Re: Bursting at the seams (was: Heh heh, humorous lockup)

1999-07-07 Thread Julian Elischer
we already use the gs register for SMP now.. what about the fs register? I vaguely remember that the different segments could be used to achieve this (%fs points to user space or something) julian On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: :Why not put the kernel in a different address

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now works under New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-07 Thread Julian Elischer
uh... [phaser.whistle.com] 536 man 9 finetimer No entry for finetimer in section 9 of the manual On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Seigo Tanimura wrote: Another idea has come to my mind... pca(4) currently uses acquire_timer0(), which changes the timer frequency directly, breaking finetimer(9). I

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now works under New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-07 Thread Seigo Tanimura
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 19:06:48 -0700 (PDT), Julian Elischer jul...@whistle.com said: julian uh... julian [phaser.whistle.com] 536 man 9 finetimer julian No entry for finetimer in section 9 of the manual Sorry, finetimer(9) is the new timer implemented in my latest midi driver. You can read the

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now works under New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-07 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Seigo Tanimura wrote: On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 19:06:48 -0700 (PDT), Julian Elischer jul...@whistle.com said: julian uh... julian [phaser.whistle.com] 536 man 9 finetimer julian No entry for finetimer in section 9 of the manual Sorry, finetimer(9) is the new timer

implementing a fs on a raw partition

1999-07-07 Thread Marc Tardif
As I reading on filesystem algorithms and principles [bach 86 and mckusick 96], I am tempted to try my hand on a free partition. From my understanding, I should be using the partition as a character device for raw i/o in order to avoid the current filesystem overhead (/dev/rwd0s3). From that

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now works under New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-07 Thread Seigo Tanimura
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 19:18:57 -0700 (PDT), Julian Elischer jul...@whistle.com said: Sorry, finetimer(9) is the new timer implemented in my latest midi driver. You can read the short paper describing the feature and principle in: Message-Id: 199907060959.saa05...@rina.naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-07 Thread Chris Costello
On Wed, Jul 7, 1999, Wes Peters wrote: Now there's an idea! Someone wanna code up wmrtfm real quick? It should start an rxvt (if available) or xterm running rtfm on strings that are dropped onto or pasted into the dock icon. Wait until someone writes grtfm! GNOME support, panel applet,

Re: Bursting at the seams (was: Heh heh, humorous lockup)

1999-07-07 Thread Patryk Zadarnowski
Why not put the kernel in a different address space? IIRC there's no absolute requirement for the kernel and userland to be in the same address space, and that way we would have 4 GB for each. Wouldn't that make system calls that need to share data between kernel and user spaces hopelessly

Re: Bursting at the seams (was: Heh heh, humorous lockup)

1999-07-07 Thread Patryk Zadarnowski
we already use the gs register for SMP now.. what about the fs register? I vaguely remember that the different segments could be used to achieve this (%fs points to user space or something) ... as I've suggested a few days ago, and was told to shut up with a (rather irrelevant) reference

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now works under New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-07 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Seigo Tanimura wrote: Ow, I thought it was in the mailing list archive, turned out not. I will attach the paper below. Sorry for a long mail. --- v --- cut here --- v --- Unlike 16550, MPU401 does not generate an interrupt on TX-ready. So we have to choose one of

Re: Problem with fxp driver and 82559 cards

1999-07-07 Thread Jay Kuri
Large data transfers seem to cause the lockup. I know at least 1 netbsd person has reported similar problems with these new cards, (kern/7216). Has anyone seen problems like these? Any ideas? Hmmm...I've been using them in some machines here and haven't seen any problems. Strange.

Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)

1999-07-07 Thread Assar Westerlund
Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@flood.ping.uio.no writes: And besides, I really don't think this is a grep function but actually is useful for programs that don't have any strategy for handling out of memory errors and might as well die (with a descriptive error message, of course). Let's call

Re: Heh heh, humorous lockup

1999-07-07 Thread Jason Thorpe
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 18:21:03 -0700 (PDT) Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote: Now, I also believe that when UVM maps those pages, it makes them copy-on-write so I/O can be initiated on the data without having to stall anyone attempting to make further

Re: Bursting at the seams (was: Heh heh, humorous lockup)

1999-07-07 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Patryk Zadarnowski wrote: Why not put the kernel in a different address space? IIRC there's no absolute requirement for the kernel and userland to be in the same address space, and that way we would have 4 GB for each. Wouldn't that make system calls that need to

Clipboard Daemon - thinking of writing one :)

1999-07-07 Thread Mikhail Ramendik
Hello! I am new to FreeBSD and Unix, but not new to programming and TCP/IP. I have noticed that there is no good clipboard system in FreeBSD. X has only a rudimentary clipboard, and outside X there is no clipboard that would be shared between programs... All this while Windows has a very

Re: Clipboard Daemon - thinking of writing one :)

1999-07-07 Thread Julian Elischer
The hard part is going to be the applications to co-operate. good luck. it's be nice. especially if it worked with the syscons cut-n-paste. julian On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Mikhail Ramendik wrote: Hello! I am new to FreeBSD and Unix, but not new to programming and TCP/IP. I have noticed that

Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)

1999-07-07 Thread Tony Finch
Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@flood.ping.uio.no wrote: Don't use err() indiscriminately after a malloc() failure; malloc() doesn't set errno. When I looked at malloc(3) I decided that it relied on sbrk(2) to set errno if it returned 0. Is this wrong? i.e. can it return 0 without a failed syscall?

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-07 Thread Mark J. Taylor
Put it in the .login or /etc/csh.login (etc.) file. They'll see it every time they log in. -Mark Taylor NetMAX Developer mtay...@cybernet.com http://www.netmax.com/ Wes Peters wrote: Bill Fumerola wrote: On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: Thanks! But still, I don't think

Re: Someone want to add support for computer radio scaners?

1999-07-07 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: Hello All, I was just looking at http://www.winradio.com/ and was thinking that it would be a nice addition to FreeBSD. I don't own one of the cards, otherwise I would have started to see what I could do. But if anyone out there has one/has access to one, it would be

Re: Berkeley DB question

1999-07-07 Thread Tony Finch
User Joe j...@monk.via.net wrote: Is the berkeley db (or any other small db) multi user safe? Are there locks to maintain coherency of multiple processes access the same database files? The web pages for Berkeley DB 2 claim that it does (note version 2, not 1.85 as shipped with FreeBSD).

Re: Pictures from USENIX

1999-07-07 Thread Don Lewis
On Jul 4, 5:35pm, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: } Subject: Re: Pictures from USENIX } beards are great...women love them, getting fluffed is much } better than getting scratchedkids love them. brush the beard } whenever you brush your hair. dont hae to deal with a buzzing razor, } very

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