Kernel modules, SMP and -STABLE

2002-01-29 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, Boris Popov, the maintainer of smbfs and nwfs in FreeBSD, has mentioned in discussions surrounding PR misc/33985, that there's a problem in -STABLE affecting the building of modules on SMP systems. If anyone could shed some light on this, I'd love to add your comments to the audit

Re: OS Textbook FreeBSD Appendix

2002-01-29 Thread Andrew Boothman
Ronald G Minnich wrote: where'd they get this? that's an odd statement. Shared memory was used all the time on Unix on -11s, that's the whole point of the shared text a.out format. Of course shared read-only text is not exactly the standard shared memory, but at the same time it shows

another VM question

2002-01-29 Thread Hyong-Youb Kim
First off, for each open file, does the kernel keep a unique vnode structure? If so, will it have at most one vm_object reference at any time? I am guessing that mmaping a file will create vm_object with a vnode pager that references vnode. But then under what circumstances does vnode not have a

Re: shell scripts that hang around forever

2002-01-29 Thread Andrew
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Dan Langille wrote: Folks: have a look at this FreshPorts shell script and let me know if there is a better way to do this. You could avoid polling (at the expense of a fork) by using wait_on (PR #34414). Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

What is HIDE_POSIX HIDE_BSD?

2002-01-29 Thread Zhihui Zhang
While adding a system call, I notice in file syscall-hide.h there are many instances of HIDE_POSIX() and HIDE_BSD(). What is the purpose of these macros? Maybe they are now obsolete? Thanks! -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body

Problems with 4.5-RC/-STABLE

2002-01-29 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
I have a machine with an AMD 1ghz and an IBM UMDA 100 disk. Until about 12-13 days ago (Jan 16-17), this machine was nice and fast on disk IO. I haven't done much io wise on the machine in the days since I did that last buildworld, but when I tried to buildworld yesterday and today, I am getting

Re: (Fwd) ip_output() does not checksum outer header

2002-01-29 Thread Skye Poier
Where are you capturing the network traffic? I've noticed some checksum weirdness in tcpdump with NICs that provide hardware checksum. Are you seeing bad header checksums in netstat -s ? Skye Word on the street is that Dan Langille said: I am forwarding this on behalf of Bruce (his DNS is

FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-29 Thread Tony Finch
Now that ancient unix has been relicensed with an old-style BSD licence, is the FreeBSD-1.X cvs repository going to be made public? Tony. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Finch writes: Now that ancient unix has been relicensed with an old-style BSD licence, is the FreeBSD-1.X cvs repository going to be made public? I hope so. Unless I'm convinced not to, my version will go online whenever I find the CD it's on... --

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-29 Thread Nate Williams
Now that ancient unix has been relicensed with an old-style BSD licence, is the FreeBSD-1.X cvs repository going to be made public? Out of curiousity, why? And, where have you heard that it's been relicensed? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-29 Thread Dominic Marks
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 03:37:13PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: Now that ancient unix has been relicensed with an old-style BSD licence, is the FreeBSD-1.X cvs repository going to be made public? Out of curiousity, why? Out of curiousity :) Perhaps for the same reasons I spent a half an

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-29 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:47:04PM +, Dominic Marks wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 03:37:13PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: Now that ancient unix has been relicensed with an old-style BSD licence, is the FreeBSD-1.X cvs repository going to be made public? Out of curiousity, why?

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-29 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 23:37, Nate Williams wrote: Hi, Out of curiousity, why? Why not? It will be fun to have a look at it. And, where have you heard that it's been relicensed? It was anounced some days ago, check the Caldera site. (This too

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-29 Thread Nate Williams
Now that ancient unix has been relicensed with an old-style BSD licence, is the FreeBSD-1.X cvs repository going to be made public? Out of curiousity, why? Out of curiousity :) Kirk was surprised by how popular the CSRG archives CDs are. I got one of those too. :) And,

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nate Williams write s: Caldera's License Agreement: http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf Thanks. However, this isn't as specific as I'd like it to be. It implies that Net1/Net2 are now 'legal', but it doesn't give explicit release of said source

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-29 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 03:50:22PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: Thanks. However, this isn't as specific as I'd like it to be. It implies that Net1/Net2 are now 'legal', but it doesn't give explicit release of said source code. Doesn't the text at the start of the letter explicitly say

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-29 Thread Nate Williams
Caldera's License Agreement: http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf Thanks. However, this isn't as specific as I'd like it to be. It implies that Net1/Net2 are now 'legal', but it doesn't give explicit release of said source code. Well, I have never heard claims that BSD

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-29 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 03:55:04PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: Thanks. I'm going to wait and see what happens w/regards to the talking heads on this, and if the consensus is that it's legal to post, I'll upload the bits to freefall. I'll note that this happened because of the efforts of

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nate Williams write s: Caldera's License Agreement: http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf Thanks. However, this isn't as specific as I'd like it to be. It implies that Net1/Net2 are now 'legal', but it doesn't give explicit release of said

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-29 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Tony == Tony Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tony I'll note that this happened because of the efforts of the Tony Unix Heritage Society, and their archive (which until recently Tony was password-protected and required a free licence from SCO, ... and prior to that, the US$100

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-29 Thread Greg Lehey
- Forwarded message from Nate Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:55:04 -0700 From: Nate Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tony Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Dominic Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nate Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-29 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:05:20AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: Nate Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I'm going to wait and see what happens w/regards to the talking heads on this, and if the consensus is that it's legal to post, I'll upload the bits to freefall. It's legal.

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-29 Thread Dion Johnson
Greg, Yes it is most certainly our intent to free up the ancient Unix sources so that they can be used, essentially, for anything. Caldera asks for some acknowledgement, and disclaims all the usual stuff. I cant completely answer the question about your archives since I have not examined them

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-29 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 29 January 2002 at 15:56:32 -0800, Dion Johnson wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:05:20AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:55:04 -0700, Nate Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, where have you heard that it's been relicensed? http://minnie.tuhs.org/PUPS/

Broadcom 5701 (3com 3c996B-T) phy support in 4.5?

2002-01-29 Thread Jonathan Stone
Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this I just got a 3com 3c996B-T with a bcm5701 chip. It doesn't work with a kernel built from 4.5-RC source pulled Friday: the gigabit phy goes unrecognized, gets attached as a ukphy, which (obviously) doesn't support 1000baseTX. Is this expected

Re: OS Textbook FreeBSD Appendix

2002-01-29 Thread babkin
Justin C.Walker wrote: On Monday, January 28, 2002, at 05:10 PM, Greg Shenaut wrote: I'd guess that the point deals with the use of shared memory between processes for the purposes of sharing data. Given the granularity of the PDP-11 VM hardware, it seemed like a bad tradeoff, and

Re: another VM question

2002-01-29 Thread Terry Lambert
Hyong-Youb Kim wrote: First off, for each open file, does the kernel keep a unique vnode structure? If so, will it have at most one vm_object reference at any time? Yes and not. It depends on what you mean by for each open file; an open instance in user space is not the same thing as an open

multiple mounts of single device

2002-01-29 Thread Brent Verner
Hi, I've been searching for info regarding mounting the same device to multiple locations in the filesystem, i.e... # mount /dev/ad0s1e /usr # mount -r /dev/ad0s1e /var/jail//usr # mount -r /dev/ad0s1e /var/jail//usr [Warning: I /know/ I know next-to-nothing about filesystems...

SurfBoard SB1000 cable modem in FreeBSD?

2002-01-29 Thread Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira
Hi, I was trying to help a friend get a SurfBoard SB1000 cable modem working in a Linux box much to my pain. I mean trying because I failed horribly. :( At first, I tried looking for support under FreeBSD but found none. Then, I tried to get it working under Linux since it seems

Re: multiple mounts of single device

2002-01-29 Thread Gregory Neil Shapiro
brent I've been searching for info regarding mounting the same device brent to multiple locations in the filesystem, i.e... brent # mount /dev/ad0s1e /usr brent # mount -r /dev/ad0s1e /var/jail//usr brent # mount -r /dev/ad0s1e /var/jail//usr I can't comment on this specifically but can