On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 09:48:18PM +1000, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
If that's the _only_ point, then Garrett Wollman's idea should work
perfectly. Stick the files under CVS, just agree that they should
never be revised, but rather that new versions should be imported in a
different directory and the
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 09:37:40 +1000, Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
How do you suggest such files get distributed?
cvsup and/or rsync. This does leave CTM-users the odd men out
As Matt pointed out, CVS provides us with a good mechanism for
ensuring that I can identify what version
I don't see the purpose of having a firmware image permanently
resident (especially given their sizes). Getting the boot loader to
directly load the firmware into the device seems a much nicer
solution. If this is impractical, treating the firmware as a kld and
unloading it after
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:52:20 MST, Matthew Jacob wrote:
But this isn't the point. The point is to cause less cvsup turbulence
for all and sundry. I think I can do enough of this by just splitting
the file apart to keep everyone happy. Or happy enough.
If that's the _only_ point, then
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 13:47:03 +0200, Sheldon Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
If that's the _only_ point, then Garrett Wollman's idea should work
perfectly. Stick the files under CVS
No, that was not my proposal. I want to keep them out of CVS
entirely. CVS is Not Good at handling binary files
If that's the _only_ point, then Garrett Wollman's idea should work
perfectly. Stick the files under CVS
No, that was not my proposal. I want to keep them out of CVS
entirely. CVS is Not Good at handling binary files (even if you never
change them). That's why I'd like them in a
My cvsup appeared to be frozen, so I stopped it and looked..
src/sys/dev/isp/asm_pci.c,v is 13MB long!
it was just taking a long time..
this seems a little excessive.
anyone got any ideas. (13MB on a 40Kbit link is a long time)
to make matters worse cvsup appears to be redownloading some
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Julian Elischer wrote:
My cvsup appeared to be frozen, so I stopped it and looked..
src/sys/dev/isp/asm_pci.c,v is 13MB long!
it was just taking a long time..
this seems a little excessive.
I was annoyed by this a few months ago when the file was only 10MB.
Yes, this needs to be fixed. I have an open bug about this with respect to
making the f/w a loadable module as well. I'll probably split it into several
pieces so that each f/w update is smaller. I could probably make it binary and
compress is (each f/w module is an array of 16 bit shorts), but
Garrett Wollman wrote:
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:30:01 +1000 (EST), Bruce Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
This seems to be inherent in the file format. Binary data is expanded
by a factor of 4 due to encoding it as a C array. Even tiny changes
in the data ripple through the array and give
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Julian Elischer wrote:
This seems well thought out and I certainly agree that we don't need
DIFFs of firmware.
I wonder if we can somehow "cheat time" and get that 13MB file out of
the source tree and retro-actively tag the new scheme so
that we don't have to carry it
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 01:43:44PM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Julian Elischer wrote:
This seems well thought out and I certainly agree that we don't need
DIFFs of firmware.
I wonder if we can somehow "cheat time" and get that 13MB file out of
the source tree
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote:
Seriously, perhaps we should consider putting optional pieces of the
kernel
Firmware for a SCSI adapter is not optional. At least not on some of the
Alpha machines that download out-of-date firmware from their SRMs so depend
on the driver to load them with
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 02:07:22PM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote:
Seriously, perhaps we should consider putting optional pieces of the
kernel
Firmware for a SCSI adapter is not optional. At least not on some of the
Alpha machines that download
Matt can tell you more ;-)
People don't really want to know more. They just don't want what I provide
support for to impact them. I'll bet if I sum up all the other kernel mathoms
like netgraph, and so on, that *I* never use, it'd be less than this f/w...:-)
But this isn't the point. The
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