On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:40:11PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
Does anyone know of *any* problems with committing this diff?
It changes the % free space from the 8% default to 0.
I would imagine that this should be fine. We've been doing this in
PicoBSD for a long while.
BTW, I believe that
Hi,
i have the following problem (related to picobsd this is
why this msg is Bcc to -small).
We can format 1722KB floppies, which is 21 sectors/2heads/82 tracks,
but the bios is unable to boot from them -- it will only read
the first 18 sectors of each track and in many cases it will be
able to
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:42:13AM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
Hi,
i have the following problem (related to picobsd this is
why this msg is Bcc to -small).
We can format 1722KB floppies, which is 21 sectors/2heads/82 tracks,
but the bios is unable to boot from them -- it will only read
the
What about having the first few tracks, ie. the boot area, 18 sectors,
and the rest of the disk 21 sectors, and have the boot code/kernel do
the right thing? Isn't this easier?
It has all sorts of problems: neither the bios nor the disklabel
nor the kernel can handle variable length tracks,
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Luigi Rizzo writes:
What about having the first few tracks, ie. the boot area, 18 sectors,
and the rest of the disk 21 sectors, and have the boot code/kernel do
the right thing? Isn't this easier?
It has all sorts of problems: neither the bios nor the disklabel
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 06:48:23PM -0800, Matt Dillon wrote:
:I am running a system with a 50GB /home drive. One user is experiencing
:inconsistencies, for him the system reports being over disk quota.
:du -sk reports 1.7GB utilization, quota reports 5.2GB. I've been checking
:the entire
It would be possible to teach the floppy driver that cyl 0-9 has
18 sectors while cyl10-81 has 21.
this would only work after the kernel has control, and the kernel
needs far more than 10 cylinders...
cheers
luigi
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On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 06:13:07PM -0800, Alex Zepeda wrote:
However, there *ARE* some of us who aren't intimate with your fxp
problems.
The problem does exist. I have a board that the `fxp' driver splits this
out for:
fxp0: warning: unsupported PHY, type = 17, addr = 2
fxp1:
You've got a valid problem. Go away.
"You've got a valid problem, go away." huh??
His points are very valid about maintenance of the `fxp' driver.
His views on how to make something happen are what is a little out of
touch.
I tried sitting with my hands folded. It didnt work.
DB
To
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 06:16:16PM +0200, Mustafa Deeb wrote:
hi,
Qmail has the capabillity of storing Email inside a table with MYSQL and do POP3
from it as well
is it better to go this approach , or the standard homedir way is better?
need some openions
"It depends".
If you have a
Call BSDi (numbers on their website) and ask to speak to Gary Johnson
(CEO) or Mark Garver (senior VP) and ask them yourself. If you get a
useful answer, please tell the rest of us; especially me, since I burnt
out trying to make it happen.
Ive spoken with Mr Johnson several times.
Folks:
Andreas Klemm, who ported cflowd to FreeBSD, suggested I use this vehicle to
see if I could get some help.
I am a course developer for Juniper Networks, and I have just written a
2-day advanced course on router firewall filters (this is one reason for the
cflowd).
We have participants
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:03:58AM -0800, Walter Goralski wrote:
The missing piece has been DOS SYN attacks. I have the really common
"synk4.c" source that is all over the Web, but I get errors when I try to
compile it ("it's the linux includes" someone told me). Now, I last used my
They're
I'm wondering if anyone has the time or inclination to take a look at a fix
for PR bin/25110. We're having problems using a freshly-built 4.2-stable
box (technically 4.3 rc at this point), and the bug is still present.
I'm not sure how many people would see this problem (we see it because we
Mustafa Deeb wrote:
hi,
Qmail has the capabillity of storing Email inside a table with MYSQL and
do POP3 from it as well
is it better to go this approach , or the standard homedir way is better?
MySQL has relatively poor insert performance; if your mail server is very
busy this would
What board is this?
Sam
- Original Message -
From: "David O'Brien" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Alex Zepeda" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 4:42 AM
Subject: Re: if_fxp - the real point
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 06:13:07PM -0800, Alex Zepeda wrote:
:About a year ago, I was looking through the VM code, and saw that the
:'re' field in vmstat is just Cache reactivations, and not both
:Inactive Cache. I just figured it was how it was supposed to be.
:Could it be that 're' should include *all* reactivations?
:
:If so, would I be correct in
Ive spoken with Mr Johnson several times. hes the biggest reason that BSDI
is what it is. Amazing that hes still there. He has no concept of what the
market wants. First he wanted to challenge microsoft (at similar prices)
for the server market now he wants to be redhat. funny guy.
What board is this?
If this is the board I think it is, it's a Supermicro P6DLE dual Slot-1
motherboard with an integrated Intel 82559 (no external PHY).
(I had this board for some time before I gave it to David, it was
originally donated to FTL by Bob Willcox.)
Sam
- Original
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Mike Smith wrote:
What board is this?
If this is the board I think it is, it's a Supermicro P6DLE dual Slot-1
motherboard with an integrated Intel 82559 (no external PHY).
I've worked with this board before (don't have any on hand anymore). I
remember getting the
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 01:05:58PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
It would be possible to teach the floppy driver that cyl 0-9 has
18 sectors while cyl10-81 has 21.
this would only work after the kernel has control, and the kernel
needs far more than 10 cylinders...
What about /boot/loader?
this would only work after the kernel has control, and the kernel
needs far more than 10 cylinders...
What about /boot/loader? Does that use the bios also? Can't we build
one with a modified fd0 in it?
yes it uses the bios, and it is large enough (100+ KB compressed if
you include
Generally speaking, the most portable way to generate IP packets is to do
so using the raw IP socket interface. However, I've also successfully
generated packets using IPDIVERT, BPF, and custom kernel modules :-). I
found the IPDIVERT performed quite nicely and was useful for exploring
Hi,
I'd like to ask if anyone can share any knowledge about how/if the number
of SCBs affects performace for scsi drives.
Also I would like to be able to configure the number of SCBs that the scsi
driver uses. With Linux this parameter for the aic7xxx driver can be
configured via "make
* Joe Albowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010309 13:56] wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to ask if anyone can share any knowledge about how/if the number
of SCBs affects performace for scsi drives.
Also I would like to be able to configure the number of SCBs that the scsi
driver uses. With Linux this
Hello everyone,
I am interested in contributing code to the FreeBSD project, specifically
the kernel but I am not opposed to helping out with user applications if
they are in dire need of improvements. To preface my request for assistance,
I should tell everyone that I am young (18) without
* Avery Fay [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010309 14:03] wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am interested in contributing code to the FreeBSD project, specifically
the kernel but I am not opposed to helping out with user applications if
they are in dire need of improvements. To preface my request for assistance,
Joe; it looks like you have some funny ideas about something that's not
actually very relevant. I assume that you have already gone and bought
Monster Cable(tm) SCSI cables, and that you have the special
oxygen-free-copper SCSI controller PCBs, because none of this is going to
mean anything
Gr.
(Yes, that's a bad omen. Get the women and children to safety now.)
(On second thought, leave the women.)
I think there's one important point that a lot of you are missing here,
which is GETTING DOCUMENTATION. I've seen a couple people suggest that
they'd be willing to donate
Hi.
Of the 8 machines that I own, all of the NIC's work just fine. Thank
you for doing such a great job! To the rest of you: read the
hardware.txt. Use a supported card or go suck a rotten egg.
Bill Paul wrote:
Gr.
(Yes, that's a bad omen. Get the women and children to safety
It seems Bill Paul wrote:
"But Bill, you work for BSDi now. Can't they get you manuals?" Working for
BSDi is irrelevant: I can't sign any NDAs if I want to release driver
source, and I do want to release the source. And there isn't a designated
person at BSDi that I can turn to to help turn
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Mike Smith wrote:
Joe; it looks like you have some funny ideas about something that's not
actually very relevant. I assume that you have already gone and bought
Monster Cable(tm) SCSI cables, and that you have the special
oxygen-free-copper SCSI controller PCBs,
Bear with me and allow me my delusions while I daydream...
What with FPGA technology as reasonable as it is, and the amount of hw/sw
talent on these lists, maybe people should band together and come up with
a NIC? Maybe have native mode + Tulip/PNIC clone compatibility mode.
Take a look at
this would only work after the kernel has control, and the kernel
needs far more than 10 cylinders...
What about /boot/loader? Does that use the bios also? Can't we build
one with a modified fd0 in it?
yes it uses the bios, and it is large enough (100+ KB compressed if
you
:What production volumes are required before ASICs are feasible? What
:about having a FreeBSD CDROM + NIC bundle featuring whatever card gets
:designed?
:
:If ya can't join 'em, beat 'em.
:
:Okay. Back to work and reality. :-)
:
:Eddy
Designing an ASIC will have an NRE of probably around
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Mike Smith wrote:
Joe; it looks like you have some funny ideas about something that's not
actually very relevant. I assume that you have already gone and bought
Monster Cable(tm) SCSI cables, and that you have the special
oxygen-free-copper SCSI controller PCBs,
I think there's one important point that a lot of you are missing here,
which is GETTING DOCUMENTATION.
Perhaps a first step towards leaning on the vendors for documentation
is to publically declare our support for those vendors who *do*
release documentation under reasonable terms. One way to
Yes. This is good.
I'd vote for LSI-Logic as being a sterling example of making documentation
available.
I'd out QLogic and others way down the list as the "don't get it" variety.
I think there's one important point that a lot of you are missing here,
which is GETTING DOCUMENTATION.
Hi
I'm wondering under what conditions a function specified with atexit()
won't get called on FreeBSD when a program terminates.
The manual page says it gets called "via exit(3) or via return from the
program's main".
I take it that the cleanup function won't be called if the program dumps
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthe
w Luckie writes:
I'm wondering under what conditions a function specified with atexit()
won't get called on FreeBSD when a program terminates.
"abnormal" termination.
I take it that the cleanup function won't be called if the program dumps
core, or if it is
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], mjl@SD
SC.EDU writes:
I take it that the cleanup function won't be called if the program dumps
core,
Right, unless you dump core by forking a child process and doing it in that
context.
or if it is terminated with a kill(1)
The function can never be called when
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:03:33PM +, E.B. Dreger scribbled:
| Bear with me and allow me my delusions while I daydream...
|
| What with FPGA technology as reasonable as it is, and the amount of hw/sw
| talent on these lists, maybe people should band together and come up with
| a NIC? Maybe
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Hey,
Perhaps this is not the right place to post this, if so, I apoligize. But,
I have a dilema. Is there any documentation I can find which gives the
arguments for all kernel space functions? I'm trying to find a function
similar to open(). I'm a
Well here's the story: a few days ago my video card broke, so I'm without
X and such, and using a spare 486 box on the freebsd console. Out of lack of
other things to do, I did most of the porting of one of the screensavers in the
xscreensaver collection to the freebsd syscons.
The problem I'm
Well here's the story: a few days ago my video card broke, so I'm without
X and such, and using a spare 486 box on the freebsd console. Out of lack
of
other things to do, I did most of the porting of one of the screensavers
in the
xscreensaver collection to the freebsd syscons.
The
You can't safely do FP instructions in the kernel. I do not
believe the FP context is saved/restored between processes in kernel
mode, only from user mode. The kernel saves and restores the fp state
in the few places it uses FP instructions (for memory copying).
In anycase,
So how about a options flag on the floppy driver which translates
block addresses beyond 1440K into the "extra" sectors? I don't
know that there's a "clean" way insert that into the driver, just
glancing at the code..
that is another possibility, yes. But it still remains the challenge
of
So how about a options flag on the floppy driver which translates
block addresses beyond 1440K into the "extra" sectors? I don't
know that there's a "clean" way insert that into the driver, just
glancing at the code..
that is another possibility, yes. But it still remains the
* kaworu [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010309 16:34] wrote:
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Hey,
Perhaps this is not the right place to post this, if so, I apoligize. But,
I have a dilema. Is there any documentation I can find which gives the
arguments for all kernel space functions?
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Matt Dillon wrote:
You can't safely do FP instructions in the kernel. I do not
believe the FP context is saved/restored between processes in kernel
mode, only from user mode. The kernel saves and restores the fp state
in the few places it uses FP
hi there,
just wandering if anyone can help.
installed gimp1 from the ports, all required components like mpeg, tif, jpeg
etc..., still gimp does not open/save the file in either jpeg or gif format.
help!
p.
_
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Matt Dillon wrote:
You can't safely do FP instructions in the kernel. I do not
believe the FP context is saved/restored between processes in kernel
mode, only from user mode. The kernel saves and restores the fp
state
in the few places it uses FP
I think its been mentioned several times in this and other threads that
intel has a driver for LINUX that is effective documentation on the board,
and the code is public (although you may have to stick an intel copyright
in the code also).
It hasn't been mentioned in this thread that
I think its been mentioned several times in this and other threads that
intel has a driver for LINUX that is effective documentation on the board,
and the code is public (although you may have to stick an intel copyright
in the code also).
Whoever mentioned this was not thinking
\- Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] stated on
/- [Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 06:02:22PM -0800]:
NDA's in this particular space serve a limited set of purposes:
- They constitute engineering damage control; witness Realtek's
unhappiness at Bill's honest commentary on their documented
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