Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

In message <17560ccf0903260551v1f5cba9eu87727c0bae7b...@mail.gmail.com>, Prasha nt Vaibhav writes: >The gettimeofday() function's implementation will then be >changed to read the timestamp counter (TSC) from the processor, and use the >reading in conjunction with the timing info exported by the ke

Re: does Copyright on source files expire ?

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:58:02 +1100 Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2009-Mar-25 05:31:52 -0400, David Schultz wrote: > >In the US, the rule that applies most of the time is that > >Copyright expires 70 years after the author dies, although there > >are many special cases where the term differs. > > And

Re: does Copyright on source files expire ?

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, ttw+...@cobbled.net wrote: On 25.03-05:31, David Schultz wrote: [ ... ] A person's Copyright doesn't go away just because they die, disappear, or fail to respond. If you can't contact them, their heirs, or whomever they transferred the Copyright to, you're stuck. yeah bu

Intel Pro 82546GB COPPER. Frames reception by disabled interrupts

Hello, interrupts disable: E1000_WRITE_REG(&adapter->hw, E1000_IMC, 0x); this clears interrupt mask register. Question: Will network adapter accept incoming frames and transfer them to hast memory by disabled interrupts ? Thenx, Alexej ___ fre

Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

Hi everyone, I'm a potential Google Summer of Code applicant, proposing to work on improving the timecounter performance in the FreeBSD kernel (suggestion from Timecounter Performance Improvements). My qualifications are mentioned

Re: does Copyright on source files expire ?

On 25.03-05:31, David Schultz wrote: [ ... ] > A person's Copyright doesn't go away just because they die, > disappear, or fail to respond. If you can't contact them, their > heirs, or whomever they transferred the Copyright to, you're stuck. yeah but it's a little like finding something. if ther

Re: does Copyright on source files expire ?

On 2009-Mar-25 05:31:52 -0400, David Schultz wrote: >In the US, the rule that applies most of the time is that >Copyright expires 70 years after the author dies, although there >are many special cases where the term differs. And the '70' gets regularly extended following pressure from the big con

Re: Atheros wireless card keeps losing signal when signal is too weak

On 3/26/09, Yuri wrote: > Sam Leffler wrote: >> Those parameters control the roaming algorithm. The OP didn't >> identify their card, freebsd version, or provide any info about their >> setup or why ifconfig reports "no carrier". It just sounds like >> there's a loss in the signal and freebsd ge

Overflow in vm.vmtotal expected when allocating huge amounts of memory?

Are overflows in the vm counters expected when dealing with huge amounts of memory on 64-bit platforms? I wrote an application which malloc'd 10TB memory and then sat doing nothing; vm.vmtotal showed -2132654356K. Shouldn't unsigned integers be used for any vm stats to avoid overflows? -- Bruce