Re: mergemaster RFC (long)

2000-09-17 Thread Brian Somers
[.] First, the things I am definitely going to do. Christian "naddy" Weisgerber has taken on the task of porting mm to openbsd. He has made some very reasonable requests that will make his life easier and reduce gratuitous differences between versions. Also, several people have

diskless - /sbin/init won't start over NFS mounted root

2000-09-17 Thread Paul Jansen
I'm having troubles getting a diskless system to boot using a FreeBSD 4.1R server and a custom compiled FreeBSD 4.1R kernel. I've made sure the following options were defined in my custom kernel: options NFS_ROOT#NFS usable as root # Kernel BOOTP support options BOOTP

Re: VM86 interrupt calls from userland

2000-09-17 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article local.mail.freebsd-hackers/[EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Is there a way to make VM86 interrupt calls from userland? The reason I'm asking is that in order to get my video card (Savage/IX) working in X properly, I need to make a couple of VESA int10 calls (or somehow obtain the

PnP 4.1 Release

2000-09-17 Thread Piotr Sroczynski
Is it possible to stop any PnP operation (checking, seting) during boot? Piotr Sroczynski To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

PnP resource programming

2000-09-17 Thread Motomichi Matsuzaki
(Note: Initially pointed out by Hirokazu WATANABE [EMAIL PROTECTED]) PnP resource programming goes in pnp_set_config() in sys/isa/pnp.c: /* program memory resource registers */ for (i = 0; i config-ic_nmem; i++) { pnp_write(PNP_MEM_...(i), ...);

Re: mergemaster RFC (long)

2000-09-17 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Doug Barton writes: .. And the last of the ideas I want feedback on is related to the problem of determining permissions on the files to be installed. To my knowledge there is no existing C utility that will tell you the octal permissions ports/sysutils/stat, for example

Re: mergemaster RFC (long)

2000-09-17 Thread Doug Barton
"Aleksandr A.Babaylov" wrote: Doug Barton writes: .. And the last of the ideas I want feedback on is related to the problem of determining permissions on the files to be installed. To my knowledge there is no existing C utility that will tell you the octal permissions

Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you!

2000-09-17 Thread Adrian Filipi-Martin
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I must admit that I think in general that /dev/std{in,out,err} and /dev/fd is bogus. It looks like something which happened "because we can" more than something which has a legitimate need. You think adding a hack to

Device driver, memory map failing, and it is probably obvious

2000-09-17 Thread papowell
I am making a driver for a VERY old PCI device. I decided to try using the new 'bus_resource' facilities, and came up with the oddest error. First, here is my 'probe' routine: static int digic_probe(device_t dev) { static struct digic_type *t; int vendor =

Re: Trouble with dynamic loading of C++ libs in PHP v4.02 on FreeBSD 4.1

2000-09-17 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, John Polstra wrote: Here is another possibility: we could call _thread_init() from crt1.o. The patch (untested) is below. It calls _thread_init() if and only if that symbol is defined -- i.e., libc_r is linked in. What do you think about this solution?