Re: Question about adding flags to mmap system call / NVIDIA amd64 driver implementation

2009-04-28 Thread Julian Elischer
Robert Noland wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 16:48 -0500, Kevin Day wrote: On Apr 28, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Julian Bangert wrote: Hello, I am currently trying to work a bit on the remaining "missing feature" that NVIDIA requires ( http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests or a back post in

Re: Question about adding flags to mmap system call / NVIDIA amd64 driver implementation

2009-04-28 Thread Robert Noland
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 16:48 -0500, Kevin Day wrote: > On Apr 28, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Julian Bangert wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am currently trying to work a bit on the remaining "missing > > feature" that NVIDIA requires ( > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests > > or a back post

Re: Question about adding flags to mmap system call / NVIDIA amd64 driver implementation

2009-04-28 Thread Kevin Day
On Apr 28, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Julian Bangert wrote: Hello, I am currently trying to work a bit on the remaining "missing feature" that NVIDIA requires ( http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests or a back post in this ML) - the improved mmap system call. For now, I am trying to extend

Re: SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system

2009-04-28 Thread David Schultz
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > Another idea to consider. Are all of our utilities wchar-clean? What > about library functions? (regex is surely not) Do we lack any important > utility or library? (we still do lack iconv and gettext and what > else...?) What about standards, like C

Re: Question about adding flags to mmap system call / NVIDIA amd64 driver implementation

2009-04-28 Thread Marius Nünnerich
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 22:19, Julian Bangert wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently trying to work a bit on the remaining "missing feature" that > NVIDIA requires ( http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests  or a back > post in this ML) -  the improved mmap system call. >  For now, I am trying to

Question about adding flags to mmap system call / NVIDIA amd64 driver implementation

2009-04-28 Thread Julian Bangert
Hello, I am currently trying to work a bit on the remaining "missing feature" that NVIDIA requires ( http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests or a back post in this ML) - the improved mmap system call. For now, I am trying to extend the current system call and implementation to add

Re: SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system

2009-04-28 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 03:53:10PM +0200, G?bor K?vesd?n wrote: > >> It's possible that there are little poor countries with an own writing > >> system but probably their writing system is unsupported because the > >> starvation, poorness and lack of water and electricity are more serious > >> prob

Re: C99: Suggestions for style(9)

2009-04-28 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2009-Apr-26 09:02:36 +0200, Christoph Mallon wrote: as some of you may have noticed, several years ago a new millenium started and a decade ago there was a new C standard. Your implication that FreeBSD is therefore a decade behind the times is unfa

Re: SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system

2009-04-28 Thread Gábor Kövesdán
>> It's possible that there are little poor countries with an own writing >> system but probably their writing system is unsupported because the >> starvation, poorness and lack of water and electricity are more serious >> problems there. > > I wouldn't call all both parts of Korea little poor coun

Re: SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system

2009-04-28 Thread Gábor Kövesdán
>> >> My ex-girlfriend is working in Nepal [...] Even this country's encoding >> is >> supported. > > > Probably because Nepali language doesn't have a separate script, they use > Devanagari! :-) I know, what I wanted to say was that even Nepali is covered by the supported scripts. -- Gábor Kö

Re: C99: Suggestions for style(9)

2009-04-28 Thread Roman Divacky
I like the part about using as many variables as possible because of documentation and performance enhancements. I tend to like the other changes as well.. On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 09:02:36AM +0200, Christoph Mallon wrote: > Hi hackers@, > > as some of you may have noticed, several years ago a ne

Re: SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system

2009-04-28 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:08:49AM +0200, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > Citrus is based on UCS-4 as an internal encoding, just like the another > BSD-licensed iconv library. This is a barrier to support encodings that > aren't supported by UCS-4. More precisely is that Citrus can and will use UCS-4

Re: IPsec in GENERIC kernel config

2009-04-28 Thread VANHULLEBUS Yvan
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:36:26AM +0300, Jan Melen wrote: > Hi, [...] > Just to understand the problem correctly I guess you are talking about > performance hit on outgoing packets as the IPsec tries to find a > security policy even for packets that should not be encrypted? For > incoming traff

Re: SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system

2009-04-28 Thread Prashant Vaibhav
> > My ex-girlfriend is working in Nepal [...] Even this country's encoding is > supported. Probably because Nepali language doesn't have a separate script, they use Devanagari! :-) On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > David Schultz escribió: > >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009,

Re: C99: Suggestions for style(9)

2009-04-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Apr-26 09:02:36 +0200, Christoph Mallon wrote: >as some of you may have noticed, several years ago a new millenium >started and a decade ago there was a new C standard. Your implication that FreeBSD is therefore a decade behind the times is unfair. Whilst the C99 standard was published

Re: IPsec in GENERIC kernel config

2009-04-28 Thread Jan Melen
Hi, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Sam Leffler wrote: Hi, Jan Melen wrote: Hi, Again when I compiled a custom kernel just to enable IPsec in the FreeBSD kernel it came to my mind why is it so that the IPsec is not enabled by default in the GENERIC kernel configuration file? At

Re: Improving geom_mirror(4)'s read balancing

2009-04-28 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Ivan Voras wrote: Maxim Sobolev wrote: The patch is available here: http://sobomax.sippysoft.com/~sobomax/geom_mirror.diff. I would like to get input on the functionality/code itself, as well on what is the best way to add this functionality. Right now, it's part of the round-robin balancing co

Re: SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system

2009-04-28 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:42:46PM -0400, David Schultz wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 03:49:04PM -0400, David Schultz wrote: > > > ...but isn't this moot at present because there are no > > > widely-accepted encodings that include characters th

Re: SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system

2009-04-28 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
David Schultz escribió: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:49:41AM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: David Schultz wrote: ... whether it would make more sense to standardize on something like UCS-4 for the internal representation. YES.

Re: SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system

2009-04-28 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
David Schultz escribió: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009, Gábor Kövesdán wrote: Hello all, my name is Gábor Kövesdán. I'm a Hungarian student and I'll be working on a BSD-licensed libiconv implementation for FreeBSD during this year's Summer of Code program. It'll be based on NetBSD's Citrus iconv but t