Re: keep-state rule for icmp, really stateful ???

2001-08-03 Thread Dennis Berger
Sorry I missed something ... forget - Original Message - From: Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dennis Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 7:26 PM Subject: Re: keep-state rule for icmp, really stateful ??? On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Terry Lambert
mark tinguely wrote: Also, the PIII CAN'T natively support more than 4GB of ram. If a particular PIII motherboard supports this, then it's using some kind of wierd chipset that allows this to happen. 4GB is the limit with a 32 bit chip I believe; and the PIII is a 32-bit chip.

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: On the really large machines, this can lead to the situation where even the page tables hardly fit into KVA. 4MB pages seem like the only solution ... There is no reason why we need to keep the kernel

6G memory disks?

2001-08-03 Thread David Gilbert
I suppose a 6G md memory disk is impossible? I recently applied all the patches recomended here and even got a 6G memory disk newfs'd and mount'd ... but when I ran bonnie (with size 100M) on it, it failed. Dave. --

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: Name an OS that supports this; more than likely, you will have to appeal to a purpose built embedded system. errr, linux? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Terry Lambert
John Baldwin wrote: Err. hang on. This has zero to do with segmentation. Zip, nada. PAE is completely in the paging side of things. No matter what fun games you play with segmentation, you still end up with a 32-bit linear address that gets handed off to the paging translations. PAE just

Re: NewCard / pccbb

2001-08-03 Thread Warner Losh
: wi0: WaveLan/IEEE at port 0x100-0x13f irq 3 function 0 config 1 on : pccard0 : : Could that irq sharing be breaking something? It could also be that the pccard interrupt routing code (in src/sys/dev/pccard/pccard.c) is busted. If you look at it: static void pccard_intr(void *arg) {

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Re: a little O/T, but D.V.D. drivesfreeBSD

2001-08-03 Thread Jason Andresen
Julian Elischer wrote: anyone had success watching a dvd? (Anyone have the correct components saved away somewhere?) just got a drive and would like to test it.. :-) I managed to get vlc working (http://www.videolan.org) and actually watched a few minutes of DVD with it. It's not a

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
BUT, don't the motherboards also have to support this? And isn't it only supported through some wierd segmentation thing? KEn On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, John Baldwin wrote: On 02-Aug-01 Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: Also, the PIII CAN'T natively support more than 4GB of ram. If a particular

Re: PR 25958

2001-08-03 Thread Nate Dannenberg
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, John Baldwin wrote: Nate, Can you try out the patch at http://www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/mtrr.patch? I'd be glad to, however I no longer run FreeBSD. I have since switched to Linux. While FreeBSD was stable and reliable on my machine, I found that support for it was

Re: Wierd IRQ Routing issues

2001-08-03 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 10:01:25PM +0200, lists wrote: Hi, hoping someone can help me out with something here, because Ive got a very strange problem. On my one pc, when assigning an IRQ to my PCIC device, it assigns an IRQ and continues, works 100% now that I changed device.hints to look

Re: malloc

2001-08-03 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, [iso-8859-1] vishwanath pargaonkar wrote: Hi, can anybody tell me in malloc what does third parameter DONTWAIT ,NOWAIT and WAITOK mean? Bcoz i have function being called using timeout.in that function i need to malloc a buffer. can i use WAITOK? please tell me abt

kernel panics and ipfilter

2001-08-03 Thread Dan
1) Aug 3 15:41:15 www /kernel: panic: vm_page_remove(): page not found in hash Aug 3 15:41:15 www /kernel: seems box rebooted after that freebsd 4.3 release. 2) echo starting firewall kldload /modules/ipl.ko ipf -f /etc/ipf.rules another problems with this box is ipfilter.currently

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Rik van Riel wrote: [ ... 4G on 32 bit macines ... ] The short answer is you can't. The longer answer is that you end up having to window it using segmentation; Only if you want to use it all within one process. No. It still bites you if you want to do IPC, etc., since you can not

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
Oh ok, I knew that regular PIII's only had 32 bits... but it's still obviously a pain in the butt to use above 4GB. Ken On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: Also, the PIII CAN'T natively support more than 4GB of ram. If a particular

Re: REMINDER: FreeBSD Monthly Development Status Report -- Request For Submissions (fwd)

2001-08-03 Thread Robert Watson
To be honest, I unfairly singled out KSE in the last message -- Julian has submitted a status report, and I overlooked it in my mailbox. Sorry, Julian. :-) Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To

Panic!

2001-08-03 Thread Anjali Kulkarni
Hi, I wrote some kernel code(a kernel proxy), which was giving problems ie hanging after x no. of connections, and rebooting on its own saying syncing disc, lost 97 buffers! Now, after booting, it shows all regiters like eip, etc. and says System halted. Can someoen let me know if I can

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Mike Smith
The costs involved in doing DMA to/from the memory region above 4G will be incredible, unless the address space is both exported, and known, to the PCI bus; even then, it could only work for 64 bit cards, since 32 bith cards will only be able to address the first 4G of physical memory.

NewCard / pccbb

2001-08-03 Thread lists
Hi All, Im hoping someone can help me in clarifying some issues, Im attempting to find the problem with my orinoco wavelan card. Currently I have the card plugged into a pci - pcmcia bridge. As mentioned in a previous email, the card detects fine, (both under oldcard and newcard), I can use

Re: PR 25958

2001-08-03 Thread Nate Dannenberg
Ok. You do know that 'fxtv' is developed on FreeBSD, right? :) My TV _is_ my workstation. :) Granted, I don't think you can watch DVD's on FreeBSD very easily. Actually I'd never heard of FxTV. I use XawTV, as buggy as it is. The problem isn't so much the application though, but rather,

Re: [PATCH] [BIKESHED] Restarting from panic

2001-08-03 Thread John Baldwin
On 03-Aug-01 Julian Elischer wrote: Also another wishlist item an async even log (maybe a rotating buffer) that logs the last 16 interrupts or whatever. (and maybe their microtimes) there are times you want to know what happenned BEFORE that crash.. :-) man ktr :) -- John Baldwin

Re: Does /dev/bpf work with kevent?

2001-08-03 Thread Garrett Rooney
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:51:20PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 10:26 AM -0400 8/3/01, Josh M Osborne wrote: I'm attempting to use kevent with /dev/bpf to check to see if it is ready for reads, but it seems to always return ready to read, but the reads get EAGAIN. Does /dev/bpf not

dmesg behaviour

2001-08-03 Thread Les Biffle
Hi All, We have a product based on 3.5-stable, and use dmesg at startup time to generate an XML description of the hardware, create interface name aliases, etc., and it has worked just fine for a couple of years. We've just purchased a new platform based on the Supermicro 370SSR motherboard,

ncftpd

2001-08-03 Thread Dan
ncftpd-2.6.3 i found this to panic the kernel under freebsd latest releases. I simple killall ncftpd just crashed the machinegonna try upgrading it see if that helps any. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:48:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

hi

2001-08-03 Thread Anjali Kulkarni
Hi, Thank god for small mercies! I loaded an older version of the kernel, and it worked! Basically, I was too worried to think before I wrote that last mail! Sorry for the trouble! Though any tips for my mistakes would be much appreciated:)) Anjali

[PATCH] [BIKESHED] Restarting from panic

2001-08-03 Thread John Baldwin
I have the following simple and untested patch that I know a few people have asked for. It allows you to restart from a panic and continue executing rather than dumping to the disk and executing. This is remotely useful when doing kernel development when one adds an assertion that ends up being

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, mark tinguely wrote: The addressing use 64 bits for a memory pointer and the additional page indirection add to the overhead. The stickler is the MMU is still 32 bits. This means the PAE must segment the 64GB space into 4GB segments or 4 1GB segments. The OS must manage

keep-state rule for icmp, really stateful ???

2001-08-03 Thread Dennis Berger
Hi I have the following rule allowing traceroute and ping to my server. "200 allow icmp from any to any keep-state in recv tun0 icmptype 8" Now I wouldassume that this rule generate two dynamic rules back. The fire one is a rule that initiates ping to work properly it's just a dynamic ICMP

Select call gives EBADF

2001-08-03 Thread Ullasan Kottummal
Hi, I am using select() call under HP-UX 10.20 for timing on socket. It throws the error EBADF. I don't understand why it happens. The socket is opened successfully before calling the select and the descriptor is valid. I will give the relevant code below. int mask; struct fd_set

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Mike Smith wrote: Julian is on crack. DAC (Double Address Cycle) is a relatively recent addition to PCI that allows 32-bit cards with 64-bit savvy logic to talk to host memory using 64-bit target addresses. well day 1 was an exageration, but my 1995 PCI stuff

malloc

2001-08-03 Thread vishwanath pargaonkar
Hi, can anybody tell me in malloc what does third parameter DONTWAIT ,NOWAIT and WAITOK mean? Bcoz i have function being called using timeout.in that function i need to malloc a buffer. can i use WAITOK? please tell me abt this. TIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: cvsup updater failed

2001-08-03 Thread Randy Kunkee
Mike Meyer wrote: Christoph Sold [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: - update the CVSup port (not the CVSup-bin port!) Warning about this one: you should consider updating from the package, not the port. If you update the port, you'll wind up installing a modula compiler system to install it (which

Re: vnconfig + mount removes permission for a second

2001-08-03 Thread David Malone
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:35:32AM +, Julian Stacey wrote: So something is momentarily making the image unreadable. Should FreeBSD [mount/kernel ?] be changed to avoid denying access ? When you do a mount it automatically HUP's mountd which then re-exports NFS filesystems. I suspect what

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Rik van Riel wrote: Only if you want to use it all within one process. No. It still bites you if you want to do IPC, etc., since you can not guarantee the structures used for this are all within the non-segmented region of memory. Wrong. Your process can have pages from all over

Page Coloring

2001-08-03 Thread Chad David
If I added this to a man page would I be telling the truth :). Note, these are my notes and not the exact text that I would add, and I have not bother with anything to do with object coloring etc. I just want to make sure I've got this part down. Chad page coloring

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Julian Elischer
No The space is linear in physical space and if you have PCI/64 capable devices they can access it all too. (In fact 64 bit addresses have been supported even in 32 bit wide PCI since day 1). On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: BUT, don't the motherboards also have to support

Re: kern/29423: [PATCH] kernel security hooks implementation

2001-08-03 Thread Evan Sarmiento
Hey, Just wanted to send a message to hackers about my project, to find any suggestions, etc. You can access the actual PR at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=29423 Description: Kernel Security Hooks provide a standard interface for programmers of kernel security extensions to

Allocate a page at interrupt time

2001-08-03 Thread Zhihui Zhang
FreeBSD can not allocate from the PQ_CACHE queue in an interrupt context. Can anyone explain it to me why this is the case? Thanks, -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

REMINDER: FreeBSD Monthly Development Status Report -- Request For Submissions (fwd)

2001-08-03 Thread Robert Watson
Just a final reminder that status reports are due tomorrow afternoon, please submit your reports ASAP so as to make sure they get included. Just as a reminder, this is a request for status for on-going and completed projects since the last status report, and can include both raw software

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
Also, the PIII CAN'T natively support more than 4GB of ram. If a particular PIII motherboard supports this, then it's using some kind of wierd chipset that allows this to happen. 4GB is the limit with a 32 bit chip I believe; and the PIII is a 32-bit chip. Ken On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Rik van Riel

Re: 6G memory disks?

2001-08-03 Thread Christoph Sold
David Gilbert wrote: I suppose a 6G md memory disk is impossible? I recently applied all the patches recomended here and even got a 6G memory disk newfs'd and mount'd ... but when I ran bonnie (with size 100M) on it, it failed. AFAIR FreeBSD will address ony 4G of RAM, which is typically

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: Rik van Riel wrote: Only if you want to use it all within one process. No. It still bites you if you want to do IPC, etc., since you can not guarantee the structures used for this are all within the non-segmented region of memory.

Re: problems with kvm_nlist()

2001-08-03 Thread Tabor Kelly
As Ian Dowse pointed out, it is not a problem with kvm_nlist(), but with my program (line 75, character 65 should be an i, not a 0). Sorry. Now that that is taken care of, would somebody mind explaining to me what n_value represents? Is it an offset in kernel memory to retrieve the actual data?

RE: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Charles Randall wrote: From: Terry Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I have yet to see one person using it for anything. So far, it is nothing more than marketing fodder: I haven't seen one motherboard capable of more than 4G worth of SIMMs. The Dell PowerEdge 6450

Ypbind and network flooding

2001-08-03 Thread Robert Withrow
Hi: Has there been any resolution to the problem where ypbind whacks out and starts flooding the network, as described in the following message in questions? http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=741568+744589+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-questions/20010318.freebsd-questions --

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Re: vnconfig + mount removes permission for a second

2001-08-03 Thread Ian Dowse
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Malone writes: When you do a mount it automatically HUP's mountd which then re-exports NFS filesystems. I suspect what is happening is that the the filesystem mountlist is being cleared for a moment and that is upsetting the cp. Yes, the mountd-kernel

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Mike Smith
No The space is linear in physical space and if you have PCI/64 capable devices they can access it all too. (In fact 64 bit addresses have been supported even in 32 bit wide PCI since day 1). OK, then what was that whole paging thing everyone was talking about, I thought that

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: Original poster said he was working on it for Linux, which means it's not done, which means not Linux. It's been running for a while now, integrated in the 2.4 kernel. The way Linux manages to avoid the horrors you describe is by simply not letting

Re: NewCard / pccbb

2001-08-03 Thread Michael Reifenberger
Hi, BTW the pir output for a TECRA8000 looks like: $PIR table at 0x3812a1e0 version 1.0 PCI interrupt router at 0:2.8 vendor 0x8086 device 0x122e PCI-only interrupts [ ] entry bus slot device 00: 00 0011 INTA 60 [ 11

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, and 64 bit PCI cards can in fact DMA at offsets above 4G, in the physical address space... They can. And for 32 bit PCI cards you simply use bounce buffers in the same way you handle ISA bounce buffers. It's ugly, but if you

Re: cvsup updater failed

2001-08-03 Thread Mike Meyer
Christoph Sold [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: - update the CVSup port (not the CVSup-bin port!) Warning about this one: you should consider updating from the package, not the port. If you update the port, you'll wind up installing a modula compiler system to install it (which is why cvsup-bin existed

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Sergey Babkin
Terry Lambert wrote: Rik van Riel wrote: Only the FreeBSD memory management subsystem doesn't support it (yet?). It's not a question of supporting it, it's a question of whether or not it's a useful idea at all. I have yet to see one person using it for anything. So

Re: Wierd IRQ Routing issues

2001-08-03 Thread lists
Both boxes are -current :) Thanks Andrew On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 10:01:25PM +0200, lists wrote: Hi, hoping someone can help me out with something here, because Ive got a very strange problem. On my one pc, when assigning an IRQ to my PCIC

RE: proprietary extensions to tcp/ip?

2001-08-03 Thread thenamelessone
theres a problem if this should happen. most internet providers use unixes for login. since linux, bsd etc. wont be able to use tcp/ms microsoft would be used and i think that this could happen but there will stay some unix providers like in the old days with slip, and so the current internet

Re: Does /dev/bpf work with kevent?

2001-08-03 Thread Josh M Osborne
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:51:20PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: [.../dev/bpf...kevent...EAGAIN...] Are you trying this on current or stable? current has a bug fix to bpf which still hasn't been merged to stable. 4.3-RELEASE, and 4.3-STABLE To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 303,000 routes in kernel

2001-08-03 Thread Leo Bicknell
The box does have a default route, and is not getting proxy arps from the next hop router, right? -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440 Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: PR 25958

2001-08-03 Thread Nate Dannenberg
Nate Dannenberg wrote: I'd be glad to, however I no longer run FreeBSD. I have since switched to Linux. [ ... ] Not being much of a C programmer anymore I can't really say for certain though :) Are these two statements related by cause and effect? No :) When I put that patch

Re: problems with kvm_nlist()

2001-08-03 Thread Ian Dowse
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tabor Kelly writes: Now that that is taken care of, would somebody mind explaining to me what n_value represents? Is it an offset in kernel memory to retrieve the actual data? It is the kernel virtual address of the symbol that you specified in n_name, which will be

Re: PR 25958

2001-08-03 Thread John Baldwin
On 02-Aug-01 Nate Dannenberg wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, John Baldwin wrote: Nate, Can you try out the patch at http://www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/mtrr.patch? I'd be glad to, however I no longer run FreeBSD. I have since switched to Linux. While FreeBSD was stable and reliable on my

Re: Wierd IRQ Routing issues

2001-08-03 Thread lists
Bios is different, everything else is the same, about to go and swap out the motherboard to something that does work due to desperation :) Yeah thats the wi0 timeout machine, the other machine doesnt do a pci_cfgintr_search or an irq routing, it does a hard assignment by the looks of things, not

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Rik van Riel wrote: BUT, don't the motherboards also have to support this? And isn't it only supported through some wierd segmentation thing? Yes, the mainboard needs to support the memory. No, there is no weird segmentation thing, at least not visible from software. Last time I

Re: Wierd IRQ Routing issues

2001-08-03 Thread lists
One machine (the working one) is set to pnp os, my machine doesnt have an option to set it in the bios (the machine that doesnt work) Cheers Andrew On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists writes: : Yeah thats the wi0 timeout machine, the other machine

RE: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Charles Randall
From: Terry Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I have yet to see one person using it for anything. So far, it is nothing more than marketing fodder: I haven't seen one motherboard capable of more than 4G worth of SIMMs. The Dell PowerEdge 6450 supports 8 GB of RAM.

cvsup updater failed

2001-08-03 Thread Randy Kunkee
Updating collection ports-all/cvs Updater failed: /usr/ports/www/jakarta-tomcat/files/#cvs.cvsup-25588.1: Cannot create: Not a directory To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Wierd IRQ Routing issues

2001-08-03 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists writes: : Yeah thats the wi0 timeout machine, the other machine doesnt do a : pci_cfgintr_search or an irq routing, it does a hard assignment by the : looks of things, not sure why that is PNP OS yes vs no? Wanrer To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Sergey Babkin
Terry Lambert wrote: This basically means that the memory is useless as a DMA target or source for disk controllers or gigabit ethernet cards, and is pretty useless for swap, if you ever have to copy from one section to another (e.g. for IPC, SYSV shared memory, mmap'ed files, VM, or

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Julian Elischer wrote: No The space is linear in physical space and if you have PCI/64 capable devices they can access it all too. (In fact 64 bit addresses have been supported even in 32 bit wide PCI since day 1). It's been my experience that the TIGON cards take a 32 bit DMA target

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: Also, the PIII CAN'T natively support more than 4GB of ram. If a particular PIII motherboard supports this, then it's using some kind of wierd chipset that allows this to happen. 4GB is the limit with a 32 bit chip I believe; and the PIII is a

Does /dev/bpf work with kevent?

2001-08-03 Thread Josh M Osborne
I'm attempting to use kevent with /dev/bpf to check to see if it is ready for reads, but it seems to always return ready to read, but the reads get EAGAIN. Does /dev/bpf not work with kevent? Or should I look elsewhere for my bug (like forgetting some random ioctl)? If you can't use /dev/bpf

select kevent aio_read

2001-08-03 Thread Hans Zaunere
Hello, I am new to this level of programming so please bare with me. I am curious as the differences between kevent and select and when to use either one. After reading the man pages, they seem to provide about the same functionality. What advantages do each have, and why would one choose one

Re: device i/o question

2001-08-03 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Eugene L. Vorokov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010803 04:33] wrote: Hello, I have a module which creates new device for data exchange between user program and a module. I was wondering, if I open the device in userspace and write() some piece of data to it, is it guaranteed that the driver will

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Charles Randall wrote: From: Terry Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I have yet to see one person using it for anything. So far, it is nothing more than marketing fodder: I haven't seen one motherboard capable of more than 4G worth of SIMMs. The Dell PowerEdge 6450 supports 8 GB of

Re: select kevent aio_read

2001-08-03 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 09:04:31PM -0700, Hans Zaunere wrote: I am new to this level of programming so please bare with me. I am curious as the differences between kevent and select and when to use either one. After reading the man pages, they seem to provide about the same functionality.

Re: connecting a FujiFinePix1400 (USB) ?

2001-08-03 Thread Wes Peters
Pete McKenna wrote: I can't speak to the camera, but I've found that coldsync works for my visor. It's in the palm ports. pmckenna:more coldsync/pkg-descr ColdSync is a robust, extensible, portable tool for synchronizing PalmOS devices (PalmPilot et al.) with a Unix workstation.

Re: vnconfig + mount removes permission for a second

2001-08-03 Thread Julian Stacey
David Malone wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:35:32AM +, Julian Stacey wrote: So something is momentarily making the image unreadable. Should FreeBSD [mount/kernel ?] be changed to avoid denying access ? When you do a mount it automatically HUP's mountd which then re-exports NFS

Re: PR 25958

2001-08-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Nate Dannenberg wrote: I'd be glad to, however I no longer run FreeBSD. I have since switched to Linux. [ ... ] Not being much of a C programmer anymore I can't really say for certain though :) Are these two statements related by cause and effect? 8-) 8-) -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send

RE: Finding MAC address of interface - programming question

2001-08-03 Thread Robert Watson
I actually prefer the API call getifaddrs(3), which does much the same thing, but hides the MIB management interface behind a fairly well-defined API, which also does the memory management. You can just pull out the link layer addresses along with interface description. Robert N M Watson

Re: NewCard / pccbb

2001-08-03 Thread Mike Smith
Tried the patch, interesting thing, for some reason or other its always routing the IRQ to the same IRQ as the realtek network card I have in here, and with the patch in (before nothing worked at all on the pccbb), now if the network card is in slot0 it doesnt work, and the wavelan does, if

Re: Page Coloring

2001-08-03 Thread Mike Smith
If I added this to a man page would I be telling the truth :). Note, these are my notes and not the exact text that I would add, and I have not bother with anything to do with object coloring etc. I just want to make sure I've got this part down. It looks about right, but page colouring

mtree exit code [pr:28424]

2001-08-03 Thread Jonathan Chen
Been trying to close some PR's, but I'm not so sure about this one. According to the man page, mtree is supposed to return an exit code of 2 when the file hierarchy did not match the specification. However, mtree does not return an exit code of 2 when a file/directory is missing. OpenBSD

Re: a little O/T, but D.V.D. drivesfreeBSD

2001-08-03 Thread Brian Somers
,[ On Thu, Aug 02, at 05:57PM, Julian Elischer wrote: ]-- | anyone had success watching a dvd? `[ End Quote ]--- ok, first and foremost, please, anyone else replying, reply to the list and not to me and please dont cc me, i am on the list. (i

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: Replying above an email because the curser is there is like shitting in your pants because your ass is there when you need to go to the toilet. BUT, don't the motherboards also have to support this? And isn't it only supported through some

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Rik van Riel wrote: This is a trivial implementation. I'm not very impressed. Personally, I'm not interested in a huge user space, Maybe not you, but I bet the database and scientific computing people will be interested in having 64 GB memory support in this simple way. You mean 4G,

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: You still haven't told me what Linux does for 2x4G processes and a 1G kernel with only 8G of physical RAM. I rather suspect that as soon as your usage exceeds real memory, it all goes to hell very quickly, since your L1 and L2 caches are effectively

Re: gethostbyXXXX_r()

2001-08-03 Thread Wes Peters
Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Alexander Litvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010803 09:54] wrote: Are there any plans of making gethostbyname_r() and gethostbyaddr_r() available in FreeBSD? May be somebody already has them almost ready to be commited? Or are there any considered wrong way to go?