RE: Floppy disk is full

2000-12-19 Thread Enrique Maiz
-Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En nombre de Kent Stewart Enviado el: Martes 19 de Diciembre de 2000 04:15 Para: Aoyama, Kieko Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Asunto: Re: Floppy disk is full "Aoyama, Kieko" wrote: Hello, I am Kieko Aoyama.

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2000-12-19 Thread Ïðîãðàììà Ðåãèîí
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Re: ata weirdness

2000-12-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Christian Kuhtz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1st channel: Maxtor 54098U8 UDMA4 Kenwood CD-RUDMA2 2nd channel Maxtor 54098U8 UDMA4 HP CD Writer 9300 UDMA2 [...] snip ata0-master: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr ata0-master:

Re: Need to edit VM tuning section in handbook, any special requirements?

2000-12-19 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 09:31:37PM -0800, Matt Dillon wrote: Is there anything special I need to do to edit a section in the handbook, or can I just commit it? A pass through -doc for review wouldn't be amiss. In general, this means that we make sure that none of the rules at

R: R: [tcpdump-workers] Re: R: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Fwd: kyxtech: freebsd outsniffed by wintendo !!?!?

2000-12-19 Thread Loris Degioanni
Hi. -Messaggio Originale- Da: Michael T. Stolarchuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: Loris Degioanni [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data invio: giovedì 14 dicembre 2000 16.39 Oggetto: Re: R: [tcpdump-workers] Re: R: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Fwd: kyxtech: freebsd outsniffed by wintendo !!?!? ah, but the buffer sizes

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-19 Thread Dennis
Device Drivers -- I don´t like binary only device drivers. The code of an operating system is more complex than a driver. if a company does not want to publish the sourcecode, the should go away. You've lost all credibility here. Well supported device drivers should not require

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dennis writes: Device Drivers -- I don´t like binary only device drivers. The code of an operating system is more complex than a driver. if a company does not want to publish the sourcecode, the should go away. You've lost all credibility here. We have

recvfrom() and signals

2000-12-19 Thread Dmitry Dicky
Hello fellows, I just faced with a problem of a strange (may be not documented) recvfrom() behaviour. The fragment of the code is: ... signal(SIGALRM, timeouttrap); alarm(10); i = recvfrom(sock, buf, len, 0, from, fromlen); printf("%d bytes received\n",i);

Re[2]: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-19 Thread Boris
Hello Dennis, Tuesday, December 19, 2000, 8:43:17 AM, you wrote: D You've lost all credibility here. Well supported device drivers should not D require source. I'd prefer a commercial (preferably the manufacters) D support other than some guy in the ural mountains who fixes things IF he D can

Call for review:PECOFF(Win32 Execution format) module.

2000-12-19 Thread Takanori Watanabe
Hi, I want to commit pecoff module under sys/compat/. The code is at http://people.freebsd.org/~takawata/pecoff.tar.gz This is kernel part of PEACE(http://chiharu.haun.org/peace/),that is announced as NewFeature of NetBSD1.5. Currently one more kernel module is needed to use PEACE in FreeBSD.

Re: recvfrom() and signals

2000-12-19 Thread David Malone
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:45:05AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: See the sigaction manpage and how one enable/disables system call restarts. He is setting the signal handler with signal(), which calls sigaction() without the SA_RESTART flag set, so it seems that should interrupt recvfrom().

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-19 Thread Jeremiah Gowdy
Device Drivers -- I don´t like binary only device drivers. The code of an operating system is more complex than a driver. if a company does not want to publish the sourcecode, the should go away. Dennis said: /* I didnt "praise" closed source. I said there is arguable reasoning

Re: recvfrom() and signals

2000-12-19 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, David Malone wrote: On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:45:05AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: See the sigaction manpage and how one enable/disables system call restarts. He is setting the signal handler with signal(), which calls sigaction() without the SA_RESTART flag

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-19 Thread John Baldwin
On 19-Dec-00 Dennis wrote: At 11:44 AM 12/19/2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dennis writes: Device Drivers -- I don´t like binary only device drivers. The code of an operating system is more complex than a driver. if a company does not want to

Re: recvfrom() and signals

2000-12-19 Thread David Malone
He is setting the signal handler with signal(), which calls sigaction() without the SA_RESTART flag set, so it seems that should interrupt recvfrom(). Bzzt :-) Alfred's correct. Read the manpage for signal again. Ahh - I was reading the source code and missed the ! in !sigismember(). I

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-19 Thread Michael C . Wu
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:43:17AM -0500, Dennis scribbled: | | Device Drivers | -- | I don´t like binary only device drivers. The code of an operating | system is more complex than a driver. if a company does not want to | publish the sourcecode, the should go away. | | You've lost

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-19 Thread David Greenman
Your stupidity is also is emphasized by the fact that no major manufacturer has supported drivers for freebsd. Intel wont even help by providing docs. Bravo. What a WIN for the freebsd community. You've done a tremendous job marketing your concept. So that's why Intel provides free bound

Re: StrongARM support?

2000-12-19 Thread Michael C . Wu
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 04:14:10PM -0800, Devin Butterfield scribbled: | "Michael C . Wu" wrote: | The most important decision now would be: | Should we concentrate on the PPC port first? Or should we go at each | port simultaneously? | | Well, if there are enough people with PCC's that are

Re: StrongARM support?

2000-12-19 Thread Paul Becke
I have been working for several months to port NetBSD to a new StrongArm platform. I currently am using the Intel Assabet as my development platform. Based on my experience with NetBSD, I think that I could be of assistance in initiating a FreeBSD port. I actually do most of my development

nfs root mount - nfsv2

2000-12-19 Thread Andreas Brodmann
I am setting up a base image for a couple of network services servers being nfs root mounted ontop of a netapp filer. When I traced a problem with ethereal i found (or the sniffer claimed) that the nfs version that's used is v2 not v3. Due to some nfsv2 limitations I would like to get the

RE: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-19 Thread Steve Shoecraft
There are a number of reasons why a manufacturer can not/will not release source code for a driver. A few that come to mind are: a) A device driver is a reflection of the hardware. Manufacturers in highly competitive markets could potentially be giving away trade

Re: StrongARM support?

2000-12-19 Thread Patrick Gardella
"Michael C . Wu" wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 04:14:10PM -0800, Devin Butterfield scribbled: | "Michael C . Wu" wrote: | The most important decision now would be: | Should we concentrate on the PPC port first? Or should we go at each | port simultaneously? | | Well, if there are

Re: StrongARM support?

2000-12-19 Thread Patrick Gardella
Paul Becke wrote: What does it take to start up a new mailing list for proting to the Arm? (Who do I need to contact?) Jonathan Bressler is our postmaster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I've added him to this message in hopes that he sees this. I haven't seen much of him lately... Course, it's

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-19 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Steve Shoecraft wrote: There are a number of reasons why a manufacturer can not/will not release source code for a driver. A few that come to mind are: a) A device driver is a reflection of the hardware. Manufacturers in highly competitive markets could

Open Hardware Initiative (was Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT)

2000-12-19 Thread Nick Sayer
Matt Dillon wrote: Yes, it's a pretty sad state of affairs. What annoys me the most is that companies actually believe they are protecting something when they don't make their device driver source or hardware documentation available. It has been well proven for years that

Source code of the dynamic loader

2000-12-19 Thread Sven C. Koehler
Hello! I am interested in the internals of FreeBSD's dynamic loader; where in the src module should I look for the appropriate source code? Best Regards, Sven C. Koehler To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Workaround for boot problems

2000-12-19 Thread Faisal Ali
Hi, I have a Mylex DAC960PL card on which FreeBSD 4.2 Release did not boot. I checked the "Trouble.txt" file for suggestion to fix the problem. The advise did not help. But I was able to fix the problem by booting the system with DOS boot disk; executing the DOS utility as "fdisk /mbr". This

RE: RE: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-19 Thread Steve Shoecraft
What you are saying certainly has credence. I worked for a Semiconducter manufacturer here in Arizona (Microchip) as a software engineer for a number of years. We *ALWAYS* published full information about our devices (datasheets, etc), and it never hurt us -- because we always kept

Re: Open Hardware Initiative (was Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT)

2000-12-19 Thread Mike Smith
I think the time is right to reward companies that "get it". I propose that the way to do this is to create an "open hardware" trademark that can be used for marketing by companies that sell hardware for which they either provide sufficient documentation that a fully featured device driver

Re: Workaround for boot problems

2000-12-19 Thread Mike Smith
I have a Mylex DAC960PL card on which FreeBSD 4.2 Release did not boot. I checked the "Trouble.txt" file for suggestion to fix the problem. The advise did not help. Which advice in particular? I assume that you already had the adapter set to 2GB mode? You should also have verified that the

Re: Source code of the dynamic loader

2000-12-19 Thread Andrew R. Reiter
sys/kern/kern_linker.c n Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Sven C. Koehler wrote: Hello! I am interested in the internals of FreeBSD's dynamic loader; where in the src module should I look for the appropriate source code? Best Regards, Sven C. Koehler To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Writing Device Drivers

2000-12-19 Thread Torbjorn Kristoffersen
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Christopher Nielsen wrote: On 17 Dec 2000, Nat Lanza wrote: Nothing documented the current kernel, Not to be obtuse, but the source always documents the current kernel for any OS... Yes, so it must be a real pain to write drivers for a closed-source OS like WinNT. I

Re: StrongARM support?

2000-12-19 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 03:12:35PM -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: I would be quite interested. But do we have the resouces and the man-hours to handle IA-64/KA-64/PPC/Alpha/StrongARM at the same time? Agreed. Perhaps the first step would be to start a [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list? Then

Re: StrongARM support?

2000-12-19 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 04:14:10PM -0800, Devin Butterfield wrote: Well, if there are enough people with PCC's that are interested in helping with the effort then perhaps pursuing the PPC port first would make more sense. I don't have a PPC so I couldn't help out there... There is a PowerPC

Re: StrongARM support?

2000-12-19 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 12:56:58PM -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: many people) My understanding is that FreeBSD *wants* a FreeBSD/ARM, but lack the resources/man-power to do so. I'd prefer to see an official decision on the above by someone (hint hint -core :)) though. Why are you looking to

Re: syscall assembly

2000-12-19 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:13:32PM -0800, Bakul Shah wrote: May be people who know more about gcc will explain this better but I will speculate in any case! Assuming that 16 ... But I still question this optimization. Are there any stats on whether this 16 byte aligning improves

Re: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c)

2000-12-19 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:11:12PM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: /* Case 1 */ /* Case 2 */ if (data) vs. free(data) free(data); Actually from an optimization standpoint, #1 can be worse (ie, harder on the processor).

Optimizations (was: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c))

2000-12-19 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 19 December 2000 at 16:01:52 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:11:12PM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: /* Case 1 */ /* Case 2 */ if (data) vs. free(data) free(data); Actually from an

Re: Optimizations (was: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c))

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Seebach
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Lehey writes: In which processors is a function call anywhere near as cheap as a conditional local branch? Doesn't PPC have some cases where a leaf function is basically free? -s To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: Optimizations (was: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvscommit: src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c))

2000-12-19 Thread Matthew Jacob
In which processors is a function call anywhere near as cheap as a conditional local branch? U.AMD2901? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Optimizations (was: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c))

2000-12-19 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tuesday, 19 December 2000 at 16:01:52 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:11:12PM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: /* Case 1 */ /* Case 2 */ if (data) vs. free(data) free(data); Actually

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-19 Thread Sergey Babkin
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

Re: Optimizations (was: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c))

2000-12-19 Thread Matt Dillon
Guys, on intel a simple conditional is going to be a whole lot expensive then a subroutine call no matter what, even if the conditional misses. Subroutine calls are very fast on a P6, but if they push anything on the stack at all beyond the return address they are not going

Re: Optimizations (was: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c))

2000-12-19 Thread Matt Dillon
:Guys, on intel a simple conditional is going to be a whole lot :expensive then a subroutine call no matter what, even if the I'm really batting 0 today on grammer. I of course meant... "whole lot LESS expensive". :-) -Matt To

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Seebach
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sergey Babkin writes: 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

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-19 Thread Matt Dillon
:I would be very surprised to find *ANY* driver with absolutely *no* bugs. /dev/null ? :-) -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Writing Device Drivers

2000-12-19 Thread Ras-Sol
Christopher Nielsen wrote: On 17 Dec 2000, Nat Lanza wrote: Nothing documented the current kernel, Not to be obtuse, but the source always documents the current kernel for any OS... Aww come on man- that was just obtuse. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Seebach
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matt Dillon writes: :I would be very surprised to find *ANY* driver with absolutely *no* bugs. /dev/null ? It must have a bug, we got a support request once because of an error message. Something about a bit bucket... -s p.s.: ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Writing Device Drivers

2000-12-19 Thread Nat Lanza
Christopher Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not to be obtuse, but the source always documents the current kernel for any OS... If you believe that the source is always adequate documentation for kernel programming, especially in the Linux world, I have a bridge to sell that you might be

Re: Writing Device Drivers

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Seebach
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nat Lanza writes: If you believe that the source is always adequate documentation for kernel programming, especially in the Linux world, I have a bridge to sell that you might be interested in. Is it open source? If so, I will be able to adapt it to my own purposes

Re: Writing Device Drivers

2000-12-19 Thread Enkhyl
On 19 Dec 2000, Nat Lanza wrote: Christopher Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not to be obtuse, but the source always documents the current kernel for any OS... If you believe that the source is always adequate documentation for kernel programming, especially in the Linux world, I

Re: Optimizations (was: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c))

2000-12-19 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 06:36:06PM -0600, Peter Seebach wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Lehey writes: In which processors is a function call anywhere near as cheap as a conditional local branch? Doesn't PPC have some cases where a leaf function is basically free? Maybe, but

Re: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c)

2000-12-19 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 04:01:52PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:11:12PM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: /* Case 1 */ /* Case 2 */ if (data) vs. free(data) free(data); Actually from an

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-19 Thread David Preece
At 18:47 19/12/00 -0800, you 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. However, if the device requires software

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Seebach
Aside: 82559/8, how does this affect BSDi's pre-installed rackmount boxes? Dunno. Presumably it's all going to go a little tits-up when they start getting series 8 parts? I was about to ask you to explain why this would be a problem, but I suppose you can't. :) Anyway, I haven't heard

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-19 Thread David Preece
At 21:54 19/12/00 -0600, you wrote: Presumably it's all going to go a little tits-up when they start getting series 8 parts? I was about to ask you to explain why this would be a problem, but I suppose you can't. :) I thought they were using intel 82559's and came with FreeBSD 4.x

eepro100 dual port cards with failover ?

2000-12-19 Thread Nathan Boeger
We need to use the dual Intel PRO/100+ dual port server adapter, and I wanted to know if FreeBSD supports them ? I guess that the card is a dual port (2 x RJ45) card and it uses only 1 IP for both ports and if one switch goes down it will automatically failure to the other port ? Is this at the

gcc builtin specs

2000-12-19 Thread Marc Tardif
When running the command gcc -v on FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE, I get "Using builtin specs". On Linux, I get some path. How can I know which specs are used by the preprocessor, compiler, assembler and linker on FreeBSD then? PS. Should I have posted this question elsewhere? To Unsubscribe: send mail

Request for comments: ISA_PNP_SCAN() (long)

2000-12-19 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
This is to propose a new ISA bus method to sys/isa/isa_common.c. The new method is to enumerate PnP device instances matching the specified PnP IDs. (Well, may be this is a kludge after all.) device_t ISA_PNP_SCAN(device_t bus, struct isa_pnp_id *ids, int *n); It will return the (n + 1)th

Re: StrongARM support?

2000-12-19 Thread Devin Butterfield
David O'Brien wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 03:12:35PM -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: I would be quite interested. But do we have the resouces and the man-hours to handle IA-64/KA-64/PPC/Alpha/StrongARM at the same time? Agreed. Perhaps the first step would be to start a [EMAIL

Re: StrongARM support?

2000-12-19 Thread Thomas Runge
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Michael C . Wu wrote: many people) My understanding is that FreeBSD *wants* a FreeBSD/ARM, but lack the resources/man-power to do so. I'd prefer to see an There is a german saying "Schuster, bleib bei Deinen Leisten", which means something like "Only do, what you are