Re: Getting the plain void* through the generic ioctl processing

2000-06-29 Thread Mike Smith
in, so of course it has to have storage space in user space. If you're passing in a pointer to a structure elsewhere, you should be using _IOR() anyway, since you don't want the pointer copied back out. In this case, the interface is the same purely for orthagonality's sake. -- \

Re: APM problems on NEC Versa 2000C

2000-06-26 Thread Mike Smith
more details (eg. special hacks for this system and Linux). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Concurrent access to SMbus

2000-06-26 Thread Mike Smith
e to allow more than one opener. The SMBus code is dearly in need of a maintainer. 8( -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Mike Smith
or the current BIOS > save to disk functionality. Can we guarantee that we can find this area? On eg. the Dell i7500 that I've been playing most with, it's a file on a FAT filesystem, and the BIOS will only "find" it if the filesystem is in the 'active' partition at

Re: PCI Plug 'n' Pray and old BIOSes

2000-06-19 Thread Mike Smith
led' have any effect? It shouldn't in your case, as you're performing your own resource allocation. It's possible that IRQ 12 is a poor choice with your board. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himse

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Mike Smith
uspend; ie. leaving applications open, etc. IMO this isn't really something worth a lot of effort to us, and it has a lot of additional complications for a "server-class" operating system in that you have to worry about network connections from other systems, not just _to_ oth

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Mike Smith
irst has been accepted? This will allow non-ACPI-represented drivers to participate in determining which suspend level(s) can actually be supported by the hardware... -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAI

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Mike Smith
methods.) We also have a problem in that we'll need a separate suspend file for system memory, since we can't just up and use swap (which may already be busy). I would be inclined to start with some of the easier states first. 8) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a da

Re: freebsd bios.

2000-06-18 Thread Mike Smith
isk? I truly hope the answer is not to the effect of requiring > shitloads of drivers. Yup. Including a driver for each different motherboard (or in some cases, each motherboard family). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish

Re: freebsd bios.

2000-06-18 Thread Mike Smith
r hardware. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: kerneld for FreeBSD

2000-06-18 Thread Mike Smith
ces varable, eg. network_interfaces="xl0 lo0" As otherwise the startup scripts don't know to do anything about it. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you

Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS?

2000-06-15 Thread Mike Smith
at offer EMP (most of these also offer BIOS-over-serial support, actually - as do a number of other vendors, IIRC AMI do this on some of their boards as well). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: freebsd bios.

2000-06-15 Thread Mike Smith
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:49:23 PDT, Mike Smith wrote: > > > >8) Actually, the things that really bother me are eg. interrupt routing > >and the ACPI GPIO bits, since the former is board-specific and you *must* > >know about it to set PCI up, and the latter is often n

Re: freebsd bios.

2000-06-15 Thread Mike Smith
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:37:51 PDT, Mike Smith wrote: > > >ie. "LinuxBIOS won't initialise the system correctly, so you'd better > >clean up after it"? > > More like it ain't complete and is intended to boot Linux, so anything > that Linux

Re: freebsd bios.

2000-06-15 Thread Mike Smith
't initialise the system correctly, so you'd better clean up after it"? -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [E

Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS?

2000-06-15 Thread Mike Smith
> Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > I'd suggest you go talk to Parag Patel, who's just wasted about three > > > > months of his life trying to make SmartFirmware run on _one_ supposedly > > > > well-documented board. Parag is nobody's fo

Re: Fixit - Recover Disk

2000-06-15 Thread Mike Smith
at the crunchgen manpage. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: freebsd bios.

2000-06-15 Thread Mike Smith
> So, I repeat: easily done, not acceptable to freebsd core. And again I tell you, no. Quite acceptable, not easily done. If someone does it, we'll happily play along. I don't understand why you don't understand this. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a d

Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS?

2000-06-15 Thread Mike Smith
initialisation and random magic that is entirely specific to the board's actual implementation details. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS?

2000-06-15 Thread Mike Smith
t page it seems like > you can get, essentially, and instant-on rommable FreeBSD if this > were done, and I can think of lots of things to do with that! You can come fairly close to this already with the right approach, it's just expensive. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him fo

Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS?

2000-06-15 Thread Mike Smith
l, who's just wasted about three months of his life trying to make SmartFirmware run on _one_ supposedly well-documented board. Parag is nobody's fool, and I consider his results pretty representative of the issue. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smi

Re: routing bug(?) persists (PR 16318)

2000-06-15 Thread Mike Smith
er these hosts as directly connected. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS?

2000-06-15 Thread Mike Smith
> Finagle's First Law: > If an experiment works, something has gone wrong. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \

Re: routing bug(?) persists (PR 16318)

2000-06-15 Thread Mike Smith
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 07:33:36AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > [mjy] > > > ifconfig_vr0="195.58.183.77 netmask 255.255.255.248" > > > static_routes="0 1" > > > route_0="-net 195.58.161.96 -netmask 255.255.255.240 -iface vr0"

Re: routing bug(?) persists (PR 16318)

2000-06-15 Thread Mike Smith
want to use the above default route, you need to give your machine an address on the same network as your gateway, most trivially by aliasing it onto the vr0 interface. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL

Re: loading modules from within the kernel....

2000-06-14 Thread Mike Smith
he API needs to be extended to these objects after bootup. *sigh* So much to do, so little time. Yadda yadda. 8) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: loading modules from within the kernel....

2000-06-14 Thread Mike Smith
gt; > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'

Re: Dell Dimension XPS T500

2000-06-13 Thread Mike Smith
uot;Securing e-Transactions" > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.valicert.com/ > 650-567-5404 | 650-567-5400 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > --

Re: IA-64 simulator

2000-06-13 Thread Mike Smith
. Anyone with suggestions as to who in particular to approach at HP for access to the sources should talk to me or David O'brien ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), since it looks like this isn't going to run under emulation. 8( -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith

Re: kerneld for FreeBSD

2000-06-12 Thread Mike Smith
eight to their otherwise unrelated pet cause. "Really small embedded systems" appear to be the Cool Cause Du Jour. > Seems like everything is black/white for you lately Mike. Thought about > taking a vacation to cool off and relax? Let me know how yours is doing you, and I mig

Re: getting the kernel environment?

2000-06-11 Thread Mike Smith
tack an integer on the end and start incrementing it until you get ENOENT. Basically the same way you get the list of network interfaces. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'l

Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-11 Thread Mike Smith
> It seems Mike Smith wrote: > > > Does anyone KNOW of these working under the > > > new drivers? What about setup? > > > I've seen plenty about people failing (in 98-99) > > > to get tehm going but the archives are silent on the topic > > >

Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-11 Thread Mike Smith
They work OK, but you need to pull the BIOS (ie. not boot from them). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-10 Thread Mike Smith
fusing this with an old, unrelated connector which was aligned with a PCI slot. This is a completely different animal. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifeti

Re: Large UIDs (>65536)

2000-06-09 Thread Mike Smith
> I know the many UNIXes still have a cap at 65535 (is Linux one of them?), and > I interpeted that as an error message, not a warning. I was silly :) Actually, it's wire protocols that are the issue; NFSv2 in particular. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mi

Re: Large UIDs (>65536)

2000-06-09 Thread Mike Smith
g here? How about this line from : typedefu_int32_t uid_t; /* user id */ It pays to do your own research - then you only get to look silly in front of yourself. 8) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn h

Re: IOCTL to the character driver is failing

2000-06-09 Thread Mike Smith
an 4k, you should pass a pointer to the buffer in userspace and use copyin/copyout. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought.. BAD ASUS Story

2000-06-09 Thread Mike Smith
s possible. I have a lot of Mylex hardware around here (obviously enough), and I can't say their stuff is any worse than anyone else's. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought.. BAD ASUS Story

2000-06-09 Thread Mike Smith
h to ASUS about this, I guess. 8( -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Mike Smith
t I've only come > across market-speak. > > What does it do? It conects to the AC97 modem codec in the VIA chipset; you put the modem line interface on a card and stick it in there. ie. it's a neat way to again reduce the cost of a WinModem. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you fe

Re: if_dc in v4.0 - Forcing store and forward?

2000-06-08 Thread Mike Smith
interaction issue.) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: kerneld for FreeBSD

2000-06-08 Thread Mike Smith
ve anything to offer us at this time. We don't need one; the problems it might be applied to solve have already been solved differently, and we are (generally) happy with the results. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how

Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs

2000-06-07 Thread Mike Smith
L PROTECTED] > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > > > -- > Coleman Kane > President, > UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu > &

Re: kerneld for FreeBSD

2000-06-07 Thread Mike Smith
hat was loaded to deal with > a tape drive which is currently not in use. Not unused in the sense of > useless, but in the sense of not currently active. This is just a Really Pointless Idea. There are so many more useful and interesting things to get done... *sigh* -- \\ Give a man a

Re: if_dc in v4.0 - Forcing store and forward?

2000-06-07 Thread Mike Smith
gt; > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ an

Re: Odd dir-cache #'s with Samba and moving files...

2000-06-07 Thread Mike Smith
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Re: kerneld for FreeBSD

2000-06-05 Thread Mike Smith
> * Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000605 16:58] wrote: > > > > > Well, it would be nice to auto-load or unload any module that is needed. > > > not just ethernet and fs types. That's basically the idea. Say, if you > > > load a driver that uses so

Re: kerneld for FreeBSD

2000-06-05 Thread Mike Smith
ing about. "Some resources?" Er, no offence, but you're not making any sense. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EM

Re: kerneld for FreeBSD

2000-06-05 Thread Mike Smith
So why introduce a third party? ("kerneld") If the admin wants to remove a module, great. TBH, unloading an idle module is basically a waste of time. Modules are, on the whole, so small that the savings are entirely outweighed by the unnecessary complexity. -- \\ Give a man a fish

Re: kerneld for FreeBSD

2000-06-05 Thread Mike Smith
> Mike Smith wrote: > [...] > > This is, IMO, a good idea. I certainly don't want some smartass daemon > > unloading a module just because it thinks it should. 8) > > You can always patch kldunload and have cron periodically execute a > kldunload --unused-modul

Re: kerneld for FreeBSD

2000-06-05 Thread Mike Smith
o. There are a couple of cases where pushing them in from the outside (ifconfig, usb, pccard) works, but in each case these already have tools suited to the job. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTE

Re: PnP OS (was: S5933 PCI Adapter..??)

2000-06-05 Thread Mike Smith
would FreeBSD qualify as a "PnP OS"? I mean, in my > BIOS setup, would I answer "yes" or "no" to the question "PnP OS?". (Asus > K7V, Award BIOS, if that makes a difference). You would answer "no". FreeBSD doesn't perform resource alloc

Re: An IA-64 port?

2000-06-04 Thread Mike Smith
work). If you have a pointer to this, the IA64 porting team would love to have it. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: 4.0 - Isa devices not being probed

2000-06-02 Thread Mike Smith
ent machines. 8) > > I actually want it to be a joy, but for now it is a nightmare, unless I > decide to do the real work from the device driver. Unfortunately, I > haven't time enough to study all existing architectures and existing > bridges variants. > This let the expecte

Re: S5933 PCI Adapter..??

2000-05-31 Thread Mike Smith
that?? Either turn "PnP OS" off, or fix the card/system. The driver can't do resource assignment like you're talking about. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and h

Re: 4.0 - Isa devices not being probed

2000-05-30 Thread Mike Smith
t;Linux". No thanks. > >If you think that "memory mapped registers" are platform-portable, all I > >can suggest is that you try playing with a few different platforms, and > >preferably some time when you're prepared for a nasty shock. > > I said OS por

Re: 4.0 - Isa devices not being probed

2000-05-30 Thread Mike Smith
> At 06:36 PM 5/27/00 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > >> Existing bus abstractions tend to let think that the same software driver > >> can deal with different buses, bridges or IO methods without having to > >> care about how these things actually behave, notably regardi

Re: 4.0 - Isa devices not being probed (fwd)

2000-05-30 Thread Mike Smith
uot;complex" controllers, this is entirely untrue; newbus/busspace/busdma make the job a lot easier. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.

Re: 4.0 - Isa devices not being probed

2000-05-28 Thread Mike Smith
complexity, but when working on a driver, I think we must not forget the > reality of what actually happens inside the machine. Just so. The real joy, of course, comes when you're trying to make a drive behave "correctly" on a wide range of different machines. 8) -- \\ Give a

Re: 4.0 - Isa devices not being probed

2000-05-27 Thread Mike Smith
and the only one that most people care about already guarantees write ordering in hardware. The example you're positing is basically a non-issue, with the exception of operation re-ordering by the compiler (and for this see above). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\

Re: 4.0 - Isa devices not being probed

2000-05-27 Thread Mike Smith
s writing drivers for FreeBSD, and so far you're about the only curmudgeon that hasn't realised under their own power the advantages of a structured design. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PRO

Re: 3ware ATA RAID driver - second Beta released

2000-05-25 Thread Mike Smith
> Mike Smith wrote: > > > > A driver for the 3ware family of ATA RAID controllers is available for > > FreeBSD-current at http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID > > > > This driver has all basic functionality, but no management at this time. > > > &g

Re: shutdownhook_establish()

2000-05-24 Thread Mike Smith
STER; see sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c for examples. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Supermicro PIIIDM3 Problems...

2000-05-22 Thread Mike Smith
ave in there. I'll > try ecc and pc100 individual and play with the settings, to see if I can > find exactly what configuration is giving the problem. If you're using 133MHz FSB CPUs, start there; see my reply to Ken. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike

Re: SMP and APIC???

2000-05-22 Thread Mike Smith
> > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Supermicro PIIIDM3 Problems...

2000-05-22 Thread Mike Smith
I've been using. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Supermicro PIIIDM3 Problems...

2000-05-22 Thread Mike Smith
and -current, although I don't use the SCSI interface very often anymore. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Post-shutdown hook for UPS shutdown?

2000-05-19 Thread Mike Smith
the power comes on before the > battery has fully discharged.. The canonical way to do this is actually to shudown and reboot. In the _startup_ phase, while the root filesystem is still mounted readonly, you check the UPS status. At this point, you have access to the disk in a read-only fashio

Re: request for review: bus_alloc_resource(9)

2000-05-19 Thread Mike Smith
); > > This "offset of the pci mapping register" is quite confusing for me > then. Not at all; in the PCI context, that's what the rid is. As has been said several times now, the meaning of the rid is _bus_specific_. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\

Re: request for review: bus_alloc_resource(9)

2000-05-18 Thread Mike Smith
idge code, or the parent bus code, needs to decide whether the interrupt is or is not shareable - not the driver. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.

Re: KVA to physical address

2000-05-18 Thread Mike Smith
> how to get a physical address from a kernel virtual address (the KVA is > obtained from contigmalloc() ) You don't. You probably need this for busmaster DMA; use the busdma interface instead. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he s

Re: request for review: bus_alloc_resource(9)

2000-05-18 Thread Mike Smith
d is a bus-specific uniqifier - it's not necessarily even a linear index (consider eg. PCI). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PR

Re: ECP code

2000-05-16 Thread Mike Smith
the code, although you may well end up needing a copy of the 1284 spec. You might also look at the linux code for inspiration. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll

Re: ECP code

2000-05-16 Thread Mike Smith
> On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 12:44:26PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Is there any ECP code anywhere besides the /usr/src/sys/dev/ppbus directory? > > > I'm trying to trak down why ECP doesn't work undder 4.0. So, far, i can't > > > find any significan

Re: ECP code

2000-05-16 Thread Mike Smith
orted, and where is the ECP transfer > actually handled? It's in the ppc driver (sys/isa/ppc.c). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.

3ware ATA RAID driver updated for -stable

2000-05-14 Thread Mike Smith
. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freeb

3ware ATA RAID driver - second Beta released

2000-05-14 Thread Mike Smith
Fleur at 3ware for her support in getting hardware for this effort. Comments, feedback, bug reports etc. will all be gratefully received. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll ha

Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up )

2000-05-06 Thread Mike Smith
d still call it...). What's being proposed here sounds just slightly scary. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up )

2000-05-06 Thread Mike Smith
What's the actual background behind this? The FBI wants to be able to track down people using cellphones? I assume that it's all hidden behind some "public safety" smokescreen, right? -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should

Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up )

2000-05-06 Thread Mike Smith
d I have no doubt at all about that), 25m at near distance is probably not unrealistic. Ask him if they can still do it at 35km out (the outer limit for a normal GSM cell). That'd really spook me. 8) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he shoul

[OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up )

2000-05-06 Thread Mike Smith
e down to describing an arc along which the phone is probably located; still pretty good when it comes to finding someone. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for

Re: Fw: Question about RAID solutions

2000-05-04 Thread Mike Smith
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Re: Fw: Question about RAID solutions

2000-05-04 Thread Mike Smith
ttp://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID for a few more ideas. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe:

Re: Asus K7V boot failure

2000-04-27 Thread Mike Smith
things. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscr

Re: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump

2000-04-27 Thread Mike Smith
estion that it's actually the bootsector virus detector, I'm going back to the K7V to give it another go. I'll lick this bastard yet! -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he

Re: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump

2000-04-27 Thread Mike Smith
yboard, since nobody seemed > interested in listening, to myself and others. I'm certainly not interested in being insulted, no. You're welcome to help work out what's really going on, since you're the one with the symptoms, and until you decide to do so, nothing&

Re: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump

2000-04-27 Thread Mike Smith
tting your build box out of my hair. 8( -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump

2000-04-27 Thread Mike Smith
rs twice for some reason. > > BTW: Solaris-x86-beta does boot from floppy. > > Any hints? I'd really prefer not to go to (ehem) another operating system. > > Thanks. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: Using the boot loader to set maximum memory size?

2000-04-26 Thread Mike Smith
there's only a "documented hw.physmem" variable. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Using the boot loader to set maximum memory size?

2000-04-26 Thread Mike Smith
tion provides a hint as to the actual size of system memory (which will be tested before use). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.

Re: Setting device options

2000-04-13 Thread Mike Smith
ifconfig command - so > that once you define, for example, your ifconfig command and > put it in your rc file, you just automatically bring things up > the desired way. Any suggestions? (For FreeBSD 4.x) Well, teaching kldload about module parameters would make it into 4.1, if that's good

Re: Setting device options

2000-04-13 Thread Mike Smith
arguments, which, along with kernel environment variables, can only be set by the loader. (This is a bug; kldload should know how to set module arguments.) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ a

Re: PCI DMA Questions

2000-04-11 Thread Mike Smith
xamples in the amr and mlx drivers easier to follow (maybe not, too). I forgot who I stole them from though - probably Jonathan's ida code. This isn't your problem though. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to

Re: How to get multiple PCI I/O base addresses in attach()?

2000-04-06 Thread Mike Smith
base, you've got an interesting time ahead of you with six separate regions; just hacking around this with preprocessor macros isn't going to be terribly easy. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL P

Re: Help? Device driver 'make depend' errors from comments

2000-04-04 Thread Mike Smith
to get different compiler warning flags; the code you're trying to build isn't really valid C and you'll have to work around this. Please let us look at your module problems again, and poke me specifically about it if you're not getting answers. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and

Re: BOOTP kernel modification

2000-03-31 Thread Mike Smith
tch to 100Mb/fdx at all times, > and just force the BOOTP process to initialize the card at a 100Mb/fdx. The 'dc' driver will pick up the settings from SRM, so just initialise the SRM correctly to whatever you want. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Sm

Re: USB Installation - Working Release!

2000-03-30 Thread Mike Smith
gt;system with either the working one would be used. I'll be >working on this later on this evening and then try to roll >another release. However, this would require a change to >/usr/src/etc/usbd.conf if that is ok with everyone. > > Comments? If there

Re: Deferred procedure call available?

2000-03-30 Thread Mike Smith
context of the interrupt. > > I dug a bit and found some "software interrupt" functions (swi_*()), > but they are just a list of functions to be > called immediately (no deferral); they don't seem to be of help to > me. Try timeout(9) -- \\ Give a man a fi

Re: How good a job of PCI config will freebsd do?

2000-03-29 Thread Mike Smith
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > Yeep. You don't know Fra Dolcini, do you? That looks like a Really > > Unpleasant Undertaking. 8( > > It's getting there. Also SiS is now a supporter. Long term, we may see > motherboards specifically designed for

Re: How good a job of PCI config will freebsd do?

2000-03-29 Thread Mike Smith
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > Well, they're going to have the same basic stuff, and I can see that > > they're not having much fun trying to get there. > > actually, "they" is "me": that's my project. Yeep. You d

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