Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-04-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-04-30 22:34, Eric Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This thread: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-December/020572.html > > mentions a patch to disable the boot manager beep, and also > discusses having it optional. I don't have enough asm-fu to make > that optio

Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

2006-04-30 Thread Frank Mayhar
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 00:09 +0300, Iantcho Vassilev wrote: > "incompetent idiots." quote > > What do you think about it? "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak, and remove all doubt." -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting

Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-04-30 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Eric Anderson wrote: This thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-December/020572.html mentions a patch to disable the boot manager beep, and also discusses having it optional. I don't have enough asm-fu to make that option happen, but I can tell you, that on laptops, t

Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-04-30 Thread Eric Anderson
This thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-December/020572.html mentions a patch to disable the boot manager beep, and also discusses having it optional. I don't have enough asm-fu to make that option happen, but I can tell you, that on laptops, that beep is really an

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-04-30 Thread Eric Anderson
Coleman Kane wrote: On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:45:09AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: Eric Anderson wrote: Actually, some other things got changed somewhere in the history, that broke some things and assumptions I was making. This patch has them fixed, and I've tested it with all the different

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-04-30 Thread Coleman Kane
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:45:09AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > Eric Anderson wrote: > > Actually, some other things got changed somewhere in the history, that > broke some things and assumptions I was making. This patch has them > fixed, and I've tested it with all the different options: > >

Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

2006-04-30 Thread Allen
On Sunday 30 April 2006 5:15 pm, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 12:09:29AM +0300, Iantcho Vassilev wrote.. > > > Hello guys, > > > > > > in bsdnews.com i found this link http://kerneltrap.org/node/6506 and > > particulary this: > > > > "I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD

Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

2006-04-30 Thread Scott Long
Iantcho Vassilev wrote: Hello guys, in bsdnews.com i found this link http://kerneltrap.org/node/6506 and particulary this: "I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots. Playing games with VM is bad. memory copies are _also_ bad, but quite frankly, memory copies oft

Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

2006-04-30 Thread Iantcho Vassilev
My first impression was as of Kip... But i think Linus attitude isn`t very perfect The big guy is showing muscles... On 5/1/06, Kip Macy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The implementation is > 7 years old, not used by default, and was intended for a specific application. There really isn't

Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

2006-04-30 Thread Kip Macy
The implementation is > 7 years old, not used by default, and was intended for a specific application. There really isn't much to say. -Kip On 4/30/06, Iantcho Vassilev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello guys, in bsdnews.com i found this link http://kerneltrap.org/node/6506 and particulary t

Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

2006-04-30 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 12:09:29AM +0300, Iantcho Vassilev wrote.. > Hello guys, > > > in bsdnews.com i found this link http://kerneltrap.org/node/6506 and > particulary this: > > "I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots. > Playing games with VM is bad. memory co

Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

2006-04-30 Thread Iantcho Vassilev
Hello guys, in bsdnews.com i found this link http://kerneltrap.org/node/6506 and particulary this: "I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots. Playing games with VM is bad. memory copies are _also_ bad, but quite frankly, memory copies often have _less_ downside t

config(8), include, and INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE

2006-04-30 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
Dear colleagues, Since "include" statement has been invented in config(8), option INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE is broken, as it's embedding only highest level config file into the kernel. I looked through the sources, but it seems fixing this is not very easy. The most natural way for me seems tracking

Re: gmirror with hot spare

2006-04-30 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 4/25/06, Vladimir Terziev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi hackers, is there a way to assign a hot spare disk/partition to a gmirror -ed disks/partitions ? There's no sense in it, is there? When we have RAID5 hot spare is needed, because we don't know what drive will fail fir