DSM Facility for FreeBSD

2000-11-30 Thread Tim Tsai
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/full_papers/souto/paper.html Does anybody know if something similar to this is available for modern FreeBSD/Unix? Preferably something in Userland vs. Kernel. Also, my requirements are significantly more relaxed than a true DSM model

diskless/serial-console

2000-11-30 Thread Danny Braniss
hi all, how can I set the equiv of -D/-h in /boot.config in a diskless-pxeboot machine? i think that {rootnfs-server}/boot.config is not read at all. tia, danny PS: 4.2-RELEASE To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of

Re: DSM Facility for FreeBSD

2000-11-30 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Tim Tsai wrote: Also, my requirements are significantly more relaxed than a true DSM model (and much more lightweight is preferred).. I really just need synchronized views of data on a "reasonable" effort basis (i.e. it's OK if one client/peer sees slightly older

Drivers

2000-11-30 Thread Andrey Kvitka
Dear, Sirs! Where I can read about development of drivers for FreeBSD 4.x? Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

diskless/rc

2000-11-30 Thread Danny Braniss
sorry if this is not the correct list. this code in rc: ... case ${update_motd} in [Nn][Oo] | '') ;; *) if T=`mktemp /tmp/_motd.XX`; then uname -v | sed -e 's,^\([^#]*\) #\(.* [1-2][0-9][0-9][0-9]\).*/\([^\]*\) $,\1 (\3) #\2,' ${T} awk '{if

Re: diskless/rc

2000-11-30 Thread Paul Saab
make sure the kernel you are booting is the same as the NFS file systems you are using. paul Danny Braniss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: sorry if this is not the correct list. this code in rc: ... case ${update_motd} in [Nn][Oo] | '') ;; *) if T=`mktemp /tmp/_motd.XX`;

Re: diskless/rc

2000-11-30 Thread David Malone
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 05:56:57PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: 1) the cmp -s - BUS ERROR 2) cp ${T} /etc/motd- cp: /etc/motd: Bad address now only 2 is happening - go figure :-) it also used to, after it went multiuser, to panic when i did the cmp -s ${T} /etc/motd

Re: diskless/serial-console

2000-11-30 Thread Danny Braniss
}There's no way to really do it right now, but you can use: }http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/pxekey.patch } }This will do the equivalent of -P for pxeboot. } thanks, i added the patches, make BOOT_PXELDR_PROBE_KEYBOARD=1 removed the keyboard, but zero. i even commented out the

Re: diskless/serial-console

2000-11-30 Thread Paul Saab
Danny Braniss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: }There's no way to really do it right now, but you can use: }http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/pxekey.patch } }This will do the equivalent of -P for pxeboot. } thanks, i added the patches, make BOOT_PXELDR_PROBE_KEYBOARD=1 removed the

pthreads, semaphores and wait

2000-11-30 Thread Dimitar V. Peikov
I've tryed to make some example on using pthreads and semaphores and found that process became blocked if inside of critical section use wait, uwait or nanowait finctions. In the attached file if change line : (#if 0) to (#if 1) the program hangs. I've tested it even with gdb and the threads

Re: i18n extention in sysinstall

2000-11-30 Thread Tatsumi Hosokawa
At Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:07:05 +0900, Tatsumi Hosokawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:01:07 +, Kaltashkin Eugene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What dear developers will tell about introduction i18n expansions in sysinstall the utility? It would be convenient for many people

Re: diskless/serial-console

2000-11-30 Thread John Baldwin
On 30-Nov-00 Paul Saab wrote: Danny Braniss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: hi all, how can I set the equiv of -D/-h in /boot.config in a diskless-pxeboot machine? i think that {rootnfs-server}/boot.config is not read at all. tia, danny PS: 4.2-RELEASE There's no way to really

Re: diskless/serial-console

2000-11-30 Thread John Baldwin
On 30-Nov-00 Danny Braniss wrote: }There's no way to really do it right now, but you can use: }http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/pxekey.patch } }This will do the equivalent of -P for pxeboot. } thanks, i added the patches, make BOOT_PXELDR_PROBE_KEYBOARD=1 removed the

Re: SKIP port on 4.x (prize offer)

2000-11-30 Thread Jim Flowers
What about it? Anyone with skills in this area interested in figuring out what changed between 4.1 and 4.1.1 probably in the crypto changes that prevents the MD5 authentication of a skip partner. Worth a quick $150 prize for the first solution. Jim Flowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] #4 ISP on C|NET,

Re: APACHE PROBLEMS (fwd)

2000-11-30 Thread Dan Phoenix
Nov 30 02:00:21 merry /kernel: nfs send error 32 for server nfs:/lopt Nov 30 02:00:21 merry /kernel: nfs send error 32 for server nfs:/lopt Nov 30 05:37:24 merry /kernel: nfs server nfs:/cache: not responding Nov 30 05:37:24 merry /kernel: nfs server nfs:/cache: is alive again Nov 30 07:54:56

Re: APACHE PROBLEMS (fwd)

2000-11-30 Thread Mathew KANNER
On Nov 30, Dan Phoenix wrote: Nov 30 02:00:21 merry /kernel: nfs send error 32 for server nfs:/lopt Nov 30 02:00:21 merry /kernel: nfs send error 32 for server nfs:/lopt Nov 30 05:37:24 merry /kernel: nfs server nfs:/cache: not responding Nov 30 05:37:24 merry /kernel: nfs server

Re: pthreads, semaphores and wait

2000-11-30 Thread Daniel M. Eischen
"Dimitar V. Peikov" wrote: I've tryed to make some example on using pthreads and semaphores and found that process became blocked if inside of critical section use wait, uwait or nanowait finctions. In the attached file if change line : (#if 0) to (#if 1) the program hangs. I've tested it

Re: APACHE PROBLEMS (fwd)

2000-11-30 Thread Dan Phoenix
nfs:/lopt /optnfs -2,-T,-i,rw 0 0 nfs:/cache /cache nfs -2,-T,-i,rw 0 0 those are my mount options from /etc/fstab. as you can see i have it forced on version 2 with tcp and allow interuption in read-write mode. -i

Re: APACHE PROBLEMS (fwd)

2000-11-30 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:05:16PM -0800, Dan Phoenix wrote: nfs:/lopt /optnfs -2,-T,-i,rw 0 0 nfs:/cache /cache nfs -2,-T,-i,rw 0 0 those are my mount options from /etc/fstab. as you can see i have it

Sony vaio jog dial hacks

2000-11-30 Thread Nick Sayer
Well, I've gotten pointed to some stuff and am working on a driver for the Sony SPIC chip, but I have some concerns: In order to map the device in, you need to poke at the PCI config registers of the intpm0 chip. This means either having to add this functionality in to the intpm driver (or at

Minicom freebsd howto!

2000-11-30 Thread Dan Phoenix
Lame question but from a fresh freebsd install i plug a serial cable into com1 on freebsd machine and need to access another machine. Anyone set this up before? What do I need to do to start this process going? Any help would be much appreciated...thanks. --- Dan

Re: Minicom freebsd howto!

2000-11-30 Thread Dan Phoenix
Minicom will be installed mode 4511 (setuid) owner uucp, and group dialer. Is this ok? [y] Minicom needs to know what device your modem is hanging off of. I (the porter) have adopted Satoshi Asami's lead of using /dev/modem. Lets see if you have too...Nope, you haven't (yet). The patches to

Re: Minicom freebsd howto!

2000-11-30 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:54:19PM -0800, Dan Phoenix wrote: Enter the number X from cuaaX above : cuaa0 Error: /dev/cuaacuaa0 doesn't exist. *** Error code 1 Read what it says: "ENTER THE NUMBER". Does it say "enter the entire name of the device"? i take it from ports collection we need

Cirrus PD6729/6730 data sheets?

2000-11-30 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Anyone out there have a set of data sheets for the above chips that they could email me? It looks like all the info pertaining to these has been pulled from the Cirrus web site (?!?). Thanks, --lyndon To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the

Re: Minicom freebsd howto!

2000-11-30 Thread Dan Phoenix
Ya ok i feel stupid :( thx On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote: Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:03:56 -0600 From: Bill Fumerola [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dan Phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Minicom freebsd howto! On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:54:19PM -0800, Dan

Re: diskless/serial-console

2000-11-30 Thread Mike Smith
hi all, how can I set the equiv of -D/-h in /boot.config in a diskless-pxeboot machine? i think that {rootnfs-server}/boot.config is not read at all. console="comconsole" in nfs://boot/loader.conf -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and

Re: Sony vaio jog dial hacks

2000-11-30 Thread Mike Smith
Well, I've gotten pointed to some stuff and am working on a driver for the Sony SPIC chip, but I have some concerns: In order to map the device in, you need to poke at the PCI config registers of the intpm0 chip. This means either having to add this functionality in to the intpm driver (or

how do i identify the boot device ?

2000-11-30 Thread Luigi Rizzo
A PicoBSD related question [Bcc to -small just in case] in RELENG_3, the "Filesystem" name associated to a memory disk would reflect the device it came from, so i had "fd0c" for an image loaded from floppy, and "wd0c" from a hard disk, etc. I used this feature to make a few scripts such as "rc"

PXE boot problem.

2000-11-30 Thread Matt Simerson
Hi Folks, I've been trying hard to get a FreeBSD system booted via PXE with only limited success. Maybe someone can have a look at my configs and shed a little light on this for me. Here's what happens at boot time: Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 067) Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Intel

make buildworld fails

2000-11-30 Thread Dave Hayes
Cvsup'd sources (tag=RELEASE_4_2_0) from scratch fail: === objdump ... ../libiberty/libiberty.a(choose-temp.o): In function `make_temp_file': choose-temp.o(.text+0x264): undefined reference to `mkstemps' Is this a simple fix I hope? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL

Re: make buildworld fails

2000-11-30 Thread Kent Stewart
Dave Hayes wrote: Cvsup'd sources (tag=RELEASE_4_2_0) from scratch fail: I don't see a tag=RELEASE_4_2_0. There is a tag=RELENG_4_2_0_RELEASE. Could this be your problem. Kent === objdump ... ../libiberty/libiberty.a(choose-temp.o): In function `make_temp_file':

rootvnode

2000-11-30 Thread Ian Dowse
It appears that the pointer to the root vnode, 'rootvnode' does not hold a corresponding vnode reference. Here's a fragment of code from start_init(): /* Get the vnode for '/'. Set p-p_fd-fd_cdir to reference it. */ if (VFS_ROOT(TAILQ_FIRST(mountlist), rootvnode))

No Subject

2000-11-30 Thread Christopher Stein
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buffer block number mystery

2000-11-30 Thread Christopher Stein
I am seeing a buffer in biodone() with block number 196656 (in the bp-b_blkno field). This is a buffer containing data from the raw, character device (bp-b_vp-v_type == VCHR). (kgdb) p bp-b_lblkno $36 = 196656 (kgdb) p bp-b_blkno $37 = 196656 (kgdb) p bp-b_pblkno $38 = 196719 The bp-b_blkno

Re: PXE boot problem.

2000-11-30 Thread Doug White
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Matt Simerson wrote: Hi Folks, I've been trying hard to get a FreeBSD system booted via PXE with only limited success. Maybe someone can have a look at my configs and shed a little light on this for me. Here's what happens at boot time: Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0

Interrupt problem with dc0 and 4.2-Stable SMP

2000-11-30 Thread Ken Stox
If someone could give me some pointers/hints on debugging this, it would be greatly appreciated, I have an older No-Name Dual 300Mhz 440LX based machine with a Netgear FA-310Fcx network interface which was running 4.2-Beta cvsupped about 3 weeks ago, I decided to upgrade it to 4.2-STABLE as of

Per-process kernel stack size

2000-11-30 Thread Satyajeet Seth
Hi We have implemented a device driver on FreeBSD 4.0 and x86 architecture. The device driver has routines for servicing I/O requests. I understand that these routines run in the top part of the kernel stack. The routines have a nesting of 10-12 functions having 10-100 lines each. Could you

Re: Altering dynamic loader from within application...

2000-11-30 Thread Brian McGovern
Tried it. It didn't appear to work, although it may have been something silly I did. Basically, I did a: setenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH",".",1); I was hoping to get the loader to use the current directory to find libraries, so a later call to: dlopen("foo.so",RTLD_NOW | RTLD_GLOBAL); would find

Re: Per-process kernel stack size

2000-11-30 Thread Mike Smith
Hi We have implemented a device driver on FreeBSD 4.0 and x86 architecture. The device driver has routines for servicing I/O requests. I understand that these routines run in the top part of the kernel stack. The routines have a nesting of 10-12 functions having 10-100 lines each. Could

Test

2000-11-30 Thread Mohammed Mustafa Khan
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Re: make buildworld fails

2000-11-30 Thread Dave Hayes
Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Hayes wrote: Cvsup'd sources (tag=RELEASE_4_2_0) from scratch fail: I don't see a tag=RELEASE_4_2_0. There is a tag=RELENG_4_2_0_RELEASE. Could this be your problem. No, I misreported the tag. If I had tried that, there'd probably be no sources.