Driver accessing other drivers/devices ?

2008-08-22 Thread Alex Hornung
Hello, I need to access the hard disk from within a driver that is not a FS. I would also need to get a list of PCI devices connected. Is there a way I can access these devices directly, at least in the first case, issuing directly ATA/IDE commands to the hard disk? In the case of PCI it would be

Re: pkg_improved GSoC 2008 finished

2008-08-22 Thread Anders Nore
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:01 +0200, Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Anders Nore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello hackers, it's been a great summer for me working with the

Re: the future of sun4v

2008-08-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
[Replies re-directed to freebsd-sun4v] On 2008-Aug-21 14:42:55 -0700, Kip Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe that there is a general expectation by freebsd users and developers that unsupported code should not be in CVS. Although sun4v is a very interesting platform for developers doing SMP

Re: the future of sun4v

2008-08-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Peter Jeremy wrote: [Replies re-directed to freebsd-sun4v] On 2008-Aug-21 14:42:55 -0700, Kip Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe that there is a general expectation by freebsd users and developers that unsupported code should not be in CVS. Although sun4v is a very interesting platform

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Nikolay Kalev wrote: I would also like to help as well. As KMacy knows before i asked a lot of questions for T2 types of servers but unfortunately i have no more access to those kind of hardware as well. I;m willing to participate if a team will be formated. Just so everyone is on the same

sun4v arch

2008-08-22 Thread Nikolay Kalev
I would also like to help as well. As KMacy knows before i asked a lot of questions for T2 types of servers but unfortunately i have no more access to those kind of hardware as well. I;m willing to participate if a team will be formated. ___

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-22 Thread Pietro Cerutti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Kris Kennaway wrote: | Just so everyone is on the same page, what is needed to keep sun4v | viable are people with experience with (or intention to learn about) low | level architectural and implementation details of the FreeBSD kernel and | the

Re: pkg_improved GSoC 2008 finished

2008-08-22 Thread Kevin Downey
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:56 AM, Anders Nore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:01 +0200, Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Anders Nore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello

Re: pkg_improved GSoC 2008 finished

2008-08-22 Thread Julian Elischer
Kevin Downey wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:56 AM, Anders Nore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:01 +0200, Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Anders Nore [EMAIL

Re: the future of sun4v

2008-08-22 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Aug 22, 2008, at 4:33 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: [Replies re-directed to freebsd-sun4v] On 2008-Aug-21 14:42:55 -0700, Kip Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe that there is a general expectation by freebsd users and developers that unsupported code should not be in CVS. Although sun4v is

usb match() function

2008-08-22 Thread Peter B
Within the usb drivers (/usr/src/sys/dev/usb/u*.c) there's an matching routine where the 'uaa-iface' is supposed to be assigned before the routine is called. However for a new device or class this doesn't seem to work. Instead 'uaa' is set like for an generic device (two interfaces, no default

Re: the future of sun4v

2008-08-22 Thread Kip Macy
Well, let's see what architecture the upcoming Rock CPUs are; judging their feature list they appear to be a continuation of the Fujitsu sun4u line rather than a successor of UST1/2 :) That is not what I've heard. -Kip ___

request for testers - xen support for domU in head

2008-08-22 Thread Kip Macy
Basic Xen support for 32-bit in PAE mode is in CVS. Please see the wiki for general information: http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen Please be forewarned that I am not claiming that this is production-ready. There are many known limitations. If you would like to take it for a test drive and

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Aug-22 17:04:00 +0200, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just so everyone is on the same page, what is needed to keep sun4v viable are people with experience with (or intention to learn about) low level architectural and implementation details of the FreeBSD kernel What

Re: request for testers - xen support for domU in head

2008-08-22 Thread Brad Pitney
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Kip Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basic Xen support for 32-bit in PAE mode is in CVS. Please see the wiki for general information: http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen Please be forewarned that I am not claiming that this is production-ready. There are many

Re: request for testers - xen support for domU in head

2008-08-22 Thread Greg Larkin
Kip Macy wrote: Basic Xen support for 32-bit in PAE mode is in CVS. Please see the wiki for general information: http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen Please be forewarned that I am not claiming that this is production-ready. There are many known limitations. If you would like to take it for

Re: request for testers - xen support for domU in head

2008-08-22 Thread Kip Macy
p Hi Kip, Thanks very much for the effort here. I'm looking forward to trying it out and providing feedback. I'm not really familiar with Xen, but perhaps enough to ask this question: Does this mean that Amazon EC2 will be able to boot FreeBSD instances? The last time I spoke with them

Re: pkg_improved GSoC 2008 finished

2008-08-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:56 AM, Anders Nore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:01 +0200, Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Anders Nore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello