Re: locking in a device driver

2005-11-01 Thread Julian Elischer
Scott Long wrote: Dinesh Nair wrote: On 11/02/05 03:02 Julian Elischer said the following: drops to splzero or similar,.. woken process called, starts manipulating another buffer collides with next interrupt. that makes a lot of sense, i'll try with using splxxx() in the pseudo

Re: locking in a device driver

2005-11-01 Thread Julian Elischer
Dinesh Nair wrote: On 11/02/05 03:51 Scott Long said the following: INTR_TYPE_TTY and spltty [..snipped..] You'll also want to use an spl in the top half of the pseudo driver to cover where the pointers are read and changed. thanx a bunch. i'll rewrite the portions affected based on

Re: locking in a device driver

2005-11-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Dinesh Nair wrote: On 11/02/05 06:12 Julian Elischer said the following: depends on what they are using it for.. if it's a WAN interface, then splimp. (INTR_TYPE_NET) if ppp or several other moduels are loaded, teh tty and net masks are combined anyhow.. it's a quad-span E1/T1 line

Re: locking in a device driver

2005-11-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Dinesh Nair wrote: On 10/28/05 10:52 M. Warner Losh said the following: libc_r will block all other threads in the application while an ioctl executes. libpthread and libthr won't. I've had several bugs at work so if the userland thread does an ioctl, and the the driver goes to

Re: locking in a device driver

2005-11-02 Thread Julian Elischer
M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Dinesh Nair wrote: : : : : On 10/28/05 10:52 M. Warner Losh said the following: : : libc_r will block all other threads in the application while an ioctl : executes. libpthread

Re: locking in a device driver

2005-11-03 Thread Julian Elischer
Sergey Babkin wrote: From: M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Dinesh Nair wrote: : : : On 11/03/05 03:12 Warner Losh said the following: : : Yes. if you tsleep with signals enabled, the periodic timer will go : off, and you'll return

Re: locking in a device driver

2005-11-03 Thread Julian Elischer
M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sergey Babkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Maybe it can be fixed in the kernel without : too much trouble. It already is in libthr and libposix. They already use execution contexts to map M threads onto N contexts. libc_r is being

Re: Need Help In sppp_attach

2005-11-11 Thread Julian Elischer
rashmi ns wrote: Hello List , I'm writing a hdlc driver we want to send traffic to the driver and test. But I have some basic doubts regarding sppp .Kindly Give your suggestions 1.How to run PPP on FreeBSD system. 2.What configuration needs to be done in order to send traffic using HDLC driver.

Re: How to make my new driver be configurable in the kernel configuration file?

2005-11-16 Thread Julian Elischer
Yong Ma wrote: Thank you! I did as that but came across some problems,these are the jobs and the errors: 1) I copyed the files to the sys/dev/mydevice and added dev/mydevice/mydevice.c optinonal mydevice in the file /usr/src/sys/conf/files.i386, At one stage you could add your own file

Re: [PATCH] nsswitch extensions + caching

2005-12-06 Thread Julian Elischer
Michael Bushkov wrote: [...] so, I've been wonderring.. what's all the fuss about nsswitch? what does it get us? (Not saying it doesn't, just hoping someone will explain) ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 2 lame questions (ipfw, keyboard driver)

2005-12-22 Thread Julian Elischer
OxY wrote: hi! i have two lame questions, one about ipfw port forwarding, and an other about keyboard driver... 1, i have a box with public ip 195.70.x.x and openvpn 10.254.0.14 ip.. i'd like to accept connections on my public ip's y port and forward it to my 10.254.64.14 port 22.. is this

Re: copy directory structure

2005-12-23 Thread Julian Elischer
Ashok Shrestha wrote: Thank you All. On 12/22/05, Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ashok Shrestha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know how to copy just a directory structure (not the files inside it)? The following is probably the easiest and most efficient way ($SRC and $DST are

Re: using get_system_info() - obtaining system load averages

2006-01-10 Thread Julian Elischer
kamal kc wrote: actually the thing is , i have put some code in the bridge.c routine that attempts to compress/decompress ip packets. i don't know if it was a good idea since i am just a beginner in programming in the kernel and have a little knowledge regarding it. after i put my code

Re: Telling BSD to stop resetting the connection!

2006-01-11 Thread Julian Elischer
Dan Joumaa wrote: Hello, I'm trying to code a software gateway with divert sockets. So far basic things are working, but the net stack constantly resets the connection whenever a SYN-ACK is sent to it. 103 9.443254 192.168.1.6 - 205.166.76.40 TCP pacmand https [SYN] Seq=0 Ack=0

Re: My machine been hacked, I need help

2006-01-13 Thread Julian Elischer
anchor (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: My machine been hacked. The message file was modified. Old dated backup files are deleted. The last log was truncated. You are gurus. Would you please tell me where I can find out other trace file or logfiles to figure out where the hacker come from?

Re: How priority propagation works on read/write lock?

2006-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
John Baldwin wrote: On Monday 16 January 2006 00:08, Kamal R. Prasad wrote: you mean, boosting the priority of a reader would be required to avoid priority inversion, but difficult to implement? regards -kamal On 1/14/06, John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you just kind

Re: Difference between a kthread and an ordinary process.

2006-01-24 Thread Julian Elischer
Scott Long wrote: Pranav Peshwe wrote: Hello, When a kthread is created using the kthread_create (9) function, i found out that a new instance of struct proc is created and allocated for the thread just as in case of a creation of a new process.Also, the thread is assigned a pid as

Re: Changes from 5.2.1 to 5.3 (theads / signal handling)

2006-01-25 Thread Julian Elischer
Jose Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: Hello, I have a problem with an application I wrote. It works fine under Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD till release 5.2.1. Under FreeBSD 5.3 and newers I have problems. The application is constituted by two processes : a supervisor and modules. The

Re: streaming server question

2006-01-25 Thread Julian Elischer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a shot in the dark... anyone on the list have any experience with streaming audio servers for FreeBSD? I've installed icecast2, but seems like the lag time between broadcast and reception by clients is up to 60 seconds (??). I have heard that darwin's streaming

Re: Changes from 5.2.1 to 5.3 (theads / signal handling)

2006-01-26 Thread Julian Elischer
Jose Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: Hello, Julian Elischer wrote: Jose Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: also, does the child do an exec() after forking? No. The child gets out the father loop and calls another initialisation function. The Posix spec says that after

Re: Changes from 5.2.1 to 5.3 (theads / signal handling)

2006-01-26 Thread Julian Elischer
Jose Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: Jose Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: So, if I understood, the better I can do is, instead of letting the child follow a different path after the fork, he shall better do an exec of another thing and start a clean process

Re: mount_nullfs removes (temporarily) schg flag from dir ... why ?

2006-02-01 Thread Julian Elischer
Ensel Sharon wrote: If you set schg on a directory, and then make that directory the mount point of a null_mount, the schg flag goes away. When you unmount it, it returns. Why is this ? because the UNDERLYING directory is schg, but the new one you've covered it with is not Would

Re: Accessing address space of a process through kld!!

2006-03-02 Thread Julian Elischer
alc (Alan Cox) is ill at the moment so may not be responding. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Spam from NAT boxes

2006-03-06 Thread Julian Elischer
Cesar wrote: Hi, I have some NAT boxes running FreeBSD, each of these boxes do NAT for like 100+ people. Almost everyday my IPs got blacklisted because of spam. I cant block the smtp traffic going out became some people need it to send true e-mails. Are there any tool to detect/block

Re: [RFE] dhclient(8) should send hostname

2006-03-17 Thread Julian Elischer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 04:02:17PM +0100, Frank Behrens wrote: I propose a change, that dhclient sends always the current hostname to the server, the value can be overwritten in dhclient.conf. I see no negative impact, because the server has always the possibility

Re: 6.1 libpthread: pthread_create and _pq_insert_tail: Already in priority queue

2006-03-22 Thread Julian Elischer
Volker Stolz wrote: A rather largish application (the most recent version of GHC, see lang/ghc) fails in its runtime system with: _pq_insert_tail: Already in priority queue Basically some threads and mutexes are involved, then the application forks, some more threads are created and then I

Re: cloning a FreeBSD HDD

2006-03-28 Thread Julian Elischer
Joe Koberg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 25 March 2006 04:42, Mike Meyer wrote: One thing: 1m is a bit small for modern systems. Or for not-so-modern systems. Since nothing else is running, you might as well use all the memory you've got, or as big as you can get a process

bafug Freebsd 6.1 meeting

2006-04-03 Thread Julian Elischer
The topic is 6.1... your questions answered Is there any call for it to be streamed out? ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bafug Freebsd 6.1 meeting

2006-04-03 Thread Julian Elischer
Julian Elischer wrote: The topic is 6.1... your questions answered Is there any call for it to be streamed out? I ask because we usually stream the meetings when there is a speaker, but this is more round table.. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

patches for devel/mprof

2006-04-07 Thread Julian Elischer
I include patches to stop teh devel/mprof port from core-dumping when run. it seems to produce reasonable results on my limited testing. it really needs someone who knows about symbol table formats to check it over and see if I've screwed up in some way. It was coredumping whenever it

Re: FreeBSD Crash without Errors, Warnings, or Panics

2006-04-13 Thread Julian Elischer
Matthew Hagerty wrote: John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday 13 April 2006 14:17, Matthew Hagerty wrote: Greetings, I'm running 6.0-RELEASE-p5 on a Toshiba built server: dual Xeon Intel motherboard with a LSILogic MegaRAID (amr0) controller. This machine has been running for about 2 years

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released

2006-05-08 Thread Julian Elischer
Scott Long wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. This release is the next step in the development of the 6.X

BAFUG talks archives

2006-05-18 Thread Julian Elischer
http://www.freebsd.org/~julian/BAFUG/talks ACPI ...Nate Lawson on ACPI AMD64...Peter Wemm Netgraph ...Julian Elischer SuperPages..Alan Cox on Superpages WIFISam Leffler badaudio-TCPAlan Cox on offloading TCP.. Audio very weak Note

Re: process descriptor table

2006-05-24 Thread Julian Elischer
Artem Kazakov wrote: Dear All, please give me a hint, how to see process descriptor table? I'm debugging in gdb. what is a process descriptor table? process FILE descriptor table? process table? Tyoma. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

Re: TLS (thread local storage) - where/how

2006-06-18 Thread Julian Elischer
Alex Lyashkov wrote: В Вск, 18.06.2006, в 10:55, Divacky Roman пишет: hi I am working on SoC project extending the linuxolator and it now seems that I have to implement TLS. So I'd love to collect as many information as possible. pls can you tell me about any documents, articles etc.

Re: TLS (thread local storage) - where/how

2006-06-18 Thread Julian Elischer
Julian Elischer wrote: Alex Lyashkov wrote: В Вск, 18.06.2006, в 10:55, Divacky Roman пишет: hi I am working on SoC project extending the linuxolator and it now seems that I have to implement TLS. So I'd love to collect as many information as possible. pls can you tell me about any

Re: Virtual device driver programming

2006-06-23 Thread Julian Elischer
Robert Watson wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Johnny Choque wrote: I'm interested in programming a virtual network device driver -Linux concept- on a FreeBSD box. The idea behind of this sort of interface is the following: From the kernel's point of view, a network interface is a software

Re: system panic

2002-07-30 Thread Julian Elischer
if you compiled your kernel with -g (config -g MYKERNEL) then you should use gdb -k {compiledir}/kernel.debug vmcore.1 gdb set directory {compiledir} your kernel trace is somewhat useful but would be more useful if dumped out with the debug kernel instead... To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: dhcp problems with my ISP

2002-08-03 Thread Julian Elischer
sometimes it's the cable modem that is cachingthe MAC address. whenever you change machines you need to power down and power up the cable modem. On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Clifton Royston wrote: On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 11:46:50AM -0700, freebsd-hackers-digest wrote: Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002

Re: Kernel panic with freebsd4.6 and squid

2002-08-09 Thread Julian Elischer
On 9 Aug 2002, John Auckett wrote: (sorry if this ends up on the list twice!) john The system running that has this problem is as follows : FreeBSD morris.jeack.com.au 4.6.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 4.6.1-RELEASE-p10 #0: Thu Aug 8 11:25:35 EST 2002 [EMAIL

Re: serial console com1 to com1 == login race condition?

2002-08-09 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Dan Langille wrote: I have two remote boxes. My colocation hosts have strung a crossover serial cable from com1 to com1 on these boxes. The idea is that if I paint myself into a corner on one box, I can get access to it from the other box via the serial cable.

Re: IP routing question

2002-08-13 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Les Biffle wrote: Hi, I want to do the following: 1. Create n IPSEC VPN tunnels 2. Create n VLAN pseudo interfaces 3. Route IP Packets based on their arrival iface/tunnel out through a corresponding tunnel/iface. For example, I want to route all packets

Re: BSD and HP Pavilion computers

2002-08-14 Thread Julian Elischer
P.s. I'm going to try partition magic next (I found a copy at work) On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Peter Buckingham wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: Has anyone managed to get dual-boot working on an HP Pavilion? (Or even a non dual boot?) yep. i actually have triple boot: windows, linux freebsd

Re: BSD and HP Pavilion computers

2002-08-14 Thread Julian Elischer
didn't see it that's for sure.. On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Peter Buckingham wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: Has anyone managed to get dual-boot working on an HP Pavilion? (Or even a non dual boot?) yep. i actually have triple boot: windows, linux freebsd. i used partition magic initally

Re: BSD and HP Pavilion computers

2002-08-14 Thread Julian Elischer
Any idea how to set up XFree86 V3.3.6 for the i810 VGA controller? On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone managed to get dual-boot working on an HP Pavilion? (Or even a non dual boot?) Yup. I have a

Re: Increasing size of if_flags field in the ifnet structure [patchfor review]

2002-08-15 Thread Julian Elischer
you cannot break ABIs in 4.x in 5.x it will probably be ok until (say) 5.1 or something. On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote: Folks, When implementing ability to switch interface into promisc mode using ifconfig(8) I've stumbled into the problem with already exhausted space in the

Re: It's dead Jim

2002-08-18 Thread Julian Elischer
Yo! the reason you guy are the only ones answering this is because everyone else recognised it as a troll from some drunk.. give it a miss! On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Kent Stewart wrote: Scott Ullrich wrote: To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: VMware 3 on FreeBSD?

2002-08-30 Thread Julian Elischer
Of course we run Vmware 2 under emulation. So vmware 3 MUST be run under emulation. As has been said before, it probably runs but the setup program looks for too many linux specifics and doesn't generate a good config file. It just takes someone to figure out what it needs. On Wed, 28 Aug 2002,

Re: Copying from Virtual Address Space to Physical Address

2002-08-30 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Balaji, Pavan wrote: Hi, Is there some function using which I can copy data from the Kernel Virtual Space to a pinned Physical Address Page. Not as such, though there are plenty of places that do such a thing. The answer is always to map the physical page somewhere

RE: Copying from Virtual Address Space to Physical Address

2002-08-30 Thread Julian Elischer
' is a pointer to a complicated struct that defines the buffer, not to the address of the buffer itself. Thanx. Pavan Balaji, Intel Corporation Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only the Paranoid Survive -- Andy Grove -Original Message- From: Julian Elischer [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Copying from Virtual Address Space to Physical Address

2002-08-30 Thread Julian Elischer
-Original Message- From: Julian Elischer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 3:20 PM To: Balaji, Pavan Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Copying from Virtual Address Space to Physical Address On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Julian Elischer wrote

RE: Copying from Virtual Address Space to Physical Address

2002-08-30 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Balaji, Pavan wrote: Thanx. It's nearly done. I just need to know two more small things. physio() requires a dev_t as a parameter. What do I give in over here? I can't give NULL, cause it does use it for some stuff in the function definition. I wasn't suggesting

Re: double page fault(s)

2002-09-05 Thread Julian Elischer
if you know which process stack was operational at the first page fault, then you can dump THAT stack with 'tr PID' the error messages MIGHT give thatinfo.. failing that you MAY have to try all the active pids (ps in ddb should give you a hint as to which to try.. it will not be sleeping)

Re: interrupting the remote kernel

2002-09-06 Thread Julian Elischer
hit CTL_ALT_ESC on it's keyboard... or do: sysctl debug.enter_debugger=gdb On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Hanspeter Roth wrote: Hello, I have BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER, DDB and no DDB_UNATTENDED on the target kernel and remotebreak = 1 on the remote gdb. So I'm expecting pressing ctl-C in the remote gdb

Re: New scsi_target code

2002-09-07 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: IP-over-SCSI ? Well I've just been reading about SCSI over IP so Scsi-over-IP-over-SCSI-over-firewire? etc... :-/ 8-S To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: interrupting the remote kernel

2002-09-07 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Christian Zander wrote: On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 05:17:07PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: But I want to be able to pass control to the debugger when the target kernel `hangs', that is when no `ctl-alt-f1', `ctl-alt-del' has any effect. If the hang is not a

Re: interrupting target kernel using single sio

2002-09-09 Thread Julian Elischer
there is the following option: # Options for serial drivers that support consoles (only for sio now): options BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER #a BREAK on a comconsole goes to #DDB, if available. it isdangerous because rebooting the local machine can en up

what does this mean?

2002-09-09 Thread Julian Elischer
ANother case of the obscure beyond belief message: sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 what on earth is this trying to tell me? WHAT bitmap? julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: what does this mean?

2002-09-10 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 : what on earth is this trying to tell me? : WHAT bitmap? Bitmap of probed irqs of '0' means

Re: Supporting HW_WDOG?

2002-09-12 Thread Julian Elischer
We added this option to allow a USERLAND hardware watchdog tickler to kick the dog every so often, but discovered that we couldn't get core-dumps. the idea is that we want to not only see that the kernel is responding but we wanted the machine to reboot if the userland wass so screwed up that

Re: temperature monitoring

2002-09-20 Thread Julian Elischer
I've has a lot of luck with (x)mbmon from uh, misc I think (or is it sysutils?) He has a new version out that you should also check out.. not sure if there is a port yet.. On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Clark C. Evans wrote: This is probably common question, but I was wondering if there is any

Re: Just a wild idea

2002-09-22 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Juli Mallett wrote: * De: Paul Schenkeveld [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Data: 2002-09-22 ] [ Subjecte: Just a wild idea ] Hi All, I've been playing with jails for over 2 years now. I really like them but we often use them to run a process as root with reduced

Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary

2002-09-25 Thread Julian Elischer
vmware used the blocking (b devices) interface to disks that do blocking for you. Some well meaning but misguided individuals removed block devices without providing an alernate way of doing this. It should be possible to do the equivalent of a vn device that accepts misalligned accesses and

Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary

2002-09-26 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Josef Karthauser wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:52:37AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:47:33AM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:39:30PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: I thought that we hacked around this in

Re: Just a wild idea

2002-09-28 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Nielsen wrote: IPFW's forwarding feature can be used for transparent proxying on another machine. To do it on the same machine, you'd probably need to use NAT. no you can use fwd on thesame machine too. just fwd to a local address. Nate I haven't actually

Re: Comments on new Linux threading implementation?

2002-09-30 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Craig Rodrigues wrote: Hi, I saw this post on the Linux kernel mailing list which describes a major re-write of the POSIX threads implementation on Linux: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0209.2/1075.html How does this stuff under Linux compare to

Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary

2002-10-03 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Bakul Shah wrote: It was desired, and was sort of promised. I never understood why removal of block devices was allowed in the first place. phk's reasons don't seem strong enough to any unix wizard I have talked to. Did the majority of the core really think the

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lars Eggert writes: This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --ms040706010906030302070807 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, John Baldwin wrote: On 04-Oct-2002 Julian Elischer wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lars Eggert writes: This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, John Baldwin wrote: Oh, you mean like KSE on Alpha? What existing functionality on the alpha does KSE stop? So you agree that requiring vinum users to turn off GEOM is ok? Part of adding a new feature is providing proof of concept that it works for more

Re: Writing a PCI ADSL Driver

2002-10-05 Thread Julian Elischer
Make sure you have a Netgraph interace on the top of it then you can bolt on the protocols as you need them. On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Neal Nelson wrote: Hi there. I'm thinking of writing a device driver for a Traverse Pulsar PCI ADSL card and I was looking for some ideas before I committed

Re: Writing a PCI ADSL Driver

2002-10-07 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Bruce M Simpson wrote: I finally got to play with my ENI 3060 at the weekend. It probes as a PCI ATM adapter. I also found that the debugging symbols and code hadn't been stripped from the drivers which shipped with my particular card. Windows attaches its native ATM

X11 fonts?

2002-10-16 Thread Julian Elischer
I just recompiled X 4.2 for -current ctwm fails to find any fonts I get: ctwm: unable to open fonts -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* or -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-* however xfontsel CAN find those fonts Any toughts? To Unsubscribe: send mail

ctwm port and XFree86 4.2 port incompatible?

2002-10-22 Thread Julian Elischer
Nothing I have tried has been successful in getting the ctwm window manager to run successfully with the newest X ports. It can't find any fonts. twm seems to work fine. All my old configs failed when I upgraded to teh new XFree86 ports. Anyone able to get it going? julian To Unsubscribe:

Re: Netgraph TCP/IP

2002-10-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: Vincent Jardin wrote: I do not think that you need a raw IP netgraph node. Something similar already exists. Why not use the ng_ksocket in order to open a raw IP socket under your TCP node ? Because the packet will never get to your protocol

Re: max phy mem known working with FreeBSD 4.x

2002-11-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Matt wrote: any chance going more than 4G? Not yet. (on x86) The hardware changes to do 32 bit physical addresses include a redefinition of how page tables and page directories are layed out and to be able to use it we'd have to define and turn on code for that differnt

Re: sio i/o

2002-11-07 Thread Julian Elischer
machine/cpufunc.h from memory, however note that outb has the arguments in the opposite order. On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Julien Mabillard wrote: hi, can anyone tell me where inb(), outb() are defined in the sources (FreeBSD RELENG_4_7 or CURRENT)? on linux systems this is defined in sys/io.h

RE: sio i/o

2002-11-07 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, John Baldwin wrote: On 07-Nov-2002 Julien Mabillard wrote: hi, can anyone tell me where inb(), outb() are defined in the sources (FreeBSD RELENG_4_7 or CURRENT)? on linux systems this is defined in sys/io.h For FreeBSD should be using bus_space_read_1() and

Re: input source for network application

2002-11-07 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Steve Tremblett wrote: I've been toying with the idea of tackling a Netgraph TCP/IP implementation and want to hack out some skeleton netgraph nodes just to feel things out and play around with parsing. I'm somewhat confused on how to start. I'd like to be able to

Re: tty/pty devices not safe in jail?

2002-11-13 Thread Julian Elischer
There has always been code in kern/tty_pty.c which makes sure that the master and slave have the same prison: but a jailed user could perform a denial of service by using up all teh ptys.? I think I did this by accident the other day... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

patches for sysinstall (4.x) for 1TB disks

2002-11-14 Thread Julian Elischer
HIYA! Attached is a set of diffs against /usr/src to allow sysinstall to handle drives that are 1TB in size. Since we cannot make filesystems 1TB we need to be able to at least partition them, however that was not possible before due to some sign errors. This allows us to handle up to 2TB

Re: patches for sysinstall (4.x) for 1TB disks

2002-11-15 Thread Julian Elischer
for what we can do in 4.x, On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : If I get no complaints I'll commit these to 4.x. : It's all different in 5.x so an MFC doesn't really work.. Is there any reason

Re: [brooks@one-eyed-alien.net: [PATCH] switching to if_xname]

2002-11-19 Thread Julian Elischer
why is this ent to hackers? it's a -current patch.. should it not be sent to -current or -net? FWIW I see no huge problems.. as you say, it's mechanical changes mostly. On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Brooks Davis wrote: On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:54:23AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: I'm trying to get

Re: Changing socket buffer timeout to a u_long?

2002-11-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, David G. Andersen wrote: Are there compelling reasons not to change the socket buffer timeout to a u_long from a u_short? This variable stores the number of ticks before the socket operation times out. At present, the maximum SO_RCVTIMEO or SO_SNDTIMEO value one can

Re: Serial Tunnelling

2002-11-21 Thread Julian Elischer
use netgraph... The ng_tty node connects directly to a tty port that can be connected directly to a ng_ksocket node that can be bound to a udp port and address of another ksocket node somewhere else, which is attached to a ng-tty node there.. Anything coming in one port will be bound up in a

Re: problems with a firewire external hard disk [long]

2002-12-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Thierry Herbelot wrote: Hello, I can't seem to use my new external firewire hard disk : (this is with 5.0-DP2, there are the same kinds of symptoms under 4.7-Stable) My main question is to know where the problems are : is the hard disk dead ? is the firewire/ATA

Re: Some problems about KSE

2002-12-11 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, ouyang kai wrote: Hi, everybody, I want to make sure whether we can program the multi-thread code based on KSE in FreeBSD5.0 RC-1. Well it's still being written so you may be a bit ahead of yourself.. I have make in '/usr/src/lib/libpthread', I found some new

Re: Status of the bluetooth stack

2002-12-19 Thread Julian Elischer
it was moved to sys/netgraph/bluetooth. the utilities are in /usr.mumble/bluetooth it works but is not yet built by default. e who are you? On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: Incidentally, does anybody know the status of FreeBSD/bluetooth? I was thinking about trying it, seems

Re: Mac iBook OS10 + BSD

2002-12-22 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Steve Kudlak wrote: David Hunt wrote: I have been using Linux (Slackware) for a number of years on my desktop, and have never used BSD. From what I've gathered, BSD sounds like the kind of OS I would like. I Now need to get a laptop, and have been thinking

Re: Mac iBook OS10 + BSD

2002-12-26 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: Julian Elischer writes: That's with an unaltered macosX 10.1.5. from the user perspective it looks a lot like FreeBSD 3.{something} I think he means text-only syscons like vtys. MacOSX does not have them. Nobody has ever been able

Re: FEC on 5.x

2002-12-28 Thread Julian Elischer
you should post to -current for 5.x Can you try use tcpdump to comparte something that works with the code that doesn't. On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Attila Nagy wrote: Hello, I've tried the fixed ng_fec module on RELENG_5_0 and HEAD, but couldn't get too far with it. The Cisco 3550 says the

Re: FEC on 5.x

2002-12-30 Thread Julian Elischer
do you have FEC working in an old version? i.e. do you have it working in 4.x somewhere? if so, can you show a tcpdump of it1 running and a tcpdump of it NOT running on 5.x? Julian On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Attila Nagy wrote: Hello, you should post to -current for 5.x Oops, sorry,

Re: Caching [sugestion].

2003-01-06 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: from vnode was mistake). That's why I think that there should be some caching mechanism that should remember file name of every opened file, name of executable and working directory. Example rules: I vaguely remember that Linux keeps teh

Re: Exceptions via setjmp/longjmp in kernel.

2003-01-09 Thread Julian Elischer
how do you ensure that the thread doesn't own any locks when it does the longjmp? On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: Hello hackers... I got strange problem when trying to implement something like exceptions with setjmp()/longjmp() functions. [...] int ret;

Re: anyone working on a new file system metaphor?

2003-01-10 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Wes Peters wrote: On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:03:15 -0500 Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all you BSD hackers! A major change to the file-folder-desktop metaphor is long overdue, and it seems to me that FreeBSD -- with Mac OS X as a large and

Re: simple tcp question (syn, no mss)

2003-01-15 Thread Julian Elischer
why don't you put in a rule to catche them and count them. then after a day or two you can go see how many there were.. On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Josh Brooks wrote: Will I ever see a _legitimate_ packet in the wild that is a SYN, and has no MSS ? If the answer is no, then is this a good

current 'make buildworld' record (non SMP)?

2003-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
I was testing a new machine and it did a make buildworld in about 18:47. I was impressed.. 2.8GHz P4, 2G ram. src, obj on 2 x SCSI drives on separate controllers. (there are more but they were not involved) This is I might add for a 4.7++ world. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's the memory footprint of a set of processes?

2003-01-29 Thread Julian Elischer
check out /proc/PID/map for a really detailed map of the process. On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, James Gritton wrote: How do I find how much memory (real and/or virtual) is being used by a set of processes, taking shared pages into account? I see per-process numbers I can use (vmspace_resident_count

Re: Network block device.

2003-01-29 Thread Julian Elischer
geom meets netgraph.. :-) You could possibly do something with the ng_device node that exports a device into teh dev namesapce from netgraph. (the version in the tree is curently broken, the author is rewrituing it..) Adding a geom top-end to it might give you something quite cute.. On Thu,

Re: Hi!Dear FreeBSD!

2003-02-01 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Marcin Dalecki wrote: Kreiser Kirov wrote: [stuff] Wouldn't it be best to put him in contact with some of the other developers in the area? Which brings the question.. who IS in the area.. maybe we should make some sort of geographical registration web page so that

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