It was invented by the ANSI/ISO C committee to represent CPU time. Hardly anything uses it. John -- John Polstra

Re: HEADS UP - more ACPI updates, CPU throttling

2001-07-07 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
Hi, I've committed another round of ACPI changes to -current. The major addition is CPU throttling support. This is implemented using ACPI, not any vendor-specific technology, so it should work on any platform that exports the relevant information. By default, the CPU will run at 100%

Re: Problems with ata probing twice.

2001-07-07 Thread Mike Smith
: There is absolutely no reason for the ata driver not to simply set : RF_SHAREABLE and be done with it. It's up to the driver's parent (isa, : pci, etc) to decide whether the interrupt is in fact shareable or not. : : The ata driver itself can share interrupts just fine, and it should

Re: Problems with ata probing twice.

2001-07-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Wemm writes: : The upshot of this is that drivers should be setting RF_SHAREABLE if they : themselves can handle the possibility that the motherboard is wired up for : sharing their IRQ. It is up to the bus controller to sort out what is : really electrically

Re: conficting cvs version numbers?

2001-07-07 Thread GH
In the web CVS repository, $FreeBSD$ expands to version 1.16 In my local version, $FreeBSD$ is expanded to version 1.15 What could explain this? As someone already mentioned, you may have -k set for that file. If you don't know, send us the output of cvs status immio.c. gh Jonathon --

Re: chgrp broken on alpha systems

2001-07-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OR build a 64-bit long (LP64) x86 gcc and test compile with that also. BDE found *lots* of 64-bit dirty code using this technique. Mind revealing how that's done? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Lock of struct filedesc, file, pgrp, session and sigio

2001-07-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010707 18:06] wrote: On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 04:42:49PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: I'm going to be giving this code some testing, not that you have to wait for me to finish, but it seems like no one has stepped forward to review this. I'd like to see

Re: Problems with ata probing twice.

2001-07-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Smith writes: : Actually, there is a reason. Ata is special like pcic is special. : Both of them can have multiple interrupt routing methods. When ata is : connected directly to the south bridge, it can route ISA interrupts, : even though it is a pci

Re: Lock of struct filedesc, file, pgrp, session and sigio

2001-07-07 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 08:13:57PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: I'm not interested in wasting time tracking down bugs for your arch. *My* arch?? _OUR_ arches. Anyhow, the simple fact is that if you're unable to cope with some instability for a short amount of time you shouldn't be

Re: Lock of struct filedesc, file, pgrp, session and sigio

2001-07-07 Thread Mike Smith
Finally, if you're so damn concerned about your precious alpha I expect you or at least ANYONE WHO CARES ABOUT ALPHA TO ASSIST IN TESTING THESE DIFFS. HOW THE FSCK AM I TO TEST THEM WHEN I CANNOT EVEN GET TO SINGLE USER?? By testing them before they're committed, obviously. David -