Re: Questions about devices and input.

2006-08-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Sean Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm writing some cd buring software using burncd as a reference. I was wondering if its possible to detect opening and closing of the doors. Unfortunately, no. The drive may not even have a door. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions about devices and input.

2006-08-14 Thread Intron
Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Smo/rgrav wrote: Sean Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm writing some cd buring software using burncd as a reference. I was wondering if its possible to detect opening and closing of the doors. Unfortunately, no. The drive may not even have a door. DES --

Re: Questions about devices and input.

2006-08-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Intron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sean Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm writing some cd buring software using burncd as a reference. I was wondering if its possible to detect opening and closing of the doors. Unfortunately, no. The

Re: Questions about devices and input.

2006-08-14 Thread Intron
Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Smo/rgrav wrote: Intron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smo/rgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sean Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm writing some cd buring software using burncd as a reference. I was wondering if its possible to detect opening and closing of

Re: Questions about devices and input.

2006-08-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Intron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Intron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, software can command the drive to open/close its door. This is not what Sean wants. I want to tell Sean that he is not worth spending time in finding how to detect the

Re: Questions about devices and input.

2006-08-14 Thread Intron
Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Smo/rgrav wrote: Intron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smo/rgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Intron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, software can command the drive to open/close its door. This is not what Sean wants. I want to tell Sean that he is not worth

exception handling in kernel code

2006-08-14 Thread Stanislav Sedov
Hi! I'm trying to write kernel code where exceptions are unavoidable. To clarify , I need to recover after GP (general protection) exception on i386 cpu and return an error in that case. Unfortunately, looking in trap.c kernel code I can't find any exception handling mechanism except inserting

Re: Questions about devices and input.

2006-08-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Intron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smo/rgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How does ridiculing me help Sean? Can your unilateral judgement give real help to Sean? Welcome to my kill file. Enjoy your stay. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unable to get RealTek 8139C+ to work with re(4) under FreeBSD 6.1

2006-08-14 Thread Dinesh Nair
i've got a single board computer with VIA C3 Samuel 2, 256MB RAM and 4 onboard Realtek 8139C+ NICs. I'm attempting to get FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE working on them, but the realtek NICs just don't seem to want to work. booting up led to a kernel trap with the following, rlphy0: RealTek internal

Re: Questions about devices and input.

2006-08-14 Thread Intron
Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Smo/rgrav wrote: Intron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smo/rgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How does ridiculing me help Sean? Can your unilateral judgement give real help to Sean? Welcome to my kill file. Enjoy your stay. DES -- Dag-Erling Smo/rgrav - [EMAIL

Re: Unable to get RealTek 8139C+ to work with re(4) under FreeBSD 6.1

2006-08-14 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 05:22:23PM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote: i've got a single board computer with VIA C3 Samuel 2, 256MB RAM and 4 onboard Realtek 8139C+ NICs. I'm attempting to get FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE working on them, but the realtek NICs just don't seem to want to work. booting up

Re: Unable to get RealTek 8139C+ to work with re(4) under FreeBSD 6.1

2006-08-14 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 08/14/06 17:22 Dinesh Nair said the following: i've got a single board computer with VIA C3 Samuel 2, 256MB RAM and 4 onboard Realtek 8139C+ NICs. I'm attempting to get FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE working on them, but the realtek NICs just don't seem to want to work. booting up led to a kernel

Re: Unable to get RealTek 8139C+ to work with re(4) under FreeBSD 6.1

2006-08-14 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 08/14/06 18:39 Pyun YongHyeon said the following: Recent changes from wpaul disabled re_diag() routine by default so it i disabled re_diag() in /usr/src/sys/dev/if_re.c, and that caused the kernel trap to go away, as per my original email. also, see my followup email (to myself) in which

Re: Unable to get RealTek 8139C+ to work with re(4) under FreeBSD 6.1

2006-08-14 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 06:55:58PM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote: On 08/14/06 18:39 Pyun YongHyeon said the following: Recent changes from wpaul disabled re_diag() routine by default so it i disabled re_diag() in /usr/src/sys/dev/if_re.c, and that caused the kernel trap to go away, as

Re: Unable to get RealTek 8139C+ to work with re(4) under FreeBSD 6.1

2006-08-14 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 08/14/06 19:09 Pyun YongHyeon said the following: really sucks and need much more CPU power to saturate the link. So I don't think it's good idea to make rl(4) serve 8139C+. perhaps, but re(4) doesn't work at the moment on this chipset, and i'd rather have something which works, albeit a

Re: Unable to get RealTek 8139C+ to work with re(4) under FreeBSD 6.1

2006-08-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the symptoms remain the same, i.e. IP traffic doesn't flow at all, though 'arp -an' does show the ethernet address of the other box attempting to ping this. 'tcpdump -n -e -i re0' shows nothing? have you tried disabling rx / tx checksum offloading?

Re: Unable to get RealTek 8139C+ to work with re(4) under FreeBSD 6.1

2006-08-14 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 08:03:35PM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote: On 08/14/06 19:09 Pyun YongHyeon said the following: really sucks and need much more CPU power to saturate the link. So I don't think it's good idea to make rl(4) serve 8139C+. perhaps, but re(4) doesn't work at the

Re: exception handling in kernel code

2006-08-14 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 14 August 2006 02:46, Stanislav Sedov wrote: Hi! I'm trying to write kernel code where exceptions are unavoidable. To clarify , I need to recover after GP (general protection) exception on i386 cpu and return an error in that case. Unfortunately, looking in trap.c kernel code I

Re: amd64 port on Prescott 2M?

2006-08-14 Thread John Baldwin
On Saturday 12 August 2006 14:47, Mike Meyer wrote: I just got a Prescott 2M core. While it's marketed as a P4, it's got all the features of the Xeon Nocona core enabled (except for MP support, of course): MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, HT, EM64T, EIST and XD. The question is whether or not the AMD64

Re: exception handling in kernel code

2006-08-14 Thread Stanislav Sedov
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:32:57 -0400 John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: You can make use of pcb_onfault to recover from a page fault, but that's about it. Kernel code is expected to not generate exceptions. :) Thanks a lot! I'll try it. To clarify: I've implemented driver to allow

Re: amd64 port on Prescott 2M?

2006-08-14 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Saturday 12 August 2006 14:47, Mike Meyer wrote: I just got a Prescott 2M core. While it's marketed as a P4, it's got all the features of the Xeon Nocona core enabled (except for MP support, of course): MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, HT,

Re: Questions about devices and input.

2006-08-14 Thread Sean Bryant
Thanks. Was just checking. On 8/14/06, Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sean Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm writing some cd buring software using burncd as a reference. I was wondering if its possible to detect opening and closing of the doors. Unfortunately, no. The drive

Re: Questions about devices and input.

2006-08-14 Thread Sean Bryant
How about when media is loaded. I have a detection routine that'll ask for media, but what about when any media is loaded? Is there some kind of event or some way I can be notified. On 8/14/06, Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sean Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm writing some

Re: exception handling in kernel code

2006-08-14 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Stanislav Sedov wrote this message on Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 19:47 +0600: I've implemented driver to allow user-level code to read MSRs (Model specific registers) (like linux's /dev/cpu/msr). It's required for some programs like x86info. As long as not all MSRs documented and reading/writing

Re: exception handling in kernel code

2006-08-14 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 14 August 2006 09:47, Stanislav Sedov wrote: On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:32:57 -0400 John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: You can make use of pcb_onfault to recover from a page fault, but that's about it. Kernel code is expected to not generate exceptions. :) Thanks a

Re: exception handling in kernel code

2006-08-14 Thread Stanislav Sedov
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:15:22 -0700 John-Mark Gurney [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: You should make a MD API for reading these out (if one doesn't already exist) that handle the faulting for you, and then have your driver hook into this api... I had to do something similar for accessing PCI

Re: Questions about devices and input.

2006-08-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Sean Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about when media is loaded. I have a detection routine that'll ask for media, but what about when any media is loaded? Is there some kind of event or some way I can be notified. Sorry, no. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Intel S5000PAL server board

2006-08-14 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, Is anyone here running 6.1 on Intel S5000PAL with dual-core Xeons? -- Bob Bishop +44 (0)118 940 1243 [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax +44 (0)118 940 1295 ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Questions about devices and input.

2006-08-14 Thread Sean Bryant
Thanks anyway :( On 8/14/06, Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sean Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about when media is loaded. I have a detection routine that'll ask for media, but what about when any media is loaded? Is there some kind of event or some way I can be notified.

Re: exception handling in kernel code

2006-08-14 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Stanislav Sedov wrote this message on Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 23:12 +0600: On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:15:22 -0700 John-Mark Gurney [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: You should make a MD API for reading these out (if one doesn't already exist) that handle the faulting for you, and then have your

Re: Questions about devices and input.

2006-08-14 Thread Intron
The section 4.11.1 Removable Media Status Notification feature set of ATA/ATAPI-7 (http://t13.org/docs2004/d1532v1r4b-ATA-ATAPI-7.pdf) reads, d) Host system periodically checks media status using the GET MEDIA STATUS command to determine if any of the following events occurred: - no media is

Re: Questions about devices and input.

2006-08-14 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes: : Sean Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : How about when media is loaded. I have a detection routine that'll ask : for media, but what about when any media is loaded? Is there some kind : of event or some

The optimization of malloc(3): FreeBSD vs GNU libc

2006-08-14 Thread Intron
One day, a friend told me that his program was 3 times slower under FreeBSD 6.1 than under GNU/Linux (from Redhat 7.2 to Fedora Core 5). I was astonished by the real repeatable performance difference on AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (1.8GHz, 512KB L2 Cache). After hacking, I found that the problem is

Re: The optimization of malloc(3): FreeBSD vs GNU libc

2006-08-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 07:10:47AM +0800, Intron wrote: One day, a friend told me that his program was 3 times slower under FreeBSD 6.1 than under GNU/Linux (from Redhat 7.2 to Fedora Core 5). I was astonished by the real repeatable performance difference on AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (1.8GHz, 512KB

Re: The optimization of malloc(3): FreeBSD vs GNU libc

2006-08-14 Thread Vladimir Kushnir
Sorry for intrusion. On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Brooks Davis wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 07:10:47AM +0800, Intron wrote: One day, a friend told me that his program was 3 times slower under FreeBSD 6.1 than under GNU/Linux (from Redhat 7.2 to Fedora Core 5). I was astonished by the real

Re: The optimization of malloc(3): FreeBSD vs GNU libc

2006-08-14 Thread (LI Xin)
在 2006-08-15二的 02:38 +0300,Vladimir Kushnir写道: On -CURENT amd64 (Athlon64 3000+, 512k L2 cache): With jemalloc (without MY_MALLOS): ~/fdtd /usr/bin/time ./fdtd.FreeBSD 500 500 1000 ... 116.34 real 113.69 user 0.00 sys With MY_MALLOC: ~/fdtd /usr/bin/time ./fdtd.FreeBSD

diff should not follow sym-link

2006-08-14 Thread Jin Guojun [VFFS]
I do not know what is the historical reason for program diff to follow a symbolic link during the recursive diff (-r), but it seems not to be a proper implementation. If both compared directories contains a sym-link, which point to a same file or directory, it obviously no need to compare it