Re: so where is our press-release about MacOS X ?

2001-03-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
agree. Chart me up in the "kernel architecture" category and lets find somebody else do the PR writing... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malic

Re: kern/23620: Fore PCA200E driver

2001-03-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
th sending a Fore and a efficient card to our new maintainer if we get one... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by in

Re: Displaying options for current NFS mounts

2001-03-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
t resulted in. Sometimes ascii is the right API. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail

LonWorks anyone ?

2001-03-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Are there anybody out there playing with LonWorks and FreeBSD ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: # of bpf devices

2001-03-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dennis writes: It seems that only 256 bpf devices are supported. How painful would it be to increase that number...I assume its an 8bit varable somewhere? Are there other caveats? It's pretty trivial. Send a patch when you are done. -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: # of bpf devices

2001-03-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dennis writes: At 01:32 PM 03/28/2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dennis writes: It seems that only 256 bpf devices are supported. How painful would it be to increase that number...I assume its an 8bit varable somewhere

Re: vm balance

2001-04-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ntries can be negative entries. You can monitor the number of negative entries with the sysctl debug.numneg: 305 the value of "16" was rather arbitrarily chosen and better defaults may exist. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP s

Re: vm balance

2001-04-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, involving creation of vnode and very likely a vm object again. We can safely say that you cannot profitably _increase_ the size of the namecache, except for the negative entries where raw statistics will have to be the judge of the profitability of the idea. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since

Re: vm balance

2001-04-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
the underlying vnode. Right, but doing so means that to refind that vnode from the name is (comparatively) very expensive. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what

Re: vm balance

2001-04-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
) very expensive. : :-- :Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 :[EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 The only thing that is truely expensive is having to physically scan a large directory in order to instantiate a new namei record. Everything else is inexpensive

Re: vm balance

2001-04-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
in the cache_purgeleafdirs(), considering how often it is called, Do you have measured the performance impact of this to be an insignificant overhead ? Once we have that figured out I will commit the patch for you... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP

Re: vm balance

2001-04-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
uot;vmstat -vm" ? That is entirely different from the vfs-namecache, I think it is a per process one-slot directory cache. I have never studied it's performance, but I belive a good case was made for it in the 4.[34] BSD books. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL

Re: vm balance

2001-04-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
er tonight. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: vm balance

2001-04-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
vnode * + v_id). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

Re: vm balance

2001-04-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
"soft references" using "struct vnode * + v_id). : :-- :Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 I don't think NFS relies on vnodes never being freed. It does, in some case nfs stashes a vnode pointer and the v_id value away, and some time later tries to use that pair t

Re: vm balance

2001-04-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
: if (vpid == vp-v_id :nfs_vnops.c:vpid = newvp-v_id; :nfs_vnops.c:if (vpid == newvp-v_id) { : :-- :Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 hahahahahahahaha.. Look at the code more closely. v_id is not managed by NFS

Re: vm balance

2001-04-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
way of dealing with it for remote operations, but the trouble is that it prevents us from ever lowering their number again. If Matt can device a smart way to loose the soft reference in nfs, vnodes can be a truly dynamic thing. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL

Re: vm balance

2001-04-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
worries in trying to change that. The namecache can do without the use of soft references. The only reason vnodes are stable storage any more is that NFS uses soft references to vnodes. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956

Re: Patch to make snp(4) devfs-friendly

2001-04-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
n it is OK for you to commit it yourself. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: vm balance

2001-04-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
reference. Well, if that's the case, yank all uses of v_id from the nfs code, I'll do the namecache and vnodes can be deleted to the joy of our users... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe

Re: vm balance

2001-04-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kirk McKusick writes: Every vnode in the system has an associated object. No: device vnodes dont... I think the correct solution to that is to move devices away from vnodes and into the fdesc layer, just like fifo's and sockets. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX

Re: vm balance

2001-04-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rober t Watson writes: On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kirk McKusick writes: Every vnode in the system has an associated object. No: device vnodes dont... I think the correct solution to that is to move devices

Re: vm balance

2001-04-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
argument of them all for doing this... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: vm balance

2001-04-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julian Elischer writes: If we merged vnodes and vm objects, then if devices were not vnodes, how would you represent a vm area that maps a device? You would use a VM object of course, but it would be a special kind of VM object, just like today... -- Poul-Henning

Re: vm balance

2001-04-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ll devices are handled by a magic filesystem (specfs) in the same "orphan" mode by all filesystems which support devices is another good reason. I think I'll kick back tonight and try to see what it actually takes to do it... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROT

Re: vm balance

2001-04-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
*should* run through the VM object first: We guarantee that today my mapping the actual hardware and my having all read/writes be synchronouse. I remember at least one other UNIX which didn't make that guarantee. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] parallel port for IO?

2001-04-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
resolution. The pps driver implements the RFC2783 PPS-API for timestamping external events. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately

Re: [OT] parallel port for IO?

2001-04-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Warner Losh writes: In message 60546.987709317@critter Poul-Henning Kamp writes: : Use the pps driver and you get microsecond jitter with nanosecond : resolution. While I usually see microsecond jitter, I have seen it as high as a few milliseconds when the interrupt

Re: Idea for additional feature for jail - jailed security level

2001-04-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
demed nice proof of concept but not the right way ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe

Re: BSDI and Marketing 101

2001-04-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dennis writes: At 01:06 AM 04/27/2001, Mark Sergeant wrote: I guess you missed the POINT, [...] And I have to hand that to you Dennis: when it comes to missing points you are the master... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium

2001-05-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
will be the future of semiconductors. Hitachi has a GaAs SPARC chip; it is used in Satellites. The CRAY-3 was GaAs based, if I'm not mistaken. And Convex made a GaAs based supercomputer, the 3800 I belive. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since

Re: [jkh@osd.bsdi.com: ANNOUNCE: Status update on ftp.freebsd.org A KA ftp.freesoftware.com]

2001-05-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
forwarded message - To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog

Re: sysctl(8) and opaque MIB entries

2001-05-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
vfs.devfs.topinode: 118 :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Who's cleaning up after disk_clone?

2001-05-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
track of cloned dev_t's so we can nuke them at various strategic points, havn't gotten to that yet. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can

Re: telnet to AF_UNIX sockets [PATCH]

2001-05-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
and purposes is a separate protocol (at least it has it's own namespace, that's close enough for me) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can

http://phk.freebsd.dk/Gnats/

2001-05-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
! -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: The design of the MD5 crypt() in FreeBSD

2001-06-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
introduced the $1$ marker, which allows the algorithm to be replaced in a backwards compatible way (as already done by OpenBSD). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute

Re: MFC'ing new md(4) functionality?

2001-06-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
applications. If we have abandoned the no changes to API or ABI in -stable paradigm, it would be a good idea, but it serious rains on that rule... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3

Re: MFC'ing new md(4) functionality?

2001-06-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David O'Brien writes: On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:33:17PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Others see it differently, it would seriously break a lot of people who are using -stable in embedded applications. Can you expand on this? I assume you know we

Re: MFC'ing new md(4) functionality?

2001-06-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ruslan Ermilov writes: On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 07:43:38PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David O'Brien writes: On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:33:17PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Others see it differently, it would seriously break

Re: MFC'ing new md(4) functionality?

2001-06-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dima Dorfman write s: Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David O'Brien writes: On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 07:46:18PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote: Is there any reason not to MFC the new md(4) functionality Zero reason

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: cloning network interfaces

2001-06-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. As I already said: a device with no other precense in /dev has only quickdirty reasons for using DEVFS cloning. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what

Re: Patented algorithm in FreeBSD

2001-06-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
as the hills, proving prior art would probably be relatively straightforward. Well, the application date is what counts, and that's mar1992, but I'm pretty sure that Bill Jolitz had them beat to that date already... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP

close a PR !!

2001-06-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
which contains an explanation and the grep(1)'able line: This PR can be closed Remember: Each open PR is a pissed off contributor... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never

Re: Patented algorithm in FreeBSD

2001-06-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
is stop HIRING them. :) You know, there is almost a fortune in that... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained

Re: mount_mfs-like program for md

2001-06-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
*Wollongong*cough*hack*wheeze* (THUD!) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
to get hold of a media copy of FreeBSD, when absolutely nothing prevents me or anybody else from rolling a net distribution ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. Right, and what are you going to do about some random company in Elbonia who labels and unapproved cd as Official ? One should never makes rules one can't enforce... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD

Re: freebsd bios.

2000-06-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
two people come across a bit grumpy on email. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe:

Re: freebsd bios.

2000-06-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
uot;? How is the microcode loading handled in LinuxBIOS ? As far as I know getting hold of the microcode-supplemental data from Intel is a process which is (impossible - epsilon) and certainly not open source compatible ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL

Re: Little Complain

2000-06-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
uot; people to agree with this: Just do it, if it works, people will use it and it will become a success, if it doesn't work...well you can say that you tried :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
- read there" I/O registers in existence. Obviously the video driver will need to send a signal or clue to the Xserver saying "you own the device, you'd better do something" -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956

Re: netgraph support for channelized LMC 1504 PCI card?

2000-06-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
I have a card here, and I am making good progress, I have the framers up and running and am working on the HDLC controller. I expect to pass the first HDLC frames today or tomorrow. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD

Re: Jails

2000-06-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
even when Im root on the jail (it says operation not permitted?) Because implementation would be tricky (filtering raw IP packets) and nobody has done it yet. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since

Re: if_de or if_dc?

2000-06-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dennis writes: I asked this on the hackers list and noone answered, so maybe some of the isps know? Why don't you spend some time testing it and tell us the result ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since

Re: buildworld summary

2000-06-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
if I can find it again when I have time. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_quota.c

2000-06-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
there any objections to changing this? this should be more portable and future-save, right? Isn't there an issue with NFS server side ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never

Re: Periodic scripts [Was: Re: /etc/security - /etc/periodic/security ?]

2000-06-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
/etc/passwd: $VAR1" Let me see you replicate that in C in less than 2 lines... Nick, I can do it in one line, but it will suck style wise because I cannot use #includes. Can we stop this pissing contest now before anybody starts flouting APL single-liners ? Thanks. -- Poul-He

Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box

2000-07-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
invlpg when PentiumPro with cpuid 0x619 is found. Please comment to this patch. I'm against this patch. This is so specific and marginal to a out-of-spec hardware configuration, that it should not be put in the FreeBSD tree. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box

2000-07-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
just fine if your motherboards BIOS have the right microcode update for your cpu stepping. This hack should be maintained by the person who need it, it should not be lobotomizing FreeBSD in general. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since

Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box

2000-07-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
know Intel never released the errata which the microcode updates fixes anyway. I'm still against. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can

Re: Why do we always create a malloc disk for md?

2000-07-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
is that it is the beginning of an "almost-clone" implementation. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubsc

Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box

2000-07-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
precedents already for this type of thing. And yes, in this case, the CPU is not performing as advertised. So far we have set the limit at hardware being used correctly. Either way, this patch was not the correct way to fix this particular erratum. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog

Re: mbuf re-write(s), v 0.1

2000-07-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ant voices on this issue so that I can decide whether to just drop this entire thing and forget about it. (in other words, what do committers and/or core have to say about this?) If you can improve it, and show it to be improved, I think it is a good idea. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX s

Re: mbuf re-write(s), v 0.1

2000-07-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
e to be used to make any decisions however. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: mbuf re-write(s), v 0.1

2000-07-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
was unused ? Could that freeing be done by a timeout routine which runs every N seconds ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained

Re: mbuf re-write(s), v 0.1

2000-07-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
nario is to have a SIGVMSTATE defaulting to ignore which gets sent when the variable changes, but that would have thundering herd issues if a lot of processes was paged out.) If only somebody would add that variable, I don't feel like diving into the VM system right now. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNI

Re: Global variables defined several times.

2000-07-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ld and new testament. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Module parameters?

2000-07-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
"configure" routine, and the module can do whatever it damn pleases with the passed arguments. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequatel

Re: DEVFS

2000-07-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
with devfs (root-mount, jail, cloning etc etc) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: DEVFS

2000-07-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
have you tried looking at ptys under devfs.. as you use them, more are created.. (a bit of a hack but kinda cute). Cute, but not cute enough. We have several devices which do this by now, but we need full cloning ability. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: sysctl interface for apm?

2000-07-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
it is suitable. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: /etc/security - /etc/periodic/security ?

2000-07-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: DEVFS

2000-07-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
track the discussion and ideas that are floated. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe

Re: Multiple ro mounts of vinum volume

2000-07-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernd Walter writes: The point I never digged deeper here is because you already sugested changing the driver layer to 64bit byte numbers which was accepted if I remember right. Yes, I have this on my plate. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20

Re: Device major number request for ACPI device.

2000-07-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], takawata@shidahara 1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp writes: Hi, I want major number for ACPI device. I will use the device interface to enable/disable ACPI and access to switches defined in ACPI. I have allocated major 152 for ACPI. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX

Re: /tmp on a ramdisk?

2000-07-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
MD, for "put my /tmp on ram/swap" it's VN. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Un

How to make *real* random bits.

2000-07-31 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
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Re: How to make *real* random bits.

2000-08-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Seaman writes: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Ok, some people just can't leave an open end dangling (people like me for instance :-) I located a surplus german geiger counter cheaply [1], I have always wanted to have one anyway, and in my junkbox I already

Re: How to make *real* random bits.

2000-08-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] e, Paul Herman writes: But, if you are gathering a geek lobby to convince Intel to have an onboard geiger counter, you just might have a new member ;-) "Cesium-137 inside" Yeah, it does have a ring to it, doesn't it ? :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: How to make *real* random bits.

2000-08-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Jonathan M. Bresler" writes: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/ Yup, that's where I got the idea. Difference is that I interface the geiger directly to a UNIX system, he has all sorts of magic stuff in the middle... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX s

Re: Fine grain timer

2000-08-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Yingf ei Dong writes: hi, folks, I am revising a driver for a network interface. I need have a fine-grain timer (33us). Could anyone tell me how to get it? You will have to use DELAY(33). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to make *real* random bits.

2000-08-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Warner Losh writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poul-Henning Kamp writes: : The earphone output of the geiger counter with a 1kOhm load generates : a nice TTL level pulse which can be fed onto pin 10 of the parallel : port and timestamped with the PPS-API device

Re: FreeBSD belly up with big config

2000-08-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
me routine maintenance...is there any hope of alleviating this deboggle? Sure: send us your patches! -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be

mhn, sendmail laptop at large...

2000-08-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
rd lookup != reverse lookup) R? [$+] $: BAD [$1] # pass to name server to make hostname canonical -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can ade

Re: limit processes that a user can 'see'

2000-08-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
measure regarding 'ps' command. By using the 'ps' command, any user logged in the system can view all the running processes, including root's one and processes of other users. My idea is to limit a bit this behaviour. You can possibly make jail(8) do this for you... -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: code question...

2000-08-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
run your program again... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: sysctl from kernel

2000-08-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
:) Look at the kernel_sysctl() function in src/sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained

Re: sysctl from kernel

2000-08-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
variables, so you pass it the "new" value and a buffer for the "old" value. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can ade

Re: Tagged queuing for ATA drives, patches up for testing

2000-09-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: Tagged queuing for ATA drives, patches up for testing

2000-09-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
udmamode=4 cblid=1 Works with tagged queueing: ad1: IBM-DJNA-351520/J56OA30K ATA-4 disk at ata1-master ad1: 14664MB (30033360 sectors), 29795 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S ad1: 16 secs/int, 31 depth queue, tagged UDMA66 ad1: piomode=4 dmamode=2 udmamode=4 cblid=1 -- Poul-Henning Kamp |

looking for microuptime went backwards victims...

2000-09-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
"i8254" /* name */ }; -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: looking for microuptime went backwards victims...

2000-09-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
genius.systems.pavilion.net 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #11: Tue Sep 5 12:45:45 BST 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENIUS i386 On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 06:41:14PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I'm looking for the remaining victims of the dreaded "microuptime

Re: New ATA tagged queuing patch available

2000-09-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
havn't tried it yet, so if you feel adventurous you can try to add it to the ad_tagsupported function in ata-disk.c and see what happens Gee. You can upgrade F/W in SCSI drives. How about ATA drives? Same thing, the trick is to get the update microcode out of IBM. -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: Regarding kldunload / open /dev/dev panic

2000-09-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], awr writ es: Also, shouldn't /usr/src/sys/dev/vn/vn.c use make_dev() and destroy_dev() calls instead of cdevsw_add()?? Yes :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD

Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you!

2000-09-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
e we ditch it... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you!

2000-09-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Smithurs t writes: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I must admit that I think in general that /dev/std{in,out,err} and /dev/fd is bogus. It looks like something which happened "because we can" more than something which has a legitimate need. You think add

Re: what the heck is ftime and why is the reference undefined???????

2000-09-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
clue where to even try modifying this for my device. Is anyone using the DS1820 on a 1-Wire Lan with FreeBSD? http://firtal.freebsd.dk/weather/ -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe

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