Re: [RFC][CFT] GEOM direct dispatch and fine-grained CAM locking

2013-09-04 Thread Alexander Motin
On 04.09.2013 00:48, Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote: On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone confirm how well tested/stable this patch set might be?? if theres positive input i have a zoo of dev machines i could load it on, to help further it. Just

Re: booting FreeBSD on Apple Mac mini with GPT disk partition

2013-09-04 Thread Benjamin VILLAIN
Hi Kim, I had some trouble bootin FreeBSD on my macbook pro last year. It seems that you have to boot FreeBSD in BIOS mode (UEFI bootloader is not available yet on amd64) and this can only be achieved on the SATA hard drive (not an external one). I don't know how are you trying to boot it but it

Re: booting FreeBSD on Apple Mac mini with GPT disk partition

2013-09-04 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 03/09/2013 21:29, Kim Shrier wrote: Does anyone know if work on booting FreeBSD on modern Apple hardware was ever completed? I have looked on the wiki, forums, and email archives but I don't see anything definitive. I would like to have a GPT partitioned disk with a freebsd-boot,

Re: [RFC][CFT] GEOM direct dispatch and fine-grained CAM locking

2013-09-04 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/04/13 02:01, Alexander Motin wrote: On 04.09.2013 00:48, Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote: On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone confirm how well tested/stable this patch set might be?? if theres positive input i have a zoo of dev machines i

Re: [RFC][CFT] GEOM direct dispatch and fine-grained CAM locking

2013-09-04 Thread Olivier Cochard-Labbé
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Alexander Motin m...@freebsd.org wrote: - HP EliteBook 8460p (amd64: r255188) with DVD replaced by a second hardrive (where fbsd is installed): It crash just after the message GEOM: new disk ada1 during boot screenshot of the crash screen:

Re: [RFC][CFT] GEOM direct dispatch and fine-grained CAM locking

2013-09-04 Thread Alexander Motin
On 04.09.2013 15:45, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 09/04/13 02:01, Alexander Motin wrote: On 04.09.2013 00:48, Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote: On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone confirm how well tested/stable this patch set might be?? if theres

Re: [RFC][CFT] GEOM direct dispatch and fine-grained CAM locking

2013-09-04 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday, September 04, 2013 10:11:28 am Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 09/04/13 08:20, Ryan Stone wrote: On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org wrote: Could you describe what this macro is supposed to do so that we can do the porting work? -Nathan

Re: booting FreeBSD on Apple Mac mini with GPT disk partition

2013-09-04 Thread Kim Shrier
On Sep 4, 2013, at 3:38 AM, Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote: On 03/09/2013 21:29, Kim Shrier wrote: Does anyone know if work on booting FreeBSD on modern Apple hardware was ever completed? I have looked on the wiki, forums, and email archives but I don't see anything definitive.

Re: [RFC][CFT] GEOM direct dispatch and fine-grained CAM locking

2013-09-04 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/04/13 08:20, Ryan Stone wrote: On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org wrote: Could you describe what this macro is supposed to do so that we can do the porting work? -Nathan #define GET_STACK_USAGE(total, used) GET_STACK_USAGE sets the variable passed in

Re: [RFC][CFT] GEOM direct dispatch and fine-grained CAM locking

2013-09-04 Thread Ryan Stone
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org wrote: Could you describe what this macro is supposed to do so that we can do the porting work? -Nathan #define GET_STACK_USAGE(total, used) GET_STACK_USAGE sets the variable passed in total to the total amount of stack

Re: [RFC][CFT] GEOM direct dispatch and fine-grained CAM locking

2013-09-04 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/04/13 11:00, John Baldwin wrote: On Wednesday, September 04, 2013 10:11:28 am Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 09/04/13 08:20, Ryan Stone wrote: On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org wrote: Could you describe what this macro is supposed to do so that we can