Re: kevent subsystem

2002-05-10 Thread Terry Lambert
Ramkumar Chinchani wrote: Has the POSIX event standard implemeted in FreeBSD? POSIX events are logged to a file. Which would give a better performance, assuming kevent can register more events? Are you talking about POSIX persistent queueing, of the type not implemented by the POSIX printing

Re: Difference between RELENG_* and RELENG_*_BP

2002-05-10 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Leo Bicknell wrote: At the end of the day, we need to lower the barrier to adding documentation, while increasing the quality. Far from an easy task. I agree with your point. It would be nice to break down barriers to documentation. However, I don't think any of the

Re: What hardware do you use ?

2002-05-10 Thread Matthias Buelow
Josef Grosch writes: This question came up at last night BAFUG meeting. What hardware do people use and/or recommend? Specifically, if you were going to build a machine, using commonly available parts and just to run a generic kernel, what ethernet, video, motherboards, etc, would you use and/or

Re: Soft interrupts

2002-05-10 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 05:39:01PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: You probably want to have a good look at usb_ethersubr.c - it does this sort of thing already, but for different reasons. On FreeBSD, the usb hardware interrupts ran (pre-SMPng) as bio, not net. All of the assumptions, problems

Re: nextboot loader diff

2002-05-10 Thread Julian Elischer
Jonathan Mini wrote: Maybe you could ask Archie or Ambrisko to clarify the feature you're trying to replace, and then ask Mike about the code needed to do that? ehem.. WHO wrote that? :-) My original aim was to allow a system to boot successfully using a sequence of possible

Re: nextboot loader diff

2002-05-10 Thread Julian Elischer
Gordon Tetlow wrote: On Thu, 9 May 2002, Michael Smith wrote: I've finally learned enough forth to put together a diff to implement some nextboot functionality in the loader. Basically, the loader peeks into the first line of /boot/nextboot.conf to see if nextboot_enable=YES

Re: nextboot loader diff

2002-05-10 Thread Terry Lambert
Julian Elischer wrote: I wrote the original 'nextboot to use block 1 (ususally unused) to avoid under all circumstances writing into the filesystem. Also, part of the weakness of the current system is that it presumes you know which IS the root filesystem. The original nextboot took as part

Re: nextboot loader diff

2002-05-10 Thread Gordon Tetlow
Picking a random message to respond to... On Fri, 10 May 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: It's actually just as easy to make boot1 go read it itself, assuming boot1 has the ability to read. It also decouples it somewhat, which (IMO) is a good thing. This is actually the same effect they get from

Re: nextboot loader diff

2002-05-10 Thread John Baldwin
On 10-May-2002 Julian Elischer wrote: You also had to have: 1/ a way of setting the boot specification list from the running system. 2/ a simple and unlikely-to-break method of ensuring that if the boot did NOT succeed, it did something DIFFERENT next time. 3/ the ability to read the

Re: What hardware do you use ?

2002-05-10 Thread Doug White
Removing crosspost. On Fri, 10 May 2002, Josef Grosch wrote: This question came up at last night BAFUG meeting. What hardware do people use and/or recommend? Specifically, if you were going to build a machine, using commonly available parts and just to run a generic kernel, what ethernet,

Re: kevent subsystem

2002-05-10 Thread Robert Watson
This looks much more like a syslog/audit/... mechanism, and not really much like keven, which is about applications getting event notification on system objects. You might be interested in talking to Andrew Reiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] about his work on the TrustedBSD audit framework, but otherwise

NULLFS-related possible deadlock + fix proposal

2002-05-10 Thread Semen A. Ustimenko
Hi! Preface: Same directory is null-mounted to /mnt and /mnt2. The directory contain dir/foofile. Two processes concurently lookup /mnt/dir/foofile and /mnt2/dir/foofile. Action: P1: in lookup(): in VOP_LOOKUP(dvp (== /mnt/dir), foofile): in null_lookup(): in

Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd)

2002-05-10 Thread Robert Watson
Last call for submissions due this afternoon. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 15:59:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kevent subsystem

2002-05-10 Thread Terry Lambert
Ramkumar Chinchani wrote: I am asking more in terms of the posix event logging mechanism being implemented in Linux 2.5.x kernel. http://evlog.sourceforge.net/ How does the kevent mechanism of event notification and handling compare to this scheme? The POSIX 1003.25 draft that they are

Re: kevent subsystem

2002-05-10 Thread Terry Lambert
Robert Watson wrote: This looks much more like a syslog/audit/... mechanism, and not really much like keven, which is about applications getting event notification on system objects. You might be interested in talking to Andrew Reiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] about his work on the TrustedBSD audit

Re: nextboot loader diff

2002-05-10 Thread Gordon Tetlow
Is there anything that is wrong with the conceptual implementation of the nextboot loader code that I've submitted? It definitely needs a code cleanup on the forth side (which I'm not qualified to do), but if there are no other objections, I'd really like to see this code committed. -gordon To

Re: nextboot loader diff

2002-05-10 Thread Terry Lambert
John Baldwin wrote: Now is when I point out that the original nextboot predates the ELF format conversion, as well as the new FORTH based loader code... which predates running on anything other than i386 anyway (unless you count my Motorolla Powerstack port, or Vogel's SPARC port, back

Re: nextboot loader diff

2002-05-10 Thread Gordon Tetlow
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: Gordon Tetlow wrote: Is there anything that is wrong with the conceptual implementation of the nextboot loader code that I've submitted? It definitely needs a code cleanup on the forth side (which I'm not qualified to do), but if there are no

is it safe to temporary replace thread pcb pointer?

2002-05-10 Thread David Xu
I am working on vm86 bios call crash bug for CURRENT and have already a working patch on my machine, I have tested the patch under heavy loaded, seems be very stable. in the patch, I replace current thread pcb pointer to a temporary pcb, the pcb of course is not created by pmap, I am not very

Re: What hardware do you use ?

2002-05-10 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Doug White wrote: usually have onboard everything, including dual fxp's nowadays. But they have the ServerWorks curse. . Tyan makes some interesting stuff, but as with all ServerWorks based stuff, stay far, far away from the base ATA33 controller. Even the cheap what