Wes Peters wrote:
Mike Smith wrote:
Actually, there's still a *lot* of work that has to be done to make this
work "right" - let me say two things only:
"resource allocation"
"interrupt routing"
And that's just the start. When it comes to network interfaces, trying
to
Doug Rabson wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
Does this mean we won't get the SMP stuff done next week?
I'm back on the 15th (you gain 10 hours coming back) and the SMP
meeting isn't until the 16th and 17th. Of course it will. :)
So you are running this right
"Gary T. Corcoran" wrote:
Sergey Babkin wrote:
The partition number does not really matter, what really matters is
that Windows wants to be in the very first tracks of the disk. This
is legacy left from DOS which always had the same mania.
While this may have once been tru
James Howard wrote:
Since I mention it, does anyone know the major differences between SCO's
new SVR5 (Unixware 7) and traditional SVR4 implementations? Going to
SCO's website all I get is market-speak.
As I've been told it was named SVR5 to mark inclusion of enterprise-level
features (and
Alexander Langer wrote:
Thus spake Sergey Babkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
compiled in the kernel (as opposed to being loaded as a module)
then it never gets unloaded. And many drivers were written before
the loadable modules appeared.
Yes. But what about the others.
/sys/dev/aha
Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sergey Babkin writes:
: The code seems to guarantee that if the probe routine returns 0
: then the attach routine will be called right away. So if the probe
: routine returns 0 they don't have to be freed. Actually, the
: comments seem to say
Jonathan Laventhol wrote:
Dear FreeBSD Hackers --
I've got a technically-straightfordward but nonetheless
business-critical problem with the groups structures in FreeBSD
which perhaps you kind souls can help me with.
We currently use FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE through 4.0-RELEASE via
Walnut
Alexander Langer wrote:
Thus spake Alexander Langer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
If so, I'm going to write patches.
... for almost every driver in the tree.
Hmm. EITHER almost all people never unloaded their driver, or I still
understood wide parts wrong.
I grepped through /sys now and
Warner Losh wrote:
One should generally only call these functions in attach. If you must
call them in probe, one must release the resource before returning
from the probe. However, since they can affect bridge settings, it
may be unavoidable to call them from the probe routine.
The code
Hi,
I've been reading recently some stories about the licensing
issues and that brought me to an interesting conclusion:
apparently, we are able to change the license of the Digiboard
driver from GPL to BSD ? It does not seem to be that much important
any more as these cards are obsolete, but
Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sergey Babkin writes:
: Seems like most of the modern machines just don't have that
: pin on the PCI bus connected anywhere. But on most of them
: (though not all) the pin on ISA works. Some high-end machines
: like Unisys or Compaq have
Peter Jeremy wrote:
On 2000-May-11 07:10:27 +1000, Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And if you force the IOCHK* line on an AT slot to GND? Would that work
on modern PCI machines?
Grounding IOCHK* does cause an NMI on the only PCI machine I've tried
it on. It looks like this is
Dragos Ruiu wrote:
I'll try asking here now
I have a freebsd system(3.4S) on a KVM and every time the monitored
system is switched, the mouse driver gets fuxored, and when you switch
back to the system the driver starts outputting oodles of the following
messages to syslog every
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
The cvsupit package is now updated to deal with the current branch
state of affairs, the cvsup 16.1 upgrade AND it's linked-to properly
so that simply:
By the way, a stupid question: I've received a 4-CDROM
package today, saying 4.0-March 2000. The line on the
Wilko Bulte wrote:
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:59:52PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anybody know of tools to read a Digital Unix "vdump" tape on FreeBSD?
I have a number of such tapes, and would prefer to read them on an (Intel)
FreeBSD box instead of having to reinstall DU on a
Hi,
A while ago I tried to install StarOffice and had
a problem that every time I tried to start it it went
into setup again and again. I've asked about this
in -hackers and found that some people had the same
problem but nobody has a solution. Well, I've found that
solution today and in case
Christian Gusenbauer wrote:
Hi David!
I'm sorry for you, but FBSDBOOT will never support ELF binaries :-(! As
developer of this utility I had a discussion about supporting ELF when ELF was
introduced into FreeBSD. The reason, why ELF support was not integrated is, that
the new boot
Martin Cracauer wrote:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christoph Kukulies wrote:
Would be interesting to tell how you managed to produce a bootable floppy
with the subsequent scripting that starts the OS and all that.
The trick I used is that I have a custom `init` binary, which looks at
Peter Wemm wrote:
I would love to make a port of this, for reasons that become obvious once you
see the page. (Think of all the mailing list archives and mirrors)
http://www.totse.com/DeCSS/
Be sure to read it before commenting, it's not what you might think.
I can't help keeping
Olaf Hoyer wrote:
a. settings on the controller card (e.g. scsi id, termination)
b. freebsd configuration on the initiator and target PCs.
(e.g. do we use scsi_pt.c, scsi_target.c, etc).
here's a diagram depicting what we want to do. we're trying to setup
a PC (PC2 below) with an
Wilko Bulte wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 04:00:28PM -0600, David Scheidt wrote:
Generally speaking 'joining' machines into cluster(like) you want to
use differential SCSI buses.
Yes. Of course, I think that you want to use differential SCSI for
everything. Cableing is much
Bill Maniatty wrote:
Shanley and Anderson: PCI System Architecture (2nd Ed)
ISBN 1-55860-069-8 small rip in paperback cover
I teach operating systems, and would like to add a device driver writing
component to the curriculum. I could use this one.
There was a good (though somewhat
Christoph Kukulies wrote:
I have a block on a SCSI disk (Fujitsu M2954S-512 )
which I cannot write to - fsck hangs eternally.
Besides from trying the SCSICNTL utility from Adaptec
(which I had to boot off of a DOS floppy) is
there a way of formatting a drive from being
booted under
Mike Smith wrote:
Writing documentation is a resource-sucking nuisance; supporting outdated
documentation even more so. The BSD driver model is sufficiently simple
I think that there might be a compromise
solution: when someone learns the interface
from analysing the code he might as well
Matthew Dillon wrote:
I picked up a nifty little D-Link DSS-5+ 5-port 10/100 switch today
CompUSA had a 5-port network kit labeled 'DFE-910' which had the
DSS-5+ and two DFE-530TX+ NIC Cards ('rl' driver), plus cables, for $130.
It appears to operate quite nicely. I can
Michael Beckmann wrote:
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 03:34:53PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:OK, so I know now that I can have pretty large files in the Terabyte range.
:Very nice. But I assume I cannot mmap anything like a 100 GB file ?
:
:Michael
Intel cpu's only have a 4G
Matthew Dillon wrote:
: If you have a genuine need for 500Gig of news spool,
:
:This is roughly 10 days of newsfeed, btw.
This is roughly 20 days of newsfeed if one take the porn, warez, and
binaries groups, which contain mostly junk, and try to hold onto them
for the
Chuck Youse wrote:
I admittedly haven't done much homework on this topic, but I was wondering
if anyone has played with the idea of implementing ACLs on top of UFS.
One of the weakest areas in UNIX is its lack of fine-grained access
control for resources - the biggest resource being, of
Julian Elischer wrote:
Has anyone looked at netscape Communicator 4.7 for FreeBSD???
I just installed it.
the binary is 13234176 bytes long!!
yes folks, that's 13 MB!
stripped!
With shared libraries!
It runs but it's quite easy to make your xserver run out of memory (or
something
Narvi wrote:
See LINT on details of how to wire down scsi devices...
Your proposal doesn't take adding a second scsi card into account.
UnixWare has a kind od solution for this: when they create
the VTOC table (an analog of the BSD disk label) on the disk
they have a field in it that
Mike Smith wrote:
anybody got some reliable, tested, known-good code for getting back to
real mode? I'm to the point where I have a working GDT, and paging is
turned off, but the last step -- turning off protection enable -- is not
working for me.
You want to be more explicit about
David Scheidt wrote:
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Sergey Babkin wrote:
There is no worm or wormlike support in the SCSI system anymore.
Do I need to configure the SCSI target driver for cdrecord or
does it just use the CD-ROM driver ? Thank you!
It uses either the cd driver
Kevin Day wrote:
Hi,
I have got a surprising problem with StarOffice 5.1
for Linux on FreeBSD 4.0-current, the latest snapshot.
The CD-ROM installation went fine (after I configured the
Posix real-time thread support and linked the
additional libraries to the Linux compatibility
Josef Karthauser wrote:
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 08:46:42PM -0500, Kevin Day wrote:
Hi,
I have got a surprising problem with StarOffice 5.1
for Linux on FreeBSD 4.0-current, the latest snapshot.
The CD-ROM installation went fine (after I configured the
Posix real-time
Daniel Eischen wrote:
We've got a similar problem. Instals fine as root, runs
fine a 'joe', but if anyone else tries to run it they get
the setup screen! My hunch is that it's something to do with
permissions on Sys5 IPC queues or something. A Ktrace of both
showed that different
Soren Schmidt wrote:
It seems Luigi Rizzo wrote:
Anyhow, I have some changes to the worm stuff, it needs to be dealt with
to handle modern HW, and to deal with all the possible block formats
thats possible on a CD nowadays. It will probably mean the death of
the worm stuff as is
Hi,
I have got a surprising problem with StarOffice 5.1
for Linux on FreeBSD 4.0-current, the latest snapshot.
The CD-ROM installation went fine (after I configured the
Posix real-time thread support and linked the
additional libraries to the Linux compatibility
directory and slightly corrected
Mark Ovens wrote:
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 08:45:31PM -0400, Sergey Babkin wrote:
A funny thing is that Microsoft is porting essentially a
32-bit version of Windows to Merced. All the programs for
Windows that want to use 64-bit support will have to be
modified because the MS compiler
Thomas David Rivers wrote:
Microsoft needs a "business quality" version of Windows,
which it claims is Windows/2000. That version of Windows
could benefit from a 64-bit port, if for marketing only; but
I don't think it would result in the volume of sales Intel
is looking for.
A
Jim Bryant wrote:
I really don't know how people get started with this. HP has _never_ stated
that the chip will handle it; all they have stated is that HPUX applications
will continue to be supported.
I suggest you people go read comp.arch for a while; there's a fair bit of
Zuidam, Hans wrote:
Hi,
The IA64 (merced) is a kind of VLIW (Very Large Instruction Word)
processor. It is basically a complete new kind of systems architecture
with a i686 (and of course a i586, ..., 4004) slapped on the side. The
original processor design was done by HP. See:
Thomas David Rivers wrote:
Microsoft needs a business quality version of Windows,
which it claims is Windows/2000. That version of Windows
could benefit from a 64-bit port, if for marketing only; but
I don't think it would result in the volume of sales Intel
is looking for.
A funny
Jim Bryant wrote:
I really don't know how people get started with this. HP has _never_ stated
that the chip will handle it; all they have stated is that HPUX applications
will continue to be supported.
I suggest you people go read comp.arch for a while; there's a fair bit of
Zuidam, Hans wrote:
Hi,
The IA64 (merced) is a kind of VLIW (Very Large Instruction Word)
processor. It is basically a complete new kind of systems architecture
with a i686 (and of course a i586, ..., 4004) slapped on the side. The
original processor design was done by HP. See:
Alexey M. Zelkin wrote:
hi,
Which tools can be used to edit syscons fonts ?
Any of the tools you use to edit the DOS fonts.
My favorite one it Evafont by Pete Kvitek. But
there were a lot of tools floating around.
-SB
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hi,
Which tools can be used to edit syscons fonts ?
Any of the tools you use to edit the DOS fonts.
My favorite one it Evafont by Pete Kvitek. But
there were a lot of tools floating around.
-SB
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Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wes Peters writes:
: Do we have a list of all services that use bpf? I'm willing to edit the man
: pages, given a list. I guess I could just grep-o-matic here, huh?
Yes. I'm also in a holding off pattern until we know the exact impact
Warner Losh wrote:
In message 37a3b701.851df...@softweyr.com Wes Peters writes:
: Do we have a list of all services that use bpf? I'm willing to edit the man
: pages, given a list. I guess I could just grep-o-matic here, huh?
Yes. I'm also in a holding off pattern until we know the
Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sergey Babkin writes:
: Disabling bpf it will break rarpd (and also rbootd but it is less
: important). I think such a thing should be mentioned in documentation.
Not if they are started before the secure level is raised.
A problem
Alex Povolotsky wrote:
Hello!
I'm going to implement a large mail-box, with several hundreds of mail-only
users. They should never access anything besides their POP3 mailboxes and
change password via (SSLed) web interface.
So, I don't want to add all of them to /etc/passwd.
I have a
Warner Losh wrote:
In message 37a25361.34799...@bellatlantic.net Sergey Babkin writes:
: Disabling bpf it will break rarpd (and also rbootd but it is less
: important). I think such a thing should be mentioned in documentation.
Not if they are started before the secure level is raised
Alex Povolotsky wrote:
Hello!
I'm going to implement a large mail-box, with several hundreds of mail-only
users. They should never access anything besides their POP3 mailboxes and
change password via (SSLed) web interface.
So, I don't want to add all of them to /etc/passwd.
I have a
Alex Povolotsky wrote:
37a30852.20e5a...@bellatlantic.netSergey Babkin writes:
Any suggestions, anyone?
Modify the POP daemon to use your mySQL database in addition to getpwent ?
That seems to be the easiest way that should not break anything else.
And modify sendmail to throw off
Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Brian F.
Feldman" writes:
: And how about having
: if (securelevel 3)
: return (EPERM);
: in bpf_open()?
There are no security levels 3. I'd be happy with 0. This is
consistant with the meaning of "raw devices".
Warner Losh wrote:
In message pine.bsf.4.10.9907301619280.6951-100...@janus.syracuse.net
Brian F. Feldman writes:
: And how about having
: if (securelevel 3)
: return (EPERM);
: in bpf_open()?
There are no security levels 3. I'd be happy with 0. This is
Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
Mike Hoskins wrote:
This isn't a comment meant to contribute to the overcommit holy war
(opinion mode: I think FreeBSD should overcommit, or at worst have a
sysctl and default to overcommit - admins who don't want overcommit can
then hang themselves), but we
Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
Mike Hoskins wrote:
This isn't a comment meant to contribute to the overcommit holy war
(opinion mode: I think FreeBSD should overcommit, or at worst have a
sysctl and default to overcommit - admins who don't want overcommit can
then hang themselves), but we
Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
Sergey Babkin wrote:
I want to propose a simple substitution for ACLs. No, here
is no patch yet but I'm ready and willing to do it. The reason
why I want to discuss it first is that this is a Political Thing.
And if the Core Team decides that it's a Bad Thing
Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
Sergey Babkin wrote:
I want to propose a simple substitution for ACLs. No, here
is no patch yet but I'm ready and willing to do it. The reason
why I want to discuss it first is that this is a Political Thing.
And if the Core Team decides that it's a Bad Thing
Garance A Drosihn wrote:
At 12:20 AM +0900 7/15/99, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
In which case the program that consumed all memory will be killed.
The program killed is +NOT+ the one demanding memory, it's the one
with most of it.
But that isn't always the best process to have killed
Garance A Drosihn wrote:
At 12:20 AM +0900 7/15/99, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
In which case the program that consumed all memory will be killed.
The program killed is +NOT+ the one demanding memory, it's the one
with most of it.
But that isn't always the best process to have killed
Hi!
I want to propose a simple substitution for ACLs. No, here
is no patch yet but I'm ready and willing to do it. The reason
why I want to discuss it first is that this is a Political Thing.
And if the Core Team decides that it's a Bad Thing, I suppose
it will never get commited to the
Hi!
I want to propose a simple substitution for ACLs. No, here
is no patch yet but I'm ready and willing to do it. The reason
why I want to discuss it first is that this is a Political Thing.
And if the Core Team decides that it's a Bad Thing, I suppose
it will never get commited to the system.
Hi!
I have tried to install 3.1 on two machines but on both of
them I was not able to boot it after installation. The
3.0-snapshot from May-98 worked fine on both of them.
But 3.1 did not boot. First, the MBR boot manager was not able to
boot any partition, nor FreeBSD nor UnixWare. After I
Matthew Jacob wrote:
What gives? Why wasn't this committed to the NetBSD and FreeBSD trees,
too? I mean, it's not like the version in the NetBSD tree works anymore
since you removed the firmware (on-board firmware on most of the adapters
I have is way too old, for example).
Any reason
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