Peter Pentchev wrote:
..but doesn't sending them to the list entail the possiblity of some
kind soul (unfortunately, not myself..) jumping in with an enthusiastic
hey, I have an HP/UX machine too, if someone else is interested, I could
actually sit down and port Ezm3 and CVSup to it!? :)
Paul Richards wrote:
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 05:42, void wrote:
FreeBSD is a research project, but it's also a production-quality
operating system. It is important that it be loose enough to keep
hackers interested, but it is also important that it be managed carefully
enough that
Terry Lambert wrote:
It got really bogged down when someone pointed out that
they were running CPUs with different clock rates in their
SMP box, just to see what the net effect would be. THe
As far as I understand, you just physically can't do it:
the P-II CPU initialization depends on
Terry Lambert wrote:
Kenneth Culver wrote:
Why are you being so sarcastic? Everyone here is assuming that it's harder
to write C++ code, so you should only use it if necessary. It isn't
necessary to use it for something like a daemon.
Because that underlying assumption is false, and
David O'Brien wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:07:16PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
Alfred Perlstein wrote:
: : A shell hacker could really help out the FreeBSD/sparc64
: : porting effort by updating vnode_if.pl rev 1.19 to have all
: : the functionality the perl version has
Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote:
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote:
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: * M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020212 10:35] wrote:
Well, we could import ksh, which already does this :-)
Warner
Terry Lambert wrote:
Matthew Emmerton wrote:
Compile up the real sar. SCO released the sources a year
or two back, now.
If that's the case, then where are they? The only publicly available SCO
sources I've been able to find are those for csope (which is hosted at
SourceForge.)
Matthew Dillon wrote:
:
:No switching infrastructure. It's a 10mb/s half duplex ethernet
:network, with two hubs between the two machines.
:
:Joe
I think there may be a problem with your hub setup (e.g. exceeding the
hub count or end-to-end length limitations) that is either
Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Dec 18), Mike Bristow said:
I suspect that the background fsck[1] that's available in FreeBSD-current
fits the bill just as well as JFS or XFS - and I'll also bet that it'll
be available in a FreeBSD-release before I'd trust data to a port of
JFS
John Capo wrote:
Now this thread comes along and I realize there is something wrong
so I did a little testing.
find / -print on one of my servers in a ssh session will fill the
pipe to my office, 256K frame, and run nicely then get into the
starting and stopping mode after a good amount
Glenn Gombert wrote:
Here is a patch that was posted to the list a couple weeks ago, that
needs to be applied to make FreeBSD uner vmware work reliably..
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Watsonwrit
es:
I've had -STABLE run fine, but of late have had a lot of trouble with
-current.
Matthew Emmerton wrote:
Hi all,
This weekend I decided to do some assembly hacking on some object-only code
that I've lost the C source for. Since I haven't coded assembler for at
least 8 years, and I threw my x86 assembly manuals out when I moved 6 months
ago, there are a few things
Mike Smith wrote:
So the driver writers
are forced to at least recompile their drivers for each release.
This isn't typically the case, actually. 4.x has in fact been very
good in this regard.
What about between 3.x and 4.x ? And 5.x is going to be yet another
major change.
Plus
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
From: Doug Hass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
The lack of flexibility in accepting various requirements illustrates the
difference between an OS WITH legs in the market and one WITHOUT legs.
Much to my chagrin, FreeBSD continues to fall more and more into the
latter
Matt Dillon wrote:
Well, first of all the page coloring is not pointless with the
sizes hardwired. The cache characteristics do not have to
match exactly for page coloring to work. The effectiveness is
like a log-graph, and you don't lose a lot by guessing wrong.
Once
Terry Lambert wrote:
Rik van Riel wrote:
Only the FreeBSD memory management subsystem doesn't
support it (yet?).
It's not a question of supporting it, it's a question of
whether or not it's a useful idea at all.
I have yet to see one person using it for anything. So
Terry Lambert wrote:
This basically means that the memory is useless as a DMA target
or source for disk controllers or gigabit ethernet cards, and is
pretty useless for swap, if you ever have to copy from one section
to another (e.g. for IPC, SYSV shared memory, mmap'ed files, VM,
or
Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] James Howard
writes:
: Both tar and cpio seem to have problems doing backups on my
: server. Looking at the pax manpage, we see this:
Use dump. Otherwise, you will lose.
Don't use dump. Or you'll never be able to restore these backups
on
Julian Elischer wrote:
The proble is that teh ethernet header is 14 bytes so you must choose
to allighn either the whole packet, or the IP header, but you cannot do
both.
Hm, it seems to be a waste of CPU time memory bandwidth: only the
IP and TCP headers have to be aligned but the payload
Alfred Perlstein wrote:
* Greg Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010712 21:08] wrote:
On Thursday, 12 July 2001 at 6:58:09 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Friends
I have some questions about kernel programming:
You'd be better off sending mail like this to -hackers. I've followed
Peter Wemm wrote:
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sergey Babkin writes:
If the FreeBSD Foundation is an existing entity now, maybe we
can just change the license for the CD images to not for resale
unless the distributor signs an agreement with the Foundation
Wes Peters wrote:
Richard Hodges wrote:
Sure, no argument there. Taking Wes' suggestion, maybe there is an
opportunity in the official distribution distinction. How about a
certificate of authenticity which costs the vendors $1 or $2 (or
whatever), and shows the customer that their
Kris Kennaway wrote:
Yeah, and these all cost money, and are limited-appeal, so they're
likely to not make much money, especially if there are other vendors
doing similar things. The other side of the coin which I didn't
mention is that the FreeBSD distribution market probably isn't big
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Entire PIII MBs are available for under $60. Your concept that the delta in
cost between a 486 chipset and PIII is more that that is utterly ridiculous
PIII chipsets and 486 chipsets cost the same in quantity. Try using a
resource other than your Radio Shack
Terry Lambert wrote:
Ashutosh S. Rajekar wrote:
I guess we beat you to the punch...
We have a product which is now shipping, and which currently
supports 1,000,000 concurrent connections.
I guess quite a lot of people are at it right now, the prime
one is NetScaler. If I'm
Ashutosh S. Rajekar wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Terry Lambert wrote:
Their 3200 only has 1G of RAM; you could _barely_ fit the
TCP state for 1,000,000 connections into just 1G of RAM,
and have a tiny amount left over for buffers, drivers,
the rest of your kernel, etc.. I can't
Matt Dillon wrote:
: But this isn't true at all. How many people need to make thousands
: or tens of thousands of simultanious connections to a machine out of the
: box? Almost nobody. So to run a benchmark and have it hit these
:
:You are essentially saying: out primary
Josef Karthauser wrote:
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 01:16:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is BSDI's stack so superior to any of the other BSDs that MS would pay BSDI
for it, particularly at a time when BSDI was trying to compete with MS in the
server market? Seems like something that a
Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
Sergey Babkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
How about keeping the state of the system as empty files in
a subdirectory, say, /etc/rcstate.d. This directory would be
cleaned up at boot time and then as each of the service startup
script is run (and completed
Jordan Hubbard wrote:
I've had several marketing types approach me recently for details as
to whether or not Microsoft was using the BSD TCP/IP stack and/or user
utilities, and though it's always been common knowledge in the
community that they were, when I set about to prove it I found it
Terry Lambert wrote:
Robert Withrow wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
:- oops, rc2 isn't started. too bad.
I think that is exactly the desired design. The
RC *system* starts things correctly, but the manager,
*bypassing* the RC *system* can start and stop things
exactly as he
Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] void writes:
: On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:56:45PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
:
: With the netbsd approach, you remove the file, and all things taht
: depend on it fail. as it should be :-)
:
: I'm pretty sure you turn it off in rc.conf,
Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Santcroos writes:
: Can it be called SysV style? Or not seperated in that way?
: (I must say, the big ugly rc thing is the only thing I don't like about
: FreeBSD, I'm very much in favor of the SysV style init. But thats another
: war ;)
j mckitrick wrote:
Okay, there is something i'm not understanding here. In the ed driver,
there are many possible cards, which each have different i/o ports, correct?
The driver has a lot of probe routines, and it looks like they are just
using different macros with hard-coded (#defined)
SJ wrote:
2. Whats the use of device_ops structure and what does
ops stand for?
ops definitely stands for operations. I can't say off the top
of my head what this structure is but most probably a collection
of pointers to the functions of a particular driver which implement
the device
Dave Hayes wrote:
From the handbook:
10.8.2. mkisofs
...
The last option of general use is -b. This is used to specify the
location of the boot image in producing a ``El Torito'' bootable
CD. This option takes an argument, which is the path to a boot image
from the top of the
Michael C . Wu wrote:
With the branch prediction, cache tracing, and EPIC instructions,
you really want to use an ILP compiler. Without a compiler that
can decide on good ways to output binaries that run with all the IA-64
innovations^Wreinvention-of-the-wheels.
Anothing interesting point
* Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010418 16:04] wrote:
A 1.5Ghz processor can outperform 2 fully saturated PCI buses, so its not
going to help much in the networking world, which is where I live.
Processing power is already exceeding the busses capabilities.
He-he-he. Wait for Infiniband. And
Jonathan Lemon wrote:
In article
local.mail.freebsd-hackers/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
you write:
She need's specific information that we need that we cant get
unless we sign NDA's for the doc's so she can try and get them merged into
a reference product somewhere between the datasheet
Luigi Rizzo wrote:
Now, the 21143 (which is a pretty nice chip and has available
documentation and a decent driver, "dc") is discontinued, but there
are clones which work reasonably well (and are even cheaper, around
$30 or so at compusa, i think netgear or linksys does one of these
cards).
All,
I have produced another version of the time zone changes in
cron. I ran a few tests and plan to commit it to -current after
a bit more testing. Everyone who wants to join the testing efforts
is welcome. The comments are welcome as well.
The new behavior is enabled by the option "-s",
Murray Stokely wrote:
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
% I hadn't heard of mkhybrid, so investigated: it's been merged into mkisofs:
I still prefer old versions of mkhybrid over the new merged mkisofs
for some tricky environments. The new mkisofs will
Dave Smith wrote:
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:16:17PM +1300, David Preece wrote:
I started in the handbook, the section on backups and creating a bootable
floppy was invaluable. It's also worth trawling the archives of
freebsd-small, in particular look for "tinybsd" which (IIRC) is a
Matthew Jacob wrote:
The problem is that at the time this was a huge issue there were a much larger
number of machines and pieces of h/w and radically different OS's (or flavors
within Unix even) to support. Such a wide set of differences is not really
there any more, hence the cost of such
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2.) you should know some basic stuff about FreeBSD internels (i am planning
on getting The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System
that is about it the rest really is a blur and is so complex and huge i have
no idea where to begin hope i wasn't to
David Greenman wrote:
I don't know what list you are looking at, but the download list that
I was
looking at did not include SCO, Unixware or any other Unix variant except
Linux.
This is the list.
NDIS2, NDIS3, NDIS4 and NDIS5 drivers
Novell
David Greenman wrote:
supporting it if someone ported it over to freebsd? they have drivers for
just about every other major OS except BSD. it would be nice if the driver
was updated BEFORE cards and MBs that dont work started showing up on the
loading dock. Every time I get a shipment we
Greg Black wrote:
Sergey Babkin wrote:
There are other things which may not allow a job to finish in
a predefined time slot. For example, other operations going on
and consuming CPU, disk or network bandwidth. So presuming
that a job would finish by some time is inherently unsafe
To mention it from the start, I've backed out my changes.
(Yes, the pre-backed-out version was the one with the old behavior
enabled by default and changed behavior enabled by an option).
Doug Barton wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Sergey Babkin wrote:
Doug Barton wrote
Matt Dillon wrote:
: with your rather large diff set. For better or for worse, people
: already know about the daylight savings shift problem. Thousands
: of people depend on cron to work, which means that when you
: make a major change like this it must be tested by a
Greg Black wrote:
Sergey Babkin wrote:
It still can be backed out.
Well, what are you waiting for? Back it out. Listen to what
people are saying and then maybe propose something that takes
into account their concerns.
I wanted to get a confirmation from Doug Barton that he still
Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
On Sat 2001-01-20 (16:39), Sergey Babkin wrote:
All,
I've committed these changes for cron to support DST change
to -current (see PR bin/24494 for description of my tests).
Everyone is welcome to test them out.
Please let me know if you encounter any
Greg Black wrote:
Sergey Babkin wrote:
Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
On Sat 2001-01-20 (16:39), Sergey Babkin wrote:
All,
I've committed these changes for cron to support DST change
to -current (see PR bin/24494 for description of my tests).
Everyone is welcome
Sergey Babkin wrote:
babkin 2001/01/20 13:28:17 PST
Modified files:
usr.sbin/cron/cron cron.8 cron.c cron.h
Log:
Added sensible handling of switch to and from daylight saving time
for the jobs that fall into the disappearing or duplicated time
interval.
PR
Doug Barton wrote:
Sergey Babkin wrote:
Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
On Sat 2001-01-20 (16:39), Sergey Babkin wrote:
All,
I've committed these changes for cron to support DST change
to -current (see PR bin/24494 for description of my tests).
Everyone is welcome
Lawrence Sica wrote:
Quoting Sergey Babkin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
All,
I've committed these changes for cron to support DST change
to -current (see PR bin/24494 for description of my tests).
Everyone is welcome to test them out.
Please let me know if you encounter any problems caused
Matt Dillon wrote:
The problem here has nothing to do with whether changing the behavior
is good or bad, and everything to do with the fact that cron is an
absolutely critical core piece of software that runs on these machines
and there is no guarentee that you haven't
Dan Langille wrote:
On 21 Jan 2001, at 14:50, Sergey Babkin wrote:
Let me ask a simple question: Why ? What are the benefits of
preserving the old behavior ?
First, it's not "old" behaviour. It is existing behaviour. There is a
difference. Because that's what was
All,
I've committed these changes for cron to support DST change
to -current (see PR bin/24494 for description of my tests).
Everyone is welcome to test them out.
Please let me know if you encounter any problems caused by them
(and better do that before these changes would be MFCed to -stable
in
John Gregor wrote:
What would happen if the definitions of the hour and minute fields
were subtly changed to mean "elapsed wall-clock time since local
midnight"? Then, the DST conversion is no longer ambiguous. "Two
hours since local midnight" only happens once regardless. On days
where
"Kenneth D. Merry" wrote:
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 14:35:53 +0100, cristian nicolae wrote:
Dear all,
I have a Compaq DL380 with an integrated Compaq Smart Array Controller.
I have succesfully managed to install the FreeBSD 4.2-20010104
and everything is fine but the DAT drive which is
Rik van Riel wrote:
It's quite common for a manufacturer to completely stop
driver development once a particular model of hardware
(say a certain video card) is no longer sold.
This, in turn, leads to the situation where the user has
to chose between the following options:
1. don't
Dennis wrote:
Source is more of a "hassle", binary loads right up. the SNMP package is a
great example. Doing it from source is a nightmare. Missing includes, wrong
paths. compile failures. The package loads right up and Im running.
This is an example of why the build environment must be
SteveB wrote:
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 9:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sitting on hands (no longer Re: FreeBSD vs
Linux, Solaris,
and NT)
In the open source
world is there a
Marco van de Voort wrote:
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:33:15PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
very happily run on Pentium 4 CPU's.
Or am I raving again? :) Feel free to correct any gross errors I've made :)
Afaik yes :-)
IIRC the problem is that P4 reports itself back as family 15 or
Jeremiah Gowdy wrote:
Trouble is there is no consistency in the rulings.
United States Code Title 17 Chapter 12 Section 1201 Subsection (f)
My basic interpretation of this is, if you legally own a copy of the
software (firmware is software), you can legally reverse engineer the
Mike Smith wrote:
Is there now support for the Pentium 4 in FreeBSD??
We've always run on the P4.
If so, is there an option such as CPUCLASS 786 in the Kernel??
No, it's still a 686.
Basically, there are 3 possible issues for Pentium4:
- higher clock frequency (also for newer P3)
Justin Wojdacki wrote:
Sergey Babkin wrote:
The drivers are _not_ assets. When I buy a piece of hardware I
very reasonably expect that it would come with drivers or at
least the manual on how to write these. It's a part of the deal.
There are absolutely no reasons for the card
David Preece wrote:
A lot of the reason why 3dfx (rip), Nvidia et al. often feel they cannot
release open source drivers is that a substantial proportion of what these
products do takes place on the host processor. Large quantities of research
go into the exact division of tasks between
Dennis wrote:
I didnt "praise" closed source. I said there is arguable reasoning behind
preferring supported binary drivers that work over incomplete source
drivers. Selecting an OS based solely on this criteria is just plain
stupid. Drivers generally do not require changes unless they are
David Preece wrote:
At 13:02 17/12/00 +, you wrote:
Does anyone have any good tips to get started / HowTo's, or some simple
examples
that will give me knowledge like the PC Speaker or something simple like
that?
This is turning into a FAQ, but don't worry about it. The usual answer
"Walter C. Pelissero" wrote:
I'm trying to run a SCO SVR4 executable on FreeBSD but I get a SIGSYS
(invalid system call) at the very beginning. Here is the kdump:
39525 ktrace RET ktrace 0
39525 ktrace CALL sigprocmask(0x1,0x28061000,0x28061010)
39525 ktrace RET
Roman Shterenzon wrote:
Hi,
Once, someone told me that he had a patch for truss that allows it to
follow children, just like in Solaris (or strace -f in linux).
Does anyone have it?
Why don't you use the native ktrace/kdump commands instead ?
"ktrace -d" does follow the children. I
Robert Lipe wrote:
Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
I do know that we have the concept of probe priorities, so you could
probably set up UDI to probe at a higher priority than the default system
drivers, and therefore attach instead of the default FreeBSD driver for a
given piece of harware.
Nathan Boeger wrote:
Sorry if this is the wrong list !!
Anyway I have a Digi / Xem eisa adapter on 4.1-RELEASE. I have made the
kernel and it see's the card. I have also remade the /dev/ttyD* entries.
Problem, when I try to access any of the ports I get :
cu: open (/dev/ttyD00):
Rink Springer wrote:
Sergey Babkin wrote:
Hi,
I've got a probe, attach and a dummy identify procedure for my driver
now. When I load the KLD, my identify procedure gets triggered, but the
probe procedure doesn't! Why? Can someone help me? I've tightly used
aha_isa.c as a help
Rink Springer wrote:
PS. I couldn't find a hints file or something, as someone pointed out...
Hints file is only in -current (AKA 5.0). In 4.x the kernel config
file contains this information (which I guess is of no use for
KLD drivers). Probably you can do a likewise thing in 4.x with
sysctl
Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rink Springer writes:
: I got the stuff to compile et al, but I cannot get the darned thing to
: run as a KLD. FreeBSD doesn't appear to try to probe for the interface
: :(. When I tell FreeBSD it's a PCI thing (instead of ISA), it probes for
Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sergey Babkin writes:
: In 4.x if you say in config file
:
: foo at isa
:
: and provide the identify routine in the driver the result should be
: the same. The "ep" driver does that using a proprietary probe
: procedure.
Terry Lambert wrote:
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Frederik Meerwaldt wrote:
-Differences... FreeBSD is a real Unix, while Linux is a ..how should I
Hmmm. FreeBSD is not a UNIX, rather it's a UNIX alike OS. (Which really
doesn't matter IMHO)
Don't forget UNIX is a trademark of Open
Frederik Meerwaldt wrote:
Hi!
We need this information in order to determine which of these two OS to
choose from to drive our website.
Choose FreeBSD. It's faster.
Also if some things don't work or work strangely or are poorly
documented, finding sources for them is
Sergey Babkin wrote:
Frederik Meerwaldt wrote:
Hi!
We need this information in order to determine which of these two OS to
choose from to drive our website.
Choose FreeBSD. It's faster.
Also if some things don't work or work strangely or are poorly
Frederik Meerwaldt wrote:
We need this information in order to determine which of these two OS to
choose from to drive our website.
Choose FreeBSD. It's faster.
Also if some things don't work or work strangely or are poorly
documented, finding sources for them is MUCH easier in FreeBSD.
"Aleksandr A.Babaylov" wrote:
David Scheidt writes:
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Aleksandr A.Babaylov wrote:
:I work since 1991 with computer hardware and know exact
:that SCSI drives is about ten times less reliability than
:IDE. Yes, I understand that SCSI was more ... extremal may be.
:I
Robert Nordier wrote:
Gary T. Corcoran wrote:
Now since the MBR booter "knows" that you don't boot DOS/Windows
from an "extended" partition (type 5), it doesn't offer it as
a boot choice. Now I could probably hack the booter (boot0 ?)
to accept type 5 as a valid choice. But before
Wes Peters wrote:
Oliver Fehr wrote:
Well, the book covers UNIX and DOS, at least on of which can be considered
a modern operating system. You be the judge which on ...
Neither. One is not an operating system, but merely a game loader, and
the other is over 30 years old and dates to
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Gary T. Corcoran" writes:
No, I know it's not that easy. We need to be able to do things
like have "TransmissionMode=4" on the kldload command line, and
have that parse the decimal value 4, and then go into the module
I have a
Wes Peters wrote:
Commissionnaires wrote:
I am interested in learning about the freebsd operating system, I dont have
My best advice for a complete novice would be to buy the book "The Complete
FreeBSD", by Greg Lehey, install the version of FreeBSD on the CD-ROM found
By the way, the
Nat Lanza wrote:
Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If this is meant to be an exercise in writing a CAM HBA driver, then you
need to teach your disk-emulation code about the basic SCSI commands
(INQUIRY, TEST UNIT READY, etc). The SCSI infrastructure will use these
commands to
Matthew Jacob wrote:
The tutorial in DaemonNews has this information, as well as information
on minimal implementations of the reqired actions. Obviously the actions
for SCSI negotiations don't need to be supported because these
negotiations make no sense for an emulator or over IP.
Chris Costello wrote:
On Friday, June 30, 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
No. Anyway, you can set your tab size to whatever you want. So long as
it is a _tab_, and not 2 or 4 or 8 spaces. If you're heading into the
margin constantly, you should simplify your code, or break it up into
Wes Peters wrote:
Sergey Babkin wrote:
Eh ? I don't quite get how Sun could be associated with Open Firmware.
Probably because they developed it?
Ah, that was my ignorance. never knew that Open Firmware is a trademarked
concept, like Open Source.
It always looked quite proprietary
Mike Smith wrote:
well linuxbios is what I started here, and I pinged some folks on this
list about supporting freebsd as well as linux, and got a 'no interest'
back from some folks.
I'm still up for it. I think it's easy.
I'd suggest you go talk to Parag Patel, who's just wasted
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 fool, and I consider his
results pretty representative of the issue.
Maybe
Ronald G Minnich wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Sergey Babkin wrote:
Maybe I'm completely mistunderstanding the subject, but
what about EFI (Extendable Firmware Interface) ? It's the
We're looking at it. Do you really believe in reference implementations? I
don't. I sure hope they've
Parag Patel wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:29:53 PDT, Mike Smith wrote:
By now, based on the timeframe I've watched you
through, I'd say that you should have a board that looks like a plain VGA
framebuffer and has a keyboard cable hung out the back, and software up
and running. Build
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
Warner Losh wrote:
Tell them that it is a daemon, not a devil. A daemon isn't the devil,
nor does it promote the worship of devilry.
In Japan, the daemon is viewed as a nice, lovable creature. The
Of course, they don't translate daemon as "akuma". :-)
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
Ah, I should also have noted that undelete.exe (which I also fetched
from simtel) doesn't seem to work for me since it won't operate from
a DOS box and if I shut down to DOS, the pccard services go away and
I'm no longer able to mount the smartcard which I'd like
"Nicole Harrington." wrote:
Sad to say.. I have another bad experience with the NEW asus K7A MB. It will
not allow a Mylex AccellRaid 150 to break out of the bootup sequence to
be configured. :(
That may be as well due to the bugs in Mylex soft. I have used different
Mylex cards on a few
Mike Smith wrote:
"Nicole Harrington." wrote:
Sad to say.. I have another bad experience with the NEW asus K7A MB. It will
not allow a Mylex AccellRaid 150 to break out of the bootup sequence to
be configured. :(
That may be as well due to the bugs in Mylex soft.
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