Re: Setting up development environment

2007-05-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Daniel Molina Wegener [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any official way to setup a development environment for FreeBSD. I mean, I want to contribute with FreeBSD development. All I know that there is a Developer's Handbook, but what about setting a development environment for

Re: direct I/O access

2007-05-30 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Sorry for cross posting, but perhaps hackers is a better list than multimedia for this topic. Probably. i am trying to port my old assembler soft for Dos to FreeBSD. You have my sympathy. i need to write and read directly to the midi and scsi

Re: direct I/O access

2007-05-30 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 20:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, Sorry for cross posting, but perhaps hackers is a better list than multimedia for this topic. i am trying to port my old assembler soft for Dos to FreeBSD. i need to write and read directly to the midi and scsi device. when i

Re: direct I/O access

2007-05-30 Thread rmgls
i am trying to port my old assembler soft for Dos to FreeBSD. You have my sympathy. Thanks, i need it, because its a big deal for me! i need to write and read directly to the midi and scsi device. when i try something like this i receive a sigbus error SORRY, i am NOT nor a C nor a

Re: Setting up development environment

2007-05-30 Thread Luiz Otavio Souza
Daniel Molina Wegener escreveu: Hello, Is there any official way to setup a development environment for FreeBSD. I mean, I want to contribute with FreeBSD development. All I know that there is a Developer's Handbook, but what about setting a development environment for FreeBSD-CURRENT and

SoC / PMC

2007-05-30 Thread Mathieu Prevot
2007/5/25, Joseph Koshy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Do you intend to run FreeBSD under Parallels? If so you may need to check if Parallels emulates PMC hardware correctly. The other emulators do not. You may need a regular i386 or amd64 PC to run FreeBSD on 'bare metal'. I compiled a SMP (seems not

Re: SoC / PMC

2007-05-30 Thread Harald Servat
2007/5/30, Mathieu Prevot [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2007/5/25, Joseph Koshy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Do you intend to run FreeBSD under Parallels? If so you may need to check if Parallels emulates PMC hardware correctly. The other emulators do not. You may need a regular i386 or amd64 PC to run

Re: SoC / PMC

2007-05-30 Thread Arne Schwabe
Mathieu Prevot schrieb: 2007/5/25, Joseph Koshy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Do you intend to run FreeBSD under Parallels? If so you may need to check if Parallels emulates PMC hardware correctly. The other emulators do not. You may need a regular i386 or amd64 PC to run FreeBSD on 'bare metal'. I

Re: direct I/O access

2007-05-30 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: And I have to ask. The hardware has changed a lot since the days of DoS, and things that worked then may cause strange results on modern hardware. Do you know modern hardware, or are you still using dos-era hardware? yes i am aware of this, and

Re: direct I/O access

2007-05-30 Thread M. Warner Losh
Open /dev/io and you should be able to do what you want. How you do this in assembler, I'll leave to others. Warner ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to

can we use disk device for iscsi-target port?

2007-05-30 Thread Patrick Dung
Hi This port is from netbsd. I have test it, It is great. I found it seems iscsi-target has to take a file instead of disk devicek (eg. /dev/da1) as the target. Below is my test result: Starting iscsi_target. Reading configuration from `/usr/local/etc/iscsi/targets' target0:rw:0.0.0.0/0

Re: Looking for speed increases in make index and pkg_version for ports

2007-05-30 Thread Bakul Shah
Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-May-27 16:12:54 -0700, Bakul Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given the size and complexity of the port system I have long felt that rather than do everything via more and more complex Mk/*.mk what is is needed is a ports server and a thin CLI

Re: Looking for speed increases in make index and pkg_version for ports

2007-05-30 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Wed, 30 May 2007, Bakul Shah wrote: Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-May-27 16:12:54 -0700, Bakul Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given the size and complexity of the port system I have long felt that rather than do everything via more and more complex Mk/*.mk what is is

Re: can we use disk device for iscsi-target port?

2007-05-30 Thread Mark Foster
Patrick Dung wrote: It would be great if disk device can be used directly. BTW, I have not yet test netbsd with raw disk. seems someone test on openbsd and it seems working: http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=43960 Whole disk or slice? I don't think either works at this

boot0 vs XP

2007-05-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I recently reinstalled Windows XP on my laptop (I barely use it but occasionally it comes in handy :) and when I did the install it made the base drive E (no idea why, and I couldn't see how to change it). Everything proceeds as usual and then I boot a CD to then jump start my system and run

Re: direct I/O access

2007-05-30 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
Mike, good day. Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:43:07AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: I believe this should be $0x4, as you want to *set* the values, not get them. Right. You also need to open the file /dev/io. I believe that leaving this file open for anything more than a handful of instructions would