Re: Active slice, only for a next boot

2011-05-28 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/27/11 11:34 AM, Warner Losh wrote: On May 27, 2011, at 10:47 AM, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Alexander Bestarun...@freebsd.org To: rank1see...@gmail.com Cc: hack...@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 13:47:54 + Subject: Re: Active slice, only for a

Re: [rfc] a few kern.mk and bsd.sys.mk related changes

2011-05-28 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri May 27 11, Warner Losh wrote: On May 27, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Alexander Best wrote: On Fri May 27 11, Warner Losh wrote: These look generally good. Just one thing I had a question on: # +# Enable FreeBSD kernel-specific printf format specifiers. Also instruct gcc to +#

Re: Active slice, only for a next boot

2011-05-28 Thread Chris Rees
On 28 May 2011 10:04, Julian Elischer jul...@freebsd.org wrote: On 5/27/11 11:34 AM, Warner Losh wrote: On May 27, 2011, at 10:47 AM, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Alexander Bestarun...@freebsd.org To: rank1see...@gmail.com Cc: hack...@freebsd.org Date:

Re: Active slice, only for a next boot

2011-05-28 Thread rank1seeker
And how about this: # boot0cfg -o noupdate -s 1 Now when you choose to hit slice 2, it is only for a this one boot. Next and each boot, defaults to slice 1 Problem is, that you must see, early bootstrap, to manually choose, so this won't work on a remote server. This requires: a) physicall

Re: [rfc] a few kern.mk and bsd.sys.mk related changes

2011-05-28 Thread Pan Tsu
Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org writes: On Fri May 27 11, Alexander Best wrote: On Fri May 27 11, Warner Losh wrote: These look generally good. Just one thing I had a question on: # +# Enable FreeBSD kernel-specific printf format specifiers. Also instruct gcc to +# enable

Re: Active slice, only for a next boot

2011-05-28 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/28/11 6:06 AM, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: And how about this: # boot0cfg -o noupdate -s 1 Now when you choose to hit slice 2, it is only for a this one boot. Next and each boot, defaults to slice 1 Problem is, that you must see, early bootstrap, to manually choose, so this won't work

Re: Active slice, only for a next boot

2011-05-28 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/28/11 4:06 AM, Chris Rees wrote: On 28 May 2011 10:04, Julian Elischer jul...@freebsd.org mailto:jul...@freebsd.org wrote: On 5/27/11 11:34 AM, Warner Losh wrote: On May 27, 2011, at 10:47 AM, rank1see...@gmail.com mailto:rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message -

Re: Active slice, only for a next boot

2011-05-28 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/28/11 11:10 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: On 5/28/11 4:06 AM, Chris Rees wrote: On 28 May 2011 10:04, Julian Elischer jul...@freebsd.org mailto:jul...@freebsd.org wrote: On 5/27/11 11:34 AM, Warner Losh wrote: On May 27, 2011, at 10:47 AM, rank1see...@gmail.com

Re: [rfc] a few kern.mk and bsd.sys.mk related changes

2011-05-28 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat May 28 11, Pan Tsu wrote: Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org writes: On Fri May 27 11, Alexander Best wrote: On Fri May 27 11, Warner Losh wrote: These look generally good. Just one thing I had a question on: # +# Enable FreeBSD kernel-specific printf format

Re: [rfc] a few kern.mk and bsd.sys.mk related changes

2011-05-28 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat May 28 11, Alexander Best wrote: On Sat May 28 11, Pan Tsu wrote: Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org writes: On Fri May 27 11, Alexander Best wrote: On Fri May 27 11, Warner Losh wrote: These look generally good. Just one thing I had a question on: # +# Enable

Re: [rfc] a few kern.mk and bsd.sys.mk related changes

2011-05-28 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 06:23:26PM +, Alexander Best wrote: well i'm not an expert on this. but are we 100% sure that a kernel on amd64 compiled with -O2 frename-registers can be debugged the same way as one with -O? if that is the case: sure...-O2 is fine. ;) however i've often read

Re: [rfc] a few kern.mk and bsd.sys.mk related changes

2011-05-28 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat May 28 11, Bruce Cran wrote: On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 06:23:26PM +, Alexander Best wrote: well i'm not an expert on this. but are we 100% sure that a kernel on amd64 compiled with -O2 frename-registers can be debugged the same way as one with -O? if that is the case: sure...-O2

Re: [rfc] a few kern.mk and bsd.sys.mk related changes

2011-05-28 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat May 28 11, Alexander Best wrote: On Sat May 28 11, Bruce Cran wrote: On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 06:23:26PM +, Alexander Best wrote: well i'm not an expert on this. but are we 100% sure that a kernel on amd64 compiled with -O2 frename-registers can be debugged the same way

Re: Freebsd on the sun x4440

2011-05-28 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I would like to suggest to try 8.2. It is my experience that the different version behave very different on the same hardware. It does not mean that the newer version is the better. As an example, I have a machine here on 7.x as 8.0 did not support the USB hardware found. After a machine